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adrifton RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung

Unfortunately, AMD drivers are beyond terrible and you'll experience frequent timeouts.

adrifton 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux

delusional take

adrifton SDL3 new GPU API merged

Having a C API like that is always nice. I don't wanna fight Rust.

adrifton Vulkan Tutorial

But then you have to fight with Rust.

adrifton Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

Graphics programming and the required math prerequisites.

adrifton O3DE

Even their codebase on Github is clunky with 10 folders to get through to see any code.

adrifton [dead]

This is from 2021.

adrifton How to play FPS games if you’re over 30

Arm aiming is the way.

adrifton Ask HN: What piece of code/codebase blew your mind when you saw it?

Definitely this. Lots of good practical advice in his videos too.

adrifton It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++

Modern C++ is a scam.

adrifton Lil UEFI: What happens when your CPU first powers on?

How does said software get "flashed" onto the hardware?

adrifton Win32 Window Custom Title Bar (Caption)

That's Windows' fault by making the task not by any means straightforward in the first place.

adrifton Things that used to be hard and are now easy

"Building fast programs, with Go/Rust"

Sure, bud.

adrifton Pangolin UI, a Desktop Shell, Written in Flutter, for Linux and Zircona

Works on mine.

adrifton Handles are the better pointers (2018)

What's not to like?

adrifton Merkaartor – a Qt-based OpenStreetMap editor

No screenshots, no care.

adrifton Best aspects of C

Your own.

adrifton What's Wrong with C++ Templates? (2003)

I'd use something like Sean Barrett's stretchy buffer [1] instead.

[1] https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stretchy_buffer....

adrifton Whatever Happened to CryEngine?

What a useless article. You didn't even take the time to explain what your issues with it are.

adrifton Named Parameters in C++20

Why would you kill your compile times like that.

adrifton How to use math input in GIMP

That's actually a neat idea.

adrifton Game Boy Advance “Hello World” Using Zig

RAII requires even more boilerplate.

adrifton Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge

It looks very underwhelming and lacks personality.

adrifton Ask HN: Best way to relearn basic math?

I don't get why people mention this title so often, for a beginner it's confusing at best especially the first few chapters.

adrifton C for All

Sum types are the new trend.

adrifton Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch (2017)

Handmade Hero is mostly C with a very limited amount of C++.

adrifton Ask HN: What other websites/forums do you use that are of similar quality to HN?

http://boards.4chan.org/g/

adrifton Show HN: Crown – A flexible game engine written from scratch in C++

You don't have constructors that 'fail'.

adrifton Ways to Read More Books

Could you give a summary of what you learnt from it?