Sarsapariller posted:

Skip to about ~16:00 for the real breakdown.

But it's not just Star Citizen.


It's okay to not want to play video games, duder.

Amazing Zimmo posted:

How many have suffered the fate of carrying Lesnick on their backs?

Meridian posted:

Much like posting here, it seems that there's a very careful dance between rolling with the punches, ignoring poo poo, and the "counter-rear end in a top hat" maneuver that need to be juggled to maintain cred and not melt down.

Beet Wagon posted:

Are you subscribed to the subreddit?

Amazing Zimmo posted:

You shouldn't piss yourself on a live stream. Fight me!

Amazing Zimmo posted:

Mr.Tophat posted:

Hahahahaha

Pick up artists will always be funny to me

It's like knowing this one neat trick that vending machines hate for getting two cans of pepsi, and then when you order a meal with a drink at McDonalds you start punching the cashier to get another drink

Bootcha posted:

Toops posted:

Jesus christ just look at the if branching, one after the other, four deep in four lines. One tiny snippet of code and it's undeniable that CIG's programmers are god drat amateurs.

Amazing Zimmo posted:

https://twitter.com/RobertsSpaceInd/status/892814952930713600

MinorInconvenience posted:

I know it's completely off-topic to say so, but this analogy is loving gold!

Quavers posted:

I know bugger all about programming, so why is branching bad?

Wuxi posted:

Why do you hate free speech?

Meridian posted:

If any of you nerds have Vermintide, come join my Goon Squad and kill rats.

https://www.twitch.tv/meridiansa

Beet Wagon posted:

I'm a mod. Free speech and comedy are my mortal enemies.

Quavers posted:

I know bugger all about programming, so why is branching bad?

Mr.Tophat posted:

Glad you like it, feel free to memorize it so you can deliver a sick burn on a pick up artist before throwing his fedora like a frisbee

XK posted:

So, here's the WTFOSaurus meltdown. Go to 7:08 if it doesn't automatically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlacl84JNVA&t=428s

XK posted:

Simplest take:

The best route for code is for a CPU to be able to predict what is coming up for future processing, and then it can grab things from memory ahead of time, and do calculations before they are needed. The most efficient possible code path for a CPU is a branchless program. There are specific assembly language instructions in x86/64 assembly for avoiding branches, that's how important it is.

Any time a CPU has to make a decision about what code branch to use, it can screw up prediction algorithms. Preferably, you want all code to run branchless. That's not always possible, but you want to reduce it as much as possible. Nesting a half dozen "if' statements is a wreck. You might have to do something like that here and there, but it showing up in their curated video is a bad sign for the over all state of their code.

Anytime your code can branch in a different direction, it fucks with memory and code prefetching, ruins precalculation, might blow your both your code and data cache, and your whole CPU pipeline might need to be reset because you're now running down a different code path.

Any place your code can branch is one of the costliest processor time segments.

Mr Fronts posted:

Welcome! Please follow these simple steps to fit in:

1. If you are lucky enough to post at the top of a new page, you must either dox someone or post cat pictures. Can't remember which, but Arf Jason will concern troll for a month if you pick the wrong one.

2. Any time Derek posts about something, just agree with him that he TOTALLY CALLED IT. This makes him incredibly happy.

3. In the last 500 years, the Fourth Stimpire has dominated four systems, which it has united into one starzone, Stimsis. The Fourth Stimpire has origins from the Ten Empire War in which 10 of the United Stimpires revolted against each rules. All empires except for the fourth swore freedom upon their citizens. There is no free speech in the Fourth Stimpire, and all self-controlled transportation has been made illegal without undergoing painful medical verification methods, in which arteries are severed without pain resistant, operated entirely by machines. The way they work claim to be the most hygenic and healthy way possible, but these machines often rub against pain points, causing great deals of pain to patients. The heart is then extracted from the body and placed into a glass grinding machine. Various energy centers are also dissected and replaced with dangerous transplants. After the painful, 52 hour surgical procedure, patients will then have to use a fused guidance tool, which pumps painful resistors into the body every 2 hours. The pain they have caused is so bad, the victim would freeze in a tense position. They would then collapse afterwards.

Sexual stimulation in any way within the grounds of the Fourth Stimpire is strictly prohibited, and anyone detected even touching their sexual organs will be subjected to a penectomy or if the offender was a female, they would then have a razor inserted into their ovaries. They would pump a blue solution into the womb until the stitchings burst. Offenders would also be forced to show their operated areas in public, and they would always harass and punch them to a pulp, against their will.

