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TillE··on "Everything" is a filename search engine for Windows
Buy what? It's an MIT-licensed project.
TillE··on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
That's not how Linux distros work. The OS maintainers make their own packages.
TillE··on Blood pressure control should focus on more potassium (2023)
> reducing sodium is the most important thing

That's good to do, but by far the #1 thing for high blood pressure is exercise. A consistent schedule of intense cardio is probably the best single thing you can do for your health in general, and definitely for hypertension.

TillE··on Julius: Open-source reimplementation of Caesar III
"Sharpness" is the quality where I think a lot of designers who intend to make strategy games actually wind up making complex puzzle games. It's something you also frequently see in Japanese tactics games like Valkyria Chronicles, where there's basically one valid solution for the harder scenarios.

As you say, not necessarily a bad thing, but it's where I personally lose interest.

TillE··on Random Thoughts about Unity
> non-standard scripting language

I agree with the other reasons, but Godot fully supports C# and C++; GDScript is something you can ignore entirely if you feel like it.

Indeed, one good reason to use Godot over Unity is that you can write (and debug) your game using the latest .NET SDK.

TillE··on About the IMGUI Paradigm
> and each item has a height that may be different

This criterion means you'd have to roll your own solution. Otherwise, ImGuiListClipper exists for exactly this kind of thing.

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/blob/864a2bf6b824f9c1329d84...

TillE··on I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code
I'm always a little surprised at how many people out there want to develop software yet haven't put in the effort to gain even the most basic computer nerd programming chops. You see this all the time in the more newbie-friendly game engine communities.

Maybe you don't want to pursue a career in software, but anyone can spend a week learning Python or JavaScript. I suspect/hope a lot of these people are just kids who haven't gotten there yet.

TillE··on Crypto 'pig butchering' scam wrecks bank, sends ex-CEO to prison for 24 years
Yeah the scam itself is not meaningfully distinguishable from eg the good old Nigerian Prince emails.

But the distinctive characteristic of the new model is to operate at large scale with human trafficking.

TillE··on Artificial intelligence is losing hype
> my main job is trying to come up with "elegant" architectures for complex business logic that interacts with an existing large code base

Right, that's surely the main job of nearly every experienced developer. It's really cool that LLMs can generate code for isolated tasks, but they can barely even begin to do the hard work, and that seems very unlikely to change in the foreseeable future.

TillE··on Show HN: Robata, macOS window selector: put it on the grill
macOS is built primarily for the probably ~95% of users who are on a laptop, and it works just great there.
TillE··on I spent 2 years building my own game engine (Rust, WASM, WebGPU)
Yeah but when you make a game, you have a game. Something you can share.

When you make yet another toy game engine, you've hopefully learned a lot, but what you have is a lot of dead code.

TillE··on ImRAD is a GUI builder for the ImGui library
Dear ImGui is the full official name, but it's still extremely common to refer to it simply as ImGui (that's what the namespace is called, etc). It's definitely not just "Dear".
TillE··on 10 Years of Dear ImGui
Merging multi-viewports but not docking (when they're both in the same branch) doesn't sound like fun, but I guess the code is largely separate.

I can definitely relate to concerns about new features attracting new users with less expertise and more questions; it's something I've directly experienced, albeit on a much smaller scale.

TillE··on Disney seeks dismissal of wrongful death lawsuit citing waiver in Disney+ terms
The alleged point of arbitration clauses is to ease the burden on the courts, which is rather contradicted when lawyers choose to waste a judge's time with dumb arguments like this.
TillE··on Waymo got a ticket and there was confusion about who or what was being ticketed
OK? I have no idea about the particular municipal laws about temporarily blocking bike lanes, but that's exactly the difference the OP was describing.
TillE··on Waymo got a ticket and there was confusion about who or what was being ticketed
There's a difference between parking and standing.
TillE··on Hal Hickel on Creating Tarkin
It would've been fine if they kept it to a brief appearance, but the movie spends so much time with Tarkin, including closeups of the face which simply does not move like a human's.

