Eduardo K. Simioni

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Programmer/director gamedev. 20+ years shipping games in multiple countries in different roles. Ex-Massive, Funcom, Ubisoft Montreal, Milestone Srl, Bohemia Interactive, now at CDPR. Lots of grey hairs from code, pipelines, bones and bugs.

I only post about gamedev, code, tech and an occasional reminder here and there that the planet is burning.

It should go without saying, #SlavaUkraini !

#Ukraine

Angry about #Trump's treatment of #Zelensky? Rage donate to Ukraine!

@oksii33.ukr.monster currently has a fundraiser open for an electronic warfare system to protect the 72nd and 81st Brigades from Russian drones: donations possible via card or paypal. info here ⬇️

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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 (@oksii33.ukr.monster)

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Bluesky Social
So everyone is still doomscrolling, eh? Isn't it time to move onto quakescrolling at this point? Or is that full 3D scrolling is too confusing to people, so they'd rather keep on scrolling in 2.5D.
In the Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights" painting (1480-1490 circa) there is music written on the butt of one of the characters in hell. Here's what the 600-year-old butt music from hell sounds: https://youtu.be/OnrICy3Bc2U
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Unreal Debugging Improvements in Rider 2024.2 | The .NET Tools Blog

Rider 2024.2 includes massive improvements to the native debugger, significantly improving the experience of evaluating native code while debugging. There are performance improvements, better handling

The JetBrains Blog
Activision Releases Call of Duty®: Warzone™ Caldera Data Set for Academic Use

This is a quite good "reference sheet for optimization techniques", with benchmarks done on their usefulness:

https://hackaday.com/2024/07/13/c-design-patterns-for-low-latency-applications/

There is a link to the paper on the article and sample code on GitHub:

https://github.com/0burak/imperial_hft

It would be interesting to run this code (or equivalent) in dev kits and see if the results are similar.

#cpp #gamedev #HFT

C++ Design Patterns For Low-Latency Applications

With performance optimizations seemingly having lost their relevance in an era of ever-increasing hardware performance, there are still many good reasons to spend some time optimizing code. In a re…

Hackaday

"Have you tried turning it off and on again, like, a bunch?"

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/19/azure_vms_ruined_by_crowdstrike/

I can almost hear the choir of sysadmins collectively singing in tandem "are you fucking kidding me" when reading that.

#crowdstrike

Azure VMs ruined by CrowdStrike patchpocalypse? Microsoft has recovery tips

Have you tried turning it off and on again, like, a bunch?

The Register
#linux users right now 🐧

It's fascinating how one simple botched patch can bring down so much of our current modern infrastructure.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/19/crowdstrike_falcon_sensor_bsod_incident/

I feel sorry for all the IT people scrambling to figure out where that remote machine is physically to go there, plug a monitor and keyboard to boot it up in safe mode. All just because someone in CrowdStrike didn't test a patch properly.

CrowdStrike file update bricks Windows machines around the world

Falcon Sensor putting hosts into deathloop - but there's a workaround

The Register