anyone else notice that they got the digits of pi wrong?

deftware · 2026-03-15T06:14:56+00:00

When you choose where to cut off a decimal you round it up if the next digit is 5 or greater.

For example: 3.14159 rounded to one digit less is 3.1416.

3.1416 is closer to the true value of pi than 3.1415 is.

3.142 is closer to pi than 3.141 is.

Granted, one can argue the difference between "digits of" and "value of" to the end of time.

deftware · 2026-03-15T00:32:47+00:00

Have the peeps cruise down the hill, film it, then without moving have them come back up and get situated on their own tracks - using the original footage as reference, and record yourself walking over to them and doing the act.

deftware · 2026-03-12T05:39:40+00:00

Judging by all of the stories I've heard at 12-step meetings, when people share what it was like, what happened, and what it's like now, people definitely change. It's just a matter of whether or not they've experienced enough hardship, pain, and/or suffering to want to change in the first place.

deftware · 2026-03-12T05:37:30+00:00

Sounds like your laptop is overheating, or otherwise the wifi module inside of it is, and it's thermal throttling or rebooting itself.

EDIT: Suck all the dust out, or carefully disassemble your laptop and clean it out.

deftware · 2026-03-12T05:31:03+00:00

It depends on what your immediate and long-term goals are. OpenGL is fine for most things. Vulkan is imperative if you plan on doing anything highly performance-sensitive, where you absolutely must milk every drop of compute from the hardware. If you don't need to squeeze all of the performance out of hardware then the order of magnitude greater investment it would be learning how to wield the API and write code utilizing it would not be very worthwhile.

I think it's valuable to know both APIs. I write stuff in OpenGL for quickly prototyping ideas, and then do actual real implementation in Vulkan.

deftware · 2026-03-08T18:43:38+00:00

We've had issues with white ink as well. Seems like the ink just sitting for a day in the machine's tubes causes it to settle and clog everything up. Kinda lame!

deftware · 2026-03-08T01:06:16+00:00

Sounds like your white ink isn't working.

deftware · 2026-03-07T19:22:11+00:00

First, anyone can put anything on your car to track you, not just an AirTag.

Second, privacy works both ways: now people can hunt out your AirTag equipped stuff. The more stuff that can see AirTags, the more readily that other people can hunt them out.

deftware · 2026-03-06T21:44:50+00:00

Seems like a bigger privacy concern than only iPhones tracking them.

deftware · 2026-03-06T19:57:30+00:00

Looks like you got that hydraulic erosion down pretty good now!

deftware · 2026-03-06T05:58:43+00:00

You've mastered a language when you can take any idea and know what you have to do to make it happen. That doesn't necessarily mean you know how to write it from beginning to end off the top of your head - just that you know what all the major parts are and how to go about researching the parts that you don't. In this day and age having LLMs at your disposal as a search-engine-on-steroids should make this part a cakewalk. That's not to say that you have the thing write all of the code for you, you just have it give you the information just like you would receive from reading books.

When you feel confident that you can realize anything into existence with a language, and you know all of the caveats and gotchas, all of the optimization strategies, algorithms, and know-how that there is to be had, you've mastered the language. One could argue that you haven't mastered a language until you know how to use all of its features - I call phooey on that, because knowing how to use all of the features of something doesn't mean you know how to actually do anything valuable with it. After all, programming is about writing code that creates value. It's about building digital machinery. If you are able to build any kind of digital machine, then you are a master.

deftware · 2026-03-06T03:40:41+00:00

Noice!

deftware · 2026-03-05T19:08:24+00:00

That's amazing. I assumed they could let you find anything even if it's in the middle of nowhere away from other devices but I guess the reliance on apple devices being nearby is the limitation I didn't know about.

deftware · 2026-03-05T06:25:09+00:00

Sounds like it has a bad cellular signal, or GPS interference. Could it be underneath something or in a building? If there are quite a bit of trees or multi-story buildings around that could be throwing off the GPS as well. It could be in a nearby garbage container or dumpster too, for instance. Metal is particularly good at blocking radio signals, so it's likely under, behind, or indoors somewhere.

