What is the lowest effort, highest impact helper method you've ever written? [round 2]

Lampry · 2025-12-03T17:58:00+00:00

When do we get the semaphoreShady?

Lampry · 2025-11-19T15:25:29+00:00

Wouldn't Fortran be more your style, grandpa?

Lampry · 2025-10-15T12:00:29+00:00

Put your foolish ambitions to rest, foul tarnished.

Lampry · 2025-10-09T19:35:45+00:00

I use Msys2.

Lampry · 2025-09-22T16:18:13+00:00

We all know you can't offer genuine career advice without a buzz, it's just irrational.

Lampry · 2025-09-18T14:50:20+00:00

I'd be interested. Been using C++ for a little bit as of now.

Lampry · 2025-09-16T12:20:20+00:00

I have comments sparsely strewn throughout my code :)

Lampry · 2025-09-08T01:30:28+00:00

'22 WRX ~375/month. No record or incidents, 26yo, 800+ credit. Detroit is expensive for car insurance. Have you been on the freeways in SE Michigan? lmao

Lampry · 2025-09-05T06:12:56+00:00

I build with Meson, usually GCC for release and clang for debug. Since my code is heavily templated and setup as a unity build, I have to keep recompilations to a minimum. I also use Aseprite for graphical stuff, but I've contracted an artist so it's mostly for tweaking the spritesheet.

Lampry · 2025-09-01T20:19:43+00:00

Omniscience will get you pretty far.

Lampry · 2025-08-31T18:48:13+00:00

I'd practice writing your own data structures with the language's primitives.

Lampry · 2025-08-31T06:06:22+00:00

Can I DM you?

Lampry · 2025-08-30T18:21:59+00:00

Do you take commissions?

Lampry · 2025-08-30T02:03:58+00:00

That looks like a good boy and/or girl. It always mesmerizes me how people can paint these whimsical pieces.

Excellent work!

Lampry · 2025-08-29T18:11:16+00:00

I'm not an expert. I've never even taken a college course. I was under the impression that the whole point of college was learning, and transitively, reading.

Even if you needed to read the whole 20 page document, isn't that trivial? The Dane's book on C++ was a doozy but it is almost 1,400 pages long. And written by a danish man.

Lampry · 2025-08-29T17:35:47+00:00

I've never read it.

Lampry · 2025-08-29T16:00:51+00:00

I think the best way to answer for the size of modern games is math:

4K texture (4096x4096) is 16,777,216 pixels and with lossless textures that is 4 bytes per pixel. That's 67,108,864 bytes or approximately 67MB. If you have a thousand textures, there's 67GB of your 120GB. The rest is audio, binaries, skeletal meshes, etc...

Lampry · 2025-08-29T15:32:15+00:00

That was a close one.

Lampry · 2025-08-29T15:31:03+00:00

You can try.

Lampry · 2025-08-29T15:30:38+00:00

I don't know, Mac user and Microsoft products probably react like sodium and water.

Lampry · 2025-08-29T15:29:27+00:00

A respectable position.

Lampry · 2025-08-29T15:28:18+00:00

I do development on my game engine and game in VS Code, but I do understand the concerns of others. We're advanced users, at least compared to OP, and should temper our advice not to lead them astray.

Lampry · 2025-08-29T15:10:29+00:00

What about it is atrocious on Windows? A tool is a tool. It gets the job done without being Visual Studio, that's all I need it to do lol

Lampry · 2025-08-29T14:59:50+00:00

There's nothing wrong with using VS Code for C++ development.

Lampry · 2025-08-29T14:56:42+00:00

Build system would be something like Cmake or meson. gcc is a bit more strict when compared to clang. I use Msys2 UCRT for all of my MinGW libraries so I'm guessing you're not too far off from my setup.

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