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So someone discovered that Monster Hunter Wilds was doing aggressive DLC ownership checks that tanked performance. A modder tricked the game into thinking they owned all DLC and boom—instant FPS boost. The unintentional part? Capcom wasn't trying to punish pirates or non-buyers. They just wrote such inefficient code that checking your DLC status every frame became a performance bottleneck. The punchline writes itself: Capcom's management seeing this bug report and realizing they can now market DLC as a "performance enhancement feature." Why optimize your game engine when you can monetize the fix? It's like charging people to remove the memory leak you accidentally shipped. That Homelander smile at the end perfectly captures corporate executives discovering they can turn their own incompetence into a revenue stream. Chef's kiss.

Content announcements 2 1 2 G 20 July 2021 June Today at 15:39 everyone I can't believe I have to say this, but you can't be a beta tester unless you own CK2 and have a functioning computer capable of running the game. 24 40 22 32 18 15 13 15 14 12 5 13 10 6 to Mr. More Today at 15:41 I will read the code and run the game in my frontal lobe.

You know that developer who decided to rewrite the entire authentication system, refactor the database layer, AND redesign the frontend components all in a single PR? Yeah, that's what going "full AI" looks like in code reviews. The classic Tropic Thunder wisdom applies here: when you're coding with AI assistance, there's a fine line between "helpful autocomplete" and "let the AI write 3000 lines of generated code that technically works but nobody can maintain." Sure, Copilot suggested that elegant solution, but did you really need to accept every single suggestion including the one that imports 47 dependencies for a function that adds two numbers? Your reviewers are now staring at a 156-file changeset wondering if they should approve it or call an intervention. Keep some human judgment in there, or your PR will sit in review purgatory longer than Duke Nukem Forever's development cycle.

Content Is it possible to disable the network in iOS Simulator? Get personalized job matches now stackoverflow Get started 281 am trying to debug some inconsistent behaviour I am seeing in an application that gets its primary data from the internet. I don't see the issues in the simulator, just on the device, so l'd like to reproduce the network and connectivity environment in the simulator. Is there any way of disabling the network in the simulator? 17 Answers active oldest Use a simple Faraday cage to block or limit the external RF signal level. 1214 You can make your own with aluminum foil. The openings should be smaller than the wavelength of your data service if that's what you want to block. 800 Mhz has a 37 cm (14) wavelength, 1900 Mhz has a 16 cm (6) wavelength. This works better with an actual device than with the simulator since the Mac is hard to work on when inside the Faraday cage ;-) share improve this answer edited Aug 27 '13 at 19:56 answered Dec 12 '12 at 1:12 , progrmr 57.2k 13 88 135

Ah, the eternal C/C++ programmer's dream - a world where you don't have to choose between sizeof(array) and sizeof(array[0]) just to get the damn array length. Meanwhile, JavaScript devs are smugly using .length while we're over here doing division like it's 1972. The utopian future depicted isn't flying cars - it's sensible array APIs that don't decay into pointers the moment you sneeze on them. Ten thousand years of programming evolution and we're still manually calculating element counts like cavemen with abacuses.