@Lensflare

I admit I'm also one of those people that make agile fail.

I've always been kind of the fireman dev, putting out fires here and there, and when you are constantly shifting your attention everywhere, the scrum master is delusional if he expects me to *also* pull whatever was in the usually already bloated sprint.

@BordedDev

Agile is the biggest lie of the dev world.

It would be useful if the only involved parties were devs, but since bosses and salesmen tend to allow client reps in planning, it turns out to be "do whatever shit client asks for, but more agile!"

In short, a shortcut to bothering you in ways they couldn't before.

Right now I was doing a side project involving some audio socket tunnels.

Every junior said it couldn't be done because it had too much latency.

Enter setsockopt (and having to do it in C or python) to save the day.

No vibe programmer will ever learn that shit if left to their own devices.

Good thing I don't have to attend those dreaded stand-ups.

@D-4got10-01

Being able to publish with minimal (if any) QA, and hardly any moderation from stores leads to that, yes .
In the end, both the store and the dev hurt themselves, because erasing (gommaging, fucking GotY)
Is something stores won't do, and it drives down interest in others.

And it's especially egregious (and confirms my take) when all people do is complain about games not coming to gamepass day one, and their response was locking day one releases under the higher tier subscriptions.

@TeachMeCode

The idea is that for a "play any game for a fixed subscription price", having games day one is actually a big deal.

Gamepass subscriptions would tank if people had to wait, say, 1 year to play.

Yeah, dads probably wouldn't mind, but a lot of the public of gamepass, are, as I said, young adults or fathers that like videogames, would.

They could easily just buy the 3/4 vidya a year they want, and it would come out cheaper than gamepass.

Let's be real, outside of day ones, or big titles that come later, no one gives a fuck about the filler shit they include, just like in steam.

@Lensflare

Well, most games are priced similarly on PC. Unless they are indies, but indies (hate me as much as you want, hardly ever meet my standards). They are the equivalent nowadays of shovelware, with some hidden gems in the midst.

All things aside, I could buy pretty much any videogame I wanted, but taking into account the whole world, let's say, and I'm being optimistic, people can buy 4 games a year. That's, at least, 280 euro.

Gamepass at 30/mo, is 360. No longer worth it.

I mean, if I really want to play day one, I can buy the fucking game. And, especially for people with kids and such, which is obviously their target audience (male adults with disposable income), it's a ruinous deal, because for them, one of the four games a year can easily last more than three months...

I guess I'll stick to my model. Since companies lie, I'll lie. I'll keep pirating every game I can, and if it's worth the buck, I'll pay for it even if I already beat it.

And so no one can complain, in the last 2 years I did it with BG3, ghost of Tsushima, black myth Wukong, soul reaver remaster, expedition 33, hades, and triangle strategy.

Slow API double posted

Microsoft got drunk on power. They really have no competition, so the suits on top thought "hey, monopoly, let's milk"

Newsflash, it backfired.

And for all the doubters, C++ actually has the best of both worlds.

Because you can choose to link against a debug runtime or a release runtime, meaning again (zero cost) you don't pay for what you don't use.

Yes, I'm aware it's harder because you can't mix main program and libraries with different runtimes, but alas, then again, you can fucking static link...

So yeah, by all means, try. C and CPP will not go anywhere, because, as captain Yamamoto said, no stronger shinigami has been born in over a thousand years...

Don't care about the off topic discussion.

So long python is still implemented in C, python will close the gap more and more to C++.

CPP is screwed in stubbornly maintaining backwards compatibility.

Being utterly verbose is a byproduct of that.

Rust may become a worthy successor... Maybe. Definitely not with the choices the steering committee is doing.

In the end. You can never prevent all footguns while enabling uncontested top notch performance.

Every language that tries to do so will inevitably fall behind C and CPP. At least while they don't adopt the zero cost abstraction model, which is the cause of the CPP cruft.

