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hendrix —
Assembly Language for x86 Processors, 7th edition March 2014
http://kipirvine.com/asm/
Excellent…
mmozeiko From what I understand it runs only on PowerPC or Amiga hardware. Not everybody has acce…
I think that for storing large positions in fixed point still makes sense today. Especially when …
From what I understand it runs only on PowerPC or Amiga hardware. Not everybody has access to suc…
grhodes The project is fantastic. You are doing an amazing job of explaining the how and why of e…
ThadeuMelo
But honestly, I was at day 22 up to last week and had to take a break and again my pr…
I would like to know if there is a way to use fixed point values instead of floating point values…
I just became aware of this, and will test it soon. But have any of you tested it? I'd like to he…
It's not very messy at all, it's a work in progress, for educational purposes. And even for me wh…
Ah, Okay. I appreciate the reply and clarification, Casey. To be clear, I triggered on your use o…
Well, technically C and C++ are high level languages.
But honestly, I was at day 22 up to last w…
Pseudonym73
Obligatory Bret Victor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4
TL;DR: "horse…
ben —
Garbage collection is a travesty, and an abomination.
Actually, I was not trying to imply that the relationship was (or should be) linear. I was stric…
I'd like to make a comment about a technical issue that is often (usually) insignificant from the…
This old SIGGRAPH course on physically-based modelling is pretty good. You'll need to be comforta…
Interestingly, the Hairy Ball Theorem ("you can't comb a hairy ball smooth") has a 3D analogue, f…
I see what you mean. You are thinking in terms of having only one pole - which is like having a b…
popcorn —
ooooooops I missed the B (joke not intended)
khahem —
If you want to try alternative topology, you can find a few games here (Torus Games, Curved Space…
This is, of course, all related to the most giggle-inducing name in all of mathematics, the "Hair…
AH! That's what I was missing. Yes, the -L flag worked. I've updated the blog entry and my script…
But I don't think that is actually true in topological terms. If you imagine taking our tile map…
Oh, sorry I missed that. But blog entry doesn't explain what is wrong with redirects.
Have you tr…
As mentioned in the blog entry, curl doesn't handle the redirect's correctly. At least, it wasn't…
Try curl, AFAIK it is available on OSX by default:
1curl -o handmade.zip <download_link>
I didn't try wget as it's not installed by default on OS X. I'll give it a try later. I don't thi…
I've been able to just `wget` from the download button link. Does that link change?
1wget <d…
Well, in a proper spherical topology, you can't get rid of the singularity, but a tile map that i…