Mathieu Ropert

Would you do it for me?

Ok Spotify, why do you offer 4 times the same song (sometimes noted as the same one, sometime not) when I search one given song?

Another conference, another set of ai generated images in slides.
Reject the clankers, down with the piss yellow filtered images that we can tell from a mile away!

There's some questionable business practices, and then there's Norwegian Airlines randomly charging if you pay with your company card.

What makes a game tick? Part 7 - Data Driven Multi-Threading · Mathieu Ropert Let’s talk about game simulations. In this episode we look at different ways to approach task-based parallelism.

After a somewhat long wait, the next episode of "What Makes A Game Tick" is finally out!
Today we talk about task based parallelism.
mropert.github.io/2025/10/06/m...

Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report Consulting firm quietly admitted to GPT-4o use after fake citations were found in August.

A partial refund? They should sue them for a full refund + damages. This kind of "consulting" amounts to malpractice.
If you'd get this kind of shoddy job from a doctor or a lawyer they'd be on the hook to lose their license to practice.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/d...

The most shocking part is how is utf-16/ucs-2 still mandated on Windows.
They had 30 years to introduce a better/more convenient API that uses utf-8.

They're text enough for me 🤷

Ok who thought it'd be a great idea to have std::filesystem to use different char type on Windows?
I don't care that some nerd bet wrong on UTF-16 thirty years ago, we shouldn't have to deal with this nonsense in a 21st century standard abstraction.
Any 2010+ API should be UTF-8.

Submitting a motion to stop using "Modern" to describe a given practice for tech fields that move so fast that a decade makes everything half obsolete.
Maybe use year? Or we need to start naming movements like architecture?
Baroque graphics engine, Neoclassic graphics engine...

I used VkBootstrap and it's still painful 😣

Although it could also be "Console Hello World" to "Vulkan Hello Triangle"

Vulkan hello triangle to Vulkan hello mesh

Ok real talk Sicily, what is wrong with toilet seats? Do you have them or something?

Caponata is the better ratatouille don't @ me.

Ordered some business cards online. Glad I double checked the sample because their embedded "QR code generator" would insert a redirect through _their_ website in the link it generates.
I imported a manually made JPG instead but that stuff should be illegal.

Graphics people, can anyone tell me if there's still any value in sending vertex buffers with defined attribute descriptions compared to using GL_EXT_buffer_reference with std430 layout and completely skipping the need to describe the input on the CPU side?
I can't see the tradeoffs.

I can't help them with PR but I do game performance consulting...

Surprise surprise, all those conservatives and libs talking about "free speech" are all too happy to have the government arrest you or go after your livelihood for expressing negative opinion of their favorite debate podcaster or settler colonial genocidal state.

Amazing how the calls for Civil War vanish from my timeline as soon as it's revealed this episode was yet another instance of Conservative Thunderdome.

I know it's a free market and all that but trying to sell me a glass of Gamay that can't even afford the Beaujolais appellation for 13€ should be a crime.

Hey Android can stop changing the entire UI every release?
I got an update and now my phone looks like the previous one was redesigned to accommodate young children.

My most polite take on current events is that neither murder nor pushing fascist ideas should be something we tolerate in modern society.

C++ Modules Update, 2025: it almost totally works for this one set of headers you guys.
As long as you're willing to use MSVC with IntelliSense screaming errors everywhere because it can't parse your module imports and you basically lose all autocomplete. 🙃

At this point it doesn't matter. I could be this, some DOGE kid getting in a brawl or someone keying Trump's golf cart.
This is all pretext and if they can't find one they'll just make one up.

The modern Alien Franchise is really sustained by a plethora of idiotic engineers and scientists who cannot design a safety feature or procedure to save their lives.

The fact that the most boring, memberberries filled flashback episode of Alien: Earth is the most popular so far is making me think we don't deserve good TV or movies anymore.

20 years ago I go literally show up at a train station, board and get to London within 2 hours with only an ID card.
Now I need a passport, a smartphone, a visa, and to be at the Eurostar terminal two hours in advance then go through the equivalent of airport security.
We're moving backwards!

And of course they made an app exclusively targeted at non UK residents/citizens that doesn't support non ASCII characters in your address.

IT'S OVER A HUNDRED MEGABYTES!