[email protected] CG+art+game engines+VR+C+Lua+GLSL Currently part of the Wi-Fi team for Windows, at Microsoft. He/him.
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It looks like a demake because mip chains were still broken at this point (and it’s being rendered at quarter-res). It’s gotten smoother since this vid, 100-150ms / frame, from a succession of 3ms wins. Still a long way to 33ms though, we’ll see if there’s runway
I really like C and making my own game engine but I share these traits with some of the most annoying people imagineable
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Ahead of New iPhone Season (peak-crazy-busy time for us), @sandofsky realized iPads could be used as external screens in iPadOS 17. Thus, our dilemma: we wanted to build a cool app to enable this, but we *had* to get it done in ~40 days, before iPhones arrived.
Sure, why not? 🧵
You're telling me, this whole time, I've been tidying my nail boxes by individually placing each nail neatly in the box one at a time, and I could have just-
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No mom it's not a "messy pile of clothes on my chair" it's an L1 cache for fast random access to my frequently used clothes in O(1) time. It needs to be big to avoid expensive cache misses (looking in my closet). I NEED to be minimizing latency, this is important to me. Please.
Asked ChatGPT to write an example bank account in Lua, it of course handled that perfectly. Then I asked it to do it with closures instead of metatables, and it also handled it perfectly. Then I asked if it could be improved by using some 5.3 features, hinting at avoiding floats
Then I had it write me a function in JS that would take a string representing a number written out in Spanish, and return that number. I don’t speak Spanish, but the solution seemed very plausible.
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OpenAI's new ChatGPT explains the worst-case time complexity of the bubble sort algorithm, with Python code examples, in the style of a fast-talkin' wise guy from a 1940's gangster movie:
For the Mario movie, I'm just waiting for the inevitable fan project that splices the Japanese voice actor over Chris Pratt's lines
Anybody know a good way to archive every thread I’ve ever liked on Twitter, media included? Open to random sketchy Python scripts tbh
