aj_hackman

6 ms·

31.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
God is all-powerful, eternal, exists outside of space and time, and created us for a purpose - but he's too busy to be bothered by our prayers?
32.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
The glee I see in many people over this possibility is quite chilling.
33.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
Thank you for the recs, Masters of Doom really lit a fire inside of me as a young programmer. I'd also recommend "Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder.
34.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
Thank you! Because of this, "The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985–1993" by Jordan Mechner is on its way to my house.
35.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
We gave up X11 for the unfulfilled promise of something greater. A tech tale as old as time.
36.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
I'm sure they meant "you". שלום־עליכם
37.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
He shares the title of "SBC Guy" with ExplainingComputers. Any time a new single-board computer comes out, especially a Raspberry Pi, they make videos with benchmarks etc. etc.
38.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
If it goes down you can always upgrade to a Raspberry Pi 3B+.
39.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
> Let’s build carbon-titanium-foldable bicycles instead of bloated modern cars, and still get from A to B? Yeah, that sounds awesome. Nobody _needs_ to run a 4-minute mile, or win a chess tournament, or climb a mountain, or make the most
40.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
TIL "Hello world!" has been put out to pasture.
41.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
Thank you for your thoughtful reply, and I shall pray for you in turn. I'm used to people turning towards the Catholic church as they become more legalistic and hard of heart, so your answer caught me by surprise. I also believe in a G
42.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
90% of the time I've witnessed someone assert themselves to have some positive trait, they've espoused the complete opposite... especially when it came to morality or rationality. If someone tells you they're a logical person
43.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
What pushed you to Catholicism? I see the Catholic church as an amalgamation of human innovations that attempt to turn focus away from Christ and towards the inevitably sinful authority of the church. As much as I can't stand the water
44.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
Madness Combat
45.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
This is what the Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier was supposed to be, but the x86 frontend wasn't shipped due to license issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver
46.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
Every port I've done to a new hardware or software platform has shaken loose at least a handful of bugs or assumptions that were well worth ironing out. And in the case of a port to Apple Silicon, you get a very fast development enviro
47.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
Much like my beloved comb sort, I use xorshift because the implementation is small and it's Good Enough. God's Own 100 SLOC PRNG would have to be near-perfect and take three clock cycles to contemplate switching.
48.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
> People are going around spraying bug spray on the produce at the grocery and posting it on TikTok. One single person did this, and was sentenced to a year in prison for it.
49.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
I was born in 90, and your post sent me down memory lane. When I was still in diapers my parents put a lien on their house so my mom could get a 486 machine, learn Lotus 1-2-3, and get a better job. One of my earliest memories is watching i
50.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
I wish this were true, but we are more than one year(s) away from a consumer RISC-V chip that can beat my Intel N150 mini PC.
51.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
Not to be confused with Pyrex, which has been forked into Cython.
52.
by aj_hackman 11mo ago
Interesting that this is back on the front page, as I've recently released a small-yet-growing standard library for Wren (which comes with its own modular plugin interface amongst other things): https://github.com/adams
53.
by aj_hackman 1y ago
No.
54.
by aj_hackman 1y ago
I was attempting to invoke Hanlon's Razor to rationalize the narratives being disseminated by news media, because I am exhausted by conspiratorial thinking. I chose the phrasing that I did in an effort to be as charitable as possible t
55.
by aj_hackman 1y ago
I made a deliberate effort to neutralize my statement as much as possible. We could argue on this issue, but what we can't disagree on is the fact that there's an issue (which is all that's relevant to the point I was trying
56.
by aj_hackman 1y ago
I don't think this is a deliberate ruse, but news organizations giving in to public pressure. I remember the NBC coverage of the conflict in Gaza in the days immediately following October 7, and how their narrative swung rapidly as pub
57.
by aj_hackman 1y ago
As someone working on a game engine with a multithreaded SSE/NEON implementation of ~GL 1.3 under the hood, this is rad for many reasons other than portability or compatibility. You get full access to every pixel and vertex on the scre
58.
by aj_hackman 1y ago
> insist that the depth of their own experience of love, religion, or meditation can’t possibly be reduced to neurotransmitters To bring things full circle and quote a dead meme, why not get you a girl who can do both?
59.
by aj_hackman 1y ago
> All major religions are essentially meme-conglomerates. This is quite the reduction, akin to claiming that my wife and I got married because human beings are a pair-bonding species - it checks out on the surface, but discards an incred
60.
by aj_hackman 1y ago
I've never been able to successfully create a GL context > version 2.1, or invoke the GLSL compiler. As a sidenote, I've very much enjoyed your blog, and developed a similar handle system as yours around the same time. Mine use

More ›