Profan

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by Profan 3mo ago
How about people like Inigo Quilez? I'd say they're still quite high profile in today's landscape. And the main thing is I think there's just way more people in the field overall today too, not everyone can be famous! It
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by Profan 3mo ago
Good engineers should understand what goes on underneath them in the stack (at decreasing accuracy probably the more layers away it is) if they care about their craft and the quality of it, even if not in perfect detail, if you're just
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by Profan 4mo ago
In a game development context, especially where C++ interop is involved and a lot of code lives across a boundary where memory is owned by C++ but you want to avoid/minimize marshaling overhead or just generally maximize performance, t
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by Profan 8mo ago
Literally any familiarity with the lore and it just makes sense, the kind of people the 40k lore would resonate with are unlikely to be AI chuds in the first place. Though then again people do usually look way past any/all subtlety tha
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by Profan 10mo ago
If anything OOP might actually be detrimental to many game engine applications (in a modern computing context in regards to the kind of data layouts and implementation patterns it encourages), and traits and "traditional" OOP (if
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by Profan 10mo ago
LLMs are here and Google Translate is still bad (surely, if it was easy as just plugging the miraculous perfect llms into it, it would be perfect now?), I don't think people who think we've somehow solved translation actually unde
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by Profan 11mo ago
hah well, transformative doesn't necessarily mean positive!
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by Profan 11mo ago
... it sure reads like slop and you know what they say, if it walks like slop, quacks like slop and talks like slop, it's probably slop
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by Profan 1y ago
The part of this that always confuses me is like nobody's aware gamejams exist, this has been a thing long before the LLM craze and people have been producing decent games on very limited timespans already, but people are forgetting ho
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by Profan 1y ago
Yeah that's fair enough really, it is still surprising that there wasn't
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by Profan 1y ago
I uh, surely you knew about visas before this?
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by Profan 1y ago
I uhh, is this homeless larping? What in tarnation
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by Profan 1y ago
Damn, why not just be happy for people? We're all different, and I might be an outlier here but I think very few people actually "hate" people, unless they've wronged them in some very particular way, at least for me per
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by Profan 2y ago
It's not all or nothing, you can combine approaches :) And if you're learning an alphabet where before you know 1000-2000 unique characters, you can't reasonably read anything, it's still very useful! Plus who says that
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by Profan 2y ago
How do you think that "working hard" bit works and produces results? Repetition! If you're learning a language and trying to learn vocabulary, a new alphabet, etc, anything that involves lots of recall being necessary, spaced
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by Profan 2y ago
Eating reams of butter and cheese is a hell of a lot easier to sell than "hey you wanna go on this organ meat diet?" even if that's probably a lot more technically accurate
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by Profan 2y ago
Heck, I'm a gamedev right now and I completely understand the not going back bit
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by Profan 3y ago
Wow this stinks, I've been using this pretty heavily for the last while and really like it, but this kind of rugpull type thing is a pretty bad move. I wonder, do all the old versions on pip stay there or are they planning on pulling t
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by Profan 3y ago
I just think things could be a little more aligned as I use C++ daily and often end up interacting with many different libraries and each has their own slightly idiosynchratic String/Vector/etc type, which quickly makes life.. int
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by Profan 3y ago
Huh right I see, I do like the idea of that and I wish that is what the actual C++ stdlib was more like, it would make my life of using C++ a lot more pleasant than it currently is :) (also sorry my initial comment came off like ragging on
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by Profan 3y ago
It's still funny to me how something titled "Sane C++ libraries" has zero interop with the STL; guaranteeing an even more fragmented C++ ecosystem. C++ has its place, but something new could not possibly displace it soon enou
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Space Countdown – Unofficial SpaceX Mission Tracker(spacecountdown.com)
1 points by Profan 6y ago|0 comments
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by Profan 6y ago
The only worse thing than Sweden practically doing nothing (saying this as an insufferable swede myself) are the insufferable articles somehow touting the superiority of the approach, as some sort of underdog or challenger? The mention of S
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by Profan 7y ago
In C (and C++) something as simple as forgetting to initialize a variable lands you in UB-land already, nearly every person I knew when I was learning myself (and still now) ran into these things _very quickly_. Not to mention compilers mak
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by Profan 7y ago
I wish standardizing documentation tooling (everyone uses a different tool today and ddoc by default has _no_ styling, no navigation, no nothing, so usually nobody writes docs for their code unless it's a big project like vibe.d) and I
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Are Variable Names Important?(pagefault.se)
2 points by Profan 7y ago|0 comments
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by Profan 7y ago
That's nice to see, some of my pessismism may be unfounded then :)
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by Profan 7y ago
These kinds of things are interesting, but at the same time I doubt the people making these things overlap with the set that build safety critical systems actually dealing with the constraints necessary to not kill people when things go wro
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by Profan 7y ago
The article reads a bit like a rather long way for the author to excuse avoid learning a few of the natural languages of which it seems he would have much use. (Like French that they mention half their family speaking, or Mandarin with whic
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by Profan 7y ago
Why not both? It's not an either/or necessarily (your friends are probably not there right that moment).

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