Readit Newsatan2 commented on “The Bitter Lesson” is wrong. Well sort of assaf-pinhasi.medium.com/... · Posted by u/GavCo
I first read the "Blitter" lesson and got excited for a moment.
Love the favico.
I share the same feeling. Programming can be an entertaining and joyful activity where enthusiasts don't really need to worry about creating something useful that will be shared with others.
It's like cooking a beautiful and tasty gourmet recipe that serves only one.
gustavo!!! your website was the first thing i thought of as i was reading this blog post. im a huge fan of your teaching style. thank you for everything you do! :-]
atan2 commented on Verlet Integration and Cloth Physics Simulation (2022) pikuma.com/blog/verlet-in... · Posted by u/atan2
The article says that Euler integration is commonly used in games, and I'm not sure that's true; it's been popularised in gamedev since many years that, and I quote, "if you use Euler integration, then you're a bloody idiot"[0].
BTW the same article series points out that using irregular timesteps is also a bad idea.
[0] Since gone offline, and without the famous quote, but there's an archived copy here: https://vodacek.zvb.cz/archiv/680.html
Writing that programmers that use Euler instead of RK4 are "bloddy idiots" might work well to get some laughs in a blog post when the author is trying to stress how RK4 is more accurate and stable than the alternative, but there are cases where real-time applications (especially on older machines and older consoles) could not afford the overhead of RK4 and Euler was gave good-enough for what they needed.
atan2 commented on The Future of Comments Is Lies, I Guess aphyr.com/posts/388-the-f... · Posted by u/zdw
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