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I don't know about this particular developer but I don't think there is anything "obviously" out of scope. I've worked in the animation industry and creating hard surface models wi…

I depends on the background. I'm 2 years into solo developing a game and all programming, artwork and animation is my own. I had to invest into quite some learning to make it possi…

A consumers tale about enshitification. Look to the sky and enjoy your ESPP everyone :)

"Raspberry Pi CM0 is a yet-to-be-officially-announced castellated Compute Module based on the Raspberry Pi RP3A0 SiP (System-in-Package) found in the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and Rasp…

More information on the chip here: https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/05/14/sifli-sf32lb52j-big-...

I was referring to Mozilla's past investment into advertising: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-t... To me that and the new ToS add up, why else would the…

Absolutely agree. The blog post is claiming the opposite to what their ToS is granting - but one is fluff (that will be forgotten soon) while the other is legally binding. I cannot…

Maybe, but SEGA seems to muddy their own case as their official support FAQ section [1] states: "Will I still be able to play the SEGA Classics games? Absolutely! All SEGA Classics…

xetdata is retired and recently became part of hugging face. I wonder if nfsserve will be still supported. Are there other recommended NFS server codebases?

Examples will be based on this repo, I believe: https://github.com/TheSpydog/SDL_gpu_examples

This article from the main author of the API describes how the buffer cycling works: https://moonside.games/posts/sdl-gpu-concepts-cycling/

If it came in a yellow and not a blue bag, we should have known.

Gamma should not have any effect on the alpha channel, which is linear by definition. The alpha channel represents the average coverage of (infinite) subpixels within the pixel. Th…

https://laion.ai/faq/ Based on the FAQ of the dataset that was used for training of https://huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-diffusion LAION datasets are simply indexes to …

We're very excited about this new release. I'm pipeline lead at Tangent Animation. Blender was used for "NextGen" and our future projects. I may answer how it is to be part of the …

Please check your facts: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Integer-Overflow

Worth mentioning that the vfx/animation industry is using PyQt and PySide for quite some time now [1]. Major third-party applications and libraries like Autodesk Maya, Pixar's Usd …

There are so many neat design choices in zig that make it a joy to code in it even these days. Can't imagine what we get with 1.0. Some of my personal highlights: - clean syntax - …

Worth mentioning that one allocator in the std-library is wrapping malloc. Here some more details: [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLJ_7lpBhys

I think Andy refers to this [1]. For example you can do: const std = @import("std"); fn Int(comptime value: i32) type { return struct { pub fn value() i32 { return value; } }; } pu…

I've been using zig for the past 2 weeks in my spare time. I had so much fun writing in it that I ended up supporting Andrew on his mission and became a Patreon. In one word zig is…

"V-EZ is being released as closed source. ..." quote from the site. So far only Windows libs. Not sure if AMD will be lucky with this strategy. I understand that they usually are m…

I think Cocos2d-x is a perfectly suited alternative, especially when you target mobile. However I remember that e.g. render targets were experimental, and in general Desktop is not…