Otherwise, offenders would be tazed with the worst type of electricity in the systematic district, causing so much pain, the victim would scream and flail in madness. The pain would also triple every second, but no death would be incurred. This is also used in combat against enemy units, which is why all UEE forces must wear the upgraded suit to block this effect.

However, enertainment is also questionable in UEE grounds. Sporting events end with the losing team being rounded into a grinder and shredded on live television, boxing matches end with the loser having their hands removed without anasthesia, flight races would end with the losers having their arms and legs removed, then being injected with insanity, for entertainment. People are also forced into these events, by undergoing a painful 127 hour procedure which involves tweaking the muscles so they will not listen to brain commands, and then having a painful drug injected which also causes madness if the player is not sporting. This is all for entertainment, and anyone not watching any of it during sporting times and cheering for the winning team, they will be imprisoned into galactic camps.

Snuff films are also broadcast, and actors are actually murdered just for entertainment. Stealth droids also guide these forced actors into behaving exactly as the director dreams, otherwise they will be punished by being placed into a macerator and having their execution written into the film. Any film that does not feature someone being murdered will be burned and the entire crew behind it will be executed in the most grotesque way possible - vivisection.

All executions are broadcast, and anyone who misses even a millisecond, even by blinking, will be executed. All citizens must boo to the person being executed, and the family is gathered to be injected with eternators, which cause pain forever, making them immoral but feeling the pain tenfold every millisecond. They cannot pass out, but they will feel like it forever.

Conquests by this Stimpire end in the planet being razed, and all the citizens being executed in the same way as their citizens are. The planet is then destroyed and all remnants of it are removed, and any memories of it will be erased instantly from civil minds. People who are also killed are also erased from memories, and all memories of them, including toys and pictures, are destroyed.

Prisoners undergo 40,000 years of relentless and endless labor, and anyone not complying is sentenced to the eternator injection. All prisoners injected with eternators are placed into capsules and launched into far space, then the room is closed tight to ensure maximum insanity. Some prisoners are also subjected to the removal of blood, the lungs, the liver, the genitals, the skeleton, the muscles, the eyes, and even the injection of pressure. Prisoners sentenced to pressure chambers are locked in until they are inflated to a high level. The decompression is then stopped to make sure they are inflated and uncomfortable.

Children born on the 14th of July are subjected to the removal of their skeleton and an implant of a silver liquid to replace it. The nervous sysem is also injected in various parts to ensure it is five times more sensitive than the average.

Restaurants also are ordered to serve civil meat, and anyone attending must give themself up to be cooked into a grotesque meal. They are cooked alive, undergoing extreme pain, and are then subjected to industrial grinders and blenders. The Stimpire orders at least 1 million citizens to be dispatched every day, as they are afraid the population may overthrow them. But only one planet is cared for, and the rest are banned from eating, drinking, talking, using technology, touching anyone, wearing unauthorized clothes, touching buildings, or walking a centimeter out of designated routes. Civil enforcers are on every planet, and they are engineered so that they are 40 times larger than the 300 quadrillion population. At least 7 billion die every 12 hours under this rule.

Thoughts are also surveyed, and anyone who does not think anything to loving the Stimpire with more than their capabilities will be sentenced to a prison. Prisoners who are punished for this violation will meet their greatest fear, only to have it amplified so they will turn insane as they imagine it exactly as they fear it. They then undergo a painful extraction of all fluids, to be replaced by a toxin which causes permanent irritation. The unknown substance keeps the subject aging normally, except they will never die. Prisoners punished in this way are unable to be reverted, despite many efforts, and they will never be able to be disposed.

The sickening truths have been revealed only today, and invigilation teams are still investigating the truths without setting foot in the galactic space of this sickening empire.

XK posted:

Simplest take:

The best route for code is for a CPU to be able to predict what is coming up for future processing, and then it can grab things from memory ahead of time, and do calculations before they are needed. The most efficient possible code path for a CPU is a branchless program. There are specific assembly language instructions in x86/64 assembly for avoiding branches, that's how important it is.

Any time a CPU has to make a decision about what code branch to use, it can screw up prediction algorithms. Preferably, you want all code to run branchless. That's not always possible, but you want to reduce it as much as possible. Nesting a half dozen "if' statements is a wreck. You might have to do something like that here and there, but it showing up in their curated video is a bad sign for the over all state of their code.

Anytime your code can branch in a different direction, it fucks with memory and code prefetching, ruins precalculation, might blow both your code and data cache, and your whole CPU pipeline might need to be reset because you're now running down a different code path.

Any place your code can branch is one of the costliest processor time segments.

Beet Wagon posted:

DisturbedJim gets owned by Derek regularly, and I think was the guy that Streetroller savaged on a stream, and constantly owns himself all over the place. It's hard to tell which one you're talking about lol.