Alkis Tsapanidis

Senior Software Engineer at FortuneFish Ltd. Keen climber and techno maker! Previously, embedded software and hardware engineer. Long-time Amiga follower.🏳️‍🌈

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@ribzlike @theFIREescaper @123reg Yep, we’re affected. Woke up to reports of an outage. Can’t resolve our domain from my home connection.

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@aidThompsin Looks like YouTube’s “personalised” subscription mode is not very good. I just went to subscribe to find I was already subscribed. I haven’t seen any of your content in so long I didn’t think I was.

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@xgigglypuff Drinking, sure, but purchasing outright? As in, it’s needed to make certain types of raw cheeses, why would it be stupid to purchase it if you do not intend to drink it unprocessed?

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@Alykkat Yes! Most of us where I work in fact!

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And the @unity InputSystemUIInputModule saga continues. Clicks are not working correctly either. Has anyone actually tested this before release? Who thought it’s a good idea to write a module that changes important behaviours of UI input handling? #unity #gamedev Wednesdays…

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If your tests are allowing for public APIs to be knowingly broken, they are not worth the storage they are written to. I had to embed the package and remove support for middle and right mouse clicks to fix this, because the design is fundamentally flawed. 4/4.

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Firstly, that is not the only API that is broken by this implementation flaw, pressPosition is broken too. Secondly, and I know Unity loves TDD, an implementation *knowingly* breaking a documented public API in use for the best part of a decade cannot be considered a pass. 3/n

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What is worse is that looking at the source code, it is *knowingly* broken. It contains multiple comments that state this, and it contains the following comment that basically explains the breakage. 2/n

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Yesterday, while having to do an enforced migration to the new @unity Input System, I run into a very odd problem. pressPosition was not being set as expected. After much investigation, I found that the Input module for the UI system is a complete mess. 1/n

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@SebAaltonen @ObjectiveCosta I don’t think this needs the qualification of “back then”. The web is still in a horrible state. At least the barely interactive documents back then didn’t use multiple GB of RAM to implement features that native apps had in the late 90’s.

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@anerdguynow Yeah, same. It also tickles the same parts of the brain, so now that I’ve been a full time developer for more than a decade I find myself not playing games as much as I used to and would like to. That part of my brain is both satisfied and tired when I’m done working.

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@anerdguynow I usually find that when this happens the search service is actually crashing, emitting events to the event log about it as well. Of course, searching for any of the errors in the log never yields anything worthwhile…

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@anerdguynow Definitely credit the junior dev. It doesn’t need to be confrontational in any way either: “It was X’s idea actually, excellent work”.

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@BenSimsTech @SheriefFYI Considering the blatant shader variant explosion there makes me wonder whether they have reliable data on which variants are actually being used.

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@melvmay Congrats! Looks like you started working for Unity three days after I started using Unity, at the job I’m still at!

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@tom_forsyth @MikeJMika People that haven’t watched the Mortal Kombat 2 AI cancel out of animations that cannot be cancelled, beating you. Again. On the last round. Again. Aaand another quarter gone.

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@Kev_Bayliss Got it in the left ear. Around 5kHz. Thankfully, being that high it’s pretty easy to ignore, I can’t imagine how bad it would be had it been in the low mid frequencies.

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@dreadolph @docsmsft @shanselman Yeah, I’ve made several.

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@willgoldstone Haven’t tried it in a very long while, when I did it was unusably slow on our project. Should probably try it again to be fair.