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If I remember correctly, Gmail stayed in beta for some (~4+) years.

Looking at the repository, maybe the author wants to work on mobile support, think about alternative storage methods, as for the last commit, maybe he's working on something else of simply living his life.


Pretty sure Gmail never stayer 4y without commits though. Probably not even 1 year. Not disagreeing with the notion itself, but noting, that the comparison doesn't really fit.

My 23 year old son passed away in march 2021 - this is exactly what i've been living. Stay strong.


Speaking about mswin.vim which does mostly what this does: what's the point of this project.


I've used tmux and vim/nvim on macOS and never experienced performance issues but I'm really curious about your experience, could you share more details?


I have no measurements or anything but if I open a file in neovim within tmux, I get more lag than if I open the file directly without tmux in between. I've seen people on github having similar issues


Can confirm they're doing this (in Spain at least).


agreed.


Do you really think he's being honest?


Hold your horses... First of all not all french citizens think or act the same way, and as for the rest Macron is not the first president (and certainly not the last) to screw up.

I'm convinced that whatever president they elect, they'll complain just as much.


nice ... it would be nice to know how to play though


z and forward slash for left and right bumpers. Press and hold space to pull back launch plunger and release to launch. x and period to tilt table.

Worth noting that F8/Player Controls dialogue doesn't work, and neither does disabling the music.


I'm not sure I ever knew you could tilt the table. child me wishes he had this knowledge. (I assume if you tilt too much it triggers a tilt failure?)


My jaw may have dropped at learning this from GP's message. Alllll this time and I'm learning you could tilt Space Cadet now?!


I think it's a funny example of great UI discoverability still having failures. I say great because having the tilt keys adjacent to the paddle keys seems like a setup for accidentally hitting tilt in a moment of heat, thereby leading to discovery of the tilt keys. Though perhaps 'moment of heat' is exactly when the player is least likely to realize they hit the wrong key.


The nudge key right next to the paddle key is to make a slap recovery possible like on a real pinball :)


It says "careful" as a warning, and then it fails. I think it's more about the number of times that how hard you tilt it but I don't know.


> z and forward slash for left and right bumpers. Press and hold space to pull back launch plunger and release to launch. x and period to tilt table.

Apparently these are used regardless of keyboard layout.


Mine doesn't even have a forward slash key, so... I guess I can't play?


Javascript events contain both a key "code" (which generally corresponds to the position on the keyboard and/or the function of the key) and a character string which represents the text that should be added to e.g. an input box.

It seems this game appears to be using the text string to decode the key, so I can press shift+7 (the same key I press to get a "/" character) to trigger the right flipper. You can press whatever key-combination you use to get a "/" character and it will likely work as well.

That is lucky (many things use the code which can be hit-or-miss) in that we can trigger the right flipper, but, at least for me it is a very awkward gesture.

I think it would be nice to be able to change the player controls. I seem to recall the original game permitted this, but the menu option in this version doesn't seem to do anything except pause the game.


Apparently you had the key when you typed "Electrolux/Frigidaire" in this comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30658028


I don't have a key for the forward slash either and still am able to write it: /////

The trick is that people like us can reach it by pressing Shift+7. Which of course is rarely recognized by games (or IDEs for that matter - many shortcuts simply don't work).


Oh you reminded me that I also need to press Shift to type just = (I use JIS keyboard). Just curious, what layout do you use?


Sounds like German QWERTZ


On my swedish keyboard the left bumper is z and the right bumpers is the *-key (right of 'ä'). Tilt is still x and . so no tilt proximity for the right bumper but usable.


Left and right mouse butons also work


Cries in MacBook


On a Spanish keyboard, it's z and ç


or left/right click for bumpers


z and forward slash don't seem to work on macOS.


thanks


I wanted to thank you for all the stuff and knowledge you’ve shared all these years. Great content.


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