What makes a game tick? Part 5 17 Jun 2025 on C++, Game development Let’s talk about game simulations. Today we look at some more real life script performance issues and discuss the two hard problems in computer science. Last time we studied one real life case of script performance related to…

Sandor Dargo Jun 18 2025-06-18T00:00:00+02:00 4 min Let’s talk about class templates and variadic parameters. How to use them in combination? But first of all, what are variadic templates? Variadic template don’t accept a fixed size of parameters, but anything from one to more. The set of parameters…

Rust Atomics and Locks, the Rustonomicon's page on atomics, much of the standard library's documentation, and many more sources already provide a wealth of great information about writing fast and correct concurrent programs in Rust. I want to talk about a specific and very important part of…

r/bestof 3 hr. ago [LiminalSpace] It's heaven the first 24 hours you're there. You're a little disappointed that it just continues like this forever though, endlessly with nothing but green rolling hills of grass and a blue sky spackled with white fluffy clouds. No trees, nothing else. On and on.…

Factors in authentication Multi-factor authentication remains hard-to-use, hard-to-secure, and error-prone. I've been studying authentication lately to see if it might be possible to adapt some security practices, especially phishing prevention, from big companies to small companies and consumers.…

It's mostly a matter of the available records, I'd say. Because of the way the past isn't something that can be studied directly (i.e. there's no time travel, and the present marches ever forward), historians are always making assessments of what the past most likely was. This is relatively easy…

r/bestof 18 hr. ago [nottheonion] that_gay_alpaca It cannot be stressed enough that the entire right-wing worldview - in business, in politics, in religion, in organized crime, and in war - fundamentally revolves around the singular principle of “obey Daddy or else.” In ancient Rome, the traditional…