Peter0x44

How virtual calls and vtables work in C++ was a gap in my knowledge that bothered me for a long time. I spent a few months on-and-off researching and writing about this topic, and this blogpost is the result: peter0x44.github.io/posts/vtables-… Please read and spread it around!

@lisyarus I always want my dependencies to build from source. No downloading binaries. I don't use rust.

@peter0x44 Imo the easiest implementation is wgpu-native, they have pre-built binaries and they have other (non-vulkan) backends

#graphics folks, I'm thinking of modernizing my undergrad graphics course and move it from OpenGL. Vulkan is too hardcore for an introductory course, Metal & DX12 are not cross-platform enough. Wdyt, how deranged is it to use native WebGPU? (maybe even in rust via wgpu)

@CEOofFuggy Usecase for having users?

Maybe GNOME should take this as a sign... No, it's the users that are wrong

@loopunit @rfleury I like cmake. But saying you're having "antipatterns" by not using it is certainly unreasonable.

@rfleury Both your examples were antipatterns. Once you start having to deal with automated testing, wrangling dependencies, and deploying infrastructure, you have to accept some complexity, choose the right tools & not build fragile, bespoke solutions.

you can always spot a game developer by their specific collection of antipatterns

@rfleury Is it supposed to be marked as paid?

An explanation from a stream on how caches in the RAD Debugger codebase are asynchronously filled and evicted. dgtlgrove.com/p/asynchronous…

@Pirat_Nation I'll believe it when I use it.

Good news for Windows 11 gamers: Microsoft is quietly working on a major internal plan called “K2” to slash bloat, boost performance, and make the OS seriously competitive with SteamOS. >SteamOS is now the official benchmark, Microsoft wants Windows 11 to deliver identical (or better) gaming performance on the exact same hardware >Dramatically lower idle RAM usage and a much lighter overall OS footprint >Heavy cuts to AI clutter and pre-installed junk >Completely rebuilt Start menu, reportedly up to 60% faster >A ton of other under-the-hood tweaks (faster File Explorer, snappier UI, fewer background processes, etc.) The changes are probably due to make Windows look better on Project Helix and future handheld/Xbox PC hardware. It finally feels like Microsoft is listening people, can’t believe it

@coconut_jpgg How is this difficult in any way. If you see this screen you already downloaded discord.

Chat is this really easier than just using the Flatpak?

My favorite thing about the Arch wiki is that people treat it like this paragon of knowledge meanwhile the page is just "disable updates for Discord"

@coconut_jpgg Yes. And it uses far less disk space too. You just update it like any other package. Arch is rolling release so you're expected to upgrade somewhat frequently

@joomy Or just increase your stack size? In any case, this has never happened to me. And I feel you probably should rethink your strategy anyway...

my C++ surprise of today: you thought smart pointers would solve your memory management problems? it turns out, if you have a recursive data structure, and a big enough instance of it, the default destructor can cause a stack overflow! (so you need a custom iterative destructor)

@ThourCS2 @WindowsCentral I sure hope this is true...

Microsoft is working on a Windows 11 update codenamed Windows K2 with a focus on improving gaming performance and reducing bloatware, according to @WindowsCentral They are using SteamOS as a benchmark for performance. It will also lower idle memory use and less AI clutter.

@OrangeJuice6391 @straceX Jetbrains definitely isn't opensource either...

@straceX Except VSCode rely on extensions that are not open source. If you use VSCodium you have only libre extensions and thats not at all the same experience lol.

lol JetBrains is what devs praise VS Code is what they actually open

@xah_lee I think some of these claims are rather hyperbolic and don't reflect reality. "If it hadn't been for the gets routine in C, we might have had no malware" <- obviously untrue Undoubtedly, there's tons of poor design without enough momentum to change, though.

the C programing language virus, and Cpp. sorry have to repeat this.

@raysan5 snprintf(dest, dest_size, "%.*s", (int)src_length, src_pointer);

Why C compilers can't agree in how a standard C library function should works? ☹️ And better not to talk about strncpy()...

@peternaft The majority of my ffmpeg uses are going through teacrush now. github.com/zeozeozeo/teac…

A cheat sheet with everything I’ve learned about @FFmpeg github.com/rendi-api/ffmp…

@ShriramKMurthi @_StevenOBrien_ @Love2Code I feel like it could have just been designed as [anchor][url] so you don't have to remember any order.

@_StevenOBrien_ @Love2Code The trick I learned for links is, think of the link text as a button; so that goes inside [brackets]. Remember to tell it where to go; that’s the (parenthetical). Hence [anchor](URL).

I saw Aron Swartz's blog post from 2004 introducing the markdown format on HN. The comment section is full of cynical assholes. Time has shown that Aaron & John Gruber had a great idea, but lots of people at the time were too dumb to see it. aaronsw.com/weblog/001189

@Malix_Labs There's no better editor+agent+extension+whatever package as a whole. IMO.

@peter0x44 The point is that there are better agents outside VS Code

In the meantime, Microsoft's VS Code is holding Zed's ACP because they think it will prevent users from discovering better agents than Copilot.

@she_llac Ted was right...

one of the great things to arrive this century will be the freedom to have biological children with any other person, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity

this github decline might be terminal

@PrimeAeon @AzureCrux @ForrestPKnight The year of the Linux desktop is every year for me. And it's every year for the motivated and determined. The ball is discord's court in any case.

@peter0x44 @AzureCrux @ForrestPKnight The fact that someone had to document a workaround for one of the world's most popular chat apps is embarrasing already. That's the entire point, if the "year of the linux desktop" is ever to arrive, shit like this must not happen.

> sudo pacman -S discord success! > open discord get hit with this with no way to actually use discord... soo: > sudo pacman -R discord So really there's no point to use the official Discord package since it's unusable for days after every release. Why are you this way, Discord?