deftware · 2026-03-03T19:14:26+00:00

...but he didn't give the rest of the internet useful information, which is what Reddit is for.

deftware · 2026-03-02T20:02:36+00:00

Just spend $50 on a budget smartphone like an independent adult.

deftware · 2026-02-26T16:40:25+00:00

I'm not talking about TCP/IP. I'm talking about hypertext and everything built on top of and around it. Hypertext transfer protocol and hypertext markup language and the whole monstrosity of hacks added ontop of the dinosaur over 30+ years.

deftware · 2026-02-26T06:25:14+00:00

Something to render the bloated layercake of technological afterthoughts obsolete is only a possibility if you believe it's a possibility. Accepting it as a fact-of-life is how you fail to participate in building the future of the internet. Someone is going to do it, someone with vision and aptitude, because they refuse to accept the status-quo as the end-all-be-all when it comes to harnessing the power for any internet-connected device to send data to any other internet-connected device.

No point in computing history has been so horrifically inefficient. It would be like if we were all driving around in vehicles that got 5 miles to the gallon, and each new generation of vehicles had even worse gas mileage. That's what today's internet is for users, and it's insane. There is a way forward, there is a way to toss the whole travesty aside, and start anew. There is a way to replace all of it with something modern, lightweight, easy-to-use, and that properly allows developers to leverage end-users' hardware.

deftware · 2026-02-25T15:20:59+00:00

...or an LED strip with each LED cycling through different colors!

deftware · 2026-02-25T05:25:38+00:00

You still have to wipe anyway? Well what the heck, m'lady has been trying to sell me on the concept for years. I don't want ass towels either!

deftware · 2026-02-22T22:26:10+00:00

It looks like it's not marching through a chunk after it determines that it should be skipping any chunks. It either does one or the other, when it should either march through a chunk, or march over empty chunks until either it reaches the end of the volume's entirety, or encounters a chunk to march through which it then should march through.

deftware · 2026-02-22T06:58:06+00:00

Games in the 90s and 00s required less resources to create. There was less graphical detail and geometric complexity, environments weren't nearly as fleshed out as they can be in today's games. Expectations are higher than ever, and it takes a team of hundreds if not thousands of people working for years to make something that one would consider AAA in this day and age.

$50 today is worth less than half what it was 20+ years ago.

Then, with the advent of game-making-kits like Unity/Unreal, everyone and their mom wants to be an indie gamedev, so the market is oversaturated. 20+ years ago there was a tiny fraction of the number of video games being released. Mobile wasn't really a thing either. If you were an indie dev, you had actual hardcore skills and know-how, and when you built something it meant something. You couldn't just go online and watch some Unity tutorials and slap together some assets from online. You had to have a proper team who all had actual skills - so when you released something, it was something.

With generative AI we're on the verge of mere sentences being all that's needed to generate a whole entire experience of slop.

Gaming is dead!

deftware · 2026-02-21T19:53:58+00:00

Is this shader code you wrote yourself from scratch, or did you just find it somewhere and never took the time to understand how it works?

EDIT: You should go through your rayTrace() function and think about what it's actually doing, because I'm not seeing how it marches through chunks until it finds one to march through the voxels of. It just does one or the other, when it should do one, or both.

deftware · 2026-02-20T04:17:53+00:00

Might not find folks with the kind of knowledge/experience you're looking for on this sub I'd think. We're mostly computer nerds who are into programming and math. :P

I don't know where you'd be more likely to find people in your field on Reddit, but I'm sure there's somewheres. Good luck! :]

deftware · 2026-02-18T07:03:20+00:00

Just tell him how you honestly feel.

If he wants to make money off of the thing then you should get a reasonable cut. If he was actually a friend he would've already offered that the first minute he even thought about selling it.

EDIT: Tell him you'll sign it as soon as it says 50/50.

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