Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "ThePrimeTime" channel.

  1. If I'm not mistaken, it was John Carmack that added that fast inverse square root in Quake 3, but what's important this time is that he didn't invented it. I mean, it's important because some people attributed that to him, and while he's a genious, it wasn't in this case. Still, way above the average coder for knowing or finding about this.
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  2. Interesting. I assume that the division got sorted in the newer CPU instructions, but what about the sqrt ? How is that handled faster ? I don't know, but I don't think there's a CPU instruction to compute the sqrt...
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  3. I have to say, I'm a bit baffled that this isn't obvious to everyone.
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  4. I meaaan, it's still a good language. And if you do like it, then it's perfect!
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  5. That's a good argument. Also, isn't having more complex instruction going to help with program size, which also helps with cache hits ? That is, using an overly simple example, we can make a 128 kB program with RISC, but with CISC that can probably be done in just 64 kB, and that 64 kB might fit exactly in the L1 cache, and lo and behold, speed improvements! Not to mention, that I think there should be cases where an instruction would simply be faster than multiple instructions ... actually, with out of order and speculative execution maybe not. The idea is that you might need to use some extra steps or registers, while in a single instruction, the CPU could optimize it further. Though I'm just theoretical here, no idea if it's actually the case.
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  6.  @WyzrdCat  It's not obvious to me why it's confusing. I guess the American english has some rule on it ? I'm not native english speaker btw. And I say that it seems obvious to me, because it's something that I don't see why it would have a grammar rule about it.
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  7.  @anderdrache8504  Nice!
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  8.  @flannn6  You stopped having any credibility of actually knowing a bit of what you're saying when you wrote "browser-bound".
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  9.  @haliszekeriyaozkok4851  What the hell are you talking about ? I can only agree with the wordpress and its (not "it's") plugin system sucking. Though it was mostly not the system itself but the vasy majority of plugins being horribly written by people who barely started to understand programming and who couldn't care less about having things well organized. But just how the system allowed crap code, it was also not stopping you writing good code. Though I also haven't checked wordpress in more than 8 years, maybe things have changed. But the rest of your complains I have no idea about. What do you mean you cannot use variables with ease ? What errror messages are ugly ? Other than getting an untranslated error from ebraic or whatever that was some 10 years ago, I never had problems with errors not being helpful. Why do you need keywords for defining variables, what does that add, other than bloating the code ? You don't need to use associative arrays WTF, you can and SHOULD use objects and interfaces whenever you need to ensure you're getting everything you asked for, in the format/types you need it. What utf-8 support is missing ? And for most web-related stuff, PHP is not slow.
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  10.  @adriankal  Yeah, composer appeared also about 10-15 years ago, and immediately made having modules a reality. That's why Symphony modules are used in all kinds of projects, not just in Symphony. PHP of 15 years ago is really different from current day. The features, security and tooling have improved drastically since then.
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  11.  @ahmedbathily7013  Dude, what the hell, nobody argued that books in general are bad. Just that Uncle Bob put more focus into selling books than into actually helping the industry.
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  12. Or the inaccuracy, I assume
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  13.  @kibibytein  Yup! But... the 90s ? You mean the 80s (and only then the 90s). GNU started in 1983. By the time Linux arrived, only the kernel was really missing.
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  14. Hell yeah! When I have to raise my "max open files" to 100 in my IDE just to be able to have a normal, maybe a bit complex, flow opened and having 5 "Processor.php" files ... yeah, VERY clean, I can't tell which is which, where I started, where I went, so helpful, much productiveness wow!
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  15. I think that people ask too much from Valve. They're just a gaming company. The rest of the community should be involved more. Valve won't fix your Adobe Photoshop not working on Linux nor will it make an alternative that's on par with the features of Photoshop. And nobody can ask that of Valve. Also, somebody else mentioned, SteamOS is purpose-built and, in essence, niche. It's if you ONLY want gaming with Steam. We need to see the bigger picture and ensure that complete newbies go to something like Linux Mint which are properly general purpose. Though there's still issues on Linux, hopefully most of them will disappear by the next year. At least I hope that Wayland gets to 99% of the features that X11 has and can actually be used by most people with no hassle.
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  16.  @aziemelzapratama5257  wait... we're not ?
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  17.  @SirLightfire  From their marketing material, when you searched for something, it showed you one or more images too. So I think they store the screenshots too. That would explain why it needs so much space too (IIRC about 25 GB per month). I mean it's not something gigantic, but if it's just the metadata of what you did, it would be, what 2 MB per day, so 100 MB / month ?
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  18.  @ern0plus4  If I'm not mistaken, this also allows for dynamic code and also self modifying code. That, at times (rarely done today) can allow some tight-in-memory programs.
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  19. Yet somehow their revenue increased substantially in the last couple of years
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  20. less elegant ? Can you give some examples ? I specifically like PHP because (and maybe I'm too biased) the syntax it's the best for me, makes the most sense. Not too cryptic, not too verbose, just the right amount of practical and descriptive.
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  21.  @Malekthegreat  The problem is with some devs or other higherups insisting to ONLY use ORM. With the attitude that if you don't use it, then you must be that kind of person who only uses unsafe, very messy, manual concatenation of strings to build the queries.
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  22. I think the original idea was that if the only reason to refactor is because you want to avoid duplication THEN you should think that it should be used in 3 places and only then abstract it. Not that all abstractions should come from using duplications.
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  23. Operates slimly ?
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  24. Frankly I always thought that the forcing of using classes in JS (with those extra closures for having private variables and _super or whatever it was so you can call the "parent" and so on) was a regression. Prototype, being dynamic is just better. You can do everything you can with classes, but also more. And it is so... javascript! Forcing classes is like forcing mediocrity.
