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New comment by leowbattle in "WebGPU-Based WiFi Simulator"

leowbattle — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:44:43 +0000

I find the #2 issue happens more easily with a higher simulation speed too.

New comment by leowbattle in "Donkey Kong: A Record of Struggle"

leowbattle — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 09:14:23 +0000

It's Verlet integration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlet_integration

New comment by leowbattle in "Fomos: Experimental OS, built with Rust"

leowbattle — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 08:19:13 +0000

Reminds me of TempleOS, where all programs run in the same address space. Is this the same concept here?

New comment by leowbattle in "Compiling Rust for .NET, using only tea and stubbornness"

leowbattle — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 08:47:02 +0000

I wonder if it could run on this Rust implementation of the CLR I wrote a few years ago: https://github.com/Leowbattle/clr_lite

New comment by leowbattle in "This boat don't float (2009)"

leowbattle — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 12:49:23 +0000

It is her. Read the second paragraph of "Personal Life" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimes

New comment by leowbattle in "Rooms.xyz"

leowbattle — Sat, 20 May 2023 23:53:31 +0000

I met some of the people from this company at Nordic Game Jam 2023 - lovely people

New comment by leowbattle in "Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries"

leowbattle — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 13:18:28 +0000

Do you mean if the utensils have been used to prepare meat since last being washed, or if the utensils were ever used to prepare meat?

New comment by leowbattle in "Six programming languages I’d like to see"

leowbattle — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 16:21:37 +0000

I don't know much about Mathematica but doesn't Dynamic work a bit like that?

New comment by leowbattle in "What game are you playing?"

leowbattle — Thu, 05 May 2022 19:42:47 +0000

One example of a programmer who was very mentally ill is Terry Davis, known for creating TempleOS.

New comment by leowbattle in "Bunnymark GL in Jai – 200k sprites at 200fps [video]"

leowbattle — Wed, 04 May 2022 06:40:49 +0000

If modern high performance code relies on making the microcode do "the right thing", and making sure the right data is in cache then why don't CPU manufacturers allow control over such things?

New comment by leowbattle in "Linux from Scratch"

leowbattle — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:22:06 +0000

Probably nandgame

https://nandgame.com/

New comment by leowbattle in "Rolling your own minimal embedded Linux for the Raspberry Pi"

leowbattle — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 10:38:38 +0000

I got that problem too.

New comment by leowbattle in "Speeding up atan2f"

leowbattle — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 17:47:37 +0000

> Almost everything can be done better ... use the stereographic projection

I was just learning about stereographic projection earlier. Isn't it odd how when you know something you notice it appearing in places.

Can you give an example of an operation that could be performed better using stereographic projection rather than angles?

New comment by leowbattle in "Google have declared Droidscript is malware"

leowbattle — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 17:17:30 +0000

From the article parent linked: "It doesn't take a science fiction writer to understand why regulators might be nervous about the user-modifiable firmware on self-driving cars"

It's not just regulators who are nervous! What if someone modifies the firmware in their self-driving car and introduces a bug that causes the car to crash and kill someone?

New comment by leowbattle in "Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments"

leowbattle — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 15:41:24 +0000

"have to tell the US federal government about all encryption I use"

Can you elaborate on that?

New comment by leowbattle in "Cricut Wants Users to Pay for Unlimited Use of Cutting Machines They Already Own"

leowbattle — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 17:03:12 +0000

Is that even legal? Cricut does not own those machines any more, the people who bought them do. So by what right can they restrict the owners access to their own property?

New comment by leowbattle in "“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”"

leowbattle — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 22:49:16 +0000

Last year I finished the school year early because of the coronavirus lockdown and had too much free time - so I wrote an interpreter for CLR bytecode (https://github.com/Leowbattle/clr_lite). The ECMA-335 standard contained everything I needed to know for that project: documentation of the EXE format, VM instructions, etc.

I learned a lot doing this project, and I would never have been able to do it without free access to the standard. So I think Tim is right to recognise the value open standards provide to hobbyist programmers.

New comment by leowbattle in "Lena"

leowbattle — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 17:31:45 +0000

Great article (as are many others on this blog).

I found the part about the court decision that Acevedo did not have the right to control how his brain image was used very interesting. It reminds me of tech companies using data about us to our disadvantage (in terms of privacy, targeted advertising, using data to influence insurance premiums).

In this hypothetical world, the police could run a simulation of your brain in various situations and see how you would react. They could then use this information to pre-empitvely arrest someone likely to commit a crime, even if they haven't yet.