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A thread of AAA video game teams with multi-million dollar budgets failing at the task of creating a window to render into:

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Over the last decade games became better looking and less interactive, and I personally think that’s a wrong trade off.

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only two things are certain: death, and how with every passing day Microsoft’s UIs consume more resources to produce less frames.

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Totally perfectly in sync app notification with the notepad window being moved around.

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I am once again in awe of someone thinking over fifty megabytes for a hello world is “not using much memory”…

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i got some bad news for u haters

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This thread made me realize that Steam might be the only app-hosting-a-web-view I know of that doesn't absolutely butcher the system's performance.

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@noAbbehFoYu @_______dev @GAMINGBLOWS Yeah it's not a RAM hog for me either:

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put this in a compute shader and you’ll be able to assign letter grades to every student in the continental US in 16ms or less.

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I can only assume people proposing dictionaries are trolling, so here goes my contribution to the circus:

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It seems that OpenAI's Whisper was trained on unofficial subtitles of Arabic movies, and a big problem there is that the Arab culture doesn't care about content quality that much and considers everything an opportunity to advertise and / or soapbox - leading to a weird issue

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"Why is this person's mind blown by DX8 level features that were even in 3D Mark almost a quarter century ago and.. oh.."

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You can see the reflection of Apple Vision Pro’s Immersive Environments on Apple’s AR models! 🤯

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I can no longer find answers on the internet via searching. Every single query I have typed today has led to SEO spam and AI generated BS.

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The quantum entanglement of software, its spooky-action-at-a-distance, is your computer feeling slower the faster the computers of the people developing your apps get

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are people aware how big a megabyte is

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@SheriefFYI you don't realise that there's a bottom limit of the core engine build, it can't take less memory. but when you build more and more complex apps, this doesn't grow like you'd imagine. for ex. chat apps take around 300mb, which is not that much.

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Disabled completely? So a git submodule update requesting a non-vulnerable version would still fail and now I can’t build my code due to an external system? Wonderful!

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GitHub Disables The XZ Repository Following Today's Malicious Disclosure

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I literally wrote and compiled that program on this machine.

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why is my paste icon Blender?

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goddamn. god. damn.

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excuse me what? what if my controller runs out of battery mid game and disconnects? how low is your bar?

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So Steam hasn't approved my game because apparently the game crashes if controller is disconnected mid-game. Game works fine under normal circumstances. Why am I responsible if it crashes when players do unusual things like unplugging controller mid-game? #gamedev #IndieGameDev

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A story in four pictures:

Incognito ergo sum ⚔️

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@SheriefFYI Most interesting is not the overhead of the hello world program but how it scales, then the complexity of the program will rise or will be the same +50Mb or overhead will grow with it?

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The biggest threat to Intel graphics being taken seriously in the gaming space is, believe it or not, the teams behind Intel graphics.

SPIR-V compiler crash with yuzu ASTC decoder · Issue #159 · IGCIT/Intel-GPU-Community-Issue-Track...

Checklist [README] Device is not undervolted nor overclocked Device is using the latest drivers Application is not cracked, modded and use the latest patch Application [Required] yuzu Processor / P...

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My favorite was how using Whisper and setting the language to Arabic leads to the transliteration of _30 seconds of silence_ into "Translated by Nancy Qanqar".

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@Darkorbit917 and that’s sad.

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This is a bad end result and a wrong thing to celebrate.

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Used Visual Studio 2022 to create a Windows Application and compiled / ran it in release x64. 10 MB, and I think that's a lot tbh.

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I am once again in awe of someone thinking over fifty megabytes for a hello world is “not using much memory”…

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It's always people living in the west saying things like this but I visit the Middle East once a year and hardware there is more expensive than in the US and wages are a tenth or lower. Memory waste adds up and doubly so when all you can afford is 8GB RAM.

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The culture's indifference to quality and content integrity leads to cases where the AI has learned to associate certain sounds with words that have no resemblance - for example, the fanfare music for most publishers is translated to "subscribe in the channel"

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The reason modern games have a terrible bang-per-buck when it comes to VRAM usage is because in D3D11 and earlier there were 128 shader resource slots max, and so for every draw call the system knows which textures it will reference. OS would page textures in and out.

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Not wanting to pick on Diablo 4 only but the way some games have questionable texture quality for VRAM requirements is distressing. Especially since games like The Last of Us and Forspoken both saw huge changes in post-launch patches to up quality while even using less VRAM!

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If a company gets to the point of having their CEO personally reach out to you, even if they offer no help, and your response is this incendiary you're probably hurting yourself in some way or another - and that's quite something coming from _ME_ of all people.

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What if the user is editing a video or playing a game or working in Blender and wants to run your app? Why do tech people struggle so badly with understanding resource opportunity cost on a multitasking computer?

