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by unconed 1y ago
>We lionized those who hurt others in the name of vision and made excuses for behavior that, in any other context, would be called what it is: toxic. We wrapped cruelty in clever quotes and pointed to output as if it justifies everything
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by unconed 1y ago
>Europe’s universities never became hotbeds of speech-policing by one breed of culture warrior or the other. You can express a controversial view on any European campus (outside Hungary, at least) without fear of losing your tenure or yo
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by unconed 2y ago
(not OP) After reading the post, and re-reading the opening, it almost seems they are about two different posts. e.g. "Jot down a few notes" vs actually going meta with yourself in the middle about how the post isn't even hal
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Occlusion with Bells on (Use.GPU)(acko.net)
1 points by unconed 2y ago|0 comments
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by unconed 2y ago
If an open source project has great docs, it will attract people for whom the project would be useless without great docs. That doesn't guarantee it will attract more contributors, or encourage people to get involved, or ensure that th
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by unconed 2y ago
3. There's always that one person whose only ability to contribute is to cheerlead the others... and some nerdy types take a long time to figure out you don't need to listen to them or tie your fate to them.
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by unconed 2y ago
>Nothing that we do is so unique that another competent engineer shouldn't be able to fill in for you when you are having an off day. There is a big difference between filling in someone on an off day, and actually taking over their
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by unconed 2y ago
Tbh fosdem has long felt like an event that runs on autopilot because it mostly serves as a regular meeting point for the same cliques of people every year. They are not in a rush to change anything. The fact that you can't catch talks
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by unconed 2y ago
>It has also been pointed out that Dorsey does not bear sole responsibility for Twitter’s sale. However, he is complicit and he profited handsomely from the sale and all of its harmful consequences. It's funny how "harmful&quot
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by unconed 2y ago
The thing about these woke types is they usually mean really well. But in the process they will effortlessly fall into being absolute cunts. This one time I got a 'concerned' mail from a dude, remarking that he didn't like so
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by unconed 2y ago
How? I remember where all the code is. And I watch juniors flail without a picture of the codebase in their head, because their IDE incorrectly taught them it's not their job to know.
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by unconed 2y ago
>David, perhaps it would be good to explore with a therapist or coach why you keep having these great ideas but cannot scale them beyond a handful of niche customers. I will give full credit and respect. 37signals inspired tons of what A
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by unconed 2y ago
Not OP, but IMO the real issue is pretending graphics is still about executing individual draw calls of meshes which map 1-to-1 to visible objects. It's not true anymore, because you have all sorts of secondary rendering (e.g. shadow m
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by unconed 2y ago
Never before has there been a technology that allows one to fake competency to this degree. This is occurring at a time when some people are bemoaning the general state of knowledge, the capacity for institutions to deliver on their goals a
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by unconed 2y ago
Declarative programming has a specific meaning, which is that you declare the contents of the end state, and allow the code/run-time to compute the work necessary to reach that end state. This can include synchronizing changes, schedul
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by unconed 2y ago
The implicit metrics of quality and pedigree he believed were superior to human judgement have since been gamified into obsolescence by bots.
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by unconed 2y ago
Yes and the solution is to put on your big boy pants and to actually do your front-end application architecture properly. Separate source of truth from derived data. Separate possibly valid user intent from validated state. Use contexts to
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by unconed 2y ago
If the shots weren't timed to a regular fixed clock, then there would be visual jitter in the pattern. Even if you correctly spawn shots in between two ticks, each bullet would only first appear some random distance along its trajector
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by unconed 2y ago
I couldn't disagree more to be honest, about this post. Animations are good when they provide object permanence, and let you track what's changing and how. This post linearly interpolates complex functions blindly, which doesn&#x2
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by unconed 2y ago
Undo/redo seems like one of those problems where the knowledge of how to actually do it properly seems lost. People just dig up the supposedly 'solved' ancient solution and then cargo cult it. So you end up with something lik
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The Bouquet Residence – Keeping up appearances in tech(acko.net)
4 points by unconed 2y ago|0 comments
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by unconed 2y ago
It seems the children's model is BASIC-like in that a function call is just equivalent to "GOTO <#LINE>", and that the program state is just the line number currently being executed. The part that is missing is the stac
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by unconed 2y ago
We've lost a giant chunk of the lore that made desktop great, and the average developer has no idea how to begin making e.g. an undo/redo system even if they have 10 years of experience and use one everyday. Yes, the problem is th
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by unconed 2y ago
In my experience React codebases turn into this mess for two reasons: - front-end devs don't know how to think declaratively and think in terms of state transitions instead of realizing intent - back-end devs build a classic REST-like
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by unconed 2y ago
I think you mean Pixar's. USD was designed for letting very large teams collaborate on making animated movies. It's actually terrible as an interchange format. e.g. The materials/shading system is both overengineered and unde
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by unconed 2y ago
Recursively expanding components until you end up with nothing but HTML.
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by unconed 2y ago
The complexity absolutely is in the language, otherwise you wouldn't have 4 or 5 different ways to pass data in and out of a shader, and turning e.g. a mesh renderer into a wireframe renderer would be a simple case of function composit
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by unconed 2y ago
Secrecy. The video mentions how a dev got fired because they answered a community question after the trailer was released, about a feature that was already in the game. They also hired people without telling them what game they'd be wo
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by unconed 2y ago
I find this a pretty confusing explanation because the actual mechanism is buried in the middle and you can't understand the first diagram without it. The goal is to produce the number `0...010...0` with the same number of trailing zer
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by unconed 2y ago
I think you also just described why browsers don't offer any useful way to give the garbage collector hints, like say, after every animation frame / GPU dispatch. It is exceedingly obvious that you have very regular idle times for

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