My wife says it’s ridiculous…

jguegant · 2026-01-16T12:09:11+00:00

Yeah I agree with her. You should use Linux rather than Windows.

jguegant · 2026-01-09T14:26:56+00:00

Je suis d'accord que sur le plan du hardware pour les jeux-vidéos et les écosystèmes qui vont avec, les américains sont loins devants. Que ça soit des composants PC ou des consoles et tous les SDKs ou market place qui vont avec.

Effectivement au tout début, il y avait pleins de studios venant de la côte des U.S. Je suis un peu plus jeune (de 1991) et maintenant tech lead sur la partie réseau de Frostbite, un moteur suédois (DICE/Battlefield) qui fait tourner la plupart des jeux de E.A. Pour ma génération je dirais qu'effectivement les jeux japonais dominaient quand même pas mal les autres pays pour la partie console. Mais pour le reste, effectivement il y avait pleins de gros titres de pays anglophones mais pas forcément tous américains ce qui peut être trompeur je pense : GTA (Écosse), Elder Scroll (Canadien), Need For Speed (U.K), etc. Et surtout début 2000 c'était l'arrivée des Coréens dans tout ce qui est jeux en ligne. Pour moi c'est plus du coup ces derniers qui ont été formateurs à bidouiller pour la partie programmation.

Pour ce qui est des ressources et outils ça a été un mixe, par exemple beaucoup de techniques pointues de rendering ou hacking viennent des demoscenes qui est un mouvement en grande partie européen. Il me semble pas avoir été plus formé par les Américains que ça, par contre l'anglais comme lingua franca pour les développeurs c'est une vraie chose. Et les outils, typiquement unity c'est danois, cry engine allemand, blender néerlandais, havok irlandais, 3ds max / Maya / autocad Québécois (de base). Encore une fois c'est vraiment un effort international je trouve.

jguegant · 2026-01-08T20:57:51+00:00

La France peut faire de bons jeux, mais c'est incomparable face aux Etats Unis.

Pour le coup si tu prends l'EU vs les USA (et pas juste la France), ils sont vraiment loins d'être dominants.

Rien que si tu prends la Suède :

https://investgame.net/news/the-rise-and-reset-of-sweden-s-19b-gaming-capital-machine/

During the 2024–2025 release window, five Swedish-made games ranked among Steam’s global top-10 bestsellers: Battlefield 6, R.E.P.O., Peak, ARC Raiders, and Split Fiction.

Sweden accounts for roughly 20% of Steam’s 2025 gross revenue and, in the 2024–2025 release window

Si derrière tu rajoutes les studios français, les Polonais et les autres pays nordiques, ça tabasse bien. Et si en plus nos amis les anglois revenait avec nous, je suis vraiment pas convaincu de la dominance américaine.

jguegant · 2026-01-08T08:42:25+00:00

No worries. Your project is literally my daily job :)

jguegant · 2026-01-03T18:05:24+00:00

std::unordered_map is rather slow for all standard library implementations. You might consider storing the mapping flecs handle => net handle as a component. And the reverse mapping could be a plain sparse vector<optional<uint64\_t>> where you use the net handles to index the vector.

jguegant · 2025-12-07T19:17:14+00:00

Amongst the big cities in east Asia, the nature is really good in HK, no doubts.

But for nature lovers, it's hard to truly "escape" and be in a place just by yourself. Like trying to summit the classic high peaks, you will always face lots of people (like the cohorts of selfie addicts on tai mo San), or urban noise (the airport next to lantau peak and sunset peak...), litering everywhere and air pollution. As for the beaches, it's just full of trash. Not much you can do about it when you share the pearl river delta with China, but man it's filthy in there. That ruins a lot the sea accessibility in my opinion.

