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  • Do you want to? Go for it.

    Does your game crawl? Have you identified this code as the bottleneck? Are you certain that asm will give you a meaningful performance increase, and that your issue doesn’t lie with your approach to the problem? Sure, I guess. You said your game runs fine though, so this probably doesn’t apply.

    Is your game fast already? If you don’t want to do it, don’t.

    Writing asm by hand is almost always a waste of time. There are only a few times where it’s actually necessary, and unless you’re writing a bootloader and running your game on bare metal, I can’t imagine why it’d be necessary. But you know your code better than anyone else here, so you should know whether it’s needed or not more than any of us do.

    To begin with, you’re apparently targeting the Z80, which I haven’t seen used for games in the wild… probably in my entire life? Maybe an arcade machine I played on once used it, but I can’t think of any other times. If your targets need custom assembly, then you should already know that. We don’t know your targets.





  • to be specific, when you refer to “that all” happening, you mean Biden signing the bill that banned TikTok in April 2024, I think?

    Yes. Biden happened to be president, but any president would have signed that into law because of the support, and even if it hadn’t become law, we’d still be in this position. Trump wants to control the media. He’ll do it however he needs to.

    your timeline is jumping around a bit here, because now you’re referring to “that period” and linking to a source from January 2025, the time of Trump’s inauguration.

    The period in question went on for quite a while (a yearish if I remember correctly). Anyway, your comment doesn’t actually say anything to contradict my point of ByteDance spreading their cheeks for Trump.

    this ban only passed because Democrats were bamboozled into supporting a proposal that has its roots in Republican “omg China scary” bullshit. I don’t know how to explain it any more clearly.

    You don’t need to. The ban is irrelevant. Without the ban, we’d be in the same place, with Trump attacking all forms of media to gain control.

    ahh yes, “criticizing Democrats is the same thing as supporting Republicans”, the free square on the bingo board.

    You’re not criticizing lawmakers here. You’re criticizing the common person, the people actually affected by the purchase. What you’re doing is essentially victim blaming.

    Your entire analogy is irrelevant. The people you’re criticizing are the people who reviewed the exterminator, not the exterminator.


  • The ban had bipartisan support, and even if that all never happened, you’d still be in the same situation. They would have sold off their US business anyway whether they were forced to or just got a big offer.

    Keep in mind that TikTok also put out messages during that period practically deep throating Trump and sent it out to all their users. This was going to happen either way.

    Ironically, a ban could have prevented this from happening entirely by making TikTok no longer relevant to the US. Not that banning it wouldn’t come with other issues as well, of course.

    Maybe rather than blaming those in search of a solution, you could try blaming those who created the problem. Friendly fire doesn’t do a whole lot of good, but does support Trump, which I’m assuming isn’t your goal here.





  • This depends on how the verification is done, in my opinion, as well as whether there is a presence of more anonymous alternatives.

    If the EU has a system which does not rely on third parties for verification and allows the platform to verify directly with a government-run service, then the only real issue there is lack of anonymity, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing on a platform if there are also popular anonymous alternatives people can use when they want to.

    The article doesn’t go into how ID verification will work though. If it’s through third parties like how the US does it, then that’s disgusting and waiting to be breached.










  • If he doesn’t care or need to verify it, then it doesn’t really matter.

    These tools are great at creating demoable MVPs. They’re terrible at creating maintainable codebases, and cannot be relied on to generate correct code. But if all you need is a demo or MVP, then it’s likely you don’t care, and that’s often the case for personal tools that non-coders want to use.

    The people using it to manage their personal finances are nuts though.


  • If your “friend” does not currently serve for a relevant military, then their battle may be best spent at home for now.

    For a US person, the obvious answer would be protesting, reaching out to representatives, and advocating against more unnecessary violence. For non-US, the first two don’t have the same effect, though your country could politically pressure Trump via threats of sanctions or such.

    If they request volunteers and your “friend” can do that, then that’s how they can use their experience, assuming they want to of course and understand potential consequences of doing so if their government doesn’t approve of it.