@olson_dan

Author: Rust for C++ Developers Senior Principal Engineer @ Treyarch. Opinions do not represent my employer and probably not anyone else either.

 Santa Monica
Joined June 2011
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My upcoming book "Rust for C++ Developers" is now available on Amazon: amazon.com/dp/1836206518

Rust for C++ Developers: Leverage your C++ expertise to write safer and faster systems code in Rust

Rust for C++ Developers: Leverage your C++ expertise to write safer and faster systems code in Rust

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ASHA
@asha_sharOct 26
One of the most celebrated Call of Duty games in its 24-year history, and now $40B in lifetime franchise revenue. An incredible milestone. Congrats to the Activision team. And to the players, thank you for being with us.
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I see a narrow path where AI can eliminate the entire concept of the powerpoint presentation.
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I very often have no idea what I'm doing. But I appreciate that AI allows me to have no idea what I'm doing in a way that's disruptive to people who do know what they are doing.
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Having returned to both recently... gameplay-wise retail is a lot better than forever. Socially, forever is a lot lot better.
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It is pretty kickass when something you randomly wrote 8 years ago becomes an extremely useful reference for AI-driven tasks.
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It's fun how you can instantly recognize AI-authored PowerPoints. This isn't a slight on anyone doing it. This is one thing that we blessedly never have to do by hand again.
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> The stress pass found no Goose crash or timeout in 250 structured differential cases plus 100 random binary inputs.
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Goose not crashing is a fantastic Goose-related advance since 1986.
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This was one of the few times in the show that I thought a character was just about to make a good decision.
The Cinéprism
@TheCineprismOct 21
"I just wonder if the sad I'd be without you would be less than the sad I get from being with you." — Succession, HBO
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A very discouraging day, but with real progress on interesting stuff as well.
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I have a vibe coded Rust version of a C++ preprocessor that is markedly faster than closed+open source versions I have to use. Asked AI to port it to Goose, got 1.07x speedup over the already fast Rust in first try. @wvo
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The results were heavily caveated by the AI, hopefully the second pass will be even better.
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Not a fan of this happening in the middle of a work day.
World of Warcraft
@WarcraftOct 20
Good News, Everyone! Starting Oct 27, reserve your first THREE characters’ names for WoW: Forever! The Beta is also extending to 10 AM PDT on Oct 23 🚨 Full details: blizz.ly/4zJbTyz
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ALT A human female in plain gear faces forward in a neutral standing position outside. Tags above her head read “<First Name> <Last Name>”. Headline text below reads “EARLY NAME RESERVATIONS” & “OCT. 27 - NOV. 3”. The WoW: Forever logo is above. The image is framed by an ornate border design element.

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Right now the thing I want most is about 4x faster inference.
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Every once in a while some celebrity whose entire career has been totally invisible to me will show up as the thing the algorithm thinks I should see seventy times a day, because they released a movie with a production company whose entire output has been invisible to me.
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Download rustc source -> “Do a breakthrough”. Not as interesting as any of this but took my rust workspace tests down from 40 minutes in CI to 8m full, <5m incremental last week.
Charlie Marsh
@charliermarshOct 21
We're starting to see some agentic Rust forks (or alternative implementations) focused on iteration speed. More-so than the specific projects, I'm interested in the ideas being explored (and how they could evolve upstream), so wanted to collate a few here...
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The person making their own store probably wouldn't bitch about their competitor's effective self-removal from the market.
Syphotic | Steel Command
@SyphoticARTOct 20
What if @valvesoftware just outright banned AI art in games on it's platform? Apart from Tim Sweeney bitching about it on twitter, what are the downsides?
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This is the one I’ve been hoping for, for like six months.
jxom
@_jxomOct 19
🚨 Mermaid has been rewritten, again. In Rust! 🧜‍♀️ Introducing Ondine. 🧜‍♀️ - 200B runtime. - Renders diagrams in ~50µs. - 1,943x smaller, 2.8x faster than Pele. - 13,467x smaller, 670x faster than Mermaid. - Still 0 dependencies.
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Until queue times suck.
Wowhead💙
@WowheadOct 18
In the most recent WoW: Forever podcast, Blizzard revealed that if you queue a Battleground solo, you will not be matched against a premade. #warcraft #wowforever wowhead.com/forever/news/pre…
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My shaman has a second mana bar. I’m not sure why. Nothing in the game that I’ve found explains why, but two skills randomly use it. What an adventure.
Dan Olson@olson_danOct 19
Forever is a gateway drug into midnight. Last time I played was shadowlands and I basically have no idea at all what is going on.
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It seems like maybe I am supposed to be familiar with maelstrom if it was introduced in legion. But I’m not. I leveled this thing in zandalar and mainly as resto so maybe that’s why.
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It feels like an entirely useless mechanic on elemental. But ok. I’m just bad.
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