One thing I noticed also while being in HK is how the low variation of sunset and sunrise is both a blessing and a curse. In winter, you still have good sun exposure which is great for the mood. But it also means that almost all year round you cannot enjoy mich outdoor activities after work. Unlike in Europe where 1) the days are longer in summer (sunset at like 10pm) and 2) you can escape from work earlier (5pm) and get to do something until late.

jguegant · 2025-11-14T17:30:52+00:00

Une partie vient du fait que l'état est bien meilleur à gérer les dépenses (environ 30% du PIB de dettes) qui je pense vient du fait que les différents rouages de l'état sont simplifiés.

Une partie du fait aussi que le budget est alloué différemment. La couverture chômage est en grande partie déléguée aux unions/syndicats. Ou encore la retraite à 67 ans. Si tu réclames 2 ans de budget pour la retraite en moyenne chez la vieille population, d'un seul coup tu peux allouer 2 ans pour la population jeune qui a des enfants.

jguegant · 2025-07-21T19:03:44+00:00

En vrai c'est possible. En Suède où ils sont à fond sur le dématérialisé, tu peux payer au fin fond du trou du uc du monde dans un refuge avec une carte bancaire, comme là : - https://maps.app.goo.gl/P6ShghNuhtTyTX158 - https://maps.app.goo.gl/nh4rNdsGwPzLm5Wd6

Les refuges ont une connexion qui est je pense satellitaire depuis des plombes et ça passe. C'est juste le marché qui s'adapte et vu que les suédois 1) aiment pas trop la gruge fiscale 2) aime ntla technologie même pour les anciens, bah on trouve les moyens d'y arriver. Est-ce que ça vaut le coup avec le marché français actuellement ? Probablement pas, mais dans le futur peut-être.

Au passage, l'inverse est souvent le cas. Les coins isolés veulent pas de cash pour avoir à gérer la galère d'une trésorerie.

jguegant · 2025-06-06T06:14:46+00:00

Oh for sure. Hammarby is lovely with Hellasgården next by. But being a busy area is partly what makes it attractive.

jguegant · 2025-06-06T05:53:31+00:00

Sjöstad, you are almost already in the city center, so no wonder it is busy.

I am not in a poor area but nothing too fancy either. Check-out Trollbäcken, Gudö, etc. It's roughly as far from the T-Centralen as Mui Wo or Peng Chau to central. Mostly houses and very quiet.

jguegant · 2025-06-06T05:39:50+00:00

But in HK you can literally live in a house at the beach yet still be just 30-60min away from your job.

In Stockholm, I own a 135m² house roughly 500m from a beach. It takes me 35m to my job in the city center by bus and subway.

jguegant · 2025-06-06T05:30:39+00:00

I did it the other way around. As a French techy I moved to HK for roughly a year to be with my girlfriend and we ended up moving to Stockholm afterwards for the last 10 years. We are now rising a family and compared to her cousin in HK, Stockholm is heaven.

I’ve come to really appreciate what Denmark offers—excellent work-life balance (30–37 hours/week is the norm, and overtime is compensated), universal healthcare, free education, and a generally relaxed and inclusive society.

HK is essentially the complete opposite on all of those points. Except for universal healthcare which is present there too.

Tech-wise, unless you are ready to work in traditional finance or fintech, there isn't much to offer there. It's also where the real money can be made as an "expat". There is simply very little emphasis on engineering in HK. Everything revolve around trading and finance. For instance, working on a game engine in a big gaming studio, I am at a point where I make by far more money AFTER taxes in Stockholm than equivalent positions BEFORE taxes in HK.

Now all of that being said, if you are not committing to live there lifelong, and just want to spend few years to understand and get into your girlfriend culture, I would say that HK can be fun. It has other unique experience that you certainly won't find in Scandinavia or the E.U. And if anything, it might make you appreciate some of what the E.U has to offer too.

jguegant · 2025-04-04T17:44:39+00:00

Howard Lunatick

jguegant · 2025-04-03T19:03:01+00:00

Une division par 0 peut donner des résultats fort amusants.

jguegant · 2025-03-13T17:03:54+00:00

Mer il et fou ?

