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yes! i had this exact idea. i also thought about integrating geometric/clifford algebra using zig's type system so that you could have one mathematical multivector object instead o…

Not GP, but I've written game engines and rendering engines. Vector operations are just common enough that having to write `.mul` every time is a huge pain, especially when you put…

Except social media feeds are designed to addict. A smoker will spend their time smoking instead of not smoking. Does that mean that smoking is good? Why else would they do it, if …

Seems like these are the asahi linux articles being taken from: https://asahilinux.org/2023/03/road-to-vulkan/ https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/ Also, if you're l…

Funny thing about that n[static M] array checking syntax–it was even considered bad in 1999, when it was included: "There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good …

I don't think that fashion trends are comparable. I think that fashion trends are fine in concept–things get old and we switch things up. It's the way the human superorganism is ab…

The "development time is more important than performance" motto treats bad performance as the problem with software, when in reality poor performance is a symptom of growing softwa…

Speaking of using custom CSS with YouTube, I do the following for my experience: - Completely hide the recommended tab - Make every thumbnail grayscale (to mitigate eye-catching th…

Unfortunately, no :( I was hoping someone would recognize the book and reply...

I think CSS tools like that appeal to people who learned web development in a kind of ad-hoc way. When I first started, I just wanted to make designs I had in my head. I kind of we…

That's a really good way to think about it! (Bonus points for ASCII diagrams.) IIRC, I had some similar visualizations in the article but I cut them. And nice paper, interesting wa…

JavaScript! It's not perfect, but it's the easiest language to run in the browser :)

Haha, I don't know why I didn't think to include a raycast scene, especially since that's what I was using the algorithm for!! Glad you liked it.

Original author here. I've been reading this website for years. Imagine my shock when I saw my own article on the front page! I'm glad people are enjoying it. Quick fact about the …

My argument is that using these non-standard extensions to do important things like memory management in a C library is malpractice—it effectively locks down the library to specifi…

For me, the point of writing something in C is portability. There were C compilers 30 years ago, there are C compilers now, and there will almost certainly be C compilers 30 years …

My understanding is that the only qualifier for something on hackernews is that it has to be "deeply interesting": https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html Deeply interesting …

Maybe I'm wrong and this is new to a lot of people! I have a limited perspective based on my programming journey, which winds mostly through gamedev, graphics programming, and DSP,…

Absolutely, like I said, there's no problem with what this person is doing or the way that they're exploring computers, I'm just confused as to why it's being posted here.

Yeah I found this article super weird. Explaining pointers & dereferencing is reasonable, but doing it in the context of Zig specifically, like Zig is the first language to feature…

What do you mean by "motivational?" Are you talking about how the creator is against adding new features to the language? I actually think that's perfectly fine. One of my favorite…

Bryce Bostwick does super cool & inspiring work on debugging and reverse-engineering apps. I found him on YouTube; His video on modding TikTok to only show cat videos ( https://you…

Fair, though when I say "quality decline" I'm mostly talking about extraneous useless features and overly complicated node-based architectures that require GUIs. There are simpler …

I don't think that the developers of Slay The Spire were taught by complexity loving professors, no. But education does more than influence the people at universities. Education in…