I grew up on Bullfrog games. I thought Molyneux was a genius until that fucking cube scam, and then Godus. I bought Godus on PC and it was the most disappointing trash I’ve ever played.

Can’t wait to see what this youtuber has to say about that era.

Dan is into shooters, and there are some pretty well known ones in that list.

I wasn’t into shooters in those days, but I’ve since become a fan of the genre and the Megadrive has some really good ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLB4W-8pZos

Is this an interview over text? How is someone looking things up mid-way through a (phone? video?) conversation and expecting it not to be obvious that’s what they’re doing?

How is nobody talking about the fact that

What is this title?

Identifying an out-group by an immutable attribute of their person, and then railing against them as inherently inferior is fascist behaviour.

J. K. Rowling is a transphobe, a bigot and a fascist.

No, Lynx is a text-only web browser that runs in the terminal.

It’s one of the most anticipated translations because it’s a beautiful looking game that is just impenetrable if you don’t speak Japanese. The best we had before was a translation script that you could read along with a walkthrough guide, but that’s not the way most people like to play a game.

It’s not surprising that if you start a project for a game like this and then go no-contact for a decade, people will start to look to see if they can pick up where you left off. There’s this unwritten rule in the fan-translation community that you don’t start working on a game that someone else has already started working on, but what is the time limit on that?

It seems like everyone in this situation could have done a better job of communicating in the first place, and then could have been more gracious to eachother after the fact.

You can’t improve on perfection.

So that would make it 1.4m in the last two weeks which makes a big difference.

It would have been nice for the article to actually discuss these specifics. I’m not sure what we’re supposed to take away from it.

He doesn’t actually do the calculation required to give an estimate of what that number is.

Going on the stats in the article:

• assuming that Wukong has just surpassed the revenue of Steam Deck in the chart so we can treat their revenues as equal
• assuming Wukong price is $49.99 and average Steam Deck price is $500
• using the stat that 14m copies of Wukong sold on Steam so far

that would imply ~1.4m Steam Decks sold

The article does go on to say:

Keep in mind that by November last year, Valve said the Steam Deck had already sold “multiple millions”.

So really this (very rough estimate) is telling us nothing that we didn’t know already. The top seller charts are showing exactly what we would have expected to see.

With performance optimizations seemingly having lost their relevance in an era of ever-increasing hardware performance

What a ridiculous assertion.

Clip of the moment it was beaten: https://clips.twitch.tv/ZanyIntelligentSwanAMPTropPunch-7MB14zIDcRvO0X-a

Video documentary on the history of this challenge (2022) [5h22m]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXbJe-rUNP8

The jump button. Saved you a click.

• if square_root takes a uint64_t argument then it should return a uint32_t
• x = (x + (s / x)) / 2; This update of the test value uses integer divisions which means it is not guaranteed to converge (due to the truncation moving your approximation further away than the previous iteration). You should also check that x > 0 to avoid accidental division by zero.
• it looks like seed is trying to calculate pow(10, log_100(x)) in some way, but it has bugs, for example a < 10 is true for radicand values of 100-999, 10000-99999, 1000000-9999999 etc. which probably isn’t what you want. An easier way to estimate a starting value for the first iteration would be to take a number that has half as many bits as the input, since we know that if a number X uses K bits then its square root will use K/2 bits. You can use a method to calculate the position of the most significant set bit in the input and then use 2^(k/2) as the seed.
• for ease of readability and checking correctness, I would recommend that you don’t use implicit casts to float for arithmetic and avoid implicit casts back to integers with the results. Declare floating point variables when you want floating point arithmetic and then use explicit casts back to ints to make it clear to the reader (reviewer) that any truncation of the result is intentional. This is considered good practice when writing C. You can compile with -Wall -Werror (with gcc) to enforce those checks and make them compile errors that you must fix.

O(N^2) - with every new character in the string its speed decreases exponentially,

Try to be precise when teaching others. O(N^2) increases “quadratically” not exponentially. O(k^N) would be exponentially increasing with N.

The best managers and team builders are people that aren’t afraid to get people in with skills far out pacing their own.

This is the most important thing when hiring. If staff only hire new employees that are less experienced/talented than themselves then the skill level of the team reduces over time. If you give hiring staff the target of finding someone better than they are, the skill of the team increases over time.