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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
You are correct. You're talking about "opportunity cost" I kinda touched on it with "and long-term maintenance". For video game ports you can bypass the direct opportunity cost by doing a rev-share deal with one of
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
It's funny you mention that. You know which platform is super duper mega easy to cross-compile to? And you know what platfrom is (almost) FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE to compile against an arbitrarily old version of glibc? The answer (in order)
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
Sarcasm is an extremely poor method of communication. Speak plainly and clearly. > Performance profiling and debugging tools are critical for game development. Profiling and debugging tools are RADICALLY superior on Windows. RADICALLY. G
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
I don't need to imagine a made-up scenario that doesn't make sense. We can look at what has happened at face value. The calculus is very very very boring and simple. Game devs will support every single platform on the planet in wh
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
> because developers don't build native Linux games. Correct. However you grossly misunderstand why why dev don't build native Linux games. The answer is that distributing proprietary software that works on "Linux"
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
> Wine and Proton are not tributes to Win32's portability. I emphatically disagree. It is a hilarious and catastrophic failure of Linux userspace that the best API for running games on Linux is Win32. This has absolutely nothing to
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
Good info, thanks! (Not sure why my original question got downvoted. It’s very fair to ask imho!)
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
Naive Question: is DeepSeek V4 actually cheaper to run? Or is it cheaper because of other reasons? For example Anthropic running at a higher margin or DeepSeek at a larger loss?
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
Whoa. How on earth can one system serve 2000 potentially concurrent users?
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
10B at their valuation from last November is an absolutely killer deal. If Anthropic had sufficient compute supply they could raise at 2x easily if not 3x.
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
What type of system is needed to self host this? How much would it cost?
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
I hate environment variables. I hate them so so so much. I can’t think of a single time I would prefer an envvar to a config file. They’re somewhat necessary when dealing with Docker. But I also hate Docker. So it’s not surprising when one
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
Great post. Thanks for sharing.
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
if the main product is nostalgia then it’s a derived work and you don’t get to claim moral superiority. if they created genuinely novel mechanics that can stand on their own then they should do that. Like you said, DOTA2 was a 1:1 mechanica
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
> I don't see why it makes a difference for this purpose that you're replaying network packets or controller input Building a simulation that has perfect determinism is incredibly time consuming. Incredibly. Especially one that
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
Rust also has run-time crash checks in the form of run-time array bounds checks that panic. So let us not pretend that Rust strictly catches everything at compile-time. It’s true that, assuming all things equal, compile-time checks are bett
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
—-depth=1 is a hack and breaks assorted things. It’s irritating. No I can’t tell you what random rakes I’ve stepped on in the past because of this. Yes they still exist. If you’d like to argue that version control should be centralized, sha
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
Git LFS is a gross hack that results in pain and suffering. Effectively all games use Perforce because Git and GitLFS suck too much. It’s a necessary evil.
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
The fact that Git has an extremely strong preference for storing full and complete history on every machine is a major annoyance! “Except for network IO” is not a valid excuse imho. Cloning the Linux kernel should take only a few seconds. I
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
They died because everyone knows that Python is infact very very slow. And that’s just totally fine for a vast number of glue operations. It’s amusing you call Git fast. It’s notoriously problematic for large repos such that virtually every
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
Worse products win all the time. Inertia is almost impossible to overcome. VHS vs Betamax is a classic. iPod wasn’t the best mp3 player but being a better mp3 player wasn’t enough to claw market share. Google and Meta don’t use Git and GitH
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
> Add a #tag for better organization. Honestly, you kind of lose me here. I want to spend exactly zero time organizing things like tags. Literally zero.
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
Mercurial has a strictly superior API. The issue is solely that OG Mercurial was written in Python. Git is super mid. It’s a shame that Git and GitHub are so dominant that VCS tooling has stagnated. It could be so so so much better!
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The AI Productivity Paradox: Why the AI Multiplier Is Less Than 2x(forrestthewoods.com)
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
I wish this thread had more discussion on why Apple Maps is missing the labels but Google and Bing are not. That’s awfully curious, no?
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
Interesting example. Thanks for reply!
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
Why not just use Araxis Merge or Beyond Compare?
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
I'm aware. I'd be curious to hear the authors reason to not prefer a LockSet everywhere.
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
Hrm. I'm not immediately impressed by the "Level<>" construct. That feels like a lot of new cognitive burden. It's also not at all obvious to me that multiple levels of mutex is a common pattern? I'm not sure
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by forrestthewoods 6mo ago
I still don’t understand the notation. What does N4 N5 mean? The knight can’t move one space? I’m so confused.

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