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Flickion Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread

The US is not testing sufficiently to make any claim about having less cases than European countries.

Flickion Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to DirectX 11 shift

D3D11 is much easier to use and more reliable than OpenGL etc, using OpenGL would increase the cost to finish the game and no meaningful gain since Linux is essentially irrelevant.

Also most game devs don't have Linux machines to build or test the game on in the first place.

I thought about it once, tried installing Ubuntu-- it wasn't as simple as I'd like, but eventually worked.. except it didn't seem to be aware of the GPU and was running at 640x480 or some shit.. deleted it.

Flickion Gathering Intel on Intel AVX-512 Transitions

Nice work as usual BeeOnRope

Now if only I could actually use avx512 in a desktop, been waiting what feels like 5+ years..

Flickion Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangerous

Or better yet only have normalize(), mark it [[nodiscard]] and it will be pretty much impossible to fuck up.

Flickion No nuances, just buggy code (was: related to Spinlock implementation)

You think the OP doesn't know this? Common. Linus was making straw men arguments as he seems to commonly do.

The measurements still show Windows trouncing Linux in reponsiveness

Flickion Nim vs. Crystal

Swift is Apple garbage and there is no expectation it would run on anything outside of iOS.

Crystal not working on Windows indicates to me that are implemented the run time idiotically-- should have just reused the C and C++ run time & standard libs, as this would have given them portability from the get go.

Exposing Win API or .NET is unnecessary, just allow users to call into C code for that nonsense.

Flickion Nim vs. Crystal

Aside from Crystal what languages don't support Windows? You pretty much have to go out of your way to make a language that won't run on Windows.