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This is not what the “exception that proves the rule” means. If a sign says “No parking on saturdays”, that is an exception that can be used to infer the rule “parking here is okay…

This has been the case for software since the very beginning. And people have been complaining about it since the beginning. See the Free Software Foundation.

I am not a fan of this take. It's possible to not make an engine, or use a 3rd party engine. You just make a game. Use SDL or something. It's honestly easier and more fun. Definate…

When the author said “bringing work home” they didn’t mean literally working at home. They meant that they spend a huge amount of time feeling stressed about work situations at hom…

I get the sentiment, but it's possible to go too far with the "It's always the process's fault" direction. It's trendy in buisness culture right now to erase the individual. Zero a…

> The way this position conforms to the interests of the capital class, and conflicts with those of the labor class, is a red flag. If being in the office conforms to the interest …

People haven’t responded to your very first point, and I want to really stress it because I don’t think most people really get it. Margins. Game development doesn’t pay more becaus…

> But most employers don't go around reducing previously-hired people's salaries for a variety of reasons. The main reason being that it's illegal in NZ. The employee would have to…

> I guess the question is, since we know these things can happen, however unlikely, what mitigations should be in place that are commensurate with the harms that might result? This…

Yes, there are a large number of ways to fall into traps that cause you to do a different series of operations when you didn't realise that you did. But that's still ultimately wha…

This is the kind of misinformation that makes people more wary of floats than they should be. The same series of operations with the same input will always produce exactly the same…

Cars are not popular becuase people pushed them. Cars are popular because the utility is undeniable. This is true for any kind of transformative technology. Marketing and lobbying …

That is a way better syntax. I wonder why C++ didn't adopt it.

We use floating point operations with deterministic lockstep with a server compiled on GCC in Linux a windows client compiled with MSVC in windows, and an iOS client running on ARM…

I’m curious how you would respond to the arguments in this video. https://youtu.be/9KJTWmRrneo?si=I9mvSPfDnhkckb9n

Can we get an Amen quicksort now?

I've written a lot of code using that method, and never had any portability issues. You use types with number of bits in them. Hell, I've slung C structs across the network between…

Why is it such a terrible idea? No need to add complexity, dependancies and reduced performance by using these libraries.

Well our game runs faster in DX12 under Proton than Vulkan under Proton. Of course since Proton uses Vulkan to implement DX12, it means that our Vulkan implementation is simply wor…

Support for DX12 under Proton in linux is incredibly good. Some games actually run faster under DX12 in Proton than the native versions do.

The reason you use DX12 in a new project is so that you can get good linux support. I'm making a joke, but it's also true.

> If the singularity does happen, then it hardly matters what people do or don't believe. Depends on how you feel about Roko's basilisk.

As a manager, this is 100% the answer. The people who do this are incredibly valuable. At every performance review I tell all the people who don't do this that they need to do it m…

It's quite interesting to me the way that different "programming cultures" exist around debuggers. If you grew up doing windows C++ development, looking at things in a debugger is …

Of course it’s the minimum standard, and it’s obvious if you view AI as a tool that a human uses. But some people view it as a seperate entity that writes code for you. And if you …