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CyberDildonics··on Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
It absolutely can make a difference because if you have locks that are supposed to sync or wake up other processes you care about latency not cpu usage.
CyberDildonics··on Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
How often does a video game really need a lock that can be shared between processes,

That seems hugely useful for interprocess communication and I can immediately think of reasons to use IPC in a game. Having a separate voice process for one.

CyberDildonics··on Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
if I implemented a couple of traps

What does this mean? System calls?

CyberDildonics··on My graduation cap runs Rust
What in the world is going on here?
CyberDildonics··on My graduation cap runs Rust
It's insane, why doesn't the school just store a bunch of them.
CyberDildonics··on Leaving GitHub for Forgejo
What is the difference?
CyberDildonics··on Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s
Is "observability stack" the new term for logs and stats?
CyberDildonics··on Fc, a lossless compressor for floating-point streams
Even back when star wars episode 1 came out with quicktime files of the trailer there were multiple codecs used in the same video file to make it look as good as possible.

Making up a new term isn't necessary, this has been done and everyone just called it compression.

CyberDildonics··on The Rise of the Bullshittery
Even the fact that you can't criticize this site on this site is part of the problem.

Also think about the fact that you can't post "comments that are dismissive or without substance" but the titles are zero information basic clickbait from around the internet.

CyberDildonics··on US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war
Google searches for the epstein files went down significantly.
CyberDildonics··on Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
AI is decent at solving problems that lots of people already solved a long time ago.
CyberDildonics··on Solar on canals reduces water evaporation by 70% and algae growth by 85%
The canal is already made of concrete, I think the environment might have been a little altered already.
CyberDildonics··on Debian must ship reproducible packages
There have most likely been bugs or attacks that reproducible builds would have prevented.

Like what exactly?

CyberDildonics··on A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
Huhh?? Oh dear, ok but it's because they ai generated everything to make a poor copy of other websites.
CyberDildonics··on People Hate AI Art
Lots of people are arguing against that point.
CyberDildonics··on Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
They keep forgetting to put "make no mistakes", "think deeply" and "get it right the first time" in their prompts.

When people have no ability to understand what they are doing, they will just rerun it endlessly hoping they get something passable. When that doesn't happen they burn money.

CyberDildonics··on Supreme Court Limits Voting Rights Act
If that were true you could explain why instead of doing this generic "nope" post on your alt.
CyberDildonics··on Withnail's Coat and I
I ask reasonable questions and because of that you insult me?
CyberDildonics··on Withnail's Coat and I
Is rare tweed fractal detail or is it just an oddball fact?
CyberDildonics··on Withnail's Coat and I
I'm not sure it's a fractal nature of detail, it might just be a vague reference to an old movie.
CyberDildonics··on Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources
I linked you hundred different ecs data structures, did you ever learn how to program?

Never mind the fact that being a good programmer doesn't mean you know the definition of technical terms.

Yes it does. How would you know?

CyberDildonics··on Trump fires NSF's oversight board
In what universe are you applying firefighting material to something that is still electrified?

Actually you would probably put out the things that are burning.

The analogy is pretty easy, man. It is straight up a failure of triage to look at Trump and say “what needs to go is everything around this”

It might not be that easy, man, because this sentence doesn't make a lot of sense, man.

CyberDildonics··on Trump fires NSF's oversight board
Power must no longer be dissipated via the bad wire before you start trying to extinguish the fire.

Says who? This is a analogy, try to calibrate to the conversation instead of making up nonsense while ignoring the context.

What you're saying isn't even true if taken literally, take a step back.

CyberDildonics··on Trump fires NSF's oversight board
Not a distraction. If bad wiring starts a fire you have to put the fire out first, then fix the wiring.
CyberDildonics··on Refuse to let your doctor record you
Saying something is good over and over doesn't mean much without saying why it accomplishes that.
CyberDildonics··on Raylib v6.0
Your comment was so unrelated I thought you replied to the wrong comment.
CyberDildonics··on Raylib v6.0
They didn't say anything about godot or 3d meshes.
CyberDildonics··on MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
What do you mean? Is the non-existent millionth floor of the Empire State Building still part of the Empire State Building?

Circular coordinates wrap around, cartesian coordinates don't.

CyberDildonics··on MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
You're right, I don't know who would down vote or disagree with this. It's not easy to figure out what a program is doing, but if someone wrote it you at least know there was some sort of intention there. With AI you have no idea why it's there.

All over the internet people are putting up vibe coded projects and no one says that's what it is up front. They all just say "I made this" and they are more than happy to take in the adulation of people impressed that they made something with an animated pattern.

Then when they finally admit that they wrote nothing and don't know how any of it works people start to say "nothing wrong with using ai", as if using it is the same as copying it verbatim, not understanding anything and taking complete credit as if you wrote it while lying about how it was used.

CyberDildonics··on Laws of Software Engineering
Unfortunately people do keep repeating it to excuse the fact that they don't know how to optimize in the first place.

Anyone who has done optimization even a little knows that it isn't very difficult, but you do need to plan and architect for it so you don't have to restructure you whole program to get it to run well.

Mostly it's just rationalization, people don't know the skill so they pretend it's not worth doing and their users suffer for it.

If software and website were even reasonably optimized people could just use a computer as powerful as a rasberry pi 5 (except for high res video) for most of what they do day to day.

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