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jkcxn

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About jkcxn

jake.coxon@gmail.com

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    Comment #45318125

    You can switch between the two easily by imagining a lever on the back of the characters head vs front of their head - press up to push the lever higher for the back vs lower for t…

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    Comment #44661088

    That's like saying WASM doesn't have a direct way to allocate memory or print to the console. Of course it doesn't, it doesn't have access to anything, that's the whole point.

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    Comment #44609532

    Not the OP, but in formal definitions like Communicating Sequential Processes, concurrency means the possibility for tasks to run out of order and still be correct, as long as othe…

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    Comment #44119795

    This seems like a really good idea. I like that it's just markdown files and how seemless it is with an existing project. I have a few minor suggestions 1. I would really like a wa…

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    Comment #43914207

    You can quite easily make bindings for raylib/sokol-gpu/bgfx from Bun

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    Comment #41649404

    Do you know how the break/return would get compiled down to? Would the yield function need to be transformed to return a status code and checked at the callsite?

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    Comment #41360129

    Yes sounds like the same thing! I also couldn't find anyone else doing it. Sounds super interesting what you're doing so I'd love to read your blog post when it's done if you want …

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    Comment #41348840

    I've done this for a project where the SDF functions are basically instructions, and you can build up instrictions on the CPU to send to the shader. and then the fragment shader ru…

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    Comment #41347538

    I had fun generating isometric mazes https://www.reddit.com/r/proceduralgeneration/comments/kxau1...

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    Comment #40803838

    How do you move memory and have all the pointers update to the new position? I didn't understand that part.

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    Comment #39396794

    It’s called a masonry grid. Images retain their aspect ratio so they don’t need to be cropped. You can kind of simulate it with css but there’s proposals to add a proper masonry la…

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    Comment #39335526

    It's no different except now you've set parent's height to 100% of its parent, which is the html tag. But the html tag is height: auto so there is a circular dependency. if you put…

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    Comment #39335115

    He says "width looks up the tree while height looks down the tree." And "Width Looks Outward, Height Looks Inward" And - The key insight here is: height: 100% means “I am as tall a…

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    Comment #37706586

    It’s not syntax help thats useful about visual programming it’s the 2-way communication between the programmer and the running program, and also being able to refer to other parts …

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    Comment #35580213

    If you have a couple of different sizes of texts you can render out each character into a sprite map and render a quad per character which is probably the fastest and works for mos…

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    Comment #33670669

    This one works with variable height, you can pull some css from it https://codepen.io/khoama/pen/AoPeMM

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    Comment #31612628

    That's mad because the useMemo clearly has to do an equality check to see if it changed anyway...

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    Comment #30617244

    Yes Dart with Flutter and swift UI both had to add language features just to support if and loop expressions. But people writing immediate mode guis have been doing the exact same …

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    Comment #30533278

    Yes this is exactly right. What I’ve done in the past is use Django to return HTML with JSX mixed in, and have a super lightweight SPA frontend that just hydrates the react compone…

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    Comment #30126619

    D’s way is far superior because as the caller you don’t have to worry about whether you’re calling a method or an external function, it looks the same. Not sure it would be possibl…

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    Comment #29669508

    Software development sure has come a long way, now we can change what the screen shows when you click a button!

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    Comment #29413733

    As far as I can tell you don't own the right to the picture either. You just buy the right to have your name next to it. Is that right?

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    Comment #29317459

    Can I contact you? My email address is in my profile

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    Comment #29313508

    It’s definitely possible. I have a project that does the same thing with Python and React but you could switch out the backend to anything that outputs html. The cool thing is your…

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    Comment #28949488

    Isn't it interesting that all of the examples in the original article can be replaced with a labeled break of arbitrary blocks? Even replacing the continue statement. Solving the p…