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  25. I'm with you on this one. While I don't know exactly how would a large project / website would look without OOP, working with Magento 2 frustrates me. It's sooo over engineered. Just checking a normal, non-trivial but also not rocket-science-level flow I have to go through 60 files. WTaF is wrong with OOP nowadays ? The "single responsability principle" of SOLID and those idiotic "have functions of at most 30 lines, preferably 4" and other garbage like that made things so unusable. Also, one thing more on this, there is still a rush to convert everything from inheritance to composition. People realized that even that OOP from 10-15 years ago was utter BS, but hey, THIS TIME they got it right, right ? Ok, rant off, sorry for the spam.
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  26. It is not. You can add a string, let's say of 150 characters in length, that's only at difference 10 of another 150 characters or so string in the original input.txt. But make this new string have the initial first 100 characters be the same as the original string, and the 10 difference to occur in the last 50 characters. The "optimized" Fortran-like program would incorrectly compute that the minimum distance is 0, while in reality the minimum distance is still 7.
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  27. If you want to be teched by Casey, I hope you watched the last minute or so of the video.
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  28. Since PHP 8 or 8.1 you can have named parameters which allows calling in what order you want. That is you can call it array_search(needle: 'php', haystack: 'I cannot believe how good php is today'); Also, basically any editor worth its salt will give you a way to instantly know the parameters of a core function. While it's certainly not great, I still can't understand how people are so stuck into this. It's such a nothingburger nowadays. At most this will contribute 0.1% of a daily hassle of programming. I said this in another comment, if this is a big problem for you, then you either have extreme OCD and/or you should simply quit programming, as you'll have much bigger problems, no matter the language and framework.
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  29.  @JeffreyGordon  Uhm, I hope I wasn't too asinine with that jab. I mean, nothing personal. Cheers!
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  30.  @ern0plus4  Interesting, didn't knew about overlays!
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  31.  @rand0mtv660  I don't agree, unless this VC was done like three months or less before 1.0 release. I'm saying this because growing a software is not easy feat and most of the time you DO lose some features that you had when the project was small, things like performance. Still having performance while being full featured and production ready is not easy. So what I'm saying is that just because bun was fast at one point doesn't mean there was nothing else done to performance later. Hence why I say that everything that bun is now relies on those VC money.
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  32.  @theTweak0284  * I write Fortra (mostly F77 with some nice things from F90) due to some libs that I work with, and I have huge respct for anyone who was forced to write in a lang that did not let func or var names be longer than 6 chars.
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  33. Same. But he did got it pretty quickly.
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  34. I think it is intentional
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  35. OhMyGaaawd, I can't believe you missed the point on that C vs Go comparison at the end. It is a VERY GOOD comparison. Why ? The very thing you mentioned, that you wouldn't use C and Go in the same places. Initially there was only C (ok, a few others too, doesn't matter). But because it is only good at performance and low level control, it sucks at everything else (well, arguably) Go was invented as an alternative. Now Go occupies its own niche because C couldn't properly cover that part. Compared to C, Go has decent everything, it's just not perfect or the best in any of them. And since in some contexts speed of running is not the most important thing, but ease of developing is, they would prefer Go's "decent" vs C's "horrible" part. In regards to his SQL complaints... I'm still not sure what he wants/needs. Apparently statically analyzing that a query works is one of them. Ok, that can be done with SQL. Maybe he wants something like having directly an ORM-like library for a language, bypassing SQL ? Like, you only call functions and everything is run directly or sent from one server to another directly as binary data ? I guess that would be something. I remember that at the beginning there was a screenshot in which I think he wanted to highlight that the parsing of the query took semnificative time. Which, if you use something more direct, could be bypassed. Can't say I dislike the idea of having the option to send directly the structures and data exactly as the DB works with/uses them, so no more parsing is required.
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  36.  @ganswijk  No idea about RISC-V, but I remember hearing/reading that ARM does have variable length instructions.
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  37. Yes! I was searching for this. Or a rational number :))
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  38. I didn't, but I saw several comments of people realizing even later that it wasn't a reaction video. So you're not the only one :)
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  39. On your first point, IT IS objectively wrong. That "if the min distance is 7 for very large inputs" is NOT a given, it just so HAPPENS to be in this example. You don't know the input beforehand. If you add another string to the input and get to have two strings 150 characteres long and their distance is 10, but the first 100 chacters are the same, Fortran would say that the min distance is 0, while in reality it is still 7.
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  40. @ Glad to help :)
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  41. I was asking myself the same thing. I thought initially that I missed something, as I was doing something else on the other monitor. Oh well
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  42. Yeah, that video really is stupid.
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  43. @kaizen8808 Hello Ancient one! How was being in the same math class with Nebuchadnezzar ?
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  44.  @connorskudlarek8598  Yup! It was visible at other times too. And it's 24th, not 23th.
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  45. I think I'm drunk!
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  46. Not quite, since php 8 or 8.1. You can name the parameters when you call a function, so you can have them in any order. Also, frankly, any editor worth its salt should have a way to instantly tell you the parameters of a core function. Can't believe this is somehow still something to complain about to this day when it's at most 0.1% of the hassle you'd have working in PHP. Yeah, it's not great, but it's really not such a giant thing either. Annoying probably the first or second time you encounter it, then you easily get used to it and go past it. If you can't get used to something so benign, then you either have extreme OCD or should simply quit programming, as you'll have much worse problems down the line, no matter what language or framework you choose.
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  47. Yikes!
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  48.  @laughingvampire7555  ???? what are you smoking ?
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  49. Isn't multithreading difficult in FORTH ?
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  50. I think he wanted to say 25k lines in a single file. I've seen that several times. Not recently though, but recently I did have the "pleasure" of 5k lines of code files.
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