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Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

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Re: Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

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Post by peteyycz »

johncolanduoni wrote: post #90
Eufrat wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people, myself included, think that announcing a conversion from Rust to Zig as an experiment then jumping to putting it in the alpha train for public testing/consumption without any real explanation in the span of around 2 weeks is irresponsible and reckless. Blogposts were promised, details were hinted, but no, it’s just full steam ahead because the AI worked so well. The converted unit tests all worked, all t…

What does Bun’s governance look like? Now that Anthropic bought the company are there significant external contributors that would expected to have input on a decision like this?

And why buy it when they could have just called it Run and do the Rust conversion anyways? The license prohibits it, they don’t need the team’s expertise anymore, since they’re running full AI vibecode mode. Makes no sense to me

Re: Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

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Post by wmf »

freedomben wrote: post #83
swat535 wrote: post #55

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Yes, they have also lost Tiberian Sun and Firestorm I think.. very unfortunate.

That's wild. How does that happen?

Everything will be lost unless it's somebody's job to preserve it. It's pretty common to close game studios or lay off the entire development team while simultaneously scolding them about "stealing" IP so the predictable result is the code being lost.

Re: Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

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Post by brador »

ben_w wrote: post #89
marginalia_nu wrote: post #50

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Haha, I do that too sometimes. It's a thing in some Germanic languages. Instinct is to merge nouns into word, e.g. 'lawnchair', but that gives you a red squiggly line, but 'lawn chair' also looks wrong, so 'lawn-chair' is the middle ground.

First time I realised this was GCSE History lessons, looking at first world war posters like this one and going "huh, to-day with a hyphen…" https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/27774

Badnami is Persian and literally means bad-name (like defamation of character).

English word origins are a fascinating rabbit hole.

Re: Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

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Post by etra0 »

Reubend wrote: post #100

> rendering DirectX 8 → DXVK → Vulkan → MoltenVK → Metal Am I reading that right? It makes API calls that go through 5 different layers before actually getting rendered? That's kind of crazy. I'm surprised it works, although I guess the underlying libraries are solid enough that it shouldn't be unexpected.

Apple never released a driver that supports Vulkan out of the box, therefore MoltenVK was born, which translates Vulkan IR to Metal source then recompiles to Metal shaders.

This was the pipeline in Proton for macOS (I'm not sure if it's still is the case, been quite a while since I checked).

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Post by spudlyo »

f3408fh wrote: post #28
xg15 wrote: post #19

> (tap-select, drag-box, long-press deselect, two-finger scroll, pinch zoom) This is another "AI-ism" I noticed, mostly in coding agents - they seem to be very fond of making up new "compound nouns" (and occasionally verbs) to sum up relatively complex and specific concepts into single noun phrases. I wasn't sure if it's to save tokens or if the AI uses this to get a concise "identifier" for a concept that it can ref…

Yes! It's infuriating. I've tried prohibiting them in my AGENTS.md but it's not 100% effective. --- AGENTS.md --- ## Plain words, not jargon Don't use jargon-as-shorthand. Say what you actually mean. - Don't say "load-bearing assumptions". Say "the assumptions the xyz depends on". - Don't say "cross-service". Name both services, e.g. "whether the X service can derive duration without calling the Y service". "Cross-X"…

NO DEFORMED FINGERS!!!

Re: Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

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Post by ben_w »

brador wrote: post #105
ben_w wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First time I realised this was GCSE History lessons, looking at first world war posters like this one and going "huh, to-day with a hyphen…" https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/27774

Badnami is Persian and literally means bad-name (like defamation of character). English word origins are a fascinating rabbit hole.

> English word origins are a fascinating rabbit hole.

My favourite example of which is Northern Ireland's Orange Order.

The colour is orange, because that was the Royal colour of the family of the monarch it was named after, William of Orange, who was Dutch, titled after the principality of Orange which is named after the city of Orange which is French which got its name from the Celtic word for forehead or temple.

The colour is named after the fruit, the fruit's name is a corruption "a norange" -> "an orange", which goes back to naranja which goes to Arabic which goes to Classical Persian which goes to Sanskrit.

Meanwhile, the dutch word for the fruit is sinaasappel, Chinese apple, compare with the English word "mandarin" used for many different Chinese things.

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Post by gregoryl »

shibel wrote: post #96
xg15 wrote: post #19

> (tap-select, drag-box, long-press deselect, two-finger scroll, pinch zoom) This is another "AI-ism" I noticed, mostly in coding agents - they seem to be very fond of making up new "compound nouns" (and occasionally verbs) to sum up relatively complex and specific concepts into single noun phrases. I wasn't sure if it's to save tokens or if the AI uses this to get a concise "identifier" for a concept that it can ref…

I’m (sorry for the lack of humbleness) a very fluent non-native speaker and writer, and this is by far my biggest challenge with Claude. It stitches together 2-4 advanced concepts into one or two words and I always have to ask it to “unpack”. I don’t think it’s easy on native speakers when it happens, but it’s even harder when you’re not.

Its hard for native speakers. Information density makes for rough reading.
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