Cotterzz

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by Cotterzz 11mo ago
This is useful for everyone not just non-techy types. I can't help but compare this to sites like shadertoy that let you develop with a simple coding interface on one half the screen and the output on the other (as opposed to the regul
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by Cotterzz 11mo ago
It does shed light on a possibly better solution though that gives the user a list of simple, common use case options or access to the full interface. I do feel quite strongly that this should be implemented in the app though. There must be
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by Cotterzz 11mo ago
gimp has been my goto when I want to explain bad ui, developer designed ui, or just typical foss ui I'm glad they're fixing it. It's also my image editor of choice.
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by Cotterzz 11mo ago
I also thought this when I read the abstract. input=prompt output=response does make more sense.
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by Cotterzz 1y ago
Someone has to do 'Way of Air Traffic Control' and write second rate asian philosophy inspired poetry about how planes aren't really an important part of the job and will just land themselves.
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by Cotterzz 1y ago
I would really prefer it if it was satire. I don't think people posting this all over the place saying how amazeballs it is get that it's a joke, and I'm not 100% convinced myself. It just looks horribly pretentious.
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by Cotterzz 1y ago
Asking the model to write a shader. They are getting better at this but are still very bad at producing (code that produces) specific imagery. I do have to write prompts that stump models as part of my job so this thread is of great interes
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
I think top prize has to go to the first book I read in 2024 - 'Dark Matter' by Blake Crouch. It's a little different from the sci-fi I usually read like Liu or Banks, as it reads more like Stephen King and is weirdly terrif
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
Yep, you were onto something. Everything is so useful, almost vital now. If it were cross-platform and had a text-search option it would be perfect. I think the only other limitation is the columns for search and sort are but a handful. Tho
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
There is something very click-baity about articles like this. There always seems to be the implication that these examples are completely independent emergent behaviour, like the AI has suddenly acquired self awareness and a need for self p
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
I thought that simplicity was part of the appeal. Have you tried WGSL? It is a bit more complex, but I'm finding it quite fun to work with.
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
Weird that there's no mention of Rayleigh–Bénard convection, or the very similar phenomena at giant's causeway.
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
Thanks! I guess strictly you'd have to include this page, which would put the total internet data in the (roughly) ronnabyte or quettabyte range, with nearly all of it being this page.
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
What percentage of the 100+ Zettabytes of data now on the internet does this page take up?
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
By all accounts he did die suddenly. Whether it was suicide is for a coroner to determine. I think that's the reason for the seemingly obtuse language. Edit - The article does mention a death certificate confirming suicide, so you&#x27
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
Interesting. I couldn't see myself using a tool like this for bulk remembering of things. And I don't think it would be practical for that. But for specifically important things like certain words my brain like to forget from time
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
Because he's building native JS games already. And they likely work in Safari. It would be a step backwards, unless he wants to publish for desktop/mobile as well. I even found Godot's desktop export to be less performant tha
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
I started around the same age. Though sadly not with JS and modern browser tech. The most difficult concepts in use here are arrays and function calls. So quite possible for a clever 9 year old. If he was using an entity component system or
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
This is great work. I started around the same age, though I only had BASIC or assembly language and neither was very suitable, to the extent I almost gave up on game development. I didn't start building games with JS until 2-3 decades
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
I would also encourage the kid as much as possible, but I'd be doing them a disservice if I didn't also take the opportunity to teach them about the basics of keeping flowers alive in transit.
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
Godot is designed for beginners, but also those that don't like to get their hands too dirty with code. Also the web export is likely inferior to what he can do with JS directly. With that in mind I'd recommend he sticks with JS.
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
My thoughts exactly. I was thinking it maybe genuinely unfair treatment, but then I read the developer's own description of the game. Anyone who describes their own work as 'basest of all time' is clearly going for shock valu
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
Thanks. Yes I do tend to overlook HLSL, despite being a windows user and a game developer, I tend to focus on gfx technologies that come out of Khronos and the W3C. Slang does look a lot like GLSL, I am trying to get used to WGSL at the mom
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
It has a lot to do with diet and metabolism. Cat's sleep 2/3 of the time, have a very high metabolism and spend a very short amount of time eating or catching prey. (compared to say, Cows who are chewing for as long as humans are
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
It's compute also, though that may depend on the target language.
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
I have to wonder how this fits in with other shader technologies that seem to have overlapping purposes. (There's Khronos' own Spir-V, SDL's SDLSL, Three's TSL, and WebGPU's WGSL) The reflection and automatic differ
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
Don't we already have a shader language with Rust-syntax in WGSL? It also works everywhere, given that WebGPU works wherever Vulkan, Metal & DirectX do...
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
Yes, this is actually more plausible. A bit like the three 6's in barcodes that I suspect were put there by an engineer with a dark sense of humour.
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
Yes, if you're using the popular stacks of tools, frameworks and proprietary embellishments like Typescript. If you're focused on vanilla JS development along with modern native browser tech like WebGL, WebGPU, WASM and Web Audio
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by Cotterzz 2y ago
This new language. Do you mean something that compiles down to JS like Typescript, Coffescript & Dart? Or a language that compiles to WASM like C, C++ or Rust?

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