🌾 ivan 🌱 @ivan@coolkids.house
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random #ChatGPT #AI thoughts / links:
- "On Bullshit" argues bullshit is not lying; bs-ers don't "care" about the truth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
- like Huizinga's "spoil-sport"(cheaters "care" about keeping the game going) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Ludens
- Dreyfus-Heidegger crit of 20th century AI: "caring" is intelligence to feel what is relevant, but AI will never "care"... (if you're interested, Being In The World is a great approachable documentary primer to his philosophy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcCRmf_tHW8 )
say what you will about the Win32 API, but it takes a single function call to open an audio stream and start writing to it and that's really nice
templates are one of the very few really great features or c++. the single header graphics engine ive been noodling on for the past year is c++, but it only really uses c++ for templating. im always itching it to rewrite it in pure c so it would be useful for more people, but the handful of places where it relies on templates are so elegant that it’s hard to let go.
please, leave me alone until after the experiment
every time the US govt. wants to hide some flying military bullshit they’re like “its a UFO” and it works every goddamn time
@joon yeah! i just made something last night and there were like 4 or 5 new worlds that were made since then
sok-worlds is such a great game. a brilliant concept executed flawlessly and my favorite thing that sokpop has done.
its like 90s VRML worlds combined with all the modern conveniences that let you make an entire little scene in a matter of minutes.
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We all have different things that touch us. For some, it's stories on the printed page. For others, songs or spoken narratives. For yet others, photographs.
You may not know that the US government hired Dorothea Lange to photograph the "relocation effort."
She clearly saw the injustice and human tragedy that was unfolding, and documented it unflinchingly.
Her work was censored, and only in 2006 made broadly available.
Take a moment and see what she saw.
https://anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothea-lange-censored-photographs
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Dear ImGui 1.89.3 released!
https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/releases
(release cadence intensifies)
@nasser sure is
@darius ahh thank you darius! i was looking in the iOS app where it doesnt seem to exist
is there really no way to mute notifications for a single post on mastodon? :(
started on a little low level c++ audio library. how is this API format?
love to get new vulkan validation errors after updating video card drivers
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For another insightful example of flat ontologies in popular culture, may I refer you to the works of [1] [2] of Takahashi et al. exploring the implications of dividing the material world into just two categories:
1. small enough to be rolled into katamari,
2. will soon be small enough to be rolled into katamari.
[1] Katamari Damacy, Namco, 2004
[2] We❤️Katamari, Namco, 2005
had no idea the 3d filesystem from jurassic park was actual existing software and now i'm questioning every over the top CG hacking scene i've seen
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@nasser witch! witch!
Arthur C. Clarke: In the year 2000 we will have instant telecommunications via satellites...
Me: wow, he was so right
Arthur C. Clarke: ...aaaand genetically engineered monkey servants.
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