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Better prompting doesn't improve response time or price!

Compromise is the last tool in the designer's toolbox. Before settling with a compromise, the designer should relentlessly try to narrow down what the problem being solved is, whil…

Finnish technology students played an elaborate prank when the ship was being lifted. Just before the event, a group dived down to the ship and planted a statue of Paavo Nurmi, als…

I don't know enough to give an answer. But I also wonder if Unity, using Box2D to empower games generating billions, paid him anything.

I used to work at Rovio (the creator of Angry Birds). Everyone was telling the story of a talk given by Peter Vesterbacka, the head of marketing. When it was time for questions, a …

Ah, found more: https://box2d.org/documentation3d/md_simulation.html#autotoc... "Box3D is designed to be deterministic across thread counts and platforms." This is absolutely fanta…

I was looking for the same thing. There is a replay mechanism, so it seems to be deterministic. But with floating point physics, not across platforms. Though -ffast-math is unsuppo…

Oh, nice! What a wonderful surprise! Very easy to build, and quite small. A release build of the library is 916K (on macos at least). I have a game engine that compiles to WASM for…

Germany is not EU though. Very different bureaucracy in different EU countries. Up to a point, EU doesn't add a single bit of bureaucracy to the stack. Only once you reach a certai…

What about the case of just needing one, not a collection? And when a function receives a Point, how does it know if it's a value or a reference?

Indeed. But luckily those who mostly want per commit versioning are coders, and they are technical enough to find a solution for this. Like perforce git interface.

I like putting it like this: VCS can be centralized or decentralized, and it can version per file or per commit. For games you want centralized per file versioning, like Perforce. …

Meta's ad manager breaks maybe once a year on Safari, so I have to boot up Chrome. Also recently there's been an odd bug on more than one sites (at least Zoho mail and, again, Meta…

C# (and F# before it) got it (mostly) right. JS did a shallow copy of it, messing up some details, making it harder to use for certain things.

I hadn't done any PHP in almost 20 years, not since my studies when LAMP was still the way to go. But recently I had a reason to create a dynamic web page (not what I usually do) a…

Async stuff, vector math (vector value type) and special let-style forms for pushing/popping render states. For example, if I want a drop shadow, I can do (vfx/drop-shadow [setting…

I've also made my own language for making games. It's a scheme with some tricks to make some gamdev specific aspects much nicer. Making it work was indeed not that hard, but making…

This does not sound like any of the several vegetarians I know. Is it a cultural difference?

I have a growing concern regarding the safety of my source code. Some of my personal (Edit: still professional, I'm a one man conpany) projects rely on algorithms and technologies …

I was also curious about this, and I don't think the other replies understood what was being suggested. If I understood correctly, the aim of the engine is to lower the in-memory s…

If you like smoothies, I think I've got something for you!

Actually, inspired by this, I went ahead and installed Zed to try it out. After a couple of hours of working remotely using Zed, I'm impressed. It actually works, and the experienc…

I'm glad to hear the SSH remote editing is working well. A lot of the time I'm developing on a remote server using VSCode Remote-SSH. I mostly love it. But! It consumes a lot of me…

I've had two people reach out to me asking about one of my services. They both said ChatGPT recommended it to them. My service does kind of exist. It's a small tool I created for a…

I find this very hard to believe. I haven't seen many good AI integrations, and my understanding is that at least Microsoft is now backtracking with them. Going in the opposite dir…