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This is useful for everyone not just non-techy types. I can't help but compare this to sites like shadertoy that let you develop with a simple coding interface on one half the scre…

It does shed light on a possibly better solution though that gives the user a list of simple, common use case options or access to the full interface. I do feel quite strongly that…

gimp has been my goto when I want to explain bad ui, developer designed ui, or just typical foss ui I'm glad they're fixing it. It's also my image editor of choice.

I also thought this when I read the abstract. input=prompt output=response does make more sense.

Someone has to do 'Way of Air Traffic Control' and write second rate asian philosophy inspired poetry about how planes aren't really an important part of the job and will just land…

I would really prefer it if it was satire. I don't think people posting this all over the place saying how amazeballs it is get that it's a joke, and I'm not 100% convinced myself.…

Asking the model to write a shader. They are getting better at this but are still very bad at producing (code that produces) specific imagery. I do have to write prompts that stump…

I think top prize has to go to the first book I read in 2024 - 'Dark Matter' by Blake Crouch. It's a little different from the sci-fi I usually read like Liu or Banks, as it reads …

Yep, you were onto something. Everything is so useful, almost vital now. If it were cross-platform and had a text-search option it would be perfect. I think the only other limitati…

There is something very click-baity about articles like this. There always seems to be the implication that these examples are completely independent emergent behaviour, like the A…

I thought that simplicity was part of the appeal. Have you tried WGSL? It is a bit more complex, but I'm finding it quite fun to work with.

Weird that there's no mention of Rayleigh–Bénard convection, or the very similar phenomena at giant's causeway.

Thanks! I guess strictly you'd have to include this page, which would put the total internet data in the (roughly) ronnabyte or quettabyte range, with nearly all of it being this p…

What percentage of the 100+ Zettabytes of data now on the internet does this page take up?

By all accounts he did die suddenly. Whether it was suicide is for a coroner to determine. I think that's the reason for the seemingly obtuse language. Edit - The article does ment…

Interesting. I couldn't see myself using a tool like this for bulk remembering of things. And I don't think it would be practical for that. But for specifically important things li…

Because he's building native JS games already. And they likely work in Safari. It would be a step backwards, unless he wants to publish for desktop/mobile as well. I even found God…

I started around the same age. Though sadly not with JS and modern browser tech. The most difficult concepts in use here are arrays and function calls. So quite possible for a clev…

This is great work. I started around the same age, though I only had BASIC or assembly language and neither was very suitable, to the extent I almost gave up on game development. I…

I would also encourage the kid as much as possible, but I'd be doing them a disservice if I didn't also take the opportunity to teach them about the basics of keeping flowers alive…

Godot is designed for beginners, but also those that don't like to get their hands too dirty with code. Also the web export is likely inferior to what he can do with JS directly. W…

My thoughts exactly. I was thinking it maybe genuinely unfair treatment, but then I read the developer's own description of the game. Anyone who describes their own work as 'basest…

Thanks. Yes I do tend to overlook HLSL, despite being a windows user and a game developer, I tend to focus on gfx technologies that come out of Khronos and the W3C. Slang does look…

It has a lot to do with diet and metabolism. Cat's sleep 2/3 of the time, have a very high metabolism and spend a very short amount of time eating or catching prey. (compared to sa…

It's compute also, though that may depend on the target language.