Jonathan Peros

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He doesn't even know how to use the three seashells

@davepl1968 I think jumping straight to your personal experience as the way of all people of a certain category view the problem is wrong. You're dealing with power of two number patterns here and you've been a coder for all of your life; of course you're going to intuit this pattern.

Let's assume you can solve this. I think HOW you solve it says a lot about how your brain works. First, figure it out so you have your answer, then check the thread for what it all means.

@ChShersh I'll just stick with good old printf

The C++ example is wrong btw. This is C++ in 2026.

@nicbarkeragain @nickbernstein But initialization in a conditional is siiiiiiiiick

@nickbernstein Good point! My hot take is that assignment inside a conditional is an anti pattern and should never have been allowed, there are specific cases where it gives subjectively nicer ergonomics but I don't think it's worth it.

Programmers: do you have a consistent preference for which side you put the literal on in a comparison? // Right-hand side if (someValue == 1) {} // Left-hand side if (1 == someValue) {}

@MadelaineLucyH I don't know what you're talking about, but this man you're describing was basically me as an immature college kid, and the older I've gotten, the less I've acted anything like that.

Ok I’ve been this 18yo woman. Let me break it down for you. You’re 18 and you cry when someone says something mean about you in the school play. But he’s an adult, so he tells you to toughen up and quit being emotional. So you don’t feel safe processing your feelings like a normal teenager. You’re 18, and you want to hang out in the park with the other teenagers and gossip. But he’s an adult, so he tells you to grow up and stop being so immature. So you stop seeing your friends, and your socialisation with your peers becomes harder. You’re 18, and you’ve never had a big argument with a partner before, so you’re really confused and upset. But he’s an adult, so he tells you you’re childish, crazy, and he’s disappointed. So you feel ashamed of acting your age and wonder if there is something wrong with you. You’re 18, and you’re really worried about your exam results coming out next week. But he’s an adult, so he tells you that you should look into retaking classes if you are serious, or stop being so dramatic. So you suffer in silence and learn your partner won’t understand if you need comfort. Can age gaps work? Yes. But honey, if you’re a teen and reading this: date another teen.

@meesedev What you said is true, and Blueprint running in a VM also adds a ton of weight on top of that, in my experience even more performance bottlenecks are graphics related, not CPU bound.

Claiming UE5's performance problems are just "devs who don't know what they're doing" is the tech version of "the system works, you just need to work harder." When many developers ship games with the same issues, it points to the engine's architecture. Unreal's OOP-heavy design pushes developers toward expensive abstractions (which doesn't even save the developer time, in fact, it does the opposite). If good performance requires bypassing half the engine with custom code and workarounds, the onus is on Unreal.

Without saying anything… how long have you been playing video games? Reply with a GIF.

@mikekock @birch_js y'know this is how P4 runs, and that drives entire industries of massive codebases. It's not really a big issue

@birch_js Sounds like a great way to lose source code because you forgot to add a new file into it.

Strangest thing I've ever seen. Just encountered a repo that ignores all files by default and treats gitignore as an opt-in system.

Dude what are you even getting at? Because I said I've worked with more people than is useful to conceptualize individually? I don't know why you're acting like it's controversial for me to say that artists care about art, coders care about code, and designers care about design. What wild thing will I say next - musicians care about music?

@jonathanperos Wait, are we counting every person that a studio we've contracted for has employed as someone we've "worked with"? By this transitive power of association, I must have worked with hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people. Hold on, I need to update my LinkedIn profile.

The next person who says a game isn’t optimized because Unreal or Artists Don’t Know How is going on a list. The actual reasons: Post-project layoffs killing institutional knowledge, crunch culture, and CEOs/shareholders/investors/bad management creating those problems.

@JoeWilsonEQ1 Well I'm not about to list out the motivations of the thousands of individuals I've ever worked with, nor do I think it would be a helpful conversation, so we're left with generalities. Categorically, different people have different motivations for pursuing their disciplines.

@jonathanperos I would be careful painting entire disciplines/departments with overly simplistic brushes based on anecdotal experiences.

@JoeWilsonEQ1 I don't think I agree. Even in indie and AA, where I've spent much of my career. Designers want to make good games, artists want to make beautiful games, programmers want to make optimized games. The three are often at odds; which is sacrificed depends on the studio's alignment

@jonathanperos Typically, it’s publisher/VC/exec priorities more than the studio. Devs want to make good, optimized games, as a general rule

@turkeytickle x.com/i/status/20312…

@jonathanperos Replace your future self with AI also. Problem solved

Clearly this person has never been on a big and complex enough project to see how bad code and tech debt bring forward movement to a grinding halt. We don't like good code just for the sake of it. We like good code because we care about not fucking our future selves.

@180Treehouse @simplex_fx @JoeWilsonEQ1 This guy clearly isn't aware of Unreal's Game Thread

@simplex_fx @JoeWilsonEQ1 modern games arent cpu bound you ape

A future of "I'm sorry. That was wrong; I will not repeat it. That was my mistake and I'm owning it."

@americanmcgee Someone who doesn't do bad guy things to accomplish the good guy goals. I don't know if I've heard someone describe morality so elegantly before.

When I was a kid, my mother told me she was going to name me either American or Obnard. I have no idea what an Obnard is. But at this point I also have no idea what an American is. Growing up in the 80's watching A-Team and Knight Rider, I learned a lot about what we were supposed to think it meant to be American. The basic rule was that we didn't do Bad Guy Things to accomplish the Good Guy Goals. In my 20s, I figured out how much of a lie this was. Then I figured out how The System was geared against the possibility of change to something better. Then I left. Now? I still don't know what an Obnard is. But I know who the bad guys are. And it's certainly not the Obnards.

@RayBow780271 @alreadydawn I believe you. I'm just telling my experience

@jonathanperos @alreadydawn I live in Japan too and they leave stuff outside my door all the time. (Although I live in a condo)

Amazon's last-mile delivery is tailored to each country. In Japan, packages are left in a pile on the street. Something something high-trust society. In Vietnam, some packages are delivered via boats. Special terrain require special solutions. In India, not only is the receiver required to present at the time of delivery, the deliverer must open the package right then and there.. due to the prevalence of scams from the deliverer's side.

@wafflefry19 @alreadydawn What was even more annoying was that they wouldn't even attempt delivery until I had a nameplate made.

@jonathanperos @alreadydawn Right??!! I’ve had to reschedule delivery on so many packages because of this lol

@adam102797 @alreadydawn Yes, I have two homes. I live half the year in the US and half the year in Kyoto for my business out there

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