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This is genuinely something I've been struggling with for the last four or five years. I graduated in 2020 and spent 2 years living with my parents looking for work, which I found at a mindless data entry position only to get laid off 1.5 years later when the company - surprise! - slashed 25% of its workforce to reduce costs.

Meanwhile it seems like indie devs are having a lot of fun (those of them who aren't fags, at least) and they have roughly equivalent or better odds of making it big with some memetic idea.

@xianc78 At that point you might as well ditch the degree and save money to get your company off the ground.

Be honest: college is a scam especially in cases like computer science where they make you waste money and time on superfluous classes, and the only worthwhile thing you get out of it is maybe you'll get hired somewhere

@kasesag Hard drives can last a long time if taken care of, the 3 to 5 years metric is mostly for datacenters. But they need to be powered on. If they stay unplugged for a very (very) long time then the bits on the platters can start to flip. I can't really fit all of those in my PC case nor be bothered to continually check them for magnetic/mechanical decay.

With discs I can usually just visually inspect them. The only care they need is good climate control and they're always getting cheaper to duplicate.

M-Discs are specially engraved optical discs compatible with existing formats, but manufactured for durability. I have an M-Disc engraver handy but mostly just use it for CD burning up until now. Even some of the really abused normal discs in my collection are working fine so it seemed like the right call

@graf Oh look, an evil company shitting on another evil company for a publicity stunt to brainwash customers!

I'm going to start buying stacks of 4K BD-ROMs to move my old gaming clips and blender projects and stuff to. I can't keep taking care of more and more 8TB hard drives that are going to die someday and having to hoard and replace them.

The price-to-capacity ratio is worse, sure you can get an 8TB WD Blue for 130 dollars now, but those are mechanical and electronic, they get old and die. SSDs, they get old and die and those are twice as expensive. I'm on low income.

Discs only rot and even then they take way longer. I'll be able to procrastinate on revising that old stuff for as long as I am alive.

While I'm deciding what to move to those discs it will also be a good opportunity to finally delete years of stuff I just don't want anymore. The data hoarding is only half because I'm overprotective but also because that shit piles up and gets hard to sift through.

@bronze hey ai how can I get into the pants of that girl who keeps ignoring me

Okay so I've tried about a million different things and everything either just A. goes super speed, B. Freezes after Tick #2 or C. Behaves exactly the same

I am 100% certain this should be working because it is exactly what I did with the FPS cap...

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Somehow my timings are wrong...?
It's gotta be some kind of typo in my delta timer, I've checked everything else.

It is a good thing I have not started writing enemy AI yet or else the whole thing would have to be rebalanced.

Short C++17 question, expert help wanted 

I have been doing some research on the inline keyword in C++, since my IDE (CLion) is... giving it a lot of preferential treatment.

From what I have read, correct me if I am wrong, it is primarily an optimization **when used on functions**. Forcing the compiler to insert the function contents directly wherever it's called when it assembles into opcode, removing the overhead of calling a subroutine, but potentially decreasing efficiency in other ways--low level CPU cache/branch predict stuff the compiler will probably decide for me anyway and that I don't have a great understanding of yet.

However, I cannot find a super clear answer on what cons this may have for *variables*.

Say I have a static variable in a namespace:

namespace stuff {
uint8_t x = 69;
}

What are some potential DRAWBACKS, if any, to making this inline? I can only find information on advantages, but that it should otherwise be left alone because the compiler will do it anyway if it's analysis deems necessary. The consensus seems to be "none" but I want to be sure because there is a lot of bad advice out there.

Thanks

Gonna mess with id tech 4 soon btw I wanna make a 00s style fps or similar before gaming got bad
a remake of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (arguably the best of the entire series) ported to the GTA 4 engine by Revolution Team (based ruskies) is scheduled to release sometime this month and my body is ready. i will play this. even if im on vacation.
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