I've been struggling with this. I want to buy an original US Chrono Trigger cart, for example. They're nice and expensive. Which means people make repro carts to get that $$$. I do not want to support that. But it is difficult to legitimize. I end up not buying at all :'(

Or maybe it is just tedious to clean up AI's code. Greenfield programming is always a joy. Cleaning up someone else's messy project isn't fun.

I've seen people say coding with AI is making them bad at programming. I interpreted that as they forgot how to be good, which made me doubtful. However, I recognize something in myself. Manually coding feels a bit like cleaning my house. It is nice. But it is tedious.

Blender is an amazing example of open source success. It is wonderful. I need to check Gimp again. I feel like it needs some love, too.

std::vector<T>(size) default constructs |size| elements. IMHO, that should have only reserved, not constructed.

It is easy for me to envision when to use performance cores (time-critical) vs. efficiency cores (not). But there are cores in the middle I don't get. Surely it isn't just "not time critical but don't take too long". Maybe efficiency cores are missing certain units? SIMD?

omg I *just* learned there is a Win32 MsgWaitForMultipleObjects(), with "Msg" at the front. (The message queue isn't exposed as a handle and so there previously was no way to sleep until a message *or* an event.) Today is a good day!

Is that US date formatting or EU?

Humanity needs to send @standupmaths on endless vacations. So many math breakthroughs just waiting to happen.

Correction: AllocConsoleWithOptions() handles this. But that was only introduced in Windows 11 24H2. So the problem I described has existed for a long, long time.

Huh. There is no way for a program compiled with /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS to know that it was launched with CREATE_NO_WINDOW. The flag is used to run a console program silently. My program creates a console. And it has no way to check if it should be silent.

It's embarrassing how long it took me to get around to coding up console formatting.

Said another way: Currently, the only way to share a variable between two blocks is to put that variable in a shared parent block. Even if the parent doesn't care and the other blocks/code don't care. It feels like there has to be a better way.

Probably a spicy take but I think variable scope clarity in programming languages could be improved. bool flag = false; if (foo) { ...many lines... flag=true; } ...many lines... if (flag) { Really, flag just needs to exist in both of those blocks, no the parent block.

Same clever mipmap level difference trick happens in Super Mario Sunshine, too. Nintendo learned a cool trick at some point and used it well.

Agreed. While I was at Google there was an understanding like for every 1,000 employees you hire, one of them is probably a state-sponsored agent. The vetting process helps a ton. But it doesn't solve it, either. Hard problem.

Yeah. I saw some one-instruction CPUs using subleq or move w/ address triggers. I want it to be more conventional though. Just very stripped down. So an instruction decoder, ALU, etc.

I'm designing a simple DIY CPU that can be made easily enough with discrete components. This means limiting transistor count. I'm seriously considering dropping conditional branches in favor of the PDP-8's style conditional skip.

How is it 2026 and Windows doesn't have a way to set a per-program default network adapter? I'm sure we'll get 100 more hated features before it's on someone's TODO list, too.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is already happening behind the scenes and waiting for privacy to dip enough to monetize it. I suspect 'associations' will be tracked. IE you and these 3 other people all suddenly saw this wifi point. And again on these occasions.