Valentin Ignatev

Let's compare tagged unions in Rust and in C, and then steal some of that type safety from Rust with a bit of a compiler and macro magic so that C can have nice things too!

I should have never started posting about gamedev and gaming. Now my feed is full of average twitter user gaming takes. It is unbearable. The only thing that's worse than this is gender wars. I should never post about relationships. I want my linkedin-tier AI circlejerk feed back

@BlueGoesFast No community note so it's true!

Sea of Sorrow tomorrow

I honestly have no idea what Microsoft is thinking these days. But I know that both wine and reactos devs went through extra effort to explicitly not look at leaks just in case they might have somehow influence them, specifically because they were afraid that MS might go after them. Or at least that was the case years ago.

@valigo if they decide to sue and the counterparty says it's Copilot do you think they see the risk from ReactOS that big to sue even if chance to lose is low?

Microsoft is not going to come after anyone using AI coding tools as they will not be willing to torpedo GitHub Copilot in the process. try again.

@Suvitruf @L0wPressure Я скажу, что за все годы карьеры я еще ни разу не встречал кого-то, кто пожалел бы о переезде с монги на постгрю, но я встречал многих, кто страдал на монге и переехал. Так что будь осторожен с базами для жисонов, Фродо

@L0wPressure @valigo В целом пофиг, думаю, да. У нас Постгря не в локи упирается, а в WAL, т.к. для одного сервиса я туда в JSONB сотни кб строки фигачу. В итоге там кучу дохлых тюльп копится из-за адпейтов. Вот как раз хочу перевезти на другую БД.

Мне на рабочую почту часто прилетают всякие бизнесовые предложения, но тут я прям удивился. Чувак как ачивку преподносит систему, над которой 12 тел работает, "выдерживающую 500к запросов в день". Я специально глянул нашу Графану — у нас в Balancy столько запросов в минуту 😅

@oxcrowx Damn I need to name lerp after myself

Once a doctor re-invented integration by trapezoidal rule because she did not learn it in school. She received 75 citations for her novel work. She even named it after herself. lol.

If you're one of Wine/Proton or ReactOS devs, can you even use AI for programming? There's about 100% chance that Windows source code leaks ended up in training sets, and Microsoft will come for you if it smells even a whiff of familiar patterns.

@Suvitruf на ноде можно 500к в день вообще без балансеров, просто торчащей наружу без каких-либо усилий, наверное )))

@valigo У нас, кстати, всё на ноде.

@ilushastahp yeah, little proud and stupid at the same time is a good description of a feeling :D

@valigo Before AI, sometimes it was hard to find exactly what I needed for a task, so I would “intuit” a lot of math that I had to do at a job. Later, finding that all of it was documented centuries ago and had names made me feel very stupid and a little proud of myself at the same time

I desperately need to learn more math. Recently I invented "lerp" from first principles. Would have saved some time if I knew its industry-standard name :/

Just to be clear - I know what linear interpolation is. I just didn't know what it's called in English, and I forgot what it's called in my native language. Of course, I could have used a clanker by just describing what I want, but I knew that the formula couldn't be that hard.

@valigo I invented “full bridge rectifier” from First principles and also same brother

@kweelungsin I only know Russian ones

@valigo Ohhh, interesting. Maybe I should try to read old game journals from the old days. Do you have recommendation?

Game journos invented this huge scale, but this is how a general public sees review scores.

@kweelungsin I think this is the case for most people now. Back in the day you would 100% read game journals

@valigo Review score 💯 = sponsored review, very sus ඞ. Jokes aside, personally I've never bought a game because of a game review from the internet. It's usually because of recommendations from friends, or from a video (youtuber/trailer) showcasing the gameplay.

@roundlay I feel like this works both ways, because people on dating apps are insane regardless of gender.

@valigo Also how women see men on dating apps.

There was (still is?) a game journal called "Igromania", they used multiple scales per game component which imo gives you more information and lets you choose based on things you favor more. 1-10 scale is still wasteful, but you get the idea For example, their KOTOR review from 2003: Gameplay: 10 Graphics: 9 Sound and music: 10 UI and controls: 8 Novelty: 10 Overall rate: 10 Short conclusion (in Russian): Дождались? Лучшая игра по “Звездным войнам”, лучшая RPG со времен легендарного Fallout и просто одна из лучших игр за всю историю существования индустрии. Практически — живая классика. Оправданность ожиданий: 100%

@uwukko @inerati I'm so cooked I read "CHILE" as "CNILE"

@inerati material 3 is very inflated by design 9to5google.com/2025/11/17/goo… it’s more of a taste thing tbh but i’m pretty sure you get less content in material design apps

how annoying is this if everything else in your life is apple

@sduck378 I generally agree, my point is that the scale is useless.

@valigo i think it makes sense. cuz games are very demanding of your time compared to, say, a movie. a mid movie can be worth watching but a mid game is a waste of time.