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bartwe··on Senior developers are leading the great resignation movement
Also office environments have degraded, open offices, yuck.
bartwe··on Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case
They're not allowed to offer it lower price direct.
bartwe··on Supporting half-precision floats is annoying
Ranged float or would unorm/snorm work as well ?
bartwe··on An Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries
On this topic, what is the header-only, no-dependencies, portable, bsd licensed, simple C api, github project we should be using instead ?
bartwe··on Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat
Mumble is fun, we have a positional audio plugin for mumble in our game.
bartwe··on The Future of Games is an Instant Flash to the past
If wasm/webgpu doesn't get too limited due to coinminers, 'meltdown style' vulnerabilities and platform holders feeling challenged.

And some solution for preloading/caching/preinstalling large (many gigabytes) assets are added.

Than yeah webgames have a very bright future ahead, assuming a method of monetization is found.

bartwe··on ZA̡͊͠͝LGΌ causes "Invalid MD5 checksum on messages"
Yeah and unpacking & first is asking for trouble with say "<" in your input
bartwe··on The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (2003)
Was always a bit surprised that if you had the length encoding byte, that it didn't also imply an offset by the values that should have been encoded with a shorter sequence
bartwe··on Forever chemicals are widespread in U.S. drinking water
No woods left
bartwe··on Show HN: Il2cpp-modder – Generate DLL injection projects for hacking Unity games
Devs will get bad reviews, bad press, support requests and demands for anti cheat. While there are designs that are more robust against this, this is adding increased challenges and costs at no true advantage to the dev.
bartwe··on What If You Could Do It All Over?
Thanks, that was an enjoyable read
bartwe··on How bad is your Spotify?
*Adds Mistabishi to playlist
bartwe··on The universe is expanding faster than expected
We won't be there ourselves anyways...
bartwe··on The psychology behind ‘revenge bedtime procrastination’
Every moment they are awake and not explicitly in the care of another for the first few years.
bartwe··on One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
Yes it is, while the tests are obviously imperfect, the intent is to be a proxy for a wider set of skills and knowledge to be tested.
bartwe··on Incorrect transformation: (llvm.maximum undef, %x) – undef
Which is why a lot of systems actually use https://json5.org/
bartwe··on OpenSCAD - The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller
Used a whole lot of openscad to design and print my own version of the mpcnc, but recently i switched to the much simpler tinkercad because openscad was just not productive enough.
bartwe··on Noita – roguelite where every pixel is simulated
Really love the game, i did have to install a respawn mod to get anywhere however.
bartwe··on C++20 has been approved
Being more accessible means being usable by less trained/skilled developers, which makes online communities less trained/skilled on average. I wouldn't use that as an argument to prefer to use worse tools and their built-in 'you must be this tall the ride' nature.
bartwe··on C++20 has been approved
C# has been moving much more quickly since then, async/await comes to mind as a feature that didn't work out
bartwe··on Black Sky satellites return images just 58 hours after launch
Do the small sats have an advantage by being closer to the target, needing less zoom?
bartwe··on Cloudflare was down
DNS is also (partially) down with my ISP (xs4all.nl) it seems
bartwe··on Linus Torvalds on AVX512
Down with simd, up with spmd/compute
bartwe··on Professor solves 240 computer science exam problems in 4 hours [video]
There is a lack of a university (or above) level software engineering education that isn't aimed at computer science.
bartwe··on Quora goes permanently remote-first
Same, i do most of my work in those hours (amsterdam), being synced with the US is a nice bonus.
bartwe··on The Rust compiler isn't slow; we are
Compare this to .net and expect to reduce it by another order of magnitude
bartwe··on G2A pays Factorio developer $40k over illegally obtained game keys
Had my card skimmed at a gasstation once, bank covered it and issues a new card with zero interaction from my side.
bartwe··on Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acceleration (2006) [pdf]
It's a naive position of someone with a nice upbringing without bullies to show that under the veneer there is suppressed brutality of those willing to use violence.
bartwe··on Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acceleration (2006) [pdf]
This a million times over
bartwe··on New iPhone SE
I have one, it's nice, wish it didn't have a bixby key though. It could be a bit smaller for my taste.
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