Jon Valdés

At Frostbite rendering team.
Spaniard in Stockholm

Jon Valdés boosted:
2025-06-23

@aachrisg no, it's actually named after his angular face

A photograph of Oliver Heaviside with a graph of the Heaviside step function overlaid on his rectangular face
Jon Valdés boosted:
2025-06-23

I used to think the heaviside function (x>=0)?1:0 was called that because it's "heavy" on one side and empty on the other. It's actually named after mathematician Oliver Heaviside.

@Smoljaguar @aachrisg

Nominative determinism: your name determines your profession

Formative determinism: your shape determines your profession

@demofox @aeva for Frostbite that's not too much of an issue, as we do have a Lua interpreter always there (the settings files are all Lua)... but I see your point.

But... if you want something C-like that you can output C code for... why not use... C? 😄

Use the C code as-is in native engines, WASM it for JS? You could build it without the WASM runtime so that the output is tiny. It wouldn't allow for things like malloc or interaction with the OS, but it doesn't feel like you need that anyway

@demofox @aeva may I ask... what's the reason you think you need to codegen?

I'm asking because LuaJIT can be compiled to JS using wasm, and in that case you could interpret the programs anywhere I think?

This also goes for almost any other interpreter, in fact. Wasm allows for a lot of craziness nowadays!

@demofox @aeva oh, wait, that's bytecode, not machine code. Hmmm

@demofox @aeva LuaJIT can produce machine code if you want. See: stackoverflow.com/a/11318414

@aeva @demofox yep. Or like, just embed Lua and be done in a couple hours?

@lritter my favorite is Galipette alcohol free cider. I could drink that shit by the jug

@dysfun @gsuberland @luisfcorreia

Nodding with understanding as a tear falls down my cheek thinking of what things could be like if everyone didn't derail every single conversation.

Wait, what were we talking about?

@gsuberland @luisfcorreia @dysfun

Yep, it's easy to misinterpret it. "Peninsular" is the word commonly used in Spain to refer to the part of Spain that is in the Iberian peninsula (as opposed to the parts of Spain that aren't: Balearic and Canary islands, Ceuta, Melilla).

So "Spanish peninsular electrical system" means "the part of the Spanish electrical system that covers the peninsular part of Spain".

The translation to English feels a bit rushed, to be honest...

@aras Sublime Merge is good shit too
sublimemerge.com/

Jon Valdés boosted:
2025-06-19

Just learned there was a new Google udm code discovered. So you know what I had to do.

udm56.com/

Still kicking in on the DNS front, but it’s already up.

Edit: udm14.com still works too, this is just an alternative view.

&udm=56 website

@dotstdy parking lot. Always parking lot!

Jon Valdés boosted:
nataliyakosmynanataliyakosmyna
2025-06-18

𝐍𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐮𝐬𝐞.

See our paper for more results: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : brainonllm.com

@leafuw yeah, glitch elements are pretty common on Any 100% runs. You get some glitch element which corrupts your matter, and in a few minutes you find yourself in the end game.

@dotstdy @mtothevizzah
The phrase "when you're shipping millions of copies, a 1% repro rate means tens of thousands of players impacted" is something that will forever haunt me...

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