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NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
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OJ Death Footage Released

https://twitter.com/DailySquibs/status/1778478467224375697

Director voice Now when you die make sure you don't put your arm in front of your face in the shot, OK?

NoneMoreNegative fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Apr 16, 2024

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dioxazine: Oct 14, 2004

ultrafilter posted:

https://defcon.social/@3kh0/112280495989698898

i love this so much

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ultrafilter: Aug 23, 2007; It's okay if you have any questions.

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1780353088110334282

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Kuvo: Oct 27, 2008; Blame it on the misfortune of your bark!; Fun Shoe

https://twitter.com/unhaunting/status/1780445548757008714

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exmachina: Mar 12, 2006; Look Closer

NoneMoreNegative posted:

Carmack's had a few Dipshit Libertarian moments, but this is the most egregious (to me anyrate).

I hope Civvie stops sucking his dick whenever DOOM gets mentioned in one of his reviews.

I think it is possible to realise that talented people can and often do have terrible opinions outside their areas of expertise. In fact one of the problems with techbros is thinking that because they understand one complicated subject then all other subjects should be easy for their big brains to understand.

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Kenny Logins: Jan 11, 2011; EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.

exmachina posted:

I think it is possible to realise that talented people can and often do have terrible opinions outside their areas of expertise. In fact one of the problems with techbros is thinking that because they understand one complicated subject then all other subjects should be easy for their big brains to understand.

1) of course it�s possible, everyone realizes this about carmack or they�re moments away from doing so

2) completely separate issue and also found among many professionals (lawyers, doctors, engineers, etc)

# ? Apr 17, 2024 11:16

Kenny Logins: Jan 11, 2011; EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.

# ? Apr 17, 2024 11:20

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

posting on page 386

# ? Apr 17, 2024 16:22

ultrafilter: Aug 23, 2007; It's okay if you have any questions.

https://twitter.com/d_feldman/status/1780453671869751772

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dioxazine: Oct 14, 2004

incredibly cyberpunk

# ? Apr 17, 2024 16:54

exmachina: Mar 12, 2006; Look Closer

Kenny Logins posted:

1) of course it’s possible, everyone realizes this about carmack or they’re moments away from doing so

2) completely separate issue and also found among many professionals (lawyers, doctors, engineers, etc)

Yeah but my point is that having lovely opinions does not invalidate the fact that Carmack is incredibly talented and Vidya games would not be in the state they are in today if he did not exist. I don't think someone else would have filled that gap completely. Most FPS games today still contain bits of his code.

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rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

the Great Man Theory of video games

# ? Apr 17, 2024 17:44

The Fool: Oct 16, 2003

exmachina posted:

Yeah but my point is that having lovely opinions does not invalidate the fact that Carmack is incredibly talented and Vidya games would not be in the state they are in today if he did not exist. I don't think someone else would have filled that gap completely. Most FPS games today still contain bits of his code.

I think carmack gets more credit than he deserves

an example is the fast inverse root magic number where when it was discovered in the q3 source lots of people assumed he came up with it but he did not

# ? Apr 17, 2024 17:58

Kenny Logins: Jan 11, 2011; EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.

rotor posted:

posting on page 386

# ? Apr 17, 2024 17:59

Kenny Logins: Jan 11, 2011; EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.

exmachina posted:

Yeah but my point is that having lovely opinions does not invalidate the fact that Carmack is incredibly talented and Vidya games would not be in the state they are in today if he did not exist. I don't think someone else would have filled that gap completely. Most FPS games today still contain bits of his code.

no one would care about his lovely opinions or the fact that he has them if he wasn�t talented. �he�s talented but� is the table stakes imo. i agree denigrating his talent isn�t the way to go here. but his opinions/positions still weigh on his legacy

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lament.cfg: Dec 28, 2006; we have such posts
to show you

you do not, in fact, gotta hand it to him

# ? Apr 17, 2024 18:59

Dancing Peasant: Jul 19, 2003; All this for stealing a piece of bread?

rotor posted:

posting on page 386

# ? Apr 17, 2024 20:11

George: Nov 27, 2004; No love for your made-up things.

Usually when people want to give the devil his due it's something he stole to begin with. Not sure whether that's the case with Carmack but I don't think his mark on games is beyond dispute and I don't think his legacy needs to be protected.

# ? Apr 17, 2024 20:12

Internet Old One: Dec 6, 2021; Coke Adds Life

Doom, keen, wolf3d were sick as hell and he had his name on like half of all decent VGA shareware for like 3 years.

But if in the future someone puts their brain in a robot and casually "accepts full responsibility" for opening a gateway to hell killing everyone, It'll be John Carmack.

# ? Apr 17, 2024 21:01

koolkal: Oct 21, 2008; this thread maybe doesnt have room for 2 green xbox one avs

The Fool posted:

I think carmack gets more credit than he deserves

an example is the fast inverse root magic number where when it was discovered in the q3 source lots of people assumed he came up with it but he did not

i dunno i think its extremely funny that for as smart as he apparently is (and ppl like to say, repeatedly), his biggest accomplishment is making a video game 30 years ago or some poo poo

john walked so we can pay $500 to roll for a big titty anime waifu

# ? Apr 17, 2024 21:08

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

yeah i feel like carmack has been coasting for decades now. Which is as it should be, if i had that guys money i'd never touch a computer again as long as i lived, but the idea that he has some weird repuation to protect or whatever seems off to me. Dude got real rich and seemed to be a good programmer, those guys arent really in short supply around here.

