starmole

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by starmole 6mo ago
the sharp point on the bridge is going to hurt your snout.
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by starmole 7mo ago
Great writing. But: The printing press did displace manual copying of texts, not calligraphy. Digital type setting did not displace typography but the manual labor of type setting. In a similar vein I think AI code gen will displace code
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by starmole 10mo ago
also: lame, no sound :D
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by starmole 10mo ago
As an old scener myself I both love and hate it. The scene is about breaking rules, even it's own, and in that spirit it's hella cool. On the other hand, at least for me, the scene was craft for crafts sake. Nobody would pay for s
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by starmole 10mo ago
I think 4x4 matrices for 3D transforms (esp homogenous coordinates) are very elegant. I think the intended critique is that the huge n*m matrices used in ML are not elegant - but the point is made poorly by pointing out properties of gener
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by starmole 11mo ago
Super cool! Would love to see the build/deploy steps needed.
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by starmole 1y ago
The corp speak bs is so strong in this one it could be mistaken for satire.
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by starmole 1y ago
Twitter link is unreadable by clicking on it.
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by starmole 1y ago
Really appreciate the very serious reply. But my initial comment had a very different intent: Economic analysis like in the linked article is crazy to me. Predictions for 15 years out! With graphs to support it! That seems mad to me, and e
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by starmole 1y ago
Because this was a reply to my comment: It reads to me a lot like "you are reading the tea leaves wrong". Switch the graph, the time frame. But what would be a better way to talk about this? A more helpful and actionable one?
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by starmole 1y ago
Lol, yes! I should take my dad's advice and buy forest land in Germany instead of US index funds. And this is not sarcastic - it might actually be the better strategy! But the article does not help me at all making that decision.
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by starmole 1y ago
This article is initially very well written and convincing. And it started to stress me out a little bit! Am I at great risk for having most of my wealth tied to the dollar? But taking a step back: It is making very strong predictions for a
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by starmole 1y ago
Oh, but it's backwards. The call of "Fair Access to Banking" means actually "Easy Access to Suckers".
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by starmole 1y ago
Be amazed by learning about tail calls in WASM: https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-tail-call the key here is that there are new, different opcodes that can be tail call optimized! Because tail call optimizing the old op code wou
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by starmole 1y ago
You can emulate synchronous await by using a worker thread, marshal your async operation to the main thread, then in the worker use Atomics.wait() to blocking wait on a SharedArrayBuffer variable. Once the async operation completes on main,
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by starmole 2y ago
I always thought this was called the Tetris packing algorithm. Because you drop in pieces from the top like in a game of Tetris. (no sliding in sideways allowed :))
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by starmole 2y ago
Adobe/Substance3D Modeler
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by starmole 3y ago
unfortunate naming, collides with nvidia rtx.
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by starmole 3y ago
Great stuff! I especially agree with teaching math via raytracing first instead of APIs.
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by starmole 3y ago
I find this very interesting. I have been toying around how I would design a graphics 101 course myself. Should it start with putpixel style sdl code like we did in the 90s? Or start with shadertoy? Of course basic matrix math is always im
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by starmole 3y ago
Amazing experiment from the man who brought us shadertoy.
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by starmole 4y ago
Love Tracy! One neat feature is that you can import Chrome traces. Instrument with normal JS perf marker API! The Tracy UI is just so much better for viewing them. That said, the title confuses me: I am always thinking of Tracy as an instr
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by starmole 4y ago
Made a (very simple!) shader toy for temporal dither on your webcam: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/clf3Rj
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by starmole 4y ago
Yeah, I noticed. Tried to look at it myself - I don't have it archived anywhere myself. But last time I looked at it I cringed pretty hard. It's not great code :) But here you go: https://web.archive.org/web/
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by starmole 4y ago
Note that extenders did a lot of emulation stuff for you, which was not really needed if all one wanted was flat 32bit mode. We did it for 4k intros back in the day: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=289 . One fun optimiz
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by starmole 4y ago
nop and enop and fnop! so many nops: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/nop
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by starmole 4y ago
The government can let you call your collaborators. While they torture you. Of course you picked your partners carefully to be absolute psychopaths that would rather see you suffer and die than give up their keys. That's how you picked
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by starmole 4y ago
I feel like this is such a non-issue. To be proficient in reading or writing assembly (versus higher level languages) means to deal with a stream of instructions. Once you are fluent with that concept parsing individual instructions is a lo
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by starmole 5y ago
This is a nice very high level view. But if I were to teach modern GPUs and rendering I would recommend starting with something like https://tayfunkayhan.wordpress.com/2018/11/24/rasterization-...
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by starmole 5y ago
First: I love the collection of knowledge. Any project doing that is worth doing. On the other hand: How do you teach performance engineering? I learned it in the Demoscene, which was simply a competition. "I can do this effect in 2 cy

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