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@SheriefFYI Most computers have at least 48x that 300mb you’re oh so scared off No big deal

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@bmcnett apropos:

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@feresignum @_plop_ @rovarma I mean even UI sliders run at a frame (singular) per second. You have a 120 Hz panel and a trivial workload you can make this slider look as magic as iPhone scrolling in 2007 but you blew it LG. I’d pay for a Digital Foundry LG webOS review tbh.

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This application is comically unresponsive, making thousands of Windows API calls opening files and registry keys every time you change directories resulting in changing a directory taking 1.5 to 2 seconds on my i9 13900H machine.

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@TheCherno this one, it’s open source and you can set it to replace explorer

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Notice how the animation transitions are hard and movement is arcade-y not physical and no ragdolls and it's all _FUN_ no one cares about visuals past a certain point

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this is fun

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Ah yes to solve the problem of moving Python programs between computers let's ship a computer along with them

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Hi Docker

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Today in this hellscape we call modern computing: I can’t adjust my keyboard or laptop fan settings because the wifi is down.

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Your Twitter experience can be improved significantly with very little effort. Just block anyone who write like this. A paragraph break each sentence is a tell-tale sign of lead gen and engagement bait account. Bonus points if there's an open ended question at the end. Agree?

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Using AI with no cultural background of the dataset used to train it is recipe for disaster. Google "Translated by Nancy Qanqar" in Arabic and see how common it is: ترجمة نانسي قنقر

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Why? The people doing captions think this is an idle spot so let's just place an ad in there! Random background sounds like cars on gravel generated things like "use our promo code for site X"!

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Removing user reviews for mentioning crashes you cannot reproduce on a platform you don’t own is indeed A Bad Thing for everyone involved.

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The most entertainment value you can get out of LotR: Gollum is the Steam reviews.

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And they’re leaving this for UE5 smh

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When it comes to multithreading, the REDengine is probably the most advanced engine on the market. Even running on 13900K's E-cores only, the game delivers smooth frame rates without any measurable drops. The scene below is one of the most demanding CPU scenes you can find in the…

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I'll set up a PO Box and I'd like everyone who says "memory is cheap" to send me some DIMMs.

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@SheriefFYI Still, I don't really agree that 100-300 MiB for a desktop app is unreasonable. It sounds like a lot in absolute terms, but memory is cheap. It's not like this inefficiency scales to 10GB for a more complex app. It's just a constant overhead.

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@Don_ErebusMoth I prefer a deep lake to a shallow ocean

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is.. is this a MessageBox(…, MB_OK) on Xbox?..

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why should a modern computer take seconds, plural, to load a mass amount of text?

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Discord is a classic case of bait and switch - their CEO doesn't have a vision (their attempt to jump on the blockchain / crypto bandwagon was the low point of that) and will keep degrading the service hoping to maximize profit due to lock-in because lock-in.

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Gamers do care about proper window management on PC.

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yes why not tie your login to a third party service with no customer support for people locked out of accounts or another with an explicit policy of _not_ restoring access to stolen accounts even if owner can prove identity very smart move indeed

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Does your app really need username and password sign-in in 2024? Why not just use social sign-ins like Google, Apple and Microsoft?

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Tech people rarely understand the opportunity costs of software - don't you want the ability to run more apps at the same time? Don't you want to be able to keep a larger purgeable cache in your free memory? Do you think everyone is rich enough to afford this?

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@SheriefFYI my computer ram comes with gigabytes. so i am going to use all of them.

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I got my hands on an ETL trace from Jedi Survivor. Strap yourselves in fellas, this is amateur hour...

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I tried reporting a graphics driver bug to Intel once, it was the most miserable bug reporting experience of my entire life and I gave up before getting to the part where the report would be filed - at least I think it would have been.

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I believe there's a systems programming crisis in game development where most of the people writing code have no idea what the hardware it's running on is like, how it operates, or the operating system / kernel fundamentals at a systems level.

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which is easier getting untainted Arabic transcriptions out of Whisper or getting pee out of the pool without draining the water

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Using Whisper to transliterate content around cultural taboos leads to some very interesting results...

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Thanks to Proton, Linux has better Windows backwards compatibility than Windows.

How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games

The Steam Deck is a revelation for game preservation

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You know what fits in a similar footprint? Quake 2, playing the intro gameplay demo (demo1.dm2).

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I am once again in awe of someone thinking over fifty megabytes for a hello world is “not using much memory”…

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I'd love to see a venn diagram of programmers who advocate for supporting minorities and at the same time are fine leaving behind people who can't afford a computer older than four years because I've seen a lot of the intersection.

