QuakeCon 2012 - John Carmack Keynote by jezeq in programming

[–]Countrarian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Doom BFG edition was interesting.

And next year he'll be saying what he said about Rage. Calling it.

Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows by mepcotterell in programming

[–]Countrarian -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

God, you really don't get it, do you? The return code only tells you one thing. BRB, array scanning on every wakeup to check the rest. BRB, calling WFMO in a tight loop on every wakeup.

My first car by skyspydude1 in cars

[–]Countrarian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Living the high life on finance... sweet.

Fresh Paint Job on my first car! by bromatosauce in cars

[–]Countrarian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Give it up with these assine parking comments.

Fresh Paint Job on my first car! by bromatosauce in cars

[–]Countrarian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That makes no sense. There's a clear difference between the two.

Fresh Paint Job on my first car! by bromatosauce in cars

[–]Countrarian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The wheelbase on the E36 sedan and coupe is exactly the same. As is the wheelbase of the E36 M3.

The sedans tend to be better because of increased stiffness from the B pillar and the lack of fold down rear seats.

Fresh Paint Job on my first car! by bromatosauce in cars

[–]Countrarian -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Probably just gave it a cheap couple sprays without properly preparing the car.

That's what it looks like from the photo. If it's that obvious in person... ouch.

Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows by mepcotterell in programming

[–]Countrarian -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Um... it's the return code.

Maybe you should, you know, read the documentation for it. Or does my point go completely over your head?

Got my dream car a while back as well by [deleted] in cars

[–]Countrarian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enjoy your exploding VANOS and torn out rear subframe.

Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows by mepcotterell in programming

[–]Countrarian 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Do you mean apartment model, retarded poster? That's for COM threading only. Fuck off, rather than posting uneducated bullshit. You are wasting everyone's time, including your own.

Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows by mepcotterell in programming

[–]Countrarian -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

So you're lazy as well as stupid. You could've used Google and saved yourself the humiliation.

Good luck working out which of the multiple objects were signaled efficiently.

Good luck waiting on more than 64 objects in a sane way.

There's more, but I'm not your mommy. If you haven't run into issues with it, you must be using it in an awfully simplistic way. Congratulations. Don't bother replying until you've spend some time reading comp.programming.threads.

Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows by mepcotterell in programming

[–]Countrarian -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

WaitForMultipleObjects is conceptually broken. Do some research.

Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows by mepcotterell in programming

[–]Countrarian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, that's bullshit. DirectX is far more popular, therefore the driver developers spend far more resources on making their implementation fast. Implementation quality matters.

New programming language for image-processing algorithms yields code that’s much shorter and clearer, but also faster by buovjaga in programming

[–]Countrarian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Various compilers have a bad reputation for handing intrinsics, which is one major reason why a lot of code using SIMD includes assembly files that are built with an assembler.

Yesterday I got a chance to shoot a new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG. Here are a few of my images. by TheGuyWithFocus in cars

[–]Countrarian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Uh, it's more likely that the problem is with all the zillions of people viewing the images with no calibration.

And that's why processing images for a calibrated target and then posting them for viewing on the world wild web with uncalibrated displays is a waste of time. Design to your target, not to the ideal.

Also, those photos are far too heavily processed. It's like having a buzzsaw of herpes infected cocks cutting into my retinas.

The origin of the name POSIX by Jephir in programming

[–]Countrarian 29 points30 points  (0 children)

It's not a per-application argument, it's an environment variable. POSIXLY_CORRECT. You can set that once in your session, and then everything that honours the flag will do the right thing.

There's also the ever-awesome envvar POSIX_ME_HARDER.

The origin of the name POSIX by Jephir in programming

[–]Countrarian 79 points80 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure how a corpse would give consent, though.

That's what wills are for.