@Lesley Lai
Computer Graphics & Programming Languages person.
I twoot about languages like C, C++, Rust, JS/TS, and OCaml.
I organize @graphicsmeetup
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Recent Notes
@nprofile1q... Interesting! "后生可畏" is still commonly used in China today, though I don’t know its origins, and I suspect not many people do.
Nice article that glimpses the surface of what those modern malloc libraries do under the hood.
Also, that's why I like custom allocators. There is too many (hard to control) magics happ3n behind malloc.
https://pranitha.dev/posts/rust-and-memory-allocators/
Also, that's why I like custom allocators. There is too many (hard to control) magics happ3n behind malloc.
https://pranitha.dev/posts/rust-and-memory-allocators/
@nprofile1q... Yeah. Though the "simulation" is just bodies moving on elliptical orbits following Kepler's law.
Drawning dots/lines in Vulkan is pretty trivial (I think you just need to change one parameter in pipeline creation). Bodies in my thing are actually billboards rather than points, though
Drawning dots/lines in Vulkan is pretty trivial (I think you just need to change one parameter in pipeline creation). Bodies in my thing are actually billboards rather than points, though
WIP Galaxy renderer in Vulkan
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/841/690/013/755/433/original/5ebf87f4bee796f8.mp4
I did something similar in Rust + wgpu a few years ago, but that project was abandoned and also looked pretty ugly. I want to give this another try.
WIP Galaxy renderer in Vulkan
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git LFS + multiple remote mirrors (one for my personal Forgejo instance and another for Codeberg) are annoying
- Forgejo's push mirror: does not sync large files
- one remote with multiple push URLs: only push large files to the "first" push URLs
- multiple remotes: seems to work. But it's annoying since I need to `git push` multiple times for different remotes now
- Forgejo's push mirror: does not sync large files
- one remote with multiple push URLs: only push large files to the "first" push URLs
- multiple remotes: seems to work. But it's annoying since I need to `git push` multiple times for different remotes now
@nprofile1q... I am not sure whether I should blame task cancellation or the surprising dangling pointers here
@nprofile1q... I keep a "big ideas" list just so I can dump ideas there, rather than starting new projects (and abandon old ones)
do you have relatives who have succumbed to the lure of AI? how do you deal with them?
@nprofile1q... Depends on my relationship with them. I tries to argue with and convince my parents and partner, though with limited success (same with racism and inclusion issues). For more distant relatives (like my uncle who just constantly emit FOMO energy), I ignore them
I remember news related to this article floating around. I think we need to be careful with those studies before sharing them (or sharing news that quotes them). It's frustrating, because as a skeptic, I don't have the time or expertise to evaluate that kind of information, and it upsets me
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/06/16/technology-mind-behavior-apa-journal-investigation-cognitive-impact-generative-ai/
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/06/16/technology-mind-behavior-apa-journal-investigation-cognitive-impact-generative-ai/
After messing with C++ and cmake for quite some time now, there I was, still very naively thinking:
I know, I'll create a new project using both modules and reflection with g++-16 and cmake 4.2 and i...
@nprofile1q... For my current C++ personal projects, I am using modules for my own code with std headers. I am not happy but seems to be a fair compromise.
@nprofile1q... I am not great with Lisp too. I've probably have written more toy lisp interpreters code than writing actual lisp codes 😅