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And am I reading this correctly and the Electron “Hello World” has four processes running?!

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Source 2 is the only modern engine that looks sharp. I love it.

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@joewintergreen why do games now look muddier, crunchier, smeary and noisier than Source games did back in the day? why does 1080p now look like 480p usually does? everything's blurry and mucky. what happened?

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@bmcnett I literally wouldn't know how to implement a slider that is this slow and I mean that seriously. I cannot build something like this without calls to sleep().

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Look at this static screen taking 16% of my mobile 3080 Ti's GPU power, and notice how the entirety of Planescape: Torment uses about a third of that.

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It seems that the game programmer answer to "how do you fit a large dataset in memory" is "buy more memory lol". We're all suffering as a result.

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The Dear imgui DirectX 11 sample with all its UI controls in the demo window and a DXGI swap chain, DX11 device context, UMD et al. uses twenty-something megabytes less than the Electron "Hello World" mentioned by OP.

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I am once again in awe of someone thinking over fifty megabytes for a hello world is “not using much memory”…

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There’s a person with a spreadsheet on the design end trying to maximize metrics and none of them are how much fun I’m having

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Question. What's wrong with modern games? What's making you not want to buy or play current games?

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"if it does it on the GPU" I'm dead.

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@SheriefFYI I mean, 50 MB seems fine for a basic app tbh? A lot for a hello world, but if it does it on the GPU with compatibility for multiple APIs and the ability to be cross platform easily I feel like you’d be hard pressed to get it below 25MB?

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Remember when we had optimism in the PC gaming industry

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It’s as if the tech industry had an extinction event for anyone who understands UI 101 and above.

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Why does clicking here no longer count as 'Start'? I hate this

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"I feel like we're in a technical medium, [...] I'm just imagining that you go to the theater and watch The Empire Strikes back and for the first 30 minutes of the film there's uninterrupted stuttering every time Han Solo speaks" - @Dachsjaeger

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DRM arguments aside, 10% is _A LOT_ when it comes to performance.

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People don't know how to make benchmarks properly. "DENUVO IS A CANCER" Welcome to the reality where software vendors have to protect their properties and the performance impact is less than 10%.

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CPU cache size is one if the first and most important things I consider.

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@GustavSterbrant Premature opmitization is the root of all evil. If you disagree, then tell me whether you consider the length of the CPU cache line when designing your data structures.

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…alas their point of reference is GTK and, I kid you not, Windows Presentation Foundation on .NET

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most of the objection i see to electron is mostly vibes-based or misdirected rather than quantitative like.. on my systems a blank GTK app takes up about 100MB and a blank WPF (C#) app takes up about 30MB so electron is kind of. normalcore in terms of resource usage

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Then came D3D12 and bindless APIs, and the developers were in charge of this process, known as residency management. Almost everyone seems to have dropped the ball here, and they just make all textures resident all the time in VRAM, and you end up with this...

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Today in "I hate modern C++ features especially in perf critical code": a usage of `auto foo = val;` was causing multithreaded code to end up serializing...

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@feresignum @_plop_ @rovarma I mean even UI sliders run at a frame (singular) per second. You have a 120 Hz panel and a trivial workload you can make this slider look as magic as iPhone scrolling in 2007 but you blew it LG. I’d pay for a Digital Foundry LG webOS review tbh.

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“Just pop the shit in and start immediately having fun” is the biggest unsolved problem in modern gaming.

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Because most retro games are just straightforward fun No microtransactions, no battle passes, no 6 hour long downloads, no needing to constantly delete games to make room. Just pop the shit in and start immediately having fun

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"This takes 50 MB of RAM to open a simple window, but that other thing takes 75 so 50 isn't a lot" is not a good way of approaching this problem. The right thing to do would be to measure the Speed of Light for a reasonable, minimal app.

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This cannot be serious.

tara 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️

@tarabomp

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apparently one of cities skylines 2's many performance issues is that it uses high poly models for each of the thousands of people walking around your city. including their individual teeth

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The Microsoft Store is the only store I have ever witnessed in my entire life across PC, mobile, and console where the raison d'etre act of installing apps is broken. Built by the platform vendor on their own platform nonetheless.

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Words cannot describe how bad the Microsoft Store is - Clean install of Windows 11 yesterday - All updates installed - Under Advanced Settings, have selected repair and reset - wsreset.exe - Run SFC/DISM commands - Re-registered store apps

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I hereby present this work of art (pixels on RGB canvas) titled "The Callstack of Systems Engineering Failure" (From )

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imagine if it was possible for computers to handle longer paths for you so the human doesn’t have to bend over backwards to please the machine do you think computer science will ever get there

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So instead of ending up with a 10 MB executable or so I should pack up an entire OS and ask my users on Windows to install Docker Desktop and For the love of god are your brains too deprived of oxygen or are you unable to think about what you're saying

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And here I am with my display refresh switching app which takes ~750 KB of RAM and I keep thinking how I can make that less by building without the statically linked CRT since I can use Win32 API alternatives...

