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Give the demo a try. I compared the CPU usage to the win10 file explorer, and they look identical (both are minuscule); it's super impressive.

Yet these "lower-level" APIs, DX12 and Vulcan, often don't significantly out perform DX11, and in many cases DX11 performs better. I put lower-level in quotes because those APIs ba…

If there there was an award for post of the year, this would be a contender. Amazing work.

> I use OG vim mainly because I perceive it as more performant. I feel the same way. I am not sure what performance comparisons have been made between the two projects, but I stick…

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I find it sad that this paper mentions two valid critiques of OOP[0][1], yet makes no effort to engage with their specific criticisms. Also, citing Microsoft's COM object system as…

> but critically, it needs to adapt to its users – to people! In principle, I want this to be true. But, in practice, I think products change because the teams that built a product…

The issue with those books is that they don't have any concrete data that affirms that they are worth following. And, in fact, that style of code is largely to blame for why modern…

For those not familiar with the author, this is Daniel Lemire, a high performance software expert. He has done lots of work about squeezing as much performance out of a CPU as poss…

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. > I'm not sure why this is particularly needed and it isn't really in the novel... I know saying this is sacrilegious to some sci-fi fans, but I th…

> There's no character development to speak of, the plot is secondary, and visual spectacle is placed front and center. I totally agree with this take, but I think Dennis' directin…

> When school districts get rid of advanced offerings in a bid to reduce racial inequality, they end up doing to opposite of what they claim to intend. While wealthier families can…

> led to lower insurance premiums Maybe it would be lower relative to other people's rates, but one must imagine that any insurance prices will only ever cost more to the consumer.…

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This course is fantastic. For anyone that wants a campanion book to go along with it, Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective is a great book to go alongside it. (Just don't g…

zig cc is a top notch cross compiler that you should check out[0]. [0] https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...

No, I think exploratory programming is exactly that. Solutions to a problem is the very thing to be explored.

This course is excellent and I cannot recommend it to OP highly enough. A great book to go with it is Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (CSAPP).

> - The lack of first class interfaces/traits/typeclasses is not my favorite. The currently suggested alternatives are so un-ergonomic I'd almost call them hostile. Personally, I d…

Orca is also worth checking out. Still in development, but very usable. https://github.com/orca-app/orca

> Numpy is competitive with optimized C/C++ Can you cite a source/example for that? I cannot imagine an optimized C program that doesn't blow python with numpy out of the water. Ev…

ImPlot is small and worth checking out if you don't want to make the plotting functions yourself. https://github.com/epezent/implot

> It was obvious to me from the start that Muratori thought "dynamic polymorphism" just meant deep hierarchies of inheritance Inheritance hierarchies aren't exclusively what he mea…

> There is a growing graveyard of games/devs suffering from bespoke engine woes instead of just using Unreal... Is there? I can't think of any examples that come to mind. Most indi…

This is a great review. I love the cuts between what he is seeing in the vision pro vs reality. I can't get over how delusional the wearer looks using it in public. That moment on …