Been writing a NES emulator for a while. Works well enough but there is a new automated test available. My emulator does ok, but not good enough. Going to try and improve things.
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Where’s the drunken conglomeration that is Scala?
Btw. It’s my favorite language
100% accurate.
As somebody reducing mongodb at work: postgres first would have saved so much trouble!
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•In case you've ever wondered why the Windows control panel was so awful...
1 yearSounds like they are developing win32 code. The resource id nonsense is very win32.
So yes: instant legacy code. Win32 is dead.
Beyond All Reason is really interesting. There is a long history there! The engine was originally made to play Total Annihilation mods (or the full game? Not sure). That evolved over something like 15 years!
The end result though is not just a good open source game but a damn good RTS with an awesome scene. I <3 BAR.
Anyways, aside from fawning over BAR what’s my point?
Plan for the long game: these projects can take a long time to gain traction.
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Programming@programming.dev•25 Reasons Why Financial Enterprise Companies Use Java
2 yearsThat does constrain the optimizations to a profile determined prior to the end user. Which is hopefully the same but might not be. Shared code between applications also is a challenge.
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Programming@programming.dev•What are your favorite statically typed, compiled, memory safe programming languages?
2 yearsScala 3 native. If the compiler was faster I’d be even happier. Curious to try Ada
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Programming@programming.dev•Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular?
2 yearsIs ipfs usage growing? Stagnant? No idea… Diatributed serving of content seems great
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Programming@programming.dev•Looking for a language, that can easily compile to WASM
2 yearsScala-js is becoming my go to scala backend. I did not know there was a wasm feature coming. Will try
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•The team that pushed yesterday's Crowdstrike update has been identified.
2 yearsRazor and Blade should be real
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Programming@programming.dev•Why Facebook does not use Git – and why most other devs do • DEVCLASS
2 yearsAbsolutely does. Source: worked for Amazon.
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Programming@programming.dev•Libraries to aid me in strategy-game-like simulation of a society (non graphical)?
2 yearsCheck out the field of multi agent simulation. There is a variety of related software there.
There are also actor systems. That’s a low level model of computation. Seems like it would be suitable for building agent simulations. I’ve wanted to try that but no luck yet.
ChatGPT is great at tutoring python. Go as well. Not sure on the others.
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Programming@programming.dev•Fix Incoming! Empty S3 buckets won't be able to make your AWS bill explode
2 yearsI think it’s a combination of things. My experience definitely parallels yours: when developers have access to the bill they tend to realize the cost of the services they are using. Sometimes even resulting in optimizations to those costs.
At the same time AWS can get fucked with how horrible their bills are to understand. They don’t exactly go out of their way or even slightly on a good path to deliver a clear bill.
So even if the developers have access to the bills they might just end up with an impenetrable list of bullshit from AWS
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Programming@programming.dev•Google Cloud accidentally deletes cutomer’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’
2 years“account being deleted, something that had never happened to Google Cloud before.”
10$ says this has happened before but to a tiny customer who couldn’t get google to care.
Join me and use
~to mean “shit changed just check the diff”
That’s why I’m going for brain in a jar.
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Programming@programming.dev•I love programming but I hate the programming industry
2 yearsLook at this world. Look at the struggle, the mountains people climb, they think they climb. We have a tool which can help us with the drudgery. Unfortunately, blocked by a guy named Bob who has an MBA and swears that it should only cost $10 to make a web page.



Yes but where can i get the classic GUI? 😁