sol_hsa

sol_hsa, 4 months ago to random

When vulkan was introduced, Khronos stated that OpenGL wasn't going away.

Latest ARB extension to OpenGL is dated 2019. No extension (vendor specific or otherwise) mention ray tracing in any way.

sol_hsa, 4 months ago to random

So I'm inserting 50 million (precalculated) primes to <unordered_set>.

Takes 21.6 seconds.

I replaced the hash function with a trivial one, drops time to 7.8s.

Replaced allocator with a stack allocator, down to 3.6 seconds.

That's still a pretty long time. Ideas?

sol_hsa, 2 months ago to random

Stumbled upon an "experienced game programmer's" resume. Three pages of super detailed listings of work tasks, 9 years of experience. Zero mention of any released games.

sol_hsa, 11 months ago to random

@mike
Now that I've played a bit more with asciidoc I have to say I'm a bit frustrated with it, especially regarding those graph plugins I mentioned.. every single graph plugin is written in a different language so if, for example, you want ditaa graphs you'll have to install java, etc.

I wanted things to be simpler (and the pdf/epub output is), but this is a bit more complicated than I'd like.

Funnily enough none(!) of the graph generators are written in ruby (asciidoctor is written in ruby)

sol_hsa, 8 months ago to random

I tried google's bard and asked it "what is love?" and it didn't answer "baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more", so it's clearly not an actual AI.

sol_hsa, 2 months ago to random

"digitally remastered"

Like, okay. Fine. But what else could it be? Analogically? Manually? Optically? With crayons?

sol_hsa, 6 months ago to unity

#Unity stock progress (install fee announcement was about 12th sept or thereabouts.

sol_hsa, 8 months ago to ai

Was writing some z80 assembly after a long pause, and I needed to check if space was pressed on the speccy keyboard. I was feeling lazy and didn't feel like looking it up in the docs, so I asked #AI to code it for me. Both google's #bard and microsoft's #bing gave confident, good-looking and entirely wrong answers. I ended up digging up the docs in the end.

sol_hsa, 6 months ago to random

Here's my "hello triangle" comparison, opengl/vulkan/directx. Mostly for humour but also kinda scary.
Full res: https://solhsa.com/temp/hellotriangle_ogl_dx.png

sol_hsa, 10 months ago to 3DPrinting

So let's say I'm in the market for my very first 3d printer. Suggestions?

I've looked at a few reviews and listings of "best beginner 3d printer" and everybody lists something completely different.

#3dprinting #3dprinter #suggestions #beginner

sol_hsa, 9 months ago to 3DPrinting

So, what do people use to design their #3dprinting models? Blender seems to work, but I'm fairly certain there are better tools for technical drawings..

sol_hsa, 10 months ago to random

For some reason I don't feel the urge to join bluesky.

sol_hsa, 3 days ago to random

I've seen this kind of stovetop design in some (primarily american?) media, and I wonder..

Why are the controls that control the hot things on top of the hot things?

Sounds like a really unsafe design to me.

@TechConnectify might be able to comment?

sol_hsa, 8 months ago to ubuntu

Downloaded latest #ubuntu lts. Followed their tutorial installing it in VirtualBox. Terminal doesn't open out of the box. This is definitely the year of linux on the desktop.

sol_hsa, 6 months ago to random

steam hardware survey says AVX is now 97.28% meaning it's safe to use, and AVX2 is 93.74% which is pretty safe. (AVS512 is just 9% or less so that hasn't taken off)

So in short, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX and AVX2 are usable now.

sol_hsa, 6 months ago to random

During the past 10 years or so, while working on various c++ projects, I have reiterated the following way too many times:

If this was c, it would already have been done.

sol_hsa, 29 days ago to random

Do people have specific laundry days?

I just do laundry whenever we have accumulated enough dirty clothes (and/or are running out of clean ones)

sol_hsa, 5 months ago to random

So my 10+ year old Acer laptop I use mostly for AoC had 8 gigs of memory. Manual for said PC is crap ("how to surf the web"), but luckily the model was popular enough that Crucial had a page listing compatible parts. Bought a 16 gig stick. Opened laptop, found out it has two slots. Further googling showed the PC was also sold in a 8+4 memory config, so I opened it up again and tried 16+8. And it worked! I'm honestly surprised.

sol_hsa, 3 months ago to random

Had an interesting discussion while walking with my son yesterday.

How do you define indoors vs outdoors?

If you're in a tunnel, is it indoors?

Is it about the amount of ventilation?

If it's about the ventilation, are you indoors on a plane?

Is it the amount of recycled air?

If you're in a big hall, you're clearly indoors, right?

If you're in an airtight artificial biome, is it indoors?

sol_hsa, 3 months ago to random

Headlines then:
Fact happened, read all of it here

Headlines now:
You'll never guess what happened, we'll reveal it in the fourth paragraph if you're lucky

sol_hsa, 4 months ago to random

Sometimes I wonder if I'm missing some significant part of the human existence by not drinking alcohol.

sol_hsa, 1 month ago to random

I wonder if the target demographic for the rentable electric scooters is assholes. At least if I consider where people leave the things. Such as sideways parked in the middle of a bicycle lane on a steep hill. Right after a curve.

sol_hsa, 21 days ago to random

There's way more shoes in stores these days where you don't need to tie the laces.

My first reaction to this was negative, but then I figured, why?

The first generation of people who never had to have shoes that have laces are now old enough to make decisions about shoe designs.

And they don't like tying laces.

And that is perfectly fine.

sol_hsa, 8 days ago to random

400 followers, does that make me an e-class celebrity yet?

sol_hsa, 4 months ago to random

I've been tracking the prices people are willing to pay for #SpecNext on ebay.

The auction prices hover around 600€, and some people with more money than sense have gone with 1200€ buy it nows.