Director Analyst at Gartner.com, game technology enthusiast.
The History & Legacy of Visual Basic (by Ryan Lucas):
đhttps://retool.com/visual-basic
"How Visual Basic became the world's most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its influence is still shaping the future of software development."
@longbool wow what a detailed write up, the images really sell the technique
@xoofx completely valid block reason in my opinion. Thanks for making awesome free code!
This is Daphnis, one of Saturn's moons. This image shows its unusual gravitational effect on Saturn's rings ...
Daphnis is only about 8 km wide, but its gravity disturbs Saturn's A ring, creating ripples and edge waves. It orbits within the Keeler Gap, a 42 km-wide gap in the rings. This image shows how even small moons can shape massive ring systems.
âŹď¸ It's a render from 2016 by Kevin Gill. Lots of discussions in the replies.
New blog post! "Load store conflicts", in which we look at some performance sensitive code that has surprisingly dramatic performance swings based on the compiler and the microarchitecture used. Boosts appreciated!
@codinghorror Objection, your honor. Shortening texts, yes. Summarize, nor even on student level, as I have experienced multiple times. Summarizing is craftsmanship. Donât believe me, believe them: https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/ or https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/11/ai-chatbots-are-still-hopelessly-terrible-at-summarizing-news/
I once worked at a company that sold industry-specific core-business software to deep-pocketed corps who couldnât / wouldnât / shouldnât roll their own. I got into a discuss with my manager about whether our products were essentially â my words â a hoax.
Me: âLook, our products are riddled with bugs and holes. Theyâre nearly impossible to deploy, manage, and maintain. They frequently donât even work â˘at all⢠on the putative release date, and we sell the mop-up as expensive âconsulting.ââ
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"Rendering Tiny Glades With Entirely Too Much Ray Marching" by @h3r2tic is positively brilliant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jusWW2pPnA0 #GPC2024 #tinyglade
New make !
Laser engraved slate coasters with famous CPU markings...
For people regularly speaking at (programming) conferences. How do you figure out when a conference opens their submission process? I have a talk I gave at an internal conference and so many people asked me to present it at other venues. But somehow I have a hard time figuring out when to submit my abstract. The talk is also available here https://youtu.be/IVgmLe25aPI?si=H0myvIY8ZzAEDFFh. Looking for conference in/close to the Netherlands #talks #conferences #programming
@elmowilk would love to see a bigger picture, really curious how it looks. But with the video compression here it's almost impossible to see the difference.
Hello you fine Internet folks,
Today we have a Youtube short about an EPYC exclusive that Azure has in the form of AMD's MI300C, and no I will not apologize for the pun.
Hope y'all enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PgQFH0RebEM
https://open.substack.com/pub/chipsandcheese/p/an-epyc-exclusive-for-azure-amds
https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/12/02/an-epyc-exclusive-for-azure-amds-mi300c/
@jacobras heel herkenbaar! Met hobbies ben ik minder streng voor mijzelf. Maar dat gaat dan ook vaak niet goed. Maar het is natuurlijk wel leuk om af en toe gewoon opnieuw te beginnen.
Slang shading language and tooling is now a Khronos project (was an nvidia project for past umpteen years). This is exciting! GLSL seems to be frozen with no future, whereas Slang is not only actively developed, but also brings in a lot of language features that sound useful. Nice! https://shader-slang.com/blog/2024/11/20/theres-a-lot-going-on-with-slang/
It's cold and gray outside but I can always take a stroll in the summer mountain forest of my game
#ProcGen
