The OFFICIAL programming thread
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It just occurred to me today with India recently becoming the most populous country on earth, their odd English grammar might one day become the norm. It doesn’t bother me normally but, for some reason, it irritates me in technical discussion. For example, Indian programmers on Reddit keep saying “codes” (plural) for source code or programs.
And then there’s this phrase which someone used with me in Teams today and it’s not the first time I’ve heard it:
ok…ill take a pull and the same
I have no idea wtf that even means. I’m guessing he’ll create a pull request? I dunno.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
I have no idea wtf that even means. I’m guessing he’ll create a pull request? I dunno.
Or jerking off?
I doubt they influence the rest of the world because they don’t make any entertainment worth watching and that’s how accents and vocab spread beyond their border. Even the stuff they do make that’s worth watching to some, like programming youtubes, is unwatchable to many other English speakers.
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I don’t know where this goes, so will dump it here. Reddit wants to get paid for AI developers to scrape their platform to train their models. They commercialized their API, which was free to everyone before. Now users are pissed off because the Reddit apps suck ass, making the platform unusable for some (especially sub moderators). Some are even claiming ownership of the content as they create the conversations that Reddit is trying to sell. Many are threatening to jump to another platform, though I don’t know what that will be. Seems like Reddit could have tailored their API license to target AI companies specifically, leaving it open for others like app developers and individuals/students to play with.
Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps
Moderators say third-party apps are essential for their work.
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^it doesnt go here. find another place and move it
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality. In fact, of course, we all do believe that some moralities are better than others . . . . The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard . . . admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others."
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@Whoofe said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
^it doesnt go here. find another place and move it
You sound like Silky, a mod wannabe!
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I wish it would occur to someone at Microsoft that they don’t have to hit my CPU hard for their periodic update and indexing processes like some over eager virgin fumbling in the pants of the first girl that would let him. They could configure these services to sip CPU and run for hours or days instead of trying to finish them as quickly as possible. I’m here all week, I’m in no hurry. Why are you bothering me with fan noise?
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
I don’t know where this goes, so will dump it here. Reddit wants to get paid for AI developers to scrape their platform to train their models. They commercialized their API, which was free to everyone before. Now users are pissed off because the Reddit apps suck ass, making the platform unusable for some (especially sub moderators). Some are even claiming ownership of the content as they create the conversations that Reddit is trying to sell. Many are threatening to jump to another platform, though I don’t know what that will be. Seems like Reddit could have tailored their API license to target AI companies specifically, leaving it open for others like app developers and individuals/students to play with.
Interesting thread below about one of the 3rd party apps called Apollo that is shutting down. Personally, I think all this bleating (from users) about what the Apollo guy says would be $2.50 a month per user is overblown. A lot of the most upvoted protest comments and threads on Reddit for weeks now seem to be from economic illiterates or communists who think they’ve got some inalienable right for Reddit to serve them shit for free and without advertising. The apollo app alone was serving 7 billion requests per month; someone has to pay for the Reddit servers to handle that.
Anyway, I got diverted: the most interesting to me part of the below thread was that after he met with Reddit, the Reddit CEO publicly claimed he tried to blackmail them for 10 million dollars. But apparently Canada has “one-party consent recording” and the Apollo guy recorded the calls revealing their lies.
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Wow what a wangled web we weave. Sounds like Apollo had a really good run.
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The Apollo dude open sourced his backend code:
The goal of making the code for this repo available is to show that despite statements otherwise by Reddit administrators, Apollo does not scrape anything and users purely authenticated Reddit API requests, and does a great deal of work to ensure the Reddit API rate limits are respected.
And the Reddit administrators he is referring to is “u/spez” - the CEO. That guy is/was pretty well liked but in in addition to making a business decision to trash the Apollo guys business (ok, fair enough - it’s Reddit’s call) he:
- Slanders the Apollo guy by accusing him of blackmailing reddit for 10 million dollars
- Implies the Apollo guy / team are shitty programmers who don’t know how to or don’t care to use the API properly.
This is right at the time the Apollo team would normally have to be looking for work since the same Reddit CEO trashed their source of income at < 30 days notice. It’s a cunt’s act really.
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I’m picking up and playing with a Rust game engine library called Bevy. I read it used something called an “Entity Component System” and thought, blah, blah another case of new buzzwords wrapped around some concept that’s probably been around since the 1950’s and proceeded. Then I coded the most basic demo project per their “getting started” guide and thought, what the fuck is this? It was only 30 lines of code and I was completely lost.
It turns out it really is a different way of doing things which is something I don’t come across all that often. After asking Bard to explain it to me I understand it better and can see it might be a good way to do things.
The history is kinda cool/interesting too:
In 2007, the team working on Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising experimented with ECS designs, including those inspired by Bilas/Dungeon Siege, and Adam Martin later wrote a detailed account of ECS design,[2] including definitions of core terminology and concepts.[3] In particular, Martin’s work popularized the ideas of systems as a first-class element, entities as identifiers, components as raw data, and code stored in systems, not in components or entities.
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Star Citizen has ECS and it’s MULTITHREADED! Best game eva! Buy moar ships!
Entity Component System architecture multithreadable or just the loading process? - Star Citizen Spectrum
It was not very clear to me from the OCS JumpPoint article if the ECS implementation was capable of multithreading individual systems or just the loading process of components via Fibers? I would...
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Pfft Empty Component System, I write three of those every day. From scratch.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Star Citizen has ECS and it’s MULTITHREADED! Best game eva! Buy moar ships!
Entity Component System architecture multithreadable or just the loading process? - Star Citizen Spectrum
It was not very clear to me from the OCS JumpPoint article if the ECS implementation was capable of multithreading individual systems or just the loading process of components via Fibers? I would...
Oh cool. I couldn’t tell from the wiki article whether it was still being used in any real games or it had been found wanting and devs had moved on.
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BTW, I played your last game and it sucked! I gave it one star on Steam. I would find a different career if I were you.
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@Gators1 that reminds me, it’s almost time for a sequel.
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I landed on Stack Overflow a few minutes ago looking for an answer to something and I see the 2023 developer survey came out this past week:
I thought this new metric or representation was interesting:
The blue dot is the number of people who haven’t used a language but want to (SO calls that “desired”). The red dot is people who have used a language and want to continue using it in the future (SO calls that “admired”).
Rust is now in the 8th year as the most “admired” language (in previous years they called it “loved”). I’m a Rust fan so that is gratifying to see.
JavaScript seems to have the narrowest band between “desired” and “admired” which I take to mean that a lot of people want to try it but quickly realize they don’t like it once they do. I prefer TypeScript for bigger projects with lots of classes but I think JavaScript gets a bad rap really. I find it really elegant and fast to develop in with the least amount friction between wanting to do something and expressing it concisely in code (particularly with all the changes in the five versions between ECMAScript 2015 to 2019. )
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We fired a dude who was wasting all his time watching Soccer, Porn and Ukraine-related videos at work recently. People are not smart. Use your phones guys, not the company’s laptops.
He even tried to go on some websites that were blocked and then googled “how to use VPN” lol.
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Since we went to WFH, I can watch porn all day on my personal computer while pretending to work on my work computer!
Entity component system - Wikipedia
2023 Developer Survey results are in: the latest trends in technology and work from the Stack Overflow community - Stack Overflow