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Video Nasty: Jun 17, 2003

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Kenny Logins: Jan 11, 2011; EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.

Video Nasty posted:

👁️

# ? Apr 17, 2024 22:38

Subjunctive: Sep 12, 2006; ✨sparkle and shine✨

rotor posted:

yeah i feel like carmack has been coasting for decades now. Which is as it should be, if i had that guys money i'd never touch a computer again as long as i lived, but the idea that he has some weird repuation to protect or whatever seems off to me. Dude got real rich and seemed to be a good programmer, those guys arent really in short supply around here.

dude worked crazy hours on mobile VR at Oculus, at least, squeezing perf out of every layer so that you could have 7 minutes of mediocre, poorly-tracked VR before your phone ran out of battery

(it only made it that far without thermal shutdown because we had a magic API from Samsung to disable the thermal limits; throttled down like it would after about 2 mins of play, nothing could hit frame rate targets)

it was kinda cool as a Netflix viewer though, lighter than current headsets

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Powerful Two-Hander: Mar 10, 2004; Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.

IDDQDon't

# ? Apr 17, 2024 23:12

GATOS Y VATOS: Aug 22, 2002

it�s guys like Carmack who make a shitload of money and feel they have to defend their reputation are always clowned by Tom who made MySpace, sold it for millions, and has hosed off to just enjoy his life. I think he kind of resurfaced or something a few years back to say something catty about FB or Twitter or something for like one tweet.

# ? Apr 17, 2024 23:36

MiniFoo: Dec 25, 2006; ~~METH~~AMPHETAMINE

The Fool posted:

I think carmack gets more credit than he deserves

an example is the fast inverse root magic number where when it was discovered in the q3 source lots of people assumed he came up with it but he did not

lollin at the original code chunk

code:


float Q_rsqrt(float number)
{
long i;
float x2, y;
const float threehalfs = 1.5F;

x2 = number * 0.5F;
y = number;
i = * ( long * ) &y;               // evil floating point bit level hacking
i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 );              // what the gently caress?
y = * ( float * ) &i;
y = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) ); // 1st iteration
// y = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) ); // 2nd iteration, this can be removed

return y;
}

# ? Apr 17, 2024 23:41

PokeJoe: Aug 24, 2004; hail cgatan

GATOS Y VATOS posted:

it’s guys like Carmack who make a shitload of money and feel they have to defend their reputation are always clowned by Tom who made MySpace, sold it for millions, and has hosed off to just enjoy his life. I think he kind of resurfaced or something a few years back to say something catty about FB or Twitter or something for like one tweet.

ya he just travels and takes pic mostly

# ? Apr 17, 2024 23:59

shackleford: Sep 4, 2006

MiniFoo posted:

lollin at the original code chunk

code:


float Q_rsqrt(float number)
{
long i;
float x2, y;
const float threehalfs = 1.5F;

x2 = number * 0.5F;
y = number;
i = * ( long * ) &y;               // evil floating point bit level hacking
i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 );              // what the gently caress?
y = * ( float * ) &i;
y = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) ); // 1st iteration
// y = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) ); // 2nd iteration, this can be removed

return y;
}

i'm less interested in the magic number than wtf is going on with threehalfs

# ? Apr 18, 2024 00:43

The Fool: Oct 16, 2003

pretty sure it's an implementation of newton's method

# ? Apr 18, 2024 00:50

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

according to Wikipedia, it�s half newton�s method, half that the magic number turns out to provide a very good starting guess for newton�s method

# ? Apr 18, 2024 01:27

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Video Nasty posted:

you can get this helmet in Elden ring

# ? Apr 18, 2024 01:35

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shackleford posted:

i'm less interested in the magic number than wtf is going on with threehalfs

probably trying to get the compiler to keep it around rather than generating 1.5 in a float register every method invocation

# ? Apr 18, 2024 05:03

shackleford: Sep 4, 2006

Visions of Valerie posted:

probably trying to get the compiler to keep it around rather than generating 1.5 in a float register every method invocation

i'd be mildly surprised if even the garbage C compilers of the '90s couldn't constant fold that away

starting to suspect this carmack guy isn't even all that great of a programmer

# ? Apr 18, 2024 05:31

Visions of Valerie: Jun 18, 2023; Come this autumn, we'll be miles away...

shackleford posted:

i'd be mildly surprised if even the garbage C compilers of the '90s couldn't constant fold that away

starting to suspect this carmack guy isn't even all that great of a programmer

I don't see a way to eliminate having three constants (as written, 1.5, .5, and i's monster); do you?

# ? Apr 18, 2024 15:11

Internet Old One: Dec 6, 2021; Coke Adds Life

shackleford posted:

i'd be mildly surprised if even the garbage C compilers of the '90s couldn't constant fold that away

starting to suspect this carmack guy isn't even all that great of a programmer

Something special happened to make wolf3d a thing. It ran on a 10 year old cpu and people keep making similar first person stuff run on ever shittier hardware so anyone could have came by and made it but they didn't.

# ? Apr 18, 2024 18:14