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James BrownIt took a surprising amount of effort to achieve this crappy result. It's rendering 4000 views simultaneously per frame (effectively 120000 fps), on a Pi 4. Complicated by no viewport arrays or layered rendering support, and clipping in the fragment shader added seconds to render time.
Was speaking with my (non-IT) dad this weekend and it came up that he was under the impression that OpenGL was related to OpenAI.
Which, I can totally understand why someone not in the field would think that. So here's the answer to a question you (maybe) were afraid to ask:
No, OpenAI is not related to other software things named open-something, they just picked the name to make themselves look like the good guys by association.
Elizabeth AyerReminder: de-skilling as a trend in software engineering was already in progress well before LLMs.
Toxic productivity culture, people meeting badly-designed internal reward metrics, hopping jobs and never seeing the consequences of bad choices, plummeting quality, short-termism.
Sure LLMs add fuel to this fire, but I’m not at all convinced they’re causal.
If anything, their popularity seems more a consequence of the culture than cause.
Fun bumblebee fact:
They need to raise their flight muscles' temperature to about 30C in order to fly, which they do by shivering.
Bumblebees often nest in burrows made and abandoned by small rodents, so while digging around with a shovel you might accidentally unearth a very groggy bumblebee whose flight muscles are cold.
If you carefully pick it up and place it somewhere safe you can watch it shiver itself to operating temperature before flying away, it's very cool.
I understand the principle behind "JS everywhere". We're stuck with it for client-side scripts so might as well use it everywhere so we only have one language to learn.
Another take which I find infinitely more valid is that JS is a bad language with bad features and in order to mitigate its harm we should *only* use it where we are stuck with it, and use basically anything else in all other situations.
Randahl FinkTrump has already put 26 percent tariffs on European steel and aluminum, and he is now adding a 25 percent tariff on European cars and car parts.
I believe, this will continue until Canada, the UK, and the EU introduces a musketeer oath (one for all), so when Trump hits one of us with tariffs, we all hit back with the exact same tariffs.
If Trump knew, that his 25 percent car tariffs would immediately result in the same tariffs on US car exports to Canada, UK, and EU, he would not even try.
Being smart or dumb is largely a choice.
Sure, not everyone has the same innate aptitude in all aspects of reasoning. But the main key to making the right decisions is navigating around cognitive pitfalls.
Stuff like confirmation bias, sophistry, etc. All this knowledge is freely and publicly available.
I've known mentally challenged people who were smart, and "high potential" people who were letting their gifts amount to nothing.
My point here is if you think you're dumb, you're not.