Really bad call, takes away from an otherwise very good movie.

TillE··on Official proposal for Type Unions in C#
I'm a big fan of C#, but to be fair nothing else you've named is really aiming for the same niche. The better comparison would be Swift, Go, Java/Kotlin, stuff like that.

But yeah I think C# is often unfairly viewed as a boring enterprise-y language when it's actually become a very comfy swiss army knife.

TillE··on Second Dinner invests in W4 Games and will make Godot games
This is by far the biggest endorsement of Godot yet, from the developer of Marvel Snap (including former Hearthstone lead Ben Brode). Exciting times!
TillE··on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO
When a person searches for something and clicks a Reddit link, Reddit instantly knows exactly what that person wants. Advice about which widget to buy, or how to solve a problem or whatever. That seems like an incredibly valuable data point for advertisers, way more so than vague guesses about demographics.

Is the ad business so bad these days that they can't effectively monetize this? It seems like they're flailing around in desperation instead of leveraging their core advantages.

TillE··on Apple puts "do not hallucinate" into prompts, it works
Everything about prompt engineering is just the voodoo chicken.

https://wiki.c2.com/?VoodooChickenCoding

TillE··on C++'s `noexcept` can sometimes help or hurt performance
> I didn't know std::uniform_int_distribution doesn't actually produce the same results on different compilers

I think this is genuinely my biggest complaint about the C++ standard library. There are countless scenarios where you want deterministic random numbers (for testing if nothing else), so std's distributions are unusable. Fortunately you can just plug in Boost's implementation.

TillE··on Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason
Right, I'm always annoyed when people talk about how std::vector has terrible performance (especially for games), which it certainly does if you just start with an empty vector with no memory reserved and append a few thousand items.

But it is very frequently possible to find the actual maximum you will need, allocate that upfront, and everything's great.

TillE··on The difference between undefined behavior and ill-formed C++ programs
> Visual Studio has an unofficial command line option to help identify certain classes of IFNDR

I'm sure there's a good reason why this is hard, but I'm a little surprised that this isn't caught by static analysis. Sure enough, I can't get MSVC Code Analysis to complain about the example with different inline functions.

TillE··on Google pulls Olympics ad that showed AI writing a little girl's letter for her
> While the ad tested well before airing

I can understand how the iPad crush ad slipped out, because there's a genuine positive intention and they just missed the secondary interpretation. But I don't see how "AI writes a deeply personal letter for you" could possibly appeal to anyone.

If their focus group liked it, I can't even imagine how bad the other ads they tested were.

TillE··on Ozempic's biggest side effect: Turning Denmark into a 'pharmastate'?
The sketchier Mexican pharmacies (the kind that sell anything to tourists) get around any inconvenient supply issues by selling counterfeits.

https://www.uclahealth.org/news/release/counterfeit-pills-so...

TillE··on Amazon Is a Broken Mess
Platforms are generally required by the DMCA to deal with blatant copyright infringement, but it's slightly ludicrous to expect Amazon to adjudicate patent disputes. That's what the courts are for.
TillE··on We might never know the truth about ultra-processed foods
> Most are high in fat, sugar or salt

Yeah. It's this. For all the media obsession about a new "ultra-processed" category, it's the same old boring dietary conclusions: salt is bad, sugar is bad, saturated fat is mostly bad.

You don't have to know anything about how food was "processed", you can still just look at the label.

TillE··on $60 chip fixes a longstanding Super Nintendo flaw
It's a really cool achievement, but 1CHIP consoles are still readily available for around $100; just search for "snes jr" or SNS-101. The downside is that those models don't have RGB output, so that requires a small mod.

Although, s-video on a 1CHIP still looks great. It's just as sharp, only the colors are slightly off.

TillE··on Microsoft backs down over rivals' Vista access (2006)
Endpoint Security is a user framework, that's the point. You can write a driver in macOS. You have to write a driver for Windows, there is literally no other solution for real-time protection.
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