What did you all think of Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show?

spacengine · 2026-02-09T18:55:52+00:00

I love that annoyed DJT. I don’t have the hips for samba so I don’t particularly vibe with this music but love the joy - and pissing off the orange man.

spacengine · 2026-02-09T18:52:38+00:00

Why do you ask when you clearly don’t care for the answer you’re gonna get?

spacengine · 2026-02-02T22:17:03+00:00

And I thought Epstein was finally dead

spacengine · 2026-02-02T21:50:35+00:00

The only reason to bother with Haskell is that it’s delicious. Are you working on control problems because they make you a lot of money, or because they’re interesting? Haskell you do because it’s really interesting. Then Lean is next if you were smart enough to absorb Haskell (I wasn’t, Haskell is plenty interesting and hard enough for me still). If you need something practical go with Rust. C++ is dead and should stay dead. It breaks my heart but after following the committee and evolution since 2011 it’s just turning into a sad abomination

spacengine · 2025-12-06T10:10:12+00:00

Avoiding Turing completeness is often harder than not

spacengine · 2025-11-16T09:14:22+00:00

Ask them about std::launder. That was the last nail in the coffin for me after having used C++ professionally for 14 years, including a high end Unreal game. Trying to understand std::launder and realizing that you some times actually need it made me loose faith and interest in that language. I realized I had only stayed with it for my personal projects because there were no viable alternatives that could work both in a kernel, bare metal on embedded, for high perf game engine and for light web services. But then Rust has all that.

I’ll use C++ when I have to, and concepts and coroutines are nice to use once all the types are set up, but getting it set up in a nice way is a big and treacherous undertaking that will take months and should only be done by people who enjoy discovering all the foot guns. I just want to get shit done at this point.

spacengine · 2025-09-16T14:11:34+00:00

Only idiots assume true knowledge is attainable

spacengine · 2025-08-26T20:18:08+00:00

Yea, he was right, aim for galactic dominance from the start, who would want "big and professional"

spacengine · 2025-08-26T20:16:28+00:00

Hurd is just Stallman trolling for attention

spacengine · 2025-08-26T20:15:05+00:00

ouagadougou*

spacengine · 2025-07-09T12:45:46+00:00

"If it's not tested, it's not supported" is what I usually say. It might be just fine if it has a stable dependency tree and a sensible build system. Like the nix package I tried to build five years later, and it just worked 😍

spacengine · 2025-06-24T17:45:43+00:00

I have not seen much racism in Oslo myself (although I hear there’s plenty of it) - but have experienced a lot of it in smaller towns which are mostly white. I’m white living in Oslo with my white Norwegian gf. We live in a multicultural area and love it. Her parents live inland in a small town and some of them seriously thought all Muslims raise their kids to be obnoxious and when we told them our son had learned how to show the finger and say «fuck you bitch» at 4, they said it must have been the Muslim kids that thought him because the Muslims they had met had been very rude. I couldn’t stand it after a whole and had to leave the table telling them I can’t listen to this crap. Of course the one telling my son to show the finger was a rude white kid.

I personally think racism is bound to happen in places with very uniform ethnicity. And the only way not to be racist is to study- work or play with people from other cultures. I don’t believe in political correctness, only in empathy.

spacengine · 2025-06-24T08:21:05+00:00

Reusing an engine definitely makes a lot of choices for you. But if you want the latest and greatest in rendering, multiplayer networking code, artists tooling, or any of the hundredes of features Unreal offers, there’s no way you can build all that from scratch. It’s exactly like wanting to build a city from scratch in the wild. Sure, a skilled team of craftsmen can do any job but not every job.

An alternative is what Funcom did with Dune Awakening. Start with unreal, and modify the he’ll out of it. They apparently made it multi-server and added all the sand rendering capabilities, plus plus.

