extrememacaroni

what should a website do to not get hugged?

People who work on such projects tend to focus on finding solutions to difficult problems and many things that you would consider weird or bad could be there because they were part of a solution, either at the time or sometime in the past in a previous project.

good maybe now people will stop linking tweets.

It's hilarious that the one saying it's not available is foodnetwork.

Every gaming console has that functionality, though depending on the game it's better to exit and restart often. Memory leaks and all that, aside from bugs caused by long runtime.

It's not like having dolphin on steam will give you access to free gamecube and wii games. You will still have to get them yourself and/or any bioses that may be required, I dunno.

Which means a bit of hacking, which means you should already be capable enough to install emudeck on your steam deck. Which is vastly superior to any single emulator on steam itself.

Hackernews: why are websites nowadays so bloated and slow??

Also hackernews: what's Lighthouse?

Legends say Genghis Khan's horses were trained to be so fast because they were also used to transport bytes to and from such sites, to calculate their yurts.

Long movies are great at home because I can pause and go pee or make extra food.

They're awful in cinemas tho. I just don't go watch them there.

You wouldn't download a search car!

"it's monster hunting time!"

Many people are still skeptical about wine and proton but in the future it will become the way to play Windows' existing game library. I always say that if you care about games preservation, you need to look at Linux & Proton. Even if a future version of wine/proton introduces some breaking changes, you can always use an older version for a particular game, much more comfortable than messing with Windows XP VMs and whatnot.

Wine and proton frontends are becoming so friendly too. Setting things up on e.g. steam deck is extremely easy, not just for wine but even for emulators (emudeck). Just click some buttons and you get everything set up for you and auto-updated.

Please no, no extreme changes to what I've or others have written, I want to be able to get at least a reasonable idea of the performance and behavior some code will have in some particular context by looking at the code itself.

Stop trying to be as lazy as possible in such a bad way. Making compilers make up for a lack of programming ability is a mistake.

This should not happen if you use Odin and its serializer, a dropdown allowing you to create a new instance of type Foo will show up in the editor.

When it comes to stuff that results in calls to dynamically linked libs e.g. OpenFile or whatever, you can also use Frida to intercept the calls and print out info about them/manipulate the inputs and/or return values. The advantage of Frida is that it uses JS to do this.

You need to run the executable to do this tho so maybe use a VM.

I used frida a few times to do random stuff like making foobar2000 always play the same mp3 regardless of what is in the playlist, and made a game's speed adjustable by intercepting calls to system gettime and changing the value.

Use Ghidra to check what the executable imports and intercept found functions in Frida.

ok, which jobs is this one going to steal now?

whenever a HN user switches to reddit, the average IQ on both sites increases

No one's going to make anything serious with the auto-updating version from either Steam or Epic, it's just for advertising purposes.

How many levels of JIT would be too many I wonder

What? US students don't write by hand anymore? ...

When you turn off the DSi and forget about it for 6 years, it'll still have plenty of battery left when turned on.

When I turn off my laptop on battery the next day it's dead because for some stupid reason we can't even get turning devices off right anymore.

This is about cool urls tho.

should've called it a lick screen

Pretty sure C++ is mainstream because of C and its own earlier versions, so regardless of the complex mess it became now.

Yes, trade code safety & quality for programmer comfort. Amateur mindset, much like the mindset behind automapper.

“Yeah we may risk introducing more bugs but it’s so much nicer to develop now!”

oh yes, I will forever be mean to automapping libraries

I like how everyone here and the repo’s readme talks about performance as if the problem with Automapper was the fact that it was making your enterprise app that waits N seconds for a db query and relies on caching to be even remotely usable, slow.

The problem with automapper is that it throws the compiler out the window and invites all the bugs that would normally not be there.

Mapping code is still your code and should receive the same care as your fancy services.

I hate automapper, and I hate this too, just less because at least it has the potential to catch bugs at compile time… I think.

Some people really want to write libraries, I guess.

Mainly because they're nowhere to be found outside China?

That's probably what everyone would say if they didn't read books. But some read books so...

OMG CYBERPUNK DYSTOPIA PHILIP K DICK

Ah yes, rules. For China. Which now decides pretty much most of the content that the western world's children see. TikTok is part of it, them acquiring gaming companies is another, and there's likely even more ways in which China is gaining control of what we're consuming.

I bet China's going to be like "guys we can't do this anymore, they just updated their terms of service with this brand new rule so we can't proceed with the head-in-toilet challenge operation".

China is pretty smart, you trying to do the same thing in their country would be impossible. Guess why?