Mr. C64

Passionate about C and C++, computer programming, C64 and Amiga, retro-computing, aircraft, spacecraft, classical art, math and science. He/Him.

[Mr. C64 @c64_gio]

@ZPostFacto I’m sure someone will jump in and suggest std::span for C++ :)

[Mr. C64 @c64_gio]

@antirez @dhh :-)

[Mr. C64 @c64_gio]

Italian Rai1 TV channel is airing a great special on #Leonardo da Vinci.
Among various things, beautiful paintings by Leonardo are shown.

So much contrast with some poor modern “art” (garbage nonsense) like that 5-million dollar banana duct-taped on a wall!!

[Mr. C64 @c64_gio]

@davepl1968 I’ve had enough of those “subscriptions”…!
Let me pay say $150 and give me free updates for 3 years. And if I don’t pay anymore, let me use the latest update included in the 3-year period. That would be better than an annual subscription.

[Mr. C64 @c64_gio]

@vivoplt @kobi_ca @karpathy @fchollet @ylecun @AndrewYNg @rasbt @dair_ai @lilianweng @jeremyphoward @simonw @_akhaliq @ID_AA_Carmack @gwern @goodside @drfeifei @demishassabis You did miss @antirez (see his DS4 project).

[Mr. C64 @c64_gio]

And 70+ € for a book seems a bit high...

[Mr. C64 @c64_gio]

Why does the Kindle version cost *more* than the physical book?

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

My reply to someone considering starting a video game company:

The distribution of possible rewards for starting a video game company are generally not very good today. The market is well served, and gaining a foothold requires strong execution on both business and product issues, along with a substantial amount of luck. Plan to burn through seven figures with a not-great chance of making it back.

If you do go for it, some bits of advice:

Identify your customers clearly before you start. Not just a broad community, but specific people, and imagine them as you make decisions.

Initially, build the smallest, most concise game you can imagine anyone paying for. It will still take much longer than you expect.

Once something exists, hill-climb the value. Hopefully you will have some elements that clearly bring joy to people, which you can magnify. There will inevitably be tons of things that people find confusing, frustrating, or just boring that you will need to fix.

[DHH @dhh]

Oh I love it. Not because I can imagine anything useful off the top of my head, but holy smokes it looks FUN! We need computers to be more like this more of the time. A little GeoCities. A little more crazy. A little more TempleOS.

[Mr. C64 @c64_gio]

@marklucovsky I don’t know if the Windows dev culture is now different, and sure there are a few things I don’t like in Windows 11; but working on Windows code would be a dream job for me.

I started using Windows 95 :) then 98, ME, 2000 (very stable! Thank you NT kernel!), XP, 7 (peak Win).

[Mr. C64 @c64_gio]

@marklucovsky I don’t know him in person, but I’m a big fan of Dave Cutler and all you guys who architected Windows NT and gave fundamental coding contributions! You are my programming heroes.

I read the book “Showstopper!” :)

And I enjoy reading your stories here!

[Mr. C64 @c64_gio]

@marklucovsky An example of “Lou engineering” :)

// C) … (for Lou)

https://t.co/zqvzdT7Wr1

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

More hand written assembly from legendary "mkver", removing old mmx vc1 mc functions and adding more recent ssse3.

Over 17 times faster than C.

[Steven Sinofsky @stevesi]

Getting rid of doors and windows in offices was a crime against creativity and productivity.

[Mr. C64 @c64_gio]

@DAZN_IT La grande qualità umana di Pier si nota anche nelle “piccole” (grandi) cose come far mangiare un tramezzino al suo collaboratore in santa pace :)

[Mr. C64 @c64_gio]

@DAZN_IT Super partita Milan-Juventus commentata da super Pier! #Grazie! 👍

[Mr. C64 @c64_gio]

Il grande Pier che a #canzonissima commenta in diretta la preparazione del palco per #Margherita cantata da Cocciante: #top

[Mr. C64 @c64_gio]

@DAZN_IT È sempre un piacere seguire una partita tra due grandi squadre come Juventus e Bologna commentata da super Pier!

[Mr. C64 @c64_gio]

@ElettraLambo a #Canzonissima che simpaticamente“duella” con Pier: due belle persone che sprizzano energia e simpatia da tutti i pori! 👍