If anyone has the solution, I'm all ears. I'll happily vote them for the Nobel prize.

Typescript has had decorators since ages ago.

JavaScript not really. Only transpilers supported them. TC39 is still stage 3, and in any case will probably break all preexisting decorator implementations.

They are just higher order functions, and they make perfect sense in interpreted languages.

In the end they are mostly used for some kind of reflection, which you could do anyway in languages that do support reflection, but especially useful in type-erasured languages, since it makes it much easier to do reification of generics for library code.

Really not something non-lib devs should worry about. Just add it and watch the magic happen.

@Lensflare

Bethesda are the fucking GOATs in that category.

They've been milking Skyrim for how many years now?

Glad to hear you support your own extermination.

Why indeed keep intellectually disabled individuals like you.

@TeachMeCode

Yeah, element resistance is a *big* deal in MH.

Which reminds me I still haven't gotten around to bonk lagiacrus...

@TeachMeCode

Reminds me of my first fatalis kill, already in blue flame phase, out of space so everything burning and life dropping fast, only ~10 secs to live, and just bonking with reckless abandon... And he dies.

I threw the controller and screamed... At 3 am XD.

My girlfriend and my neighbors weren't as happy as I was XD.

@TeachMeCode

Haha, congrats.

Jin dahaad should be easy with hammer since you can easily stick to his legs/arms and break spikes easy peasy.

Also, remember to look up! You can drop the stone cornices on his head when he does his ultimate by using your slinger!

And then again, if you ever want help, even if it's just SnS wide range support, give me a shout!

It depends, I guess.

I offer my employers a choice.

I can use my own PC, observing reasonable security practices and such, or they can feel free to post me a whole suitable box to do their shit...

They tend to be much more lenient after the fact indeed...

@asgs

This so much.

I swear my old ass is gonna be ran over at some point because I don't hear a car coming, but an electric car was coming...

It probably comes from a C programmer.

It was used when you wanted to cast a "bool" (C does not have bool) into either a 0 or a 1.

Technically true is any nonzero integer, but you could do some nifty math tricks by doing the !! And thus ensuring true would be 1 and not just any nonzero.

@lorentz

At no point did I refer to the fucking ad.

They chose a fucking hot woman, and made a wordplay.

It's fucking fine. She is not a Nazi nor whatever. But we *do* live in a retarded world where success seems to deserve punishment.

Sorry, but no. That is a retarded world that I don't want to live in.

So I push to reinstate meritocracy.

@lorentz

We are sensitive to inbreeding because that's harmful to the gene pool, so evolution made us automatically discard siblings as mates.

Eugenesia is actually natural selection. And surprise. It happens naturally, because it's natural.

Again. We (as species) beat nature long ago (and that will eventually be our downfall).

But, no matter how progressive or woke or whatever you wanna be, the fact stays that with two progenitors with good genes (and no, I never mentioned skin color, nor any other fenotype, because those don't matter), the child has the unholy and blasphemous power of probability to inherit good genes.

@antigermgerm

If you didn't really care anymore you would not have written an essay about it...

Because you shat such a long dump?

Actually, eugenesia has its merits.

If you have two healthy individuals with good genes, the chance of healthy offspring improves massively.

In fact, that's actually how fucking natural selection works.

Call me Nazi or whatever. Biology will still be biology.

It's just a non issue to us because we learned how to survive otherwise deadly conditions.

You've done dirty to my dear xkcd.

Everyone forgets the random guy in Nebraska selflessly maintaining that little piece at the bottom that holds everything without pay.

@BordedDev

Not all spiders have ocelli (proto-eyes). And those who do don't necessarily have 8.

And in any case they'd make for a really poor camera XD.

Windows does B by default.

But I have a pet peeves with it being called "save as", because save for me means save the work I've done in this app in the format that makes sense for this app. In which case the extension is already known and you wouldn't need a filter.

In case we are taking about *exporting* to a publishing format, like PNG or such, then B is the way to go IMO.