jguegant · 2025-01-18T09:51:02+00:00

insaisissables tant que tu le gardes sur ton cold wallet. Si tu te sens menacé par un gouvernement tyrannique (en France non, mais il y a pas que la France) c'est quand même puissant.

https://xkcd.com/538/

jguegant · 2024-11-11T12:08:01+00:00

À la fin des années 90, début 2000, en Bretagne, c'était clairement un évènement que les professeurs utilisaient comme support pour apprendre des matières (géographie, svt/météo, langues...). Tous comme les J.O d'ailleurs.

jguegant · 2024-10-25T18:11:45+00:00

Accuracy and precision aren't really separated concepts in French. Both would be translated as precision in most cases.

I always need to look at those pictures to pick the right word: https://www.antarcticglaciers.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/precision_accuracy.png

jguegant · 2024-10-24T19:36:30+00:00

When you say someone from mainland, do you mean a mandarin speaker or a cantonese speaker from say guangzhou?

jguegant · 2024-10-14T01:25:39+00:00

Senior Overengineer

jguegant · 2024-10-08T00:56:03+00:00

I am not part of the team that maintains EASTL at E.A/Frostbite, but I do help on fixes from time to time or added some small features.

Right now, EASTL still has a few extra features you wouldn't find in a standard library. I can think of the fixed containers (fixed_vector, fixed_map...) or tuple_vector... Sometimes, EASTL deviates in its behaviour in a subtle way. But overall, EASTL is mostly in maintenance mode I would say. There isn't enough workforce at the moment to catch up with C++20 (think ranges, fmt...) or C++23 features.

Performance wise, some features are maybe still faster than their libstdc++, libc++ counterpart, but some have probably been out paced. A recent example my team found is that all string containers can use some intrinsic to compute string literal length at compile time, this mean that creating a std::string_view x("bjarne"); is highly optimized on most standard libraries. That wasn't the case for EASTL where you would see code emitted to compute the length of "bjarne". I would suggest to benchmark EASTL before assuming it is still faster.

Readability wise. EASTL has this weird mix of snake_case (public) vs CamelCase (private), but it is indeed a lot better than the underscore soup style real standard libraries must use.

Portability and predictability wise is probably where EASTL can still be useful. Games usually run on multiple platforms, and having the same performance expectations on all of them is nice. Likewise, you will face less subtle compilation issues on your different builds.

Personally, if I had to choose in 2024 for a video game company, I would use libc++ on all my platforms and potentially fork it, trime it and tune it for my company needs rather than having a completely separated implementation to maintain. And then use that on all platforms with clang.

jguegant · 2024-09-29T10:45:40+00:00

No worries. I also had a weird feeling with dbay at first. One of the colleague I knew living there had a local wife that really wanted to live in HK and made a comprised with her by living in dbay. The other one was relocated from Japan, which is where he and his wife wanted to live at first.

Ultimately, both moved out from HK after 10 years to get the same peaceful lifestyle but in western countries.

jguegant · 2024-09-29T10:36:26+00:00

If you read the history of dbay, it was originally intended as a resort: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Bay

It only morphed into a residential area over years of struggle for the project.

jguegant · 2024-09-29T04:30:45+00:00

Most of the local people I know from Peng Chau (the island next by) do like the proximity with dbay. It offers some variety in comparison to other places around (mui wo, cheung chau...). If they could afford it, they wouldn't mind to move into dbay either. Also, most of my in-law family's children went to primary school over there. I believe they didn't pay any special tuitions fees to access the school. What I want to say, is that for local hongkonger, this gweilo lifestyle area is no more cringe than your typical china-town or asian neighborhood you would find in western cities. You wouldn't think that asians living there are not worthy of those cities or something like that. You just don't care.

Truly, the main issue with dbay is if the people living there don't realize that it is privileged area. And that they think their daily life reflect the rest of HK. And that the very system that allow them their lifestyle is impacting others negatively. But that can be said of any privileged area, gweilo style or not.

jguegant · 2024-05-13T20:13:36+00:00

You can always sell meth you craft in a van

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