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Minor off-topic quibble about streams: I’ve been learning about network programming for realtime multiplayer games, specifically about input and output streams.
by sovietmudkipz 1y ago
Minor off-topic quibble about streams: I’ve been learning about network programming for realtime multiplayer games, specifically about input and output streams. I just want to voice that the names are a bit confusing due to the perspective I adopt when I think about them.
Input stream = output from the perspective of the consumer. Things come out of this stream that I can programmatically react to.
Output stream = input from the perspective of the producer. This is a stream you put stuff into.
…so when this article starts “My input stream is full of it…” the author is saying they’re seeing output of fear and angst in their feeds.
Am I alone in thinking this is a bit unintuitive?
- nemomarx 1y agoI think an input stream is input from the perspective of the consumer? Like it's things you are consuming or taking as inputs. Output is things you emit. Your input is ofc someone else's output, and vice versa, but you want to keep your description and thoughts to one perspective, and in a first person blog that's clearly the authors pov, right?