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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have a great performance optimization for this

What if instead of 1s sleep, we did 0.5s sleep? That’s a 100% improvement.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's not sleeping for 1 second, $1 is an input parameter in the script

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That sounds expensive

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I took it as meaning sleep for a number of seconds equal to half the value you're sorting. So like f "(( $1 / 2 ))" & or however math works in bash, I always forget.

[–] lurch 1 points 5 days ago

Fractional math doesn't happen in bash, but bc can be called and sleep can take fractions as parameters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I bet you also tell people you love regex because you think it makes you look smarter lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well, maybe not with regex, but I'd be lying if I said I never get satisfaction things like that lol. Bash and regex both are very useful tools, great at what they do, but have some design choices that make them annoying. That's sort of what I was trying to get at by saying "yes but also skill issue" lol. A good example is iterating over output in bash. I have zero confidence it's going to do anything remotely close to what I want and have to look up stuff every time I'm trying to do it. "Is it going to go word by word? Line by line? Are there null byte separators?" PowerShell seems appealing in that regard because it works with objects instead of text, but I haven't really used it in depth and I don't see myself going through it just to see if it's worth trying to use more often.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Cool story bro

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What if you do love regex? 🥺

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Then you should be cast into the fires of Mt doom where you belong

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You wouldn’t say that if you knew regex. 😆

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Programmers and being smug assholes, name a more iconic duo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Project much?

I’ll play though.

Amanduh being a humorless chore. 😁

[–] lurch 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the idea isn't wrong tho, as sleep can do fractions. bash cannot though. therefore it would bloat the code a bit to use bc to multiply the parameter by 0.5 or so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

It isn't what is happening though lol...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

For anyone who controls time travel this is the fastest algorithm ever. Probably gonna change everything when we are traveling through space and passing by some dark holes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The output isn't guaranteed to be correct though. Most implementations of sleep can only guarantee that it will sleep for at least the amount of time specified. It can sleep for longer though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I remember seeing discussions about this at the time, it would also sometimes fail with a very large number of 1s and a single 2.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

stay away from the edge cases and everything will be fine

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

i am both people in this picture

[–] jubilationtcornpone 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Perfect, we'll just spin up an image of your machine in EC2, give it a public IP, set the default network rules to "allow any any" and we're good. And I have no idea why the security team just all quit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

and that's how docker was invented

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The git commit comment when pushing to prod is just: WCGW?

... alternate ending: YOLO!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That's why we invented docker! Instead of trying to fix, just copy your whole machine

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No wonder he was the captain of the Black Perl...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

And the dinghy got him all the way to dock. What more could anyone want.

[–] mindbleach 1 points 1 week ago

AFTERWARDS: tell nobody.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

"You are quite possibly the worst programmer I have ever heard of."

Derek Smart: "Ah, but you have heard of me."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

It runs, just nothing happens and no error pops ANYWHERE!!!

[–] Gigliorananomicom 7 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I want to learn C# or Python for game dev, but it looks...daunting.

Anyone got advice?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

"Automate the boring stuff with python" to start. As an added bonus you'll have more downtime as you go.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Start by using an existing engine like renpy to get flow and math. Then expand to other engines.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I would start (if you havent already) with an introduction to CS. You can take CS50 for free online - https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2025/.

I dont think they cover much C# (I took the 2020 course and they didnt) but they do introduce you to C, C++, Python, html, etc. They provide github codespaces available for anyone for free, so you can complete the weekly labs and problem sets offered in the course. It really is a good jumping off point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Be sure to regularly defrag your C: drive or things might slow down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Learn rust for game dev, develop the game in rust, and then brag about how your game is written 100% in rust (nerds will be extremely impressed, for maximum clout release it under GPL V3 with native Linux support).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But first you need to make a custom Risc-V CPU optimized for rust (and minimal memory leaks) and then port a custom Arch fork (completely rewritten in rust ofc) so you can run OxideFetch

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

gameplay doesn't matter. If it's written in rust it will automatically be fun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Code looks more terrifying than it actually is

After learning the basics of a programming language, you could try using a game engine like Unity or Godot to not have to code a lot of more complicated things like displaying things and collisions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I know a bit of python and ruby, but doing something similar except I'm writing it in BASIC on a Commodore 64 and am going to attempt to refactor it assembly. I have most of the BASIC version working now.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Minecraft, quintessentially

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

.... In the wrong direction.

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