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petermcneeley

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petermcneeley··on This system can go fuck itself and burn in hell
The author probably does not understand how radicalizing this text is.
petermcneeley··on Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died
RIP with the calculators.
petermcneeley··on Micropayments as a reality check for news sites
Sounds centralized.
petermcneeley··on Dead Internet Theory
HN has survived many things but I dont think it will survive the LLMs.
petermcneeley··on Max Payne – two decades later – Graphics Critique (2021)
Ah yes these are mislabled. But GTA III is indeed 2001 so the comparison is still correct.
petermcneeley··on US used powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees
I submitted this for exactly this reason. Tbh nothing here sounds very fantastical. Perhaps drones with ir/thermal basically gave soldiers wallhacks. We also have to understand that they are not up against a modern sophisticated military.

What I would like to see is more witnesses and perhaps more footage.

petermcneeley··on Bindless Oriented Graphics Programming
In terms of textures you could already do pseudo-bindless using texture arrays. However there were quite a few limitations but I think the two bigs ones are that this was consider to be conceptually one resource and the textures had to be the same (format size etc). I recall some engines did this kind of bindless for particle effects.

That being said the non indexable feature feature that remains is the pipeline itself. Some engines have 10s of thousands of shaders.

petermcneeley··on Diving into Qualcomm's Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Demers
I see the mention of Wave64. It would be nice if we could all standardize on 32. The hw backend can do what it wishes (dual/quad issue etc).
petermcneeley··on AI Econ Seminar
An economist is to economy as to what an alchemist is to chemistry.
petermcneeley··on Ragdoll Mayhem Maker – a physics-based level editor for my indie game
Why would you link to basically a blank webpage. I dont even know what this is? Why would this blank webpage end up on hn frontpage? What is even going on here?

What I expect from my indies is love, care, and attention to details.

petermcneeley··on The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform
Yes but they commonly dont end up as FT/FFT. For example wavelets and DCT.
petermcneeley··on The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform
I dont like the Fourier Transform. It is infinite which makes it coarse and rough and it it gets everywhere.
petermcneeley··on Spherical Snake
Is this AI made?
petermcneeley··on Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics
Yes this is weapons technologies. Many targets are fixed (on the earth). If you can fly by wire jamming technology is useless. This was solved for strategic weapons 40 years ago at great cost.
petermcneeley··on Imagine 130M Washing Machines
in-vogue trite. The question for these thought-writers at this stage is simply incompetence or malic.
petermcneeley··on Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring
It is not realistic but even worse it isnt even desirable. There is huge swaths of opposition to "global organization of labor". The last thing you want is to oppress a bunch of people under your vision of perfect government.
petermcneeley··on Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring
If your plan relies on total coordination of the the entire globe you have no plan.
petermcneeley··on Cigarette smoke effect using shaders
In a game this is likely done as simply a prerendered animated texture (atlas). Perhaps in a modern AAA game you might try a GPU particle system with 10k+ particles.
petermcneeley··on AGI Is Here
AGI is when the last human is terminated.
petermcneeley··on Lessons from 14 years at Google
This is actually slave morality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%E2%80%93slave_morality

According to Nietzsche, masters create morality; slaves respond to master morality with their slave morality. Unlike master morality, which is sentiment, slave morality is based on ressentiment—devaluing what the master values and what the slave does not have. As master morality originates in the strong, slave morality originates in the weak. Because slave morality is a reaction to oppression, it vilifies its oppressors

petermcneeley··on Finger-Nose Stylus for Touch Screens (2011)
A must have for those not Cyrano de Bergerac.
petermcneeley··on The Riven Diffs – Seeing Riven (1997) Differently
Riven is still breathtaking today. The studio where they made it is amazing https://www.agostudios.com/cyan-inc
petermcneeley··on Beating myself at chess
It is very humbling to write your own chess engine.
petermcneeley··on Parental controls aren't for parents
I am not even sure where you get "smashing a device violently in front of a child" comes from. He said gets the hammer as in he would perma destroy it.

Anyway I tend to agree for the most part anyway. I was just making a guess about your age irl based on what you said. However some other data actually indicates you are likely gen-x.

petermcneeley··on Parental controls aren't for parents
user: GaryBluto created: 3 months ago
petermcneeley··on Parental controls aren't for parents
If you apply this concept broadly you will see this isnt a great philosophy.
petermcneeley··on Parental controls aren't for parents
What was the punishment for the 12 year old? This will tell us everything we need to know about this story.
petermcneeley··on Straussian Memes
"Straussian moment" is a struassian meme
petermcneeley··on A website to destroy all websites
I mean didnt Geocities solve this and many other problems?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoCities

petermcneeley··on France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year
One would figure a русский would be more wary of the nanny state.
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