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by zackoverflow 5mo ago
This is kinda possible already today with the Kitty graphics protocol, I made a demo here of rendering 3D graphics[1] with kitty. The actual important missing thing (and which ratty seems to also not include) is vsync. If rendering is not a
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San Francisco's DNA is mischief(fieldnotes.nautilus.quest)
6 points by zackoverflow 6mo ago|1 comments
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Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco(fieldnotes.nautilus.quest)
158 points by zackoverflow 10mo ago|46 comments
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Template Interpreters(zackoverflow.dev)
3 points by zackoverflow 10mo ago|1 comments
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by zackoverflow 10mo ago
I recently came across this style of interpreter which V8 and HotSpot use. It works by actually writing the bytecode op handlers in assembly (or some other low-level language) and generating them to machine code, and having a dispatch table
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Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?
355 points by zackoverflow 2y ago|631 comments
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Language Garden(lang.garden)
3 points by zackoverflow 2y ago|0 comments
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Bun’s New Crash Reporter(bun.sh)
368 points by zackoverflow 2y ago|80 comments
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The day open source died(blog.jwf.io)
1 points by zackoverflow 3y ago|0 comments
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by zackoverflow 3y ago
> Note that the context pointer came after the “standard” arguments. All things being equal, “extra” arguments should go after standard ones. But don’t sweat it! In the most common calling conventions this allows stub implementations to
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Fly around the Earth in the browser. whole earth available by Google Maps API(airplanes.pages.dev)
2 points by zackoverflow 3y ago|0 comments
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by zackoverflow 3y ago
Does anyone have any insight on why the PikeVM implementation is slower (it's based on the VM approach described here https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp2.html ) I feel like compiling regex to bytecode and ex
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by zackoverflow 3y ago
Most of the time you don't need to do this, usually its the solution for when creating a graph structure with cyclic references. But when you do, and your data is mutable, generational indices are a legit and very useful strategy that
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Render Hell 2.0(simonschreibt.de)
2 points by zackoverflow 3y ago|0 comments
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by zackoverflow 3y ago
Hey HN, I got inspired by a recent hack someone did of creating flappy bird in MacOS Finder, so I tried to do the same with type-level Typescript. If you don't know, Typescript's type annotations are Turing complete, allowing you
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I wrote a Flappy Bird game in TypeScript's type system(zackoverflow.dev)
7 points by zackoverflow 3y ago|1 comments
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by zackoverflow 3y ago
I don't do anything related to data science, but I feel like doing it in Rust would be nice. You get operator overloading, so you can have ergonomic matrix operations that are typed also. Processing data on the CPU is fast, and crates
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The Absolute Worst Way to Read Typed Array Data with JavaScriptCore(phoboslab.org)
1 points by zackoverflow 3y ago|0 comments
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Building a video game company, depression (talk with Talin/David Joiner)(youtube.com)
7 points by zackoverflow 3y ago|1 comments
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Zig as an alternative to writing unsafe Rust(zackoverflow.dev)
308 points by zackoverflow 4y ago|217 comments
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by zackoverflow 4y ago
> These "clean code" principles should not, and generally are not, ever used at performance critical code, in particular computer graphics. I agree that this is mostly true, but maybe not for beginners in the field When I was r
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You Can Have It All: Abstraction and Good Cache Performance [pdf](doc.ic.ac.uk)
1 points by zackoverflow 4y ago|1 comments
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by zackoverflow 4y ago
Can you elaborate more about the guarantees about no waste?
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Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab(ft.com)
1065 points by zackoverflow 4y ago|801 comments
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Scientists finally know why people get more colds and flu in winter(cnn.com)
19 points by zackoverflow 4y ago|5 comments
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by zackoverflow 4y ago
Can you explain why they're more complex? I've always heard the narrative that OT is harder to get right because of edge case
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The Surprisingly Deep Connection of Math and Biology(youtube.com)
1 points by zackoverflow 4y ago|1 comments
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by zackoverflow 4y ago
Interesting that the wiki says that the performance enhancing effect comes from a lower heart rate, which is something you can influence with practice. You can lower your resting heart rate naturally through exercise over time, and meditati
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by zackoverflow 4y ago
The active ingredient acetaminophen is anti-inflammatory which is where the reduced anxiety effects come from, perhaps you're not suffering from inflammation enough for it to take effect
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by zackoverflow 4y ago
I haven't played much with live IO with ffmpeg. Tell me more about the difficulties of this usecase, I'd love to make it a better experience

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