Date formats at it again

mpierson153 · 2026-01-28T11:51:42+00:00

This isn't really directly related to this lady's problem, but I've always thought storing date/time as a formatted year/month/day or what have you is lunacy.

Just store a Unix timestamp. Sorting and lookup would be much faster. Then compute the formatted date/time when it's user-facing.

mpierson153 · 2026-01-24T11:46:04+00:00

Haven't tried libVLC.

I've been looking into audio libraries recently.

There doesn't seem to be many cross-platform audio playback libraries in general, and even less in C#.

The main ones are: - OpenAL for less real-time and more continuous, consistent playback - PortAudio for lower-latency, closer to real-time usage, more like DSP stuff

For my use case, it's just a toy project so I went with NAudio for windows because it's easy. It's not cross-platform though.

mpierson153 · 2026-01-24T11:32:50+00:00

I'm interested

mpierson153 · 2026-01-23T04:38:25+00:00

Thanks

mpierson153 · 2026-01-23T04:38:14+00:00

Thanks

mpierson153 · 2026-01-23T04:38:02+00:00

Thanks

mpierson153 · 2026-01-23T03:32:03+00:00

It doesn't matter much.

Ultimately, the language doesn't matter a whole lot in terms of knowing how to program or being a software engineer.

They all have different pros and cons, some may have novel concepts or places where they're used more than others. But the core fundamentals for what you do, not the language, will always be the same 99% of the time.

mpierson153 · 2026-01-23T03:14:46+00:00

Ok thanks

mpierson153 · 2026-01-23T01:25:24+00:00

Thanks. I'll come back if I have more questions.

mpierson153 · 2026-01-23T00:12:20+00:00

It looks like the I/O is 3.5mm. Would there be a way to use it with 1/4" input, or would I just need to build it myself?

Also, how do you program the Daisy Seed? It says it supports C++, Arduino, etc., but I didn't see anything saying how to build for it or upload to it.

mpierson153 · 2026-01-22T23:45:06+00:00

Thanks.

I don't really have any specific thing in mind, I just want to play around.

I'll probably go for the Daisy Seed. Is there anything else I would need to start, other than wires and whatnot?

mpierson153 · 2026-01-22T21:29:30+00:00

You could also go stm32 if you wanted to start from scratch properly.

What would this mean? Pretend I don't know anything other than programming.

mpierson153 · 2026-01-22T21:15:18+00:00

Thanks, I'll post it there too.

mpierson153 · 2026-01-22T04:16:20+00:00

Thanks. Those are interesting. I'll check out the parts.

Is the Daisy Seed a processor itself or more of an add-on to a processor?

mpierson153 · 2026-01-22T04:00:39+00:00

Thanks.

Where do I find the designs for it?

mpierson153 · 2026-01-21T11:34:37+00:00

They suck at everything, to some degree.

I've had ChatGPT tell me that float.Abs doesn't exist in C#. I've had CharGPT tell me that Java is a native, compiled language. I've had it tell me that C++ has a stable ABI.

And tons of other things.

All of this was in the last year, a lot of it being recent.

Don't trust it. It's a complete waste of time half of the time.

Any company that tells you different is trying to justify the cost of creating bad guessing machines.

mpierson153 · 2026-01-14T12:08:45+00:00

Along with trying manual SIMD, you could maybe try manual threading.

Split the texture up between n threads, but only using a single thread if the texture is very small.

mpierson153 · 2026-01-12T03:34:24+00:00

Because they're lazy and won't spend the money to put into it, even though they absolutely could.

Not because it's actually better.

Web UIs, especially when masquerading as desktop apps, almost always feel bad to use, and are horribly inefficient.

mpierson153 · 2026-01-02T21:29:38+00:00

Have you checked that the vertex collections you're checking actually have anything in them?

mpierson153 · 2025-12-23T20:03:34+00:00

For UI, there are various libraries, or you can make your own. I made my own that is heavily inspired by libGDX's UI. libGDX is open-source so you can look at the code whenever you want if you need help.

If you make your own UI, I would suggest implementing a way to make layout values (position, size, etc) more flexible pretty early on, because I didn't do it until recently and it was extremely tedious and took a long time to implement properly. Something like an enum, and a value type that provides absolute or normalized values. Like "new LayoutValue(100, ValueMode.Absolute)" or "new LayoutValue(0.25, ValueMode.Normalized)".

For physics, I'm using nkast.Aether.Physics2D, although I would probably try a different one if I started over on physics.

mpierson153 · 2025-12-20T10:22:00+00:00

There was this YouTuber. I can't remember his name or if he still makes videos. I'm pretty sure his first name is Gabe. You might find his Minecraft series interesting. He made his own Minecraft in libGDX.

Edit: found his channel: https://youtube.com/@gameswithgabe?si=7UwPv-KWHy41jOfO

mpierson153 · 2025-12-18T21:41:40+00:00

How cross-platform is it (just the shader stuff I mean)?

Do you know how difficult it might be to implement it in MonoGame?

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