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by aaaashley 4mo ago
yes! i had this exact idea. i also thought about integrating geometric/clifford algebra using zig's type system so that you could have one mathematical multivector object instead of complex / quaternion types, etc.
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by aaaashley 4mo ago
Not GP, but I've written game engines and rendering engines. Vector operations are just common enough that having to write `.mul` every time is a huge pain, especially when you put many of them together for a large formula. Compare: (p
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by aaaashley 9mo ago
Except social media feeds are designed to addict. A smoker will spend their time smoking instead of not smoking. Does that mean that smoking is good? Why else would they do it, if not smoking was better? It's not that simple. When we b
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by aaaashley 10mo ago
Seems like these are the asahi linux articles being taken from: https://asahilinux.org/2023/03/road-to-vulkan/ https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/ Also, if you&
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by aaaashley 10mo ago
Funny thing about that n[static M] array checking syntax–it was even considered bad in 1999, when it was included: "There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus that its incorporation into the standard at t
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by aaaashley 11mo ago
I don't think that fashion trends are comparable. I think that fashion trends are fine in concept–things get old and we switch things up. It's the way the human superorganism is able to evolve new ideas. Unfortunately, capitalism
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by aaaashley 11mo ago
The "development time is more important than performance" motto treats bad performance as the problem with software, when in reality poor performance is a symptom of growing software complexity. I'm sure that each individua
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by aaaashley 1y ago
Speaking of using custom CSS with YouTube, I do the following for my experience: - Completely hide the recommended tab - Make every thumbnail grayscale (to mitigate eye-catching thumbnails) - Make every video title lowercase (to mitigate ey
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by aaaashley 2y ago
Bryce Bostwick does super cool & inspiring work on debugging and reverse-engineering apps. I found him on YouTube; His video on modding TikTok to only show cat videos ( https://youtu.be/YW3jL2gI9IE ) inspired me to mod In