A good chunk of the community uses LDC or GDC for that exact reason. I understand why Digital Mars wants to retain control of the core compiler, but they certainly need to work with the community if they can’t get solid…
US Manufacturing has a high automation rate for the same reason US Agriculture has one of the highest automation rates in the world. No one wants to do those jobs for the wage that would be make them competitive/viable,…
People always talk about how the US has "lost" manufacturing. It's still the second largest manufacturer by a huge margin (three times the next highest, 15.5% of world output vs 5%), only being beaten out by China…
Super Mario Bros did not "introduce" those features. Major Havoc (from 1983) had all of those features 2 years earlier. And various games throughout the early 80s had various aspects of all of them. SMB certainly…
They include the majority of OSI licenses, including BSD. So the majority of BSD variants are included.
I think we’re agreeing. I think they’re mixing up the 3DNow introduction with the SSE one and conflating them into one. SSE never had aliasing, so OP’s comment is strictly incorrect either way.
It’s more likely they’re confusing it with 3DNow! (AMD’s own media extension focused on floating point math). That was strictly aliased and therefore an either/or situation on chips that had both.
I think AI is fine, the problem is what you mentioned: vibe coding. Have AI do work for you, it’s certainly faster in most cases. But just know exactly what it’s generating and building before putting it into…
I was going to say, smooth scrolling is one place where VGA was fairly simple to work with, since it didn’t have to deal with chunky graphics/bitplanes or specific timing tricks. In fact, Carmack specifically states…
Yeah, OPs claim feels disconnected from C’s identity. C stayed conservative because the areas where it excels (to this day) benefit from its “portable assembler” design history. A history with no C++ wouldn’t have…
Just read everything that came before that line.
I mean, when you're getting paid 40-60% for doing more complex work than app/web development...yeah, the drop-off is almost inevitable. Eventually people (unless they just really love making games) just go "f this, my…
The difference, and the reason these comparisons are always disingenuous, is that Rockstar didn’t have the consumers fund its development and miss its promises repeatedly. The studio is funding it and has been clear…
So a game that’s at what? 40% of its projected goals/completion is now 33% more expensive than the most expensive game ever? Quite an achievement…
That was the argument back in the day too. For people/devices not looking to run Windows XP/Vista. I don't think the metric has ever changed. What has is the scope as Microsoft continues to chug along. But, I believe,…
Do they finally have a WDM compatible driver stack? For a long time, that was their biggest hamper to being anything useful as a real desktop. If they can pass that hurdle + add WDDM, I'd be willing to take another look…
Keeping in mind that this gives quite a bit of access to your data, depending on how someone wants to structure their query
The biggest limit with these older consoles is the VDP/PPU. You can't just render directly to the screen because a framebuffer doesn't exist, instead you have to render to tile and then have the pixel pipeline render…
"Structured" in this case refers to being able to be directly mapped to a data structure. Think protobuf and other similar transport mechanisms. The recipient knows what structure to expect because it's not a valid XML…
JSON Schema is largely an answer to people seeking that type of built-in validation. As I'm not a huge proponent for either (a tool is a tool and you work with it in its ecosystem), I don't have personal feelings on…
The main benefit of XML over JSON is that it is structured, and can be associated with Schema's for built in validation. Obviously, that's only a benefit if you care about and utilize those features; most teams doing…
People also have have the choice to ignore their racist grandparents spouting right-wing ideology or try educating them out of hope they'll shift their viewpoints. Unfortunately, like many in that group, it seems you'd…
They pay for the hardware that they run Linux on. Apple's hardware division is very profitable without the "value" adds they run through their ecosystem, and those people never would have bought into the ecosystem…
And yet, your little slice of the world doesn't represent the world at whole. If you're ignorant of the situation, maybe don't come out with such a self-centered (and arguably, arrogant) statement; and especially don't…
The vast majority of people that buy Macs for the ecosystem aren't going to switch to Linux. That market will remain untouched. Outside of a few gamers who might want to put up with the x86-to-ARM translation layer and…
A good chunk of the community uses LDC or GDC for that exact reason. I understand why Digital Mars wants to retain control of the core compiler, but they certainly need to work with the community if they can’t get solid…
US Manufacturing has a high automation rate for the same reason US Agriculture has one of the highest automation rates in the world. No one wants to do those jobs for the wage that would be make them competitive/viable,…
People always talk about how the US has "lost" manufacturing. It's still the second largest manufacturer by a huge margin (three times the next highest, 15.5% of world output vs 5%), only being beaten out by China…
Super Mario Bros did not "introduce" those features. Major Havoc (from 1983) had all of those features 2 years earlier. And various games throughout the early 80s had various aspects of all of them. SMB certainly…
They include the majority of OSI licenses, including BSD. So the majority of BSD variants are included.
