Chris Heyes

Spawned a Discord server for the zig-gamedev project discord.gg/dVfXNC4K

@chessMan786 Please stop with the smart pointers. youtu.be/xt1KNDmOYqA?fe…

Mastering Memory Management: From Manual Cleanup To Smart Pointers In C And CPP In this post, we’ll explore the intricacies of memory management, discuss why garbage collection isn’t typically used in C/C++, and try to see into alternative approaches for efficient memory handling.

@aramh @x_annatar @FailedToComply I dunno man. I can design my program to make efficient use of a particular machines resources and you’re saying that you can devise a mathematical model that will do better so long as it is given highly abstracted, proof-able code. Exciting if true. Let’s see it.

@x_annatar @hazeycode @FailedToComply Pretty much. More sophisticated understanding of the code means you can make better use of data dependencies, better parallelization opportunities, you can (safely) have multiple stacks (so you don't need to allocate memory), etc.

Functional programers have determined that reasoning about effects is very important and purity is one essential feature that allows for this reasoning. But in the beginning, they didn't know how to do effects in a principled way. So purity was merely conventional. Side effects were permitted. We can call these languages first generation languages. We can say the first generation languages had an unsafe hatch. It was necessary for pragmatic reasons. Second generation languages finally figured out how to do effects—linear types, monads, and algebraic effect systems are the three main ways to do effects in a controlled manner that allows for safety while preserving reasoning capabilities. Second generation languages do not need escape hatches. They can encode operations that previously required using the escape hatch, in a safe, principled manner that doesn't tarnish its own semantics. When it comes to low-level, mutation based languages, Rust is a first generation language. It simply needs unsafe blocks for pragmatic reasons. It's one of the first efforts in this space, so that's no surprise. But don't believe for a moment that unsafe blocks are necessary in principle. Eventually there will be second generation languages that can subsume all usage of unsafe, while still being completely safe and principled.

@aramh @FailedToComply How?

@FailedToComply Yep. Even beat them.

finally got a proper "turn your head this way" functionality and that helped fix the peeking mode to make it look cooler #gamedev #indiedev

Happy new year everyone x

Mass-scale panels on prime farmland shouldn’t be allowed. As well as being blots on beautiful countryside, it reduces food supply. Put solar on brownfields, car parks and roofs instead.

This was a surprise for us to discover. CLOCK_MONOTONIC is not in fact the monotonic clock on Linux, but rather CLOCK_BOOTTIME. Details: tigerbeetle.com/blog/three-clo…

The zig-gamedev libs have been migrated from the monorepo to their own repos. "Fuck yeah" - anon user "Finally" - another anon user #libraries" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/zig-gamedev#li…

@DNAutics @bryancsk Wu wei

@bryancsk Pro-growth means the rich stay rich because the mechanism to grow is to inflate the currency and pay banks and cronies. There needs to be a third way

Degrowth means that the rich stay rich and everybody else has no recourse to recreating wealth. It is an inherently feudal worldview that entrenches an aristocracy.

If the Labour government remove inheritance tax relief on family farms it will decimate the farming industry. As Farmer Bruce Jobson states: “We are facing the worst crisis we’ve ever had in farming. This is going to be end game for many farms.”

@FlohOfWoe @wc_duck We do something similar to merge enums together in zopengl experimental wrapper #L8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/zig-gamedev/zi…

Did a quick little post! kihlander.net/post/extending…

@Deakhead Is it Everton ?

Oasis - Who Feels Love? (Official Video) youtu.be/0v2pAIgFJGM?fe… via @YouTube

@Srekel With this work ethic and focus on what really matters, the bottom line, you’ll have offers to sellout to EQT in no time! Best wishes comrade!

Now that I'm a serious business person, I need to take every opportunity to get ahead, no matter who I need to throw under the bus!

@raysan5 1100

QUIZ! How many lines of plain C code were required to create `rTexPacker v4.0`, excluding external libraries (raylib, raygui, rini...), and not considering comments and blank lines??? The closest correct answer (in next 24 hours) will get a FREE KEY for `rTexpacker v4.0`! 🚀😄

After an integrated test reduction system, the Zig toolchain is going to have built-in fuzzing github.com/ziglang/zig/is…

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@CiccioMadonna @CYBERH0RNET @IceHawk_ @BTC_for_Freedom twitter.com/bigjamin/statu…

@hazeycode @CYBERH0RNET @IceHawk_ @BTC_for_Freedom got lost . I’ve read the hedge funds buy the etf , then short the future and take home the 8% .. have no idea how

Hedge funds are shorting #bitcoin like crazy with the Futures ETFs, and buying through the Spot ETF at lower prices. The third largest hedge fund in the world (Millennium Management) have bought 30k BTC through Spot ETFs.👀

@CiccioMadonna @CYBERH0RNET @IceHawk_ @BTC_for_Freedom Not at all. The whole point of a market is that it is a positive sum game; where people trade things they don’t have use for, for things they do have use for. The market has intrinsic value that can be captured. In the ideal, everybody wins. In reality, it’s a messy business.

@hazeycode @CYBERH0RNET @IceHawk_ @BTC_for_Freedom It definitely is a zero-sum game . When you cash out if you win then somebody else (the holder) has to lose