I got one of those a few days ago too. In my case it was the password of a website I haven't used in years (RentACoder / Freelancer / whatever). The password was correct and not used in any other websites, so the only explanation is they got hacked. I did some quick googling for breaches on that web...
Just noticed the patch installed overnight was KB4056892, which I believe is the one attempting to mitigate/fix the CPU *hitstorm going on. So maybe microsoft messed something up in the kernel. I can't even work. Stays up for maybe 5-10, then reset. I foresee regular coffee breaks today. haha
Came to work to find my machine reboot overnight due to a Windows update. "Expected, I thought!" Now, I'm having these hard resets again and again. No blue screen, no event logs in the Event Viewer. Nothing. Like the power went out. So far it's been just me and another programmer in the of...
Hello, I am looking for some lego parts for preparing lego toys, Does anyone of you please suggest me from where I can buy them?? You can buy individual bricks from the LEGO online shop. I used it before (from the UK). https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Pick-a-Brick What I did was: I created a virtual mod...
Although it's been a while since I wrote any articles, about 2 weeks ago I gave a C++ talk here at Edinburgh. First time they filmed those, so the setup was not the best, as you can see by the audio quality. Also, I didn't have my notes due to the setup I was required to use, so I had to wing it a b...
Well, I can't talk about implementation details of course. I came here more like a Techreport reader, not to spam with Cloudgine products. But since I'm always reading TR, why not post something about it... :) Also, I'm not sure what can I share or not as Cloudgine engineer. But to try and answer so...
Hi guys, Cloudgine is streaming a demo of the cloud-based distributed physics right now at https://www.twitch.tv/theycamefromspace . Same tech used in Crackdown 3. The game is still work in progress, but you can see what is all about. There will be another stream at 6pm UK time. Disclaimer: I'm one ...
DOOM's sound track. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm932Sqwf5E ) If you liked DOOM 1 and 2, highly recommended. A masterpiece of fluid gameplay and unrelenting carnage. A proper homage to the Doom of old. :) The soundtrack fits ohh so well. And that take on the original Doom theme. Damn! I'm not ...
Take a look at the "Sony MDR-1000X". They are relatively new, and seem to perform even better than the Bose QC35. A co-worker of mine has the QC35, and although the noise-cancelling is good, I found the sound quality a bit bland (for lack of a better word), although I only spent a few minu...
[quote="meerkt"]The drawings might go quicker if you find a decent flowcharting software, perhaps. For the font, you can create one with multiple variants per letter. But you'll probably have to make a little utility to choose between equivalent codepoints at random. Well, I know it would ...
Next article planned after the short poll on Twitter. Cache friendly ticking (as-in, ticking game component such as actors, calling functions at specified intervals, etc) This one should be shorter and easier to follow. It's nothing that advanced. The code will be short and easy to use template clas...
With Leonardo Oh. Though you did it with some flowcharting software. How much work did it take? Yeah, some of my co-workers thought I was using some fancy font to give it that feel. haha At first I was drawing on the Surface Pro 3. Lately I've been using it with a Wacom drawing tablet. The workflow...
What do you create the charts with? :) With Leonardo Quite good, although not ready for prime-time, since its still on version 0.11. Lots of artist tools missing. I'm no artist, so it's plenty for me. I'm not missing any features. The author is well on his way create the world's best painting appli...
Been coding for some 25 years already, and this year I thought it was about time I start sharing knowledge instead of consuming it. I focus mostly on C++, since that's what I use daily at work. The last few months I've been creating articles about topics I've been dealing with at work. Mostly RPCs, ...
I also have 32 GB at home and 32GB at work. Both at work and at home I can easily run out of RAM while building the game (due to parallel compilation using all the cores), and when I need to run several instances of the game (server, clients, etc). Sometimes I would even like to have 64 GB for those...
+1. C++ lambdas are just terrible syntactically. Also, for the rest of C++11/14 if you read Scott Meyer's "Effective Modern C++", recommended by the way, he says in multiple places "this code does not do what you think it does". Personally I think they are "so-so". Giv...
And if you abuse it a lot, it makes for some fairly readable mess to me. As with any new toy, of course it gets abused, and then you learn. Remember all the craze about OOP. Everything and the kitchen sink needs to be an object. No free-functions anywhere? Multiple-inheritance is the thing man! I h...