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I wanted a tool that would sit in my system tray and let me change between 60 Hz / 144 Hz on my display with a simple double click and I decided "what the hell" then wrote such a tool. It's silly, it's simple, and it's such a relief!

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Once again someone suggests trying to brute force your way through an algorithmic complexity problem ahhhhhhh

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@SheriefFYI 14900k,7950x can be fast

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Content creators and writers in this age of digital incentives tend to converge to, or be a result of, having a simple pigeon-like mind that sees everything as "WOW! Cool! Amazing! Groundbreaking! Red-arrow-pointing-at-you-won't-believe-this-one-thing!"

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@hamadmarhoon_ the quality of unofficial subtitles varies wildly between Arabic and English. Have you run across English unofficial subtitles where the translator inserted their own religious opinion instead of what the character said?

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The OLED Steam Deck is the best device, best setup for debugging HDR support I have ever used. The built-in HDR visualization is amazing, toggleable from settings, EDID metadata is correct, and you can rsync your data / shaders to it and have them live reload.

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OpenAI's Sora (according to NYTimes) was named after the Japanese word, so it seems a mere coincidence that Sora means either "picture" or "a small religious verse" in Arabic

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This should be the bible of PC game developers:

Last year was a disaster for PC games - here's how things need to change

Digital Foundry presents its recommendation to PC game developers in delivering better ports after a dire 2022.

www.eurogamer.net

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The games certainly have enough info about which textures might be referenced by which drawcalls, but without actively informing the OS about this via Evict() / MakeResident() everything stays in VRAM all the time and artists end up lowering texture res to hit perf targets.

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Where does this idea that native UI frameworks don't have accessibility features come from? People keep repeating it and it sounds like none of them has seen the a11y you get for free when you use AppKit / UIKit or Win32. Has OP ever used a screen reader?

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@Trilinisty

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@SheriefFYI Also electron has accessibility features supported and built in. Which you’d have to write yourself in a native C/C++/C# app. Web apps just make more sense in most cases

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What's black, has an input latency of ~500ms, stutters, and uses 30% of my RTX 2080 GPU? The Epic Games Launcher.

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1 year

Animating this progress bar in the Visual Studio installer uses 20% of my 3080 Ti Mobile's 3D channel.

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1 month

@d0m96 On a tangent you'd be surprised how many problems faced / caused by multi billion dollar companies can be solved by one (1) competent engineer.

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28 days

“Words: why do they have meanings and what can we do about that”

Damjan Dabo | Itemlist 🏡 | Herba 🌿

@DamjanDabo

28 days

If my CTO told me PWAs are native apps, I would start looking for another job.

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@SheriefFYI

2 months

I don't know how anyone gets work done with Outlook, I think it has a net negative value.

.Morten 🪁🗺💻

@dotMorten

2 months

Somehow missed that the new @Outlook app doesn't even work when you're offline. Like AT ALL. How is this acceptable?

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11 months

The new Steam UI has a UX 101 issue: no waiting threshold for hover actions, meaning that if I wanted to click that “Your Store” link I better make my cursor take the long way around as the “Community” menu is now the UI equivalent of a landmine.

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3 months

The idea about saving time and money isn't entirely honest, as it's about saving _the developer's_ time and money. The user's time waiting for swapping from disk on other apps is an externality that is none of their concern.

Mostly Harmless

@IntrepidDolphin

3 months

@bendrbang @SheriefFYI Nothing. Memory is cheap and easily available, we don’t have to super optimise everything anymore, which saves time and money.

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6 months

The duality of man

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2 months

it’s relevant, they just don’t know or care

Cat

@Collectablecat

2 months

@SheriefFYI Cpu cache size is irrelevant to 90% of professional software engineers.

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1 month

An interesting test with games is how fast can it go - if your game is running on OP hardware at 640x480 rendering a scene with nothing but one light and a spinning cube, can it reach 1000 FPS? Figuring out why not leads to very interesting understandings about your code.

Shiny Quagsire

@ShinyQuagsire

1 month

@SheriefFYI I feel like 1ms for an API call is still within the realm of "I'm making a thread for that" lol

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I think there's something wrong with modern gaming - I've been trying out older games that I've never played before (so no nostalgia) and a lot of them are legit better and way more focused if I can say that - modern games have me distracted with a million things...

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2 months

Getting a Python program to run on another machine: - conda - venv - requirements.txt Getting a Go program to run on another machine: - set GOOS before building (optional)

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