shaggie76

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by shaggie76 4y ago
I save fun optimization problems that usually involve a lot of time waiting for builds and tests to run for a Friday or Saturday night with a few Manhattans and a movie; it's a nice way to relax and even if you only made inconsequentia
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by shaggie76 5y ago
I wish I'd traveled more in my 30's; now that I'm closing in on 50 I'm more realistic about my appreciation for the comforts of home and wistfully wonder what sights have gone unseen.
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by shaggie76 5y ago
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff is a delightful introduction into Taoism that opened my mind to eastern philosophy as a young adult.
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by shaggie76 5y ago
*It was to be announced at the party congress on Monday.*
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by shaggie76 5y ago
Aren't the overwhelming majority of Christian Russians followers of Orthodox traditions? I believe only a tiny minority are Catholic so I don't know Pope Francis' comment will have much influence where there might still be so
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by shaggie76 5y ago
I worked on PS3 titles that used SPUs and I can't tell you how relieved I was to find that the PS4 did away with them. The fear that the next PS would have "64 SPUs and a marginally faster PPU" was real. The analogy I gave to
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by shaggie76 5y ago
I'm curious how this will effect the Folding@Home project; will it open up possibilities or will this type of approach be ill-suited to long-distance distributed volunteer effort because of the memory footprint (and bandwidth?) needed?
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by shaggie76 5y ago
> "discipline doesn't scale" Brilliant observation!
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by shaggie76 5y ago
In my experience as a game developer that has had to spend a fair amount of time dealing with cheaters I've seen that the most effective way to deal with them is to make a more interesting game. What I find depressing about this articl
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by shaggie76 5y ago
The game I work on is in the list and early on we saw a bunch of inexplicable crashes from Zen hardware (looking through the dumps we would see $rip had gotten itself into impossible places or we'd get exceptions at addresses that were
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by shaggie76 6y ago
I'm not sure what convinced MS and Sony to both go x64 last-gen but I wonder if part of it was that it made porting to desktop easier (and visa-versa in theory). I'm not entirely sure that the same argument makes sense for Arm mak
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by shaggie76 6y ago
I'd be curious the relative power draw -- is the performance/watt actually better?
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by shaggie76 6y ago
Our forbidden functions header is similar; it's got about 30 functions including most of the str* family to enforce the use of our safer versions.
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by shaggie76 6y ago
We use a hybrid of ref-counting for many things but Lua still needs to do sweep phases in its GC that cannot be amortized across multiple frames. While we do most of Lua's GC asynchronously some of the phases take so long that they can
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by shaggie76 6y ago
I'm curious what they do to the garbage collector; over the last few years we've made quite a few optimizations to our Lua 5.1 codebase to reduce the impact it has and yet just last week I was in there again squeezing blood from t
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by shaggie76 6y ago
Some of our game servers were impacted by this and we ended up having to do elaborate message forwarding for Russian players. I find it staggering that it took 2 years to be lifted given how much collateral damage it caused.
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by shaggie76 7y ago
I checked and one of our servers is using this; the real challenge will be seeing if my old dev environment still works because we haven't updated this service in years.
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by shaggie76 7y ago
A followup https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=158177725606272&w=2 suggests that "the bug is at least 28.5 years old."
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by shaggie76 7y ago
When I read the latest "who is hiring" post I was overwhelmed by the amount of Python listed; I've always used PERL but I seem to be the only one at the office left who can.
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by shaggie76 7y ago
One thing we found that severely impacted performance on Windows was the built-in anti-virus software (Windows Defender). This came to our attention when we found one of our programs ran dramatically better on Windows 7 than 10 and we trace
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by shaggie76 7y ago
Wait until you get to the software flow-control level (ctrl+s / ctrl+q).
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by shaggie76 7y ago
What I'm more interested in their link times; how often do you build everything from scratch in a day?
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by shaggie76 7y ago
While I can only recall writing real assembly once in 20 years I've read disassembly thousands of times while debugging.
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by shaggie76 7y ago
The tragedy is that no game console vendor I'm aware of will let you use JIT codegen due to security concerns.