Sean Barrett
@nothings.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 ally, BLM, gamedev (Thief, Promesst), Indie Game Jam cofounder, popularized C header-file-only libs w/stb. he/him
Larry, I'm on DuckTales.
https://nothings.org
Larry, I'm on DuckTales.
https://nothings.org
Stop being d**b m*****f*****s.
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Stop being d**b m*****f*****s.
Reposted by Sean Barrett
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
That's just the injection of novelty the Bond franchise needs!
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
That's just the injection of novelty the Bond franchise needs!
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I'm sympathetic to people who view it as B for shorter, A for worse graphics, but because the meme creator coupled them so casually and directly, I have to assume they meant A for both, regardless of many people's appreciation for shorter games. (Of course they COULD have meant B, what do I know)
I'm sympathetic to people who view it as B for shorter, A for worse graphics, but because the meme creator coupled them so casually and directly, I have to assume they meant A for both, regardless of many people's appreciation for shorter games. (Of course they COULD have meant B, what do I know)
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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I'm sympathetic to people who view it as B for shorter, A for worse graphics, but because the meme creator coupled them so casually and directly, I have to assume they meant A for both, regardless of many people's appreciation for shorter games. (Of course they COULD have meant B, what do I know)
I'm sympathetic to people who view it as B for shorter, A for worse graphics, but because the meme creator coupled them so casually and directly, I have to assume they meant A for both, regardless of many people's appreciation for shorter games. (Of course they COULD have meant B, what do I know)
To be clear, I'm looking for *readers*. You don't have to implement it, maybe I shouldn't have humorously abused the term "beta-test".
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
To be clear, I'm looking for *readers*. You don't have to implement it, maybe I shouldn't have humorously abused the term "beta-test".
It's a good example but he explains it terribly.
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It's a good example but he explains it terribly.
I will never understand why anyone grants this guy any authority.
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
they've done a lot of shenanigans to allow for-loops on ints to remain efficient. i believe some of the C Undefined Behavior optimization stuff has been because of this (e.g. maybe something like assuming 32-bit loop index can't overflow allows it to use a 64-bit int)
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
they've done a lot of shenanigans to allow for-loops on ints to remain efficient. i believe some of the C Undefined Behavior optimization stuff has been because of this (e.g. maybe something like assuming 32-bit loop index can't overflow allows it to use a 64-bit int)
Reposted by Sean Barrett
Sigh.
Darth Vader Fortnite AI stuff dropped less than a week after I decided to quit. I don't know what I'd have done if I hadn't already decided.
Darth Vader Fortnite AI stuff dropped less than a week after I decided to quit. I don't know what I'd have done if I hadn't already decided.
June 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Sigh.
Darth Vader Fortnite AI stuff dropped less than a week after I decided to quit. I don't know what I'd have done if I hadn't already decided.
Darth Vader Fortnite AI stuff dropped less than a week after I decided to quit. I don't know what I'd have done if I hadn't already decided.
As one who in 90s dutifully manually typedef'd int32, int64 for portability and used bare ints for 'natural register-sized'—as wisdom of the time recommended—the betrayal in 64-bit era of ints being declared permanently 32-bit 'because too much code would break' put me on permanent F.U. to all this.
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
As one who in 90s dutifully manually typedef'd int32, int64 for portability and used bare ints for 'natural register-sized'—as wisdom of the time recommended—the betrayal in 64-bit era of ints being declared permanently 32-bit 'because too much code would break' put me on permanent F.U. to all this.
I feel like I pondered this very issue not four weeks ago, although I don't remember who now.
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I feel like I pondered this very issue not four weeks ago, although I don't remember who now.