Daily Shaarli

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01/16/20

pygameTetris - Tetris game made using pygame

Tetris game made using pygame and python.

No-Bullshit Games
My C code works with -O3 but not with -O0

When something very basic goes wrong, I have this hierarchy of potential culprits:

  • the compiler
  • buggy hardware
  • OS vendor
  • last and least me, because I don’t make mistakes :)

So what doesn’t work ? I am doing a simple cast from a floating point value to an integer value in C. This happens in a routine, that checks, if a double is integral and if it would fit into a long.

Zaloha.sh - Shellscript for synchronization of files and directories

Shellscript for synchronization of files and directories (a simple alternative to RSYNC)

Rotten STEM: How Technology Corrupts Education - American Affairs Journal

The U.S. education system spent more than $26 billion on tech­nology in 2018. That’s larger than the entire Israeli military budget. By one estimate, annual global spending on technology in schools will soon total $252 billion. But the technology pushed into schools today is a threat to child development and an unredeemable waste.