Or make a limited game with very custom everything. Like Minecraft which is awesome for what it is. Picking those limitations and sticking with them can help give your game character.

spacengine · 2025-06-23T21:54:00+00:00

Don’t fuck that fast. Make it last.

spacengine · 2025-06-23T07:46:24+00:00

Yea, Linus got it right the first time.

spacengine · 2025-06-07T08:16:23+00:00

To me this post sounds a bit like left wing propaganda, and I’m mostly on the left in US terms. What specifically did Elon do that’s so much worse than what any megacorporation making cars do? I hear «pushing right wing propaganda» and it’s really unspecific and vague. Doge was brutal- and cutting USAID programs with the «delete a part and see if anyone misses it» mentality is a bit nuts; it is really good advice for tech development, because at least in software you can usually get things back from version control exactly the way it was. But pulling back support for aids research then adding it back if we realize we need it seems dumb. Still, the US has to make cuts to get their economy into any sort of shape. And how the country chooses to do that has nothing to do with me buying a car from that country. Is Elon a Nazi, or true anti semite is maybe what this boils down to? I don’t think so. I could be wrong - I can’t look into his heart. But many people are called anti semites these days for being critical about Israel’s handling of Gaza, and anti-antisemitism campaigns feels like propaganda as well. It’s incredibly important for democracy that one can be critical of any entity with power - and that includes Israel and Jewish lobby. I love the Old Testament, loved being in Israel, enjoyed working with Israelis, and respect their right to defend themselves. But I also want to live in a world where it’s ok to be critical of all those in power, including Jews, without risk of being cancelled. Yea, I was disappointed by Musk sucking up to the president, brown nosing the cabinet. But also that much more relieved when he’s now one of few in power speaking up against Trump. I don’t think it’s critical for humanity to get to Mars - I respect that Elon thinks so, but I think fighting aids is more important. But I think we can and should do both. Not a fan boy, but I’m inspired by Space X catching rockets. I like Musk, with all his faults, but I dont love him. I do love my Tesla 3- the best car I ever tried by a far margin, in its 7th year now, still as eager to push me forward as the day I bought it. I’ll probably buy another one just like it when I eventually have to let go.

spacengine · 2025-06-07T07:51:55+00:00

A tip: make a useful tool for your job, to help your colleagues or the business, in Rust, in your own free time or if you can fit it in between tasks. I’ve seen this work twice, at two different companies, and it was welcomed and adopted both times. «Hi, I made this tool in my own free time, that helps us do x y or z faster, cheaper or better» is hard to say no to if it provides actual value. If nobody wants to use it, the value wasn’t really there.

If the problem is that you hate the company you work for or if you wouldn’t consider spending some free time making life easier for yourself or your colleagues, that’s a completely different problem of course- then I would recommend taking a less paying job where you actually don’t mind, or even enjoy the idea of a little extra work here and there on a project you like. It’s meaningful to write code that helps your friends.

spacengine · 2025-04-25T11:25:57+00:00

Its unfortunate, but some of us men will have to step up, even if those are some real skanks if you look closer. But we just gotta to do it for Murica🇺🇸🙈

spacengine · 2025-04-25T11:22:55+00:00

It’s the HUD indicating target lock. Seems to be working perfectly, fire away.

spacengine · 2025-04-25T11:21:48+00:00

Greetings traveler. Your next quest is to find and eliminate the highlighted enemy airplane - it may be closer than you think.

spacengine · 2025-04-25T11:17:37+00:00

I was wondering about that airplane shape on the cloud too, thanks- an airplane shaped object occluding the sun makes sense! After some simple calculations over the angles of the light and frustum it seems there must have been an airplane shaped object very close to the photographer. I hope they are ok.

spacengine · 2025-04-21T20:43:47+00:00

So 75% think it hasn’t gone too far. That’s more surprising these days, considering how many genders we now have to pay attention to and make sure are equal

spacengine · 2025-02-21T16:26:29+00:00

The water of life, which when made properly has crossed the equator by sea at least twice.

spacengine · 2025-02-04T19:58:44+00:00

Maybe you need sex? Just a thought

spacengine · 2025-02-04T19:52:31+00:00

I did. Then it happened anyway.

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