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Ive got a tendency to modify many things as I go and break them into commits later. Generally I do git add -p until things are too interwoven. In that case, I've ended up with the …

Engineering is very reliant on mathematics and as real world as it gets.

Ok fair enough. I don't write performance stuff in Java so I haven't even needed to look at this stuff to be honest. Most of the intrinsics I would want are there, except for any m…

I'm a Java developer now, amongst other languages. The advantage of Java is that it takes A LOT less time to develop something, so there is the whole bang for buck for sure. I have…

Low level CPU-related optimisation is absolutely still a thing. The GPU is always filled to the brim trying to get as much quality out of a graphics frame so a lot gets offloaded t…

I did notice that difference too. But previous "credit card size" projects have all been several mm (as in couldn't fit a wallet designed for credit cards). So 1 mm is... pretty sw…

I went to the page expecting to rant about how it's not actually credit card size because of the thickness and was for once pleasantly surprised! Kudos to the author! It looks grea…

That's pretty close to "be like Keanu Reeves"!

It's always the kitchen for me across food places (in Australia). Ending up with pickles when I removed them. Ending up with coke zero instead of coke. But the worst is ending up w…

It's been mixed moving to normal code: I haven't had to low-level optimise for ages now (man I miss that). But performance in the O() sense has been the same. Game engine developme…

I haven't watched his videos on his language for ages, but this was a big thing he wanted in his language: being able to swap between array-of-structs and struct-of-array quickly a…

Unless LA stood for Latin America haha.

I guessed American when it was compared to Hockey, Baseball and Basketball. In Melbourne, Australia, Football is again another sport (but it not being called Footy gives it a way).…

I flew Scoot airlines recently and my 13” MacBook Air was too big to have on my lap even though the seat in front was not reclined. There's also something about those seats where y…

Memories shattered. Yeah, you're right and I would have watched interlaced broadcast content. I saw interlaced NTSC video in the digital days where the combing was much more obviou…

I'm guessing you're talking about interlacing? I've never really experienced it because I've always watched PAL which doesn't have that. But I would have thought it would be percei…

You nailed it - that's my criticism :) I've worked with a lot of code like this (particularly C libraries and litanies of return codes), and it's fine... But I prefer something lik…

I'm the opposite - I really like checked exceptions in Java because it's very easy to see how developers are handling errors and they also form part of the function signature. Most…

I just pictured someone getting a message to check which model was right from an ancestor 20 giga generations ago!

Or the timeline just doesn't have capacity for experimentation so the expectations are clear right from the start!

In context most of the major optimisation work was on the engine. The game code can be and usually is slow but we do try to tame things in an O() sense. I worked licensed titles fo…

I've written this kind of function so many times it's not funny. I usually want something that is fed from an iterator, removes duplicates, and yields values as soon as possible.

We had similar thoughts about "premature optimisation" in the games industry. That is it's better to have prematurely optimised things than finding "everything is slow". But I gues…

I can't remember the details because we coded the SPU in C, but the PS3 SPUs had odd and even cycles with different access properties too.

I worked with a developer that copied and pasted A LOT and would keep his fingers on the old copy and paste buttons (Ctrl-Ins, etc.). I've even seen him copy and paste single lette…