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by steeleduncan 4y ago
> since C++11 there is no reason for not using smart pointers There are many reasons for not using smart pointers, first amongst them for me being performance. Smart pointers do allow you to remove a large class of memory bugs from your
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
> With a startup you can always try to pivot You can do this in gamedev as well. A high budget example would be Fortnite which pivoted to a Battle Royale version of the original, vastly less successful, game. A lower budget example would
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
I think at this point speed is a great differentiator. I've been happy with the featureset and design of all C++ IDEs I've tried for a decade or so now, but they never seem to get any faster. An IDE designed specifically for speed
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
> Go is a pretty good async runtime I think the author is in many ways right, but has missed how important the runtime is to the average programmer. At the time of release Go made it easy to write evented IO servers, in a way that Rust,
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
> sha256 = "0xabcd1234"; Am I right in assuming this is a ChatGPT misunderstanding, or is it a wildcard SHA256 in nix to allow any download?
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
A native Linux build is still better performance than Proton, so with the popularity of Steam Deck it is worth the effort recompiling for Linux for higher performance games.
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
This is related to the real reason key changes no longer chart, they are a cliche. You are no more likely to get a song with cheesy modulations into the Billboard top 100 than you are a book that starts "it was a dark and stormy night&
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
Other commonalities in the case of FTL: - Random generation - Resource management - Exploration - Single ruleset for players and enemies - Combat focused - Multiple viable strategies
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
Is this effectively the end of Fuschia?
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
I've had a similar experience. Most of the little irritations that induced me to switch to Ubuntu have been solved in the base Debian distro. Some of Ubuntu's default settings are still a little more user friendly, but it is reall
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
> Game consoles don't use Vulkan The Switch does. Windows may be better served with D3D12, but Vulkan is fine for almost all cases. If you choose Vulkan rather than D3D12 you also get Android, Switch, Steam Deck/Linux and if yo
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
> they have really good CPUs, GPUs The GPUs on macOS and iOS are incredible for mobile processors, especially in terms of power efficiency, but they don't compete with the GPUs in gaming PCs or current generation consoles.
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
How do these Rust kernel modules handle out of bounds access in an array? In a C module it would be undefined behaviour leading to kernel panic or weird bugs, in a Rust userspace binary it would be a panic that terminates the process with a
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
Is there a linux kernel driver for this somewhere?
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
This is quite far from true > but now it is just managed by the big holders To have any influence during the proof of work days you needed a server farm. This was also restricted to a small elite who could, if they wished, censor transac
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
> I truly hope Nintendo leaves him alone though.. Given the Oracle vs Google lawsuit about the Java API, and that all he has done is reimplement an API, surely there is nothing Nintendo can do?
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
Ok, thanks for explaining. I got excited for a moment and thought that the compilation was being used instead of hashing as a proof of work. That would require compilation to be trivially verifiable though, so sadly it is not the case.
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
> We would like to thank ... the Zw3rk stake pool Interesting, is this a blockchain proof of stake/work system where the work done is running a CI for GHC?
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
If the JVM is AOT compiling the bytecode back to native code there is a good chance that it ends up executing as object code that is more or less what a C compiler would have generated in the first place.
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
I have a similar list, but I think part the difficulty with C replacements is that the sort of people who want to go out and write a new language generally do so because they have something more radical in mind. I have pondered forking tiny
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
> I've always run Ubuntu on it as my daily driver I think linux is an important part of using old machines. I use a 2014 11" Macbook Air, (not too old, but quite a weak processor for 2014), and macOS and Windows run like treacl
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
No, from the C# docs[1] - Boxing is the process of converting a value type to the type object or to any interface type implemented by this value type [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/progra
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
gdscript is dynamically typed. If you have the large arrays of structs common in gamedev, then all data members are boxed, significantly increasing memory usage compared to something like C#.
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
Yes, I wrote a tool for myself a few years back to do this, but abandoned it. 1 was especially problematic for me. To add to your list 5) You have a problem if you need to cycle a password for a site either due to some password rotating pol
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
I've not used Sublime Text, but I think treemacs fits what you are looking for https://github.com/Alexander-Miller/treemacs
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
> Unity . . . does not have additional revenue streams outside its engine licensing business and other related software products I don't believe this is true, AFAIK the majority of their revenue comes from their in-game advertising
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
I think it refers to the memory leak section of this https://xeiaso.net/blog/v-vaporware-2019-06-23
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
I don't think there is any implication of wrongdoing on the part of the Netherlands, looking at their news feed they seem to visit all European countries on a periodic basis.
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
If you have an old MacBook lying unused, then Ubuntu tends to run out of the box on them. It is a lot lighter, so even though my 2014 MacBook Air is unusably sluggish with macOS, it runs Ubuntu 22.04 great.
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by steeleduncan 4y ago
Its a fair point about C. Personally, I find Nix is a pretty great package manager for C, and I'd rather use that for Hare (or any other language tbh) than learn a different package manager. > Hare does not support proprietary opera

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