Lorenz Pretterhofer

Programming Language Design and Game Development if I have time

[Lorenz Pretterhofer @krysole]

@BrodieOnLinux if you just want 5v power or usb2 speed, reversible connectors already exist, I use one for a ps4 controller which works quite well, but they're somewhat uncommon

[Lorenz Pretterhofer @krysole]

@HotSauceVince @pikuma No, those things barely had heatsinks. It was the 90's, they were cool. My work here is done.

[Lorenz Pretterhofer @krysole]

@1GamewithDave1 Deponia for uh, many reasons. Good ones. Honestly. Great games.

[Lorenz Pretterhofer @krysole]

@lzsthw @bitfocusio I should point out that we definitely could have stuck with check boxes, I just don't think we can complain for the same reasons we used to complain about it.

[Lorenz Pretterhofer @krysole]

@lzsthw @bitfocusio I know this is meant to be more about checkboxes than modern design, but for an entire generation phones have used this design language. It just goes left to right with a color pop to enhance the effect. This is like trying to change the save icon, though that does also happen.

[Lorenz Pretterhofer @krysole]

@BrodieOnLinux why on earth would you use the sex meme for rust in the ... people, just stop it already 🤨

[Lorenz Pretterhofer @krysole]

@StephenP48273 @lemire I think part of the problem is that socialists have had it easier in recent decades as purchasing power in several important markets has gone down for lower and middle class workers. The removal of Christian barriers to exploitative work isn't providing an alternative either.

[Lorenz Pretterhofer @krysole]

@lemire I would want to argue that 50 years is perhaps a little much, microprocessors happened somewhat in the later part of the 70's and really much later than that, along with Smalltalk/OO and Personal Computing and the Internet but that notwithstanding.

[Lorenz Pretterhofer @krysole]

@BrodieOnLinux Yep, that's pretty much it.

[Lorenz Pretterhofer @krysole]

@BrodieOnLinux indisputable 😆

[Lorenz Pretterhofer @krysole]

@davepl1968 I only started around 2000 but it was still a basic, Dark Basic. We were edgy around that time apparently. Simple basic or scripting systems seem to be good at introducing people to programming.

[Lorenz Pretterhofer @krysole]

@nicbarkeragain I would always say the branches are the code but I've also written a bytecode with a branch instruction. Time to find a coin to toss :\

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

Undefined Behavior in C

[Lorenz Pretterhofer @krysole]

@tsoding Apparently this unspecified evaluation order applies to operands as well as arguments, even with nested function calls like this. If it hasn't been said then I think it must be, it is time for a better defined and better specified C specification.

[Sebastian Aaltonen @SebAaltonen]

When you design data structures, always think in cache lines (64B or 128B). You don't want to have tiny nodes scattered around the memory. Often it's better to have wider nodes (preferably 1 cache line each) and shallower structures. Less pointer/offset indirections.

[daniel habib @DannyHabibs]

Head-tracked “Window Mode.”

Your front camera finds your head. The view reprojects in real time so the screen feels like a window into the 3D scene.

True3D, no glasses.

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

I fixed Bash syntax with my CLI parsing library

[Lorenz Pretterhofer @krysole]

@jamesladd You can find it under settings->privacy and safety->mute and block, it supports mute words not just muting accounts. I find it quite useful to keep the AI nonsense down a little.

[pikuma.com @pikuma]

Unpopular opinion,

In the 90s we had lots of different and quirky operating systems; not simply different GUIs but different philosophies on how to operate.

Inferno, Plan9, QNX, BeOS, Menuet, AmigaOS, SunOS, NeXTSTEP, OS/2, RISC OS, etc.

...now everything is just Linux. 🙄