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Re:RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung on Friday December 05, 2025 @09:34AM (#46161804)
Unfortunately, AMD drivers are beyond terrible and you'll experience frequent timeouts.
delusional take
Re:SDL3 new GPU API merged on Thursday August 29, 2024 @08:09PM (#41396607)
Having a C API like that is always nice. I don't wanna fight Rust.
Re:Vulkan Tutorial on Sunday June 09, 2024 @06:07AM (#40623318)
But then you have to fight with Rust.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Learning? on Sunday March 31, 2024 @09:37AM (#39884125)
Graphics programming and the required math prerequisites.
Re:O3DE on Saturday October 21, 2023 @06:14AM (#37965533)
Even their codebase on Github is clunky with 10 folders to get through to see any code.
This is from 2021.
Arm aiming is the way.
Definitely this. Lots of good practical advice in his videos too.
Re:It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @06:05AM (#32909807)
Modern C++ is a scam.
Re:Lil UEFI: What happens when your CPU first powers on? on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @09:54AM (#32564967)
How does said software get "flashed" onto the hardware?
Re:Win32 Window Custom Title Bar (Caption) on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @01:15PM (#31100062)
That's Windows' fault by making the task not by any means straightforward in the first place.
Re:Things that used to be hard and are now easy on Sunday February 20, 2022 @10:58AM (#30406644)
"Building fast programs, with Go/Rust"

Sure, bud.

Works on mine.
Re:Handles are the better pointers (2018) on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:42AM (#26680212)
What's not to like?
Re:Merkaartor – a Qt-based OpenStreetMap editor on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @08:13AM (#25915402)
No screenshots, no care.
Re:Best aspects of C on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:12PM (#25128230)
Your own.
Re:What's Wrong with C++ Templates? (2003) on Sunday October 25, 2020 @06:27PM (#24890589)
I'd use something like Sean Barrett's stretchy buffer [1] instead.

[1] https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stretchy_buffer....

Re:Whatever Happened to CryEngine? on Friday October 16, 2020 @06:15AM (#24799339)
What a useless article. You didn't even take the time to explain what your issues with it are.
Re:Named Parameters in C++20 on Monday September 07, 2020 @02:23PM (#24401371)
Why would you kill your compile times like that.
Re:How to use math input in GIMP on Thursday July 16, 2020 @03:05PM (#23862593)
That's actually a neat idea.
Re:Game Boy Advance “Hello World” Using Zig on Monday December 09, 2019 @09:16AM (#21742784)
RAII requires even more boilerplate.
Re:Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge on Saturday November 02, 2019 @05:28PM (#21430213)
It looks very underwhelming and lacks personality.
Re:Ask HN: Best way to relearn basic math? on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @03:00AM (#20448039)
I don't get why people mention this title so often, for a beginner it's confusing at best especially the first few chapters.
Re:C for All on Friday March 23, 2018 @03:27PM (#16661782)
Sum types are the new trend.
Handmade Hero is mostly C with a very limited amount of C++.
You don't have constructors that 'fail'.
Re:Ways to Read More Books on Sunday May 07, 2017 @07:07AM (#14284874)
Could you give a summary of what you learnt from it?

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