mindbleach

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'Coyote vs. Acme' Was Cancelled Before Anyone Even Saw It in c/movies@lemm.ee
[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

The fact that works is metaphorically criminal, and should be literally criminal.

[Overworked Salaryman] Sega Sues Memento Mori Devs - The Worsening Patent Lawsuit Trend In Japan in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

Abolish software patents.

Judge Blocks The Onion Bid for Alex Jones’s InfoWars to Review Bankruptcy Auction in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Nothing good is allowed to happen ever again.

closeted programmer rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

!unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Debate me if you care about the rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Nazis making shit up and moderation failing to silence them is not a question of eloquence. Fuck off with that.

Le chonker in c/noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

You can't argue with results, but you can talk behind their back.

Aircraft can have a little Crunchwrap Supreme, as a treat. in c/noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Now this is all the money Niska gave us in advance..."

Half Life 2 Anniversary Archive: E3 2003 Demo in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

The industry was so different back then, Unreal Tournament 2004 still shipped with a software renderer.

The industry was so different back then, Michael Abrash documented that renderer's development in Dr. Dobbs, an actual ink-on-paper journal.

Here's one thing that hasn't changed: Intel. This renderer, Pixomatic, was all hand-optimized assembly, from the guy John Carmack hired to outclass him. At one point he realized one instruction in a very tight loop was redundant. Removing it made the loop slower. Which is, in technical terms, some bullshit. Doing less should not take more time. It wasn't from alignment or cache or pipelines or any sensible cause. Abrash called in favors so he could study the actual traces of the Pentium 4, because he just had to know what the fuck was happening under the hood - and Intel made him sign a stack of NDAs, so we the public will never find out.

Cat Calibration in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Language barrier.

Also, glass barrier.

Secret Level's producer can't fathom why Concord ended up failing: 'There was no nicer, more invested group of developers than the team on Concord' in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

That's not disproof they did things differently - or well. Any multiplayer-only game without players is a dead game, even if the gameplay it would have is mindblowing.

Cat Calibration in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
Rizzmoth in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Missed opportunity for gen 1/2, because this would perfectly match the Ancient Mew foil effect.

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mv *.jpg is complete bullshit. (sh.itjust.works)
 

'Well it's only passing mv a list of--' yeah yeah yeah, I know, and that's why I'm calling bullshit. It should be massively harder to execute filenames. Even if 1970s decisions make that the eternal hideous default: the lack of any idiot-proof standard workaround is incomprehensible.

StackOverflow's full of competing one-liners and people pointing out how each one is considered harmful. The least-skeezy options use exec. That sentence should make anyone recoil in horror.

This is not a filename problem. This is a tool problem. If a single printable character is going to silently expand into a list of names, then for god's sake, having it put each name in quotes should be fucking trivial.

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