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   Bonsai: A Voxel Engine, from scratch(github.com)

   259 points by jesse__ 10mo ago|44 comments
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   by jesse__ 10mo ago

   I mean, so do I, if you think about it like that. I just have a much lower chance of successfully retrieving the correct information. In the comparison I was making with respect to accuracy was that the bot is much more likely to accuratel
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   by jesse__ 10mo ago

   I meant without looking it up
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   by jesse__ 10mo ago

   I'd consider JAI shipped, it's just not publicly available. There are hundreds (maybe thousands?) of developers in the beta at this point. Next time you build a new programming language, 3D game engine, and ship a game, lemme kn
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   by jesse__ 10mo ago

   Agreed
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   by jesse__ 10mo ago

   Hah, I should have been more specific. They created programming environments that are entirely their own. Although Jon has created several games which include fictional geographic worlds.
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   by jesse__ 10mo ago

   This is a bad analogy. > more accurate in many cases It's laughable that LLMs can be considered more accurate than human operators at the macro level. Sure, if I ask a search bot the date Notre Dame was built, it'll get it rig
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   by jesse__ 10mo ago

   > created solely for myself; I never had the intention of making it [...] mainstream This is a habit I picked up from two people I respect greatly as programmers; Casey Muratori and Jonathan Blow. Those guys both built their own little l
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   by jesse__ 10mo ago

   > This app is around 4-5 screens. The version "pre improving quality" was already pretty large. We are talking around 20k lines of TS Fucking yikes dude. When's the last time it took you 4500 lines per screen, 9000 incl
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    by jesse__ 10mo ago

    I don't think it has much to do with the languages being harder .. the training sets for JS and Python are probably an order of magnitude larger.
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    by jesse__ 10mo ago

    > First, there's a lot of equations used in graphics programming where the canonical names of variables are single letters. If you know the formula a single letter is a good name and it is expected that others reading it also unders
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    by jesse__ 10mo ago

    Fair enough :)
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    by jesse__ 10mo ago

    https://www.shadertoy.com/ is a goldmine for learning shaders
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    by jesse__ 10mo ago

    If there was some absolute measure of program 'interestingness'/'readability', programs found on shadertoy would no doubt have an asymptotically high score. My theory is that graphics programmers, at some point, sto
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    by jesse__ 10mo ago

    Function overloading is nice, too
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    by jesse__ 10mo ago

    Basically all high profile engine teams I know of ban exceptions. They're worse than useless
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    by jesse__ 10mo ago

    I've got a supercharged E92 M3. I'll own that thing till I die, funnest car ever.
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    by jesse__ 10mo ago

    To me, this reads a lot like : "Company raises $45 Billion, makes $200 on an Ethereum 0-day!"
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    by jesse__ 10mo ago

    Location: Remote, Canada Technologies : C, C++, SIMD, OpenGL, WebGL, WASM, JS, TS Interests : systems programming, 2D & 3D graphics, performance -------- Hello, my name is Jesse. I describe myself as a competent generalist, and a lifelo
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    by jesse__ 10mo ago

    take my upvote. That's hilarious
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    by jesse__ 10mo ago

    boingboingboing
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    by jesse__ 11mo ago

    https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht...
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    by jesse__ 11mo ago

    I love that it's becoming kind of cool to do hobby game engines. I've been working on a hobby engine for 10 years and it's been a very rewarding experience.
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    by jesse__ 11mo ago

    > Starting your engine development by doing a Minecraft clone with multiplayer support is probably not a good idea. Plenty of people make minecraft-like games as their first engine. As far as voxel engines go, a minecraft clone is &quot
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    by jesse__ 11mo ago

    What specifically seems dubious about that? I thought it was quite a clever idea.
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    by jesse__ 11mo ago

    I wish I could upvote this 100 times
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    by jesse__ 11mo ago

    Entertaining anecdote: I once worked on a python program that was transpiled to C++, and literally every variable was heap allocated (because that's what python does). It was still on the order of 200x faster than python IIRC.
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    by jesse__ 11mo ago

    > Because about 99% of the time the garbage collect is a negligible portion of your runtime lol .. reality disagrees with you. https://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/gcvsmalloc.pdf#:~:te... On page 3 they broa
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    by jesse__ 11mo ago

    I wrote a metaprogramming language that adds another option to the list, for anyone that's interested : https://github.com/scallyw4g/poof
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    by jesse__ 11mo ago

    The more experienced I get, the more I've started to think that most of the 'principals', 'patterns' and 'best practices' tossed around in the industry are mostly bullshit. Be attentive to the classes of b