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mcc, 4 days ago to random

Okay. Lately I've been asking some cursed MSBuild questions. I now ask the cursedestest. I could ask this question to ways:

• In MSBuild, how do I split a string into a list?

Or, in more detail:

• I want to put a newline-separated list of filenames into a text file, and then have both CMake and MSBuild (vcxproj) interpret the text file as a list of files to compile. How can I do this on the MSBuild side?

(Things I've tried, which didn't work, below:)

mcc, 5 days ago to random

Incidentally I'm thankfully still not seeing any of this Google "AI results" stuff. It sounds like nearly everyone else is. I don't know if the difference is because I'm on a Canadian IP, or because my feedback when they briefly opted me into the early beta tests was so aggressively negative they put some kind of "AI Hater" flag on my account

whitequark, 11 days ago to random

today's helldivers 2 discovery: it has an unlockable revolver. makes sense, right? lots of games do.

you fire six out of six shots and reload. your character uses a speedloader. makes sense!

you fire two shots and reload.

• if you're in a fight, your character uses a speedloader, and you lose four
• if you're not, they reload it round by round, and you lose none

this is an incredible level of attention to detail holy shit. nobody does this!!

mcc, 11 days ago to random

Cursed??? C# question:

We have a ProjectName.csproj with a <PropertyGroup><OutputType>Exe</OutputType></PropertyGroup>. Running at the command line, we can successfully run it with dotnet run on Mac, Linux and Windows. On Mac, we can open it in VS Code, hit "Run", and it runs.

On Windows in VS Code only, if we open it and click the run button, it builds a .DLL instead of a .EXE as its final build output and then fails with a message that you cannot run a .DLL.

Why, and how do we not?

aeva, 19 days ago (edited 18 days ago) to random

#poll what does the word "procgen" mean to you

mcc, 20 days ago to random

I miss "progressive JPEG"

mcc, 21 days ago to random

My account on "framagit" has just been disabled because I have not used it in one year. I do not even remember what that is. It sounds like something Yosemite Sam would say.

mcc, 25 days ago to random

Question for Rust programmers:

When you see this sequence of characters in a Rust program:

|_|

Never mind whether you would ever say it out loud— in your head, what do you think of the name of this sequence of symbols being? Do you have a name for it at all?

I have an answer but I am curious about yours.

aeva, 28 days ago to random

The Leaving Rust Gamedev article resonates with most of the frustrations I've had working on the internals of Tangerine (C++) since I converted it from being largely single threaded spaghetti to aggressively concurrent spaghetti, and that's making me think maybe I'd have a better time if I picked a different language for the hot paths, because necessary non-compulsory refactoring also kills iteration time.

I just don't know what though, because nothing ever seems to fit the bill of what I need.

shanecelis, 1 month ago to rust

Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years

This is one of those scary articles because it’s hard to find fault with it and the author’s experience beats my own in terms of time with rust and breadth in gamedev. #rustlang https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172033

eniko, 1 month ago to random

"If you make your own engine you'll never ship a game"

I'm here to tell you this is BS. Kitsune Tails uses a custom engine built on a custom framework all made from the ground up by yours truly. Neither of these were even remotely the bottleneck for development duration. Turns out that the thing that takes the most time when you're developing a game is all the stuff that is hyper specific to that game and can't be generalized anyway

Not to mention all the, you know, actual content that sits on top of the engine. I can write a json parser and serializer from the ground up in a day or two, but all the cutscenes I had to script for KT took many weeks

Then there's the fact that if I'd used an out of the box physics solution for Kitsune Tails I'm fairly certain I'd never have been able to nail the game feel it has, which is the most core thing to the whole experience

You don't have to make an engine but quit pretending doing it is the hard part of making a game. It fucking ain't

mjg59, 1 month ago to random

Being less flippant about this - the xz backdoor relied on a line that was present in the tarball release, but not in the git repo. Do we have any infrastructure for validating this kind of thing? (It's expected that the tarball would contain things that aren't in git - for example, the configure script doesn't exist in git, but is expected to be in the release. The problem is that extra code was injected into the configure script after it was generated)

tef, 2 months ago to random

thinking about the game “stray” and how disappointing i found it

it was the moment where the cat was given a flashlight to see in the dark, then typing in a key code, that’s when i gave up

yes, the player character is a cat, but like a fortnite skin, with no impact on gameplay or mechanics

again they gave the cat a flashlight

mcc, 2 months ago to random

Note: In addition to the "fuck you!" to the audience of putting no war in his war show, Tomino supposedly did a "fuck you!" to the suits who financed the show, by— after being denied his request to make a female protagonist— making the protagonist male, then putting him through a long, complex forcefemme storyline that lasts much of the show's arc. I am not joking. It's wonderful.

"Loran! We need you to wear this frilly dress and take feminine posture/voice lessons! World peace depends on it!"

mcc, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Thirty minutes into my coding work being blocked on picking over documentation trying to figure out how to use my package manager, I realize I have a second problem because the installed version of my package manager is too old for a feature I need. Now I must (a) determine which package manager I used to install the package manager [Debian? The other, older Python package manager I used to install the newer Python package manager?] (b) figure how to use that other package manager

whitequark, 2 months ago to random

Q: how can you tell if a developer has been working on the C++ standard library?
__A: __broken "_" __key

mcc, 2 months ago to random

Today is my birthday!

If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.

If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.

Abstract art by Vian Borchert
Abstract art by Vian Borchert

mcc, 2 months ago to random

I am in a terrible mood and I will tell you why: C++

whitequark, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

my most petty trait is that if you get the capitalization and spelling of a programming language's name consistently wrong I'm going to assume you're laughably incorrect in whatever you say about Ocaml or RUST

(FORTRAN and Fortran are both right)

mcc, 3 months ago to random

Say I'm in C# and I want to have a type that acts like a OCaml ADT or a Rust Enum— it can be either CONST1, or CONST2, or an object of a particular type I specify.

Is there a C#-idiomatic way to do this?

whitequark, 3 months ago to random

when we say "the impedance of X is lower" (where X is something that isn't intended for transmitting RF energy, e.g. an underground cable), considering that impedance is a complex number, are we talking about the magnitude, or the real part? is talking about the magnitude even a useful thing to do in this context?

mcc, 3 months ago to random

What kind of album cover did I just create. Like what genre of music is this

mcc, 3 months ago to random

People who design APIs. I am begging you. It doesn't matter how "simple" or "intuitive" or "elegant" your API is. You need to include sample code.