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That’s been my experience. Across the spectrum of languages I’ve found certain features such as dynamic memory, managed memory, memory safety, evaluation model, etc all have an imp…

Thanks for posting this. Lambda zero looks wonderful. Is there any background information beyond the GitHub repo?

Every time Walter posts it reminds me my dream language would simply be C with https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html and probably go lang style interfaces. Ma…

I'm with you on this. I tried Defold for prototyping a game concept and was less than impressed. It got in the way in a framework sense, and didnt seem to provide much bang for buc…

Excellent, thank you for those references. I also recently picked up "Data-oriented design: software engineering for limited resources and short schedules" by Richard Fabian, which…

Excellent, I'll check that out. As (at the risk of exposing my geriatric age) someone who did 3d engine and driver work back in the mid 90s to early 00s, I found the bitsquid blog …

Did you try with the speaker notes on? That gives a bit more detail.

I recommend the old bitsquid blog as well - it gives a good snapshot of the thinking that goes into creating game engines these days. http://bitsquid.blogspot.com

I'm not sure its preposterous. Based on what I've read she and her team focussed on teasing out abstraction and modularity features in CLU based on experience building previous lar…

Fascinating - thanks for sharing. Another request for dosage levels here.

The native disk format was actually broken into sectors, see: http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Devices_Manual_guid... It read full tracks at a time, but you can see from th…

For another CP/M take on 6502 see DOS/65 at http://www.z80.eu/dos65.html

Nomenclature varies, but I'm guessing the author of comment is using 'union' as the sum analog of tuples (unnamed fields) and 'sum' as the sum analog of struct/records (ie named fi…

"monoglot" might be a more accurate term, but "isomorphic" seems to have the mind share. "isomorphic" would seem to imply having the same structural composition - eg. big ball of m…

A 'Compensator' is an element that dynamically controls the payout typically based on the current 'hold'. The hold being the amount of money in the machine. If I recall 'Barcrest' …

2) The employees are not gambling, so they are not exposed to the addictive product. 3) Incorrect. Standalone progressives and linked progressives adjust the payout based on the ou…

Looks like this is it: https://github.com/ttaylorr/dotfiles/blob/work-gh/Makefile

What i would like is to be able to extend terminal protocols to allow client side dotfiles that could be loaded in preference to the host dotfiles. Limited to user prefs, Key bindi…

Love the design of the instruction set. It was a lot of fun reverse engineering it and mulling over the design space. Thanks.

Yes, the first computer keyboards I used had both shift lock and caps lock. If I miss anything, I would like it if shift + caps lock, behaved the same as shift lock.

I use it heavily in Asm,C,C++ for #define's, enums, etc where ALLCAPS or ALL_CAPS tends to be its own namespace for certain things.

In, "they give me the shivers", they is singular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

My recollection was that https://spacetimeresearch.com/ (ex ABS guys setting up a plum contract) did all the data processing of the raw data, providing a representative but anonymo…

Not sure how it's done these days, but many moons ago (round 1996 from memory) I worked for ABS on the census side of things. What your friend says was utterly correct at that poin…

I'm guessing to build from source, you would need to install SDL for development: sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev