The worst thing about American Gods is that they had plenty of episodes to complete the core storyline; but the studio dragged it out so poorly that we never received it.

Thankfully Gaiman has had some central creative control of his shows since.

Incidentally, Chuck Palahniuk has said the same.

You can embed scripts in many mainstream distributions of it, and it’s arguable that writing an SQL instruction is in itself writing a concise program for reviewing a database, so it seems logical to me.

Not unheard of. I used to be one.

JavaScript is what’s called an “untyped” language, so here, it assumes that the numbers are words, and tries to sort them alphabetically. Specifically, it tries to sort them alphabetically as a dictionary would in a left-to-right language like English. In this case, just as “apple” would come before “asterisk”, 100000 would come before 21.

(Some would argue that it’s more of a “weakly typed” language, I know, but I’m trying not to be pedantic here.)

Sorting them as actual numbers would require some extra explicit instructions and guides. Most typed languages, like C, aren’t like this.

Jeezis fuq… what was he drinking, gasoline and turpentine??

Perhaps you could specify which Photoshop feature it is that you need?

If I remember correctly, you’re describing the draw order, which is typically a material setting in Godot. It’s been a while, though; you may need to dig a little.

Check out Krita. Krita is also free, but it’s amazing.

Real long time ago. It was either Blender in its early days, or maybe Nethack as a child.

Tween as in tweening, from the animation term.

“People like me”? I’m not the aggressor in this conversation, I’m just not taking angry xenophobic propaganda right now.

You know what, you do that. It isn’t my issue, and computers aren’t for everyone.

Coming from New Mexico where you can buy alcohol at a pharmacy and chase your painkillers with it, I think having specific state controlled liquor stores is actually a pretty good idea.

No disrespect, but i must disagree.

My last experience with WSL, about a month ago on Win 11, had it a far cry from GNU/Linux. They don’t even have a shoe-in for udev yet, and as a multimedia guy, that makes it almost unusable.

Allow me to clarify.

C has for, while, and do-while. That’s it.

Ruby has for, while, do-while, until, rescue, inlined conditionals, optionals, and iterators, for what amounts to the same task; not to mention exceptions (something the C standard has repeated swerved away from, wisely) and lambdas.

I’m not saying that there isn’t a time for Ruby, but if you think C falls into the same category then we’re very much in disagreement.

Of recent features, what exactly makes it better for development?

When you’re first writing a line of code, you should already be thinking about how you might refactor it in the future, and preparing for that.

For me the big issue with Ruby—which admittedly has many fine features I would like to see in other languages—is the lack of a general standard for its operations. There are so many ways to get the same basic logic loop done, it feels like a recipe for either unfollowable code or chaos in programming teams.

Props and big up for the G’MIC shoutout. That thing is a BEAST.

Absolutely. I don’t know if it’s the absolute best, but I very much agree for using a high-level language for high-level tasks. There’s a reason they’re designed that way—you’re not burning Hertz, dang it; you’re burning seconds, and you’re burning them either way!

That said, please, please don’t use it for performance critical code.