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New comment by PacificSpecific in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:14:02 +0000

Oh I hadn't considered looking at the source but considering how minimal and clean Lua is I should have assumed so :)

Thanks for the tip. That should make for a fun weekend

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:46:59 +0000

If I'm writing Windows desktop GUIs I still stick to WPF. Might be Stockholm syndrome but I quite like it.

I don't see the reason to use any of the new ms ui frameworks. Especially if ms themselves don't even really use them.

As far as I know visual studio is still a WPF project so I'm not super worried about it no longer working.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:36:42 +0000

I generally very much dislike dynamic languages but for some reason I've always really liked Lua. I'm not exactly sure why to be honest.

Maybe because you can fit the whole language spec on a single sheet of paper and adding more advanced features is pretty easy.

Love looks really cool. I never got into it personally but I still might

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Ask HN: Is there any interest in a native Qt/C++ Discord client?"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:51:21 +0000

I would as a Windows user if it works as advertised. The official client has been going downhill. I have to restart it about once a day because it gets into some weird stuck state where it struggles to load chat rooms.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Vite 8.0 Is Out"

PacificSpecific — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:46:05 +0000

Loading a browser context isn't helping.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Best performance of a C++ singleton"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:22:17 +0000

You leveled up past a point a surprising number of people get stuck on essentially.

I feel likethe mindset you are describing is kind of this intermediate senior level. Sadly a lot of programmers can get stuck there for their whole career. Even worse when they get promoted to staff/principal level and start spreading dogma.

I 100 percent agree. If you can't show me a real world performance difference you are just spinning your wheels and wasting time.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Little Free Library"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:09:29 +0000

Thanks very much for the info. I'm building one now in a city with a fairly rough drug problem and I had no idea the stamp existed.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "MonoGame: A .NET framework for making cross-platform games"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:06:27 +0000

Oh interesting. I never hit any walls personally but I guess I didn't push that hard.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "MonoGame: A .NET framework for making cross-platform games"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:12:32 +0000

Ah weird. Did a bit of searching and it looks like maybe it targeted multiple frameworks with the xna API. Including xna itself

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Celeste https://celeste.ink/wiki/Version_history

New comment by PacificSpecific in "MonoGame: A .NET framework for making cross-platform games"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:02:42 +0000

I believe FNA is trying to be more loyal to the original XNA while my monogame tends to introduce new features.

I've been happy with monogame when I used it in the past. I'm pretty sure Celeste was made with FNA

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Graphics Programming Resources"

PacificSpecific — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:18:10 +0000

It's not my responsibility to educate you. Especially if you won't take the time yourself to understand the problem.

I suggest you read through the sibling comments.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

PacificSpecific — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:53:21 +0000

This matches my experience. Unless it's been done to death online (crud etc) it falls on its face every time.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Graphics Programming Resources"

PacificSpecific — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:56:35 +0000

Those are bad answers. Really bad.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024"

PacificSpecific — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:19:32 +0000

I had to Google that haha.

It's in that realm but more complex. I do plan to repeatedly come back and try though. Just so far it hasn't been useful.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024"

PacificSpecific — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:40:29 +0000

If that was adequate then wouldn't there not be supplementary material?

Results vary of course. I have some very wonderful synthesizer manuals.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024"

PacificSpecific — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:29:57 +0000

That's definitely been my experience. I work with a lot of weird code bases that have never been public facing and AI has horrible responses for that stuff.

As soon as I tried to make a todomvc it started working great but I wonder how much value that really brings to the table.

It's great for me though. I can finally make a todomvc tailored to my specific needs.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024"

PacificSpecific — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:14:43 +0000

If the hardware changes significantly and those sites don't exist in the future wouldn't that mean gemeni would degrade in quality because it has nothing to pull from?

New comment by PacificSpecific in "iPhone 17e"

PacificSpecific — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:06:36 +0000

You could put a sim card in a tablet in that case. Might look a little funny when doing a phone call though.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Elevated Errors in Claude.ai"

PacificSpecific — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:14:02 +0000

I've done a couple flirty interviews and so far it hasn't come up. So take hope, it's not all bad.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Little Free Library"

PacificSpecific — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:05:48 +0000

It says in the OP's link. I was just wondering if book buyers respected the stamp and furthermore if the people stealing the books recognize it enough to be deterred.