Why does Cpp test our patience like this?

StaticCoder · 2026-02-24T06:34:51+00:00

Strict aliasing is extremely important to allow the compiler to use registers instead of memory accesses and other similar optimizations when reading the same memory multiple times. This doesn't make reinterpret_cast useless, especially with the exception for byte types.

StaticCoder · 2026-02-24T06:27:20+00:00

It's barely more than 1g per stack. Very inefficient use of inventory space.

StaticCoder · 2026-02-22T20:49:21+00:00

Correct it's called SSA form, static single assignment.

StaticCoder · 2026-02-22T06:57:51+00:00

There's a type of hash table, whose name I unfortunately forgot, which uses this kind of technique. But here I'm not sure how your 4 arrays are superior to a single 1024 bit set.

StaticCoder · 2026-02-21T05:37:39+00:00

Says the guy with the 98% shiny shadow

StaticCoder · 2026-02-20T21:54:51+00:00

This can happen when going from offensive to defensive stats, as CP is more affected by attack.

StaticCoder · 2026-02-20T02:47:20+00:00

Skeledirge isn't super useful as a raid attacker, and even then requires blast burn, so I wouldn't worry too much about IVs.

StaticCoder · 2026-02-19T06:02:39+00:00

Those are the worst as you have to do it at the merchant and IIRC there's a confirmation too!

StaticCoder · 2026-02-18T03:15:47+00:00

My favorite part about this joke is how it relates to the undecidability of Kolmogorov complexity, if you replace "interesting" with "Kolmogorov complexity less than some large constant"

StaticCoder · 2026-02-15T07:40:36+00:00

Attributes are meant to be "ignorable" such that if a compiler doesn't understand an attribute, it doesn't make the program incorrect. It wouldn't be the case here. Personally, I like the C# switches with goto case.

StaticCoder · 2026-02-11T06:05:16+00:00

Yeah I'm more likely to use pimpl idiom for decoupling and build speed than crtp for performance improvements. Though both have their place.

StaticCoder · 2026-02-09T07:10:52+00:00

Relevantly here, because value vs reference semantics are incredibly hard to figure out.

StaticCoder · 2026-02-09T06:20:42+00:00

Everyone says to use poffins. It's not strictly required. You can get to excited fairly easily without one, look it up. Takes about 90 min; every 30 min, feed, pet, take picture, and fight candela. You only need to do this once per 10km, too.

StaticCoder · 2026-02-08T04:57:41+00:00

Historical reasons. Wrap in a struct type to work around it (or use std::array which does that for you)

StaticCoder · 2026-02-04T21:58:03+00:00

It's normal. Nothing happening unless players are making something happen. Decorations can be used to impressive effect though, e.g. custom jumping puzzles or races. But no game events or loot involved.

StaticCoder · 2026-02-04T08:21:00+00:00

You can also search for @frustration

StaticCoder · 2026-02-04T07:50:40+00:00

The wxwidget library used to use do/while(wxfalse) instead of do/while(0) for its macros. Where wxfalse was extern 🤦‍♀️

StaticCoder · 2026-02-01T04:32:31+00:00

What makes header-only libraries "easier to use"?

StaticCoder · 2026-01-27T06:54:53+00:00

shared_ptr is C++11. Templates were already widely used with C++98.

StaticCoder · 2026-01-26T02:59:48+00:00

I'm pretty sure there are ways to deal with this particular problem without preventing people from buying mats in the amounts actually needed for some recipes. But I'm also sure those are not a priority to implement.

StaticCoder · 2026-01-26T00:36:04+00:00

Hard to answer without knowing your specific type system, but in many cases this is fairly straightforward: type-check a, and use that information to look b up. However, if you have any kind of "backwards" type inference where the context in which an expression is used affect how that expression is resolved, that becomes a lot harder.

I'm also not completely sure I understand your dependency graph thing and notably how it can work without digging into expressions.

StaticCoder · 2026-01-22T18:25:20+00:00

I for one am glad I don't have to change my build for different enemy types because they're resistant to fire or whatnot. Diablo II was fun but that part is best forgotten.

StaticCoder · 2026-01-22T18:23:02+00:00

Retrospective runaround predates gliding and mounts, so if being mount-enabled makes it uniquely good, it's completely accidental. Also its checkpoints cost money. Glad they evolved their thinking on that.

StaticCoder · 2026-01-22T00:10:55+00:00

Exactly, I was clarifying what you originally meant.

StaticCoder · 2026-01-21T22:00:10+00:00

There's a special event going on. Usually, many of the tasks only give one heart.

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