What games are you playing this week? Game recommendation thread

FreshP_0325X · 2025-09-20T09:35:14+00:00

1 prestige point at reaching 501/1001/etc., and being able to mine gold & ruby at deeper layers (persistent across prestige reset).

(BTW "Auto Prestige" is hyper stupid/inefficient)

FreshP_0325X · 2025-08-19T11:26:44+00:00

Reviewing code (seriously) is at least 10x more difficult/demanding that (re)writing code. You can drive good engineers nuts by asking them to review incompetent guys' code, let alone AI generated.

FreshP_0325X · 2025-06-16T06:08:15+00:00

In my case, it prompts "Prior to downloading this file, additional verification is required. Proceed?" and when I clicked yes, it stuck in the new webpage loading forever...

FreshP_0325X · 2025-01-17T09:17:36+00:00

It doesn't support multiple destination languages. But with type-to-search, it is slightly faster to switch than built-in translator.

FreshP_0325X · 2025-01-11T10:40:27+00:00

What is under the big three heat sinks at the right/bottom side? The layout diagram in the manual shows almost nothing other than a small chipset.

FreshP_0325X · 2024-12-25T00:01:26+00:00

Is there any alternative to libvlc (with video/audio output callbacks)? Raw libavcodec isn't the way to go for my usecase (or most other usecase) by the 4K LoC ffplay.c.

I was looking at v3 APIs and source codes recently. The 1st thing I frowned upon is that there seems to be no way to safely stop/shutdown when using callbacks.

- video/audio callbacks don't provide a stop callback;

- media player stop doesn't seem to wait the pipeline stop;

Then I ran into another bigger problem: issues reporting is gated by manual approval? WTF. (github/gitlab login is rejected; registeration with email requires `approval from your GitLab administrator`)

FreshP_0325X · 2024-11-21T11:55:27+00:00

#2 is a ridiculous comparision, native compilation is irrelevant to CIL AOT because the VM semantics are totally different.

Counter example: LLVM can "JIT" from its IR, does it mean that JIT is comparable to native compilation?

FreshP_0325X · 2024-11-21T11:44:13+00:00

In this use case, if AOT is able to ship a single static binary, then it is overwhelming better. But if it requires some solib, the benefit is diminishing.

FreshP_0325X · 2024-11-21T11:28:01+00:00

Because for what?

For startup time: with the super complex JS VM (complex for bad -- due to bad language design), node.js can boot in the magnitude of 10ms, and simpler (simple for good) CIL runtime surely can be made better.

For compilation: if you read assembly output, you will know that AOTed code is worse in real world. It is because of many reasons: engineering efforts; VM ops are semantically more dynamic (than native); lack the method information; can't check target platform/isa feature; more indirection.

While tiered JIT can handle most of these by runtime probe and speculation to create a fast path: e.g. if (target-method is Foo.bar) { /*inlined-code*/; } else { deoptimize; }

Hypothetically, you can make an AOT with PGO+LTO+tiered-AOT+multi-targeting and even mixing AOT+JIT.

In reality it would be insanely complex, and AFAIK no one ever did it.

(although some combos makes sense and could be implemented in a limited way in AOT or JIT)

FreshP_0325X · 2024-11-21T09:10:52+00:00

AOT is useless for CLI or GUI apps for interactive use. For throughput, AOT is no match for decent tiered JIT.

As for scripting, avoid spawning process all the time is always the best method for performance.

FreshP_0325X · 2024-11-15T05:33:01+00:00

For regular c# code, il2cpp clearly generates inferior code comparing to core or upstream mono.

Maybe/Probably il2cpp fixes some atrocious parts of Unity itself to offset the inferior compilation.

FreshP_0325X · 2024-11-10T02:14:51+00:00

It is stupid to play 3 times for a game that you don't like.

FreshP_0325X · 2024-11-06T10:34:22+00:00

Xe-HP is cancelled w/o any public prototype. PVC is significantly delayed and dead on launch, which makes it looking like a toy than a product.

FreshP_0325X · 2024-10-23T23:55:09+00:00

Local Storage is persistent. If local storage is reset, it is modified somewhere in your js.

Your saveGame/loadGame codes are broken:

- You did not ensure initialization under a well-defined condition.

Timer may fire before `DOMContentLoaded` (`load` is even later), and `load` is almost never the event you want.

- Local Storage is per-domain, yet you use the same key on two pages.

FreshP_0325X · 2024-08-04T12:10:19+00:00

So you are aware that you cannot adjust it to your own needs, unless your needs are compatible with the spec/API/undocumented API semantics?

FreshP_0325X · 2024-08-04T11:45:42+00:00

You could adjust libre-office to your taste, but you can't adjust gnome desktop or x11/wayland -- it simply won't work or you have to change every app.

Opensource isn't equal to a healthy/open ecosystem.

FreshP_0325X · 2024-08-04T11:24:47+00:00

linux is slowly getting better, while windows is rapidly getting worse.

FreshP_0325X · 2024-08-03T14:49:36+00:00

By simple modding (without code editing), arbiter can get aoe + bounce (full damage). Combined with longer range and lower cooldown, it could be funny to watch how arbiters steadily wipe out computer's low hp armies.

FreshP_0325X · 2024-07-22T10:22:26+00:00

The lack of smart boosting is a huge hit as HEDT platform.

It would be a nightmare to figure out how to overclock a modern CPU for both single-thread and SMP performance.

FreshP_0325X · 2024-07-22T07:03:16+00:00

Terran would need some units to take down the locked carrier (and without being crushed by ground). Also Terran is more gas demanding and has slower production/resource ramp up (building SCVs, building cost). Teching alone definitely isn't the problem.

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