jesse__

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by jesse__ 15d ago
Location: Remote, Canada Technologies : C, C++, SIMD, OpenGL, WebGL, WASM, JS, TS Interests : systems programming, compilers, 2D & 3D graphics, performance -------- Hello, my name is Jesse. I describe myself as a competent generalist, a
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by jesse__ 1mo ago
"surfing is not a sport, it's a way of life" Agreed friend Also, "it takes five years to become an overnight success" is a fantastic line. Great read
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by jesse__ 1mo ago
I lol'd at this
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by jesse__ 1mo ago
Okay. I've written two separate moving collectors for dynamic language runtimes, as well as done significant work in realtime 3D graphics, and what you're saying mostly smells like bullshit. > The interaction of a moving collec
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by jesse__ 1mo ago
I don't understand how you can claim that using a GC does not make a language slower and less predictable. Running a GC takes time, pollutes the cache, and is often run at an unpredictable time. Sure, the GC is not necessarily the SLO
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by jesse__ 1mo ago
Location: Remote, Canada Technologies : C, C++, SIMD, OpenGL, WebGL, WASM, JS, TS Interests : systems programming, compilers, 2D & 3D graphics, performance -------- Hello, my name is Jesse. I describe myself as a competent generalist, a
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by jesse__ 3mo ago
Cool project! I viewed the landing page on mobile (chrome, android) and touching to drag the globe worked once or twice, but stopped working afterwards. The globe would appear to freeze (and, actually, the whole page locked up for a secon
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by jesse__ 3mo ago
I like this comment. The idea that animations should be able to be picked apart frame by frame and always be coherent doesn't make much sense, because the user will never actually do that. I do like the point the article makes about u
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by jesse__ 3mo ago
Animations are highly effective tools for conveying state information. Consider a toolbar with a mix of enabled and disabled buttons. Hover effects (which I would consider animations) convey that something is clickable, and on-click effect
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by jesse__ 4mo ago
Location: Remote, Canada Technologies : C, C++, SIMD, OpenGL, WebGL, WASM, JS, TS Interests : systems programming, compilers, 2D & 3D graphics, performance -------- Hello, my name is Jesse. I describe myself as a competent generalist, a
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by jesse__ 5mo ago
In my experience, relying on the compiler to auto vectorize your code is a path fraught with peril. It'll break eventually. If it matters, write the simd yourself. It'll probably be 2-50x better than the compiler anyways.
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by jesse__ 5mo ago
That's hella cute
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by jesse__ 6mo ago
Yeah, like 50 years too late.
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by jesse__ 6mo ago
> Aside from this being trivial in C++26 Great, it took them 51 years to make a trivial operation trivial. Call me next millennium when they start to figure out the nontrivial stuff, I guess.
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by jesse__ 6mo ago
> powerful compile-time and metaprogramming capabilities While I agree that, generally, compile time metaprogramming is a tremendously powerful tool, the C++ template metaprogramming implementation is hilariously bad. Why, for example,
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by jesse__ 6mo ago
> The C (near-) subset of C++ is (modulo standard libraries) a starting point for this; just adding on templates for type system power (and not for other exotic uses) goes a long way. In my experience, this is absolutely true. I wrote m
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by jesse__ 6mo ago
This somehow reminds me of the days when the fastest way to deep copy an object in javascript was to round trip through toString. I thought that was gross then, and I think this is gross now
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by jesse__ 6mo ago
This should be the top comment
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by jesse__ 6mo ago
I read an 'i hate myself' post one time where someone encountered a variable named leghands. Obviously, it had once read legendHandles, and had since been helpfully shortened by the author.
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by jesse__ 6mo ago
Love this. As an aside, if the author reads this, did you consider using bitfields for the superposition state (ie, what options are available for a tile)? I did a wfc implementation a while back and moved to bitfields after a while.. the
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by jesse__ 6mo ago
> If you need to wait YEARS ... Imagine working on voyager II .. or some old-ass banking software that still runs RPG (look it up, I'll wait), or trying to hire someone to do numerical analysis for the genesis of a format that super
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by jesse__ 6mo ago
Thanks for your work on Zulip! I have some feedback that's annoyingly non-specific. I used Zulip a few years ago as a contractor. It seemed _fine_, but I didn't love it. Specifically, the UI felt sluggish and generally the exper
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by jesse__ 7mo ago
Of the three, I only like cars. I'm from Canada, and I like cars for many of the same reasons I like programming. They're complicated, fickle, and go fucking fast when you get everything right. It's like mainlining adrenali
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by jesse__ 7mo ago
As someone who accidentally discovered the anti-depressive effects of psilocybin in my early 20s, I approve this message!
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by jesse__ 7mo ago
> Here, we don't have winter, fall or anything anymore. I was in the bar in Revelstoke (where I lived, at the time) chatting with an old-timer the other year, and I asked him "is it just me, or did it used to snow more?" H
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by jesse__ 7mo ago
> 60 FPS — Optimized for smooth rendering I don't wanna dunk on this, it's a cool idea, but you can generate a lot of Perlin noise in 16ms ..
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by jesse__ 7mo ago
I've responded to your email
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by jesse__ 7mo ago
The meme at the top is absolute gold considering the point of the article. 10/10
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by jesse__ 7mo ago
> That seems implausible. Why, exactly? Refuting facts with "I doubt it, bro" isn't exactly a productive contribution to the conversation..
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by jesse__ 7mo ago
This sounds very wrong to me. Take the C4 training dataset for example. The uncompressed, uncleaned, size of the dataset is ~6TB, and contains an exhaustive English language scrape of the public internet from 2019. The cleaned (still unco

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