aj_hackman

God is all-powerful, eternal, exists outside of space and time, and created us for a purpose - but he's too busy to be bothered by our prayers?

The glee I see in many people over this possibility is quite chilling.

Thank you for the recs, Masters of Doom really lit a fire inside of me as a young programmer. I'd also recommend "Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder.

Thank you! Because of this, "The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985–1993" by Jordan Mechner is on its way to my house.

We gave up X11 for the unfulfilled promise of something greater. A tech tale as old as time.

I'm sure they meant "you". שלום־עליכם

He shares the title of "SBC Guy" with ExplainingComputers. Any time a new single-board computer comes out, especially a Raspberry Pi, they make videos with benchmarks etc. etc.

If it goes down you can always upgrade to a Raspberry Pi 3B+.

> Let’s build carbon-titanium-foldable bicycles instead of bloated modern cars, and still get from A to B?

Yeah, that sounds awesome.

Nobody _needs_ to run a 4-minute mile, or win a chess tournament, or climb a mountain, or make the most efficient computer program. They're still worthwhile human endeavors.

TIL "Hello world!" has been put out to pasture.

Thank you for your thoughtful reply, and I shall pray for you in turn. I'm used to people turning towards the Catholic church as they become more legalistic and hard of heart, so your answer caught me by surprise. I also believe in a God that may have a different answer for each one of us, and so I feel that the answer for me at this time might be something like a small men's Bible study group. Christ be with you always.

90% of the time I've witnessed someone assert themselves to have some positive trait, they've espoused the complete opposite... especially when it came to morality or rationality. If someone tells you they're a logical person, they're probably highly limited in their thinking. If someone tells you they're a good person, run.

What pushed you to Catholicism? I see the Catholic church as an amalgamation of human innovations that attempt to turn focus away from Christ and towards the inevitably sinful authority of the church. As much as I can't stand the watered-down one-size-fits-all non-denominational sermons of my youth, or the few fire and brimstone sessions I've been witness to, at the very least their prayers go directly to God.

Madness Combat

This is what the Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier was supposed to be, but the x86 frontend wasn't shipped due to license issues.

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

Every port I've done to a new hardware or software platform has shaken loose at least a handful of bugs or assumptions that were well worth ironing out. And in the case of a port to Apple Silicon, you get a very fast development environment at the end of it. This library also helped with 90% of the work:

https://github.com/DLTcollab/sse2neon

Much like my beloved comb sort, I use xorshift because the implementation is small and it's Good Enough. God's Own 100 SLOC PRNG would have to be near-perfect and take three clock cycles to contemplate switching.

> People are going around spraying bug spray on the produce at the grocery and posting it on TikTok.

One single person did this, and was sentenced to a year in prison for it.

I was born in 90, and your post sent me down memory lane. When I was still in diapers my parents put a lien on their house so my mom could get a 486 machine, learn Lotus 1-2-3, and get a better job. One of my earliest memories is watching it boot up, seeing all the BIOS text that I couldn't read or understand scrolling across the screen, and wondering what that machine was thinking about to get itself all the way to Hard Drivin' or Wolf 3D. I asked my mom many years later why she didn't just get a C64, and she scoffed and asserted it was a cheap piece of junk made to play crappy games. The PC was a serious business machine for adults.

I wish this were true, but we are more than one year(s) away from a consumer RISC-V chip that can beat my Intel N150 mini PC.

Not to be confused with Pyrex, which has been forked into Cython.

Interesting that this is back on the front page, as I've recently released a small-yet-growing standard library for Wren (which comes with its own modular plugin interface amongst other things):

https://github.com/adamschackart/wrench

No.

I was attempting to invoke Hanlon's Razor to rationalize the narratives being disseminated by news media, because I am exhausted by conspiratorial thinking. I chose the phrasing that I did in an effort to be as charitable as possible to both sides. I will not be badgered into wasting my time on an embarrassing and fruitless political debate on this orange website or any other.

I made a deliberate effort to neutralize my statement as much as possible. We could argue on this issue, but what we can't disagree on is the fact that there's an issue (which is all that's relevant to the point I was trying to make).

I don't think this is a deliberate ruse, but news organizations giving in to public pressure. I remember the NBC coverage of the conflict in Gaza in the days immediately following October 7, and how their narrative swung rapidly as public consensus against the IDF developed.

As someone working on a game engine with a multithreaded SSE/NEON implementation of ~GL 1.3 under the hood, this is rad for many reasons other than portability or compatibility. You get full access to every pixel and vertex on the screen at any point in the rendering pipeline. This allows for any number of cool (also likely multithreaded) postprocessing effects that you don't have to shoehorn through a brittle, possibly single-platform shading language and API.

> insist that the depth of their own experience of love, religion, or meditation can’t possibly be reduced to neurotransmitters

To bring things full circle and quote a dead meme, why not get you a girl who can do both?

> All major religions are essentially meme-conglomerates.

This is quite the reduction, akin to claiming that my wife and I got married because human beings are a pair-bonding species - it checks out on the surface, but discards an incredible breadth and depth of human experience. I do not close my eyes at night and talk to a loose collection of ideas cobbled together by a bunch of random people attempting to outline a system of objective morality in the pursuit of societal control. I am participating in an eternal relationship with the author of truth and love.

> There's no payload, just absurd emptiness.

It's developed a commentary on internet culture vs. legacy media.

I've never been able to successfully create a GL context > version 2.1, or invoke the GLSL compiler.

As a sidenote, I've very much enjoyed your blog, and developed a similar handle system as yours around the same time. Mine uses 32 bits though - 15 for index, 1 for misc stuff, 8 for random key, and 8 for object type :^)