I think we’re agreeing. I think they’re mixing up the 3DNow introduction with the SSE one and conflating them into one. SSE never had aliasing, so OP’s comment is strictly incorrect either way.
It’s more likely they’re confusing it with 3DNow! (AMD’s own media extension focused on floating point math). That was strictly aliased and therefore an either/or situation on chips that had both.
I think AI is fine, the problem is what you mentioned: vibe coding. Have AI do work for you, it’s certainly faster in most cases. But just know exactly what it’s generating and building before putting it into…
I was going to say, smooth scrolling is one place where VGA was fairly simple to work with, since it didn’t have to deal with chunky graphics/bitplanes or specific timing tricks. In fact, Carmack specifically states…
Yeah, OPs claim feels disconnected from C’s identity. C stayed conservative because the areas where it excels (to this day) benefit from its “portable assembler” design history. A history with no C++ wouldn’t have…
Just read everything that came before that line.
I mean, when you're getting paid 40-60% for doing more complex work than app/web development...yeah, the drop-off is almost inevitable. Eventually people (unless they just really love making games) just go "f this, my…
The difference, and the reason these comparisons are always disingenuous, is that Rockstar didn’t have the consumers fund its development and miss its promises repeatedly. The studio is funding it and has been clear…
So a game that’s at what? 40% of its projected goals/completion is now 33% more expensive than the most expensive game ever? Quite an achievement…
That was the argument back in the day too. For people/devices not looking to run Windows XP/Vista. I don't think the metric has ever changed. What has is the scope as Microsoft continues to chug along. But, I believe,…
Do they finally have a WDM compatible driver stack? For a long time, that was their biggest hamper to being anything useful as a real desktop. If they can pass that hurdle + add WDDM, I'd be willing to take another look…
Keeping in mind that this gives quite a bit of access to your data, depending on how someone wants to structure their query
The biggest limit with these older consoles is the VDP/PPU. You can't just render directly to the screen because a framebuffer doesn't exist, instead you have to render to tile and then have the pixel pipeline render…
"Structured" in this case refers to being able to be directly mapped to a data structure. Think protobuf and other similar transport mechanisms. The recipient knows what structure to expect because it's not a valid XML…
JSON Schema is largely an answer to people seeking that type of built-in validation. As I'm not a huge proponent for either (a tool is a tool and you work with it in its ecosystem), I don't have personal feelings on…
The main benefit of XML over JSON is that it is structured, and can be associated with Schema's for built in validation. Obviously, that's only a benefit if you care about and utilize those features; most teams doing…
People also have have the choice to ignore their racist grandparents spouting right-wing ideology or try educating them out of hope they'll shift their viewpoints. Unfortunately, like many in that group, it seems you'd…
They pay for the hardware that they run Linux on. Apple's hardware division is very profitable without the "value" adds they run through their ecosystem, and those people never would have bought into the ecosystem…
And yet, your little slice of the world doesn't represent the world at whole. If you're ignorant of the situation, maybe don't come out with such a self-centered (and arguably, arrogant) statement; and especially don't…
The vast majority of people that buy Macs for the ecosystem aren't going to switch to Linux. That market will remain untouched. Outside of a few gamers who might want to put up with the x86-to-ARM translation layer and…