Posts by majicDave@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #236017 by majicDave@mastodon.social
2018-09-26T21:35:49Z
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The worst experience I've had in the past 4 days in all honesty was attempting to compile on the Mac again. Xcode wouldn't open my project, gave false errors all over the place, had to be restarted about 10 times then the game ran like crap due to new OS update.
(DIR) Post #236842 by majicDave@mastodon.social
2018-09-27T02:54:05Z
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@mdhughes the build I did using High Sierra is also running terribly, so it’s probably something to do with OpenGL in Mojave. But Xcode is definitely worse too, and all the text looks horrendous now due to lack of sub pixel antialiasing so there’s that. Can’t run away quick enough!
(DIR) Post #669708 by majicDave@mastodon.social
2018-10-21T03:46:08Z
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It’s interesting that Apple chose “Complication” as the name for the watchOS widgets. That’s exactly what they are, needless complications. The Apple Watch is a collection of added difficulties. A device to add complications to your life.
(DIR) Post #669710 by majicDave@mastodon.social
2018-10-21T05:20:32Z
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@jeff_lamarche ah so that’s where it comes from. Makes a lot more sense. I’m just feeling all grumpy-old-man about technology lately.
(DIR) Post #669712 by majicDave@mastodon.social
2018-10-21T07:57:49Z
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@nicktmro @jeff_lamarche ha yeah right! I understand dropping OpenGL, what I’d like is for Apple to embrace Vulkan. But my mood is due to gadgets generally. They’re all just getting worse. More and more bloated with needless features, more and more frustrating to use.
(DIR) Post #863721 by majicDave@mastodon.social
2018-10-30T19:14:31Z
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I got the sky rendering yesterday :) Now the next step is to get it rendering into a cube map, and make a start on the terrain.
(DIR) Post #916513 by majicDave@mastodon.social
2018-11-02T05:04:39Z
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@mdhughes me too. Every time.
(DIR) Post #997219 by majicDave@mastodon.social
2018-11-05T21:25:19Z
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41,702 installs FFS. This should be a checkbox. And it should be disabled by default.
(DIR) Post #999027 by majicDave@mastodon.social
2018-11-05T21:53:15Z
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@mdhughes and that's OK on the Mac, because you don't use ctrl for much of anything. But I was forever accidentally scaling the font size while copy/pasting/scrolling. Just plain stupid.
(DIR) Post #1850450 by majicDave@mastodon.social
2018-12-09T05:34:43Z
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The top result when you google “C Tutorial” recommends you use vim.
(DIR) Post #1850991 by majicDave@mastodon.social
2018-12-09T06:36:43Z
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@mdhughes I do remember that being a problem when I was learning. Hard to set up any kind of basic development environment, and Xcode just wanted you to build a GUI app and throw in a bunch of extra boilerplate stuff.
(DIR) Post #2290389 by majicDave@mastodon.social
2018-12-25T23:31:39Z
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I forgot how bad DVDs were with their unskippable piracy warnings. Amazing that anyone ever put up with that we didn’t all just pirate everything to spite the publishers. Oh wait, that’s pretty much what we did huh.
(DIR) Post #2568706 by majicDave@mastodon.social
2019-01-03T04:24:38Z
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I’ve continued to think about this idea of creating a “world” which is just a collection of simple rules around energy/light/motion and putting a bunch of simple Lua scripts in there which eat each other and reproduce sexually, with some random mutations. The whole thing could be visualized somehow, could be fascinating.
(DIR) Post #2568880 by majicDave@mastodon.social
2019-01-03T04:39:26Z
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@mdhughes hadn’t heard of Robot Odyssey, even that would be pretty sweet