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QNX 1.1 by Max Rudberg

universe doing everything it can to kill my motivation. had a hard drive failure & windows 10 actually sucks so much for fangame/stg development. in win7 u could disable aero and it was fine but input delay as a feature u cant disable sure was a choice for newer windows
testing games in fullscreen mode seems to mostly fix the issue - except sometimes it randomly stops working, and rebooting fixes it again... but only sometimes....

ah. the cause is this mother fucker. when it appears it stops games from being in exclusive windowed mode and so adds 2-3 frames of input delay

I made the mistake of writing content that was too entertaining to a certain type of guy. It got to the top of Hacker News, so it started spreading among misogynists, transphobes, and racists, who are the audience of Hacker News.

I learned that an even worse site than Hacker News was making a thread about me as a result.

Sorry! I think the post was a lot of fun, too. But so did creeps. I'm done providing this content to creeps.

The comments, of course, are about what the post used to say, and they're from perfectly fine cohost users who appreciated the post for what it was before the techbro invasion.

Beautyflex & Fomapan 400 (2022)

This is where I have to explain the concept of a vinex wijk. Somewhere in the 1990's it was decided that a lot of new houses should be built on the edge of major cities. Not a couple here or there, but complete neighborhoods. It was intended to have people move here who could afford a more expensive house, freeing less expensive housing stock.

Some design considerations were that it should support existing shopping centers and other facilities. It should limit the outflow of people (especially families) from larger cities, while also protecting the limited amount of green space in the Netherlands. And as an important difference from American suburbs, it should promote walking, cycling and using public transport above using a car.

And to be fair, they did a decent job at fulfilling these requirements. There are some downsides however. The houses, streets, and other infrastructure were all built in a relatively short time from similar designs. This results in a very strong cookie cutter look. It didn't have the chance to decay at different rates, amplifying the effect.

While it was very easy for me to get there by train, people still want cars. They fought that a bit by giving people centralized parking spots, but now you have clumps of cars all over the neighborhood. The flip side is that there are streets where you can have kids safely play around.

I think what bothers me most about vinex wijken is how different they are from the town I grew up in, or the city I live in now. Those places grew block by block and you can feel that when walking through them. Different people with different ideas and needs built things there.

Still, while it is not for me, I can imagine they provide a lovely home for a lot of families.