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When you dig through the CUDA developer docs instead of the promotional materials, you can develop a view of Nvidia GPUs as having 8-128 processing cores, each with 4 hyperthreads,…

I can imagine abusing this to implement undo-redo for a game editor. Take snapshots. Record actions. Implement undo as: role back to a snapshot and re-run actions from the snapshot…

That would be https://martinfowler.com/articles/mechanical-sympathy-princi...

Yep. It's my thesis that early GL APIs feel beginner-friendly because they are so hand-holdy, one-step-at-a-time. But, they end up more complicated when you get serious and they in…

I still think that OpenGL is a better place to start learning 3D because there is so much less bookkeeping to do regarding memory and concurrency vs. Vulkan. I'm working on a "Post…

Writing a Gameboy emulator is a great cure for that ;)

For the joy of building, I'd say LLMs are still great for questions, rapid-prototyping and code reviews. And, beyond that: Who cares what others do? Build what brings you joy. As @…

I'm the opposite. Between work and family, I don't get a lot of time to hole up in a cave with an IDE for fun. Prior to LLMs, it was a struggle to get much of anything done. So, I …

Lua was specifically designed to be a configuration language https://www.lua.org/history.html Lots of people start out with a non-programmable config format. But, as their situatio…

Classic SSAO is very similar to performing an "unsharp mask" based on the depth buffer. This has been proposed "a simple and efficient method to enhance the perceptual quality of i…

Anyone know if there’s still a community around https://github.com/snabbco/snabb ? This seems like something they would appreciate. Besides that, first use case that comes to mind …

This is a very important paragraph from quern's article > There are few to no side-effects to melatonin use in adults (there is uncertainty about the risks & benefits in children &…

I’m not a scholar of the fall of SGI. But, I’m sure it has been documented in detail. AFAICT, SGI was a textbook Innovator’s Dilemma case with an expensive enterprise product that’…

His Behind the Scenes video for LOVE is one of my favorite developer vids ever. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f90R2taD1WQ

Back in the late-90s/early 2000s boom it was not a secret that enterprise corps pushed universities to teach Java because they wanted easily-replaceable widget engineers engineerin…

I recommend https://gamemath.com/book/ as a good starting point.

Old 3D engine guy here. I highly encourage folks to make a 3D engine for fun and learning. Shipping a game with it would be a cherry on top. Come join us in r/graphicsprograming, r…

But, if you made a mesh you wouldn’t be able to represent fuzzy objects. That’s one of the major advantages of both splats and this printing technique.

The original paper that kicked off the movement a few years ago used Gaussian blobs because gaussians are differentiable and the tech to analyze a scene requires the tech used for …

The primary focus of this product is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_26262 AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_safety for road vehicles. That means review from independe…

I always liked the advice "Abstract for replacement. Not for reuse." If you have code that is reusable, you'll want it to have a nice interface. But, you don't need an abstraction …

“Making of BAR” documentary https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5F36yViPz7w

Only tangentially related. But, I still have not forgiven Unity for the floating point footgun in https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.4/Documentation/ScriptReferenc... > The operation is…

If you want to play with software rendering, here's probably the shortest code that will get an ARGB8888 2D array from main memory to the screen efficiently for all platforms using…

Then there’s the opposite situation. I knew the guys who ported NBA Jam: TE from arcade to PC (by hand-translating assembly!). Apparently the arcade CPU had bitwise addressing. And…