helloiamsomeone

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by helloiamsomeone 2y ago
What exactly is tricky about MMOs? World of Warcraft private servers are a thing and there are many more MMOs with private servers. The tricky part for private servers right now is someone having to apply elbow grease, reverse engineer thin
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by helloiamsomeone 2y ago
>Vote with your money. This does not work with video games, unless you were a whale to begin with. Whales spend magnitudes more money on games than the average players [1]. Companies know this and exploit this weakness in the human psych
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by helloiamsomeone 2y ago
Software is in fact eternal. Maxwell’s Equations of Software (Lisp) is still a thing to this day [1]. Even for software designed for arcane architectures. You can simulate the Apollo Guidance Computer and its software today [2], which got p
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by helloiamsomeone 2y ago
If you are hardcoding anything platform related into your CML, you are doing that wrong. The default path must not be anything other than build and usage requirements. To support more usecases with CMake, you have to write less of it.
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by helloiamsomeone 2y ago
> As far as I can see, the best choice for writing bootstrap-related software in 2024 is still C99 That seems a bit silly, since going from ISO C99 to C++ is only one more build away[0] and from there you can practically build the whole
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by helloiamsomeone 2y ago
The software distribution side of CMake is there and it serves many needs, so you can't really get a clear answer here, because only you know what you really need. Package discovery for example can be done with the CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH[1]
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by helloiamsomeone 2y ago
> give me a `set -u` equivalent --warn-uninitialized and -Werror=dev will do just that: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake.1.html
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by helloiamsomeone 2y ago
> find_package often just ends up using pkg-config find_package() is just a souped-up include(). What happens once it finds the script matching the criteria provided by arguments and cache variables depends entirely on the script(s) (plu