Yaser Zhian (@yaserzt) 's Twitter Profile
Yaser Zhian

@yaserzt

He/him. Senior engineer in @SIEE Tools and Tech.

Formerly from @ClimaxStudios, and always a @DeadMage.

Mostly interested in bits and bytes and cycles.

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calendar_today10-07-2010 00:09:12

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Cars, bridges and houses are constantly battered by the elements, Software is made out of bits, that do not degrade. It stays the same. So why does software require so much more maintenance than cars, bridges and houses? youtube.com/watch?v=EGLoKb…

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The French Revolution was a disaster: killed 2 million people, led to the rise of Napoleon--perhaps the world's first totalitarian fascist dictator, who began wars of conquest that killed an additional 4 million people, led to the restoration of slavery, to the restoration of the

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Weird codegen from #MSVC (latest, x64-only, scalar doubles): It converts `if (b < a) {t = a; a = b; b = t;}` to `minsd + maxsd` (under /fp:fast,) but then generates damn function calls for `fmin(a, b)` and `fmax(a, b)`! `pragma intrinsic` is not supported for those two either.