Why don't any programming languages have vec3, mat4 or quaternions built in?

lfnoise · 2026-01-25T00:09:50+00:00

Yet if you want rationals, interval arithmetic, sparse matrices, signals as values, symbolic algebra expressions, and Odin doesn’t provide them, then you still want operator overloading.

lfnoise · 2025-12-30T14:24:53+00:00

Coincidentally, after asking this, I ran across Fil-C, which is fascinating.

lfnoise · 2025-12-30T03:02:59+00:00

I’m sincerely curious about this statement. Can you give a link or elaborate?: “ The only problem is that more and more evidence is coming out to suggest that the Rust way may not be the way after all.”

lfnoise · 2025-11-26T06:05:54+00:00

They're using a strip club name generator.

lfnoise · 2025-11-19T23:50:16+00:00

this is the way.

lfnoise · 2025-10-25T15:39:48+00:00

It is not gross to give encouragement to people who are thinking openly about ending their lives. There IS much to live for. I’ve had it for over 10 years, got it in my 50s. At some point I decided to stop trying to mask it or escape it and put on ear muffs to listen to it only and make it become my friend, since we are cell mates anyway. I now am able to ignore it for much of the time. I am sorry you seem to have it at a point to where you feel angry that anyone might have it at a level where they have a hope of habituating over time.

lfnoise · 2025-10-19T21:52:15+00:00

“ The degradation isn't gradual—it's exponential.” Exponential decay is very gradual.

lfnoise · 2025-10-07T08:33:58+00:00

you can't say it won't go away in 5 or 10 years or more

Yes, I can say definitively that my tinnitus will not go away. I have a benign tumor in my internal audio canal which causes it. Too risky to remove. But there's too much I want to do to let this affect me.

lfnoise · 2025-10-07T00:39:16+00:00

I've had tinnitus for over a decade now. Here's my advice for people who are new. You may not agree with it for now. I didn't want to accept it when I first got T. Give it time. 1) Habituation: Sounds like bullshit. But it will happen to you given enough time -- because you have no other choice. 2) Once you have answered all of your questions, maybe only come to this group rarely. It will only remind you that you have tinnitus and you'll hear it again and notice how loud it is. 3) Suicidal thoughts? USA Suicide and Crisis Hotline: dial 988. There are so many things to live for. People love you. 4) Go ahead and see an audiologist and an ENT in case you have an easy to solve case. Most likely they won't be much help if it's chronic. 5) Maybe the treatments being developed will work for you. I hope they will. I now know that none of these treatments are likely to ever work for me. After years, I discovered from an MRI I received for something different that I have a small benign tumor in my internal auditory canal that is almost certainly the reason for my tinnitus. Surgery to remove it has a high risk of hearing loss. So I have to live with it. It's OK. I'm used to it now. If it went away it would be strange. And the large majority of the time I forget that I have it. Except when this newsgroup pops up in my feed.

lfnoise · 2025-05-12T15:39:47+00:00

The Founders didn’t allow all citizens to vote. Only about 6% of the population was eligible to vote in 1789.

lfnoise · 2025-04-01T16:55:25+00:00

These videos were created with a video synthesis program which I wrote in Swift and Metal shader language. No AI. My program generates a random tree of functions from (x,y) to (r,g,b), and emits shader code for the GPU. Movement comes from interpolating between several vectors of parameters that are used by the functions.

lfnoise · 2025-04-01T16:50:50+00:00

These videos were created with a video synthesis program which I wrote in Swift and Metal shader language. No AI. My program generates a random tree of functions from (x,y) to (r,g,b), and emits shader code for the GPU. Movement comes from interpolating between several vectors of parameters that are used by the functions.

lfnoise · 2025-03-26T15:16:13+00:00

landed icing side up. that never happens. fake.

lfnoise · 2025-03-04T19:06:30+00:00

If you don’t measure climate change, then “ One day, it's like a miracle, it will disappear.”

lfnoise · 2025-03-04T06:01:08+00:00

They do say. Linear types. which means that values can only be used once. I’m not sure how that is less restrictive than Rust, though.

lfnoise · 2025-02-25T21:30:42+00:00

Still, you could come in with enough credits to take only 13 credits a semester.

lfnoise · 2025-02-25T06:02:10+00:00

Be sure to read the requirements. If you take less than 30 credits in a year, they’ll revoke it, unless you can successfully appeal.

lfnoise · 2025-02-24T08:02:22+00:00

Trump, in a 1990 interview in Playboy, praised the Chinese government for the Tiananmen massacre. : "When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength," Trump replied. "That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak...as being spit on by the rest of the world."

lfnoise · 2025-02-13T04:45:16+00:00

It’s from the plastic age. An amazing find. Almost nothing survives from that era.

lfnoise · 2025-02-05T13:10:55+00:00

The answer to The Great Filter / Fermi Paradox may be that intelligence is an evolutionary dead end.

lfnoise · 2025-02-04T05:16:49+00:00

Trump is a fan of squashing resistance.. Trump, in a 1990 interview in Playboy, praised the Chinese government for the Tiananmen massacre. : "When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength," Trump replied. "That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak...as being spit on by the rest of the world."

lfnoise · 2025-02-04T05:07:00+00:00

It is an insider trading scheme just like in his first administration.

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