Arnaud Carré

The graal trophy for any demoscener! Our second Meteoriks! 2016: "best low end demo" for "We Were @" 2024: "Outstanding Technical Achievement" for "Cycle-Op" Amiga demo As a lifelong CPU cycle optimization nerd, this one means a lot to me! Thanks @meteoriks ! #demoscene

@EricLengyel thanks for this! btw if you add a Metal shader port version, I already have a logo for it

New blog post: A Decade of Slug This talks about the evolution of the Slug font rendering algorithm, and it includes an exciting announcement: The patent has been dedicated to the public domain. terathon.com/blog/decade-sl…

@niccruzpatane also don't believe everything from this car manufacturer!

Elon Musk confirmed via Telemetry Data that the woman driving the Cybertruck in this video disengaged the system four seconds before the crash. She was manually driving throughout this entire video. Don't believe everything you see/hear from Legacy Media about Tesla.

@LorianeLafont moi j'aurai nommé "france travail" :)

Très mauvais choix de nom, à mon sens : cela renforce la vulnérabilité symbolique du bâtiment. On évite de donner le nom d’un pays à un navire de guerre, pour des raisons évidentes… On ne pouvait pas faire pire, en fait, en plus de l’aspect ronflant et « monsieur muscle ». Bref, à vouloir déjouer les pronostics et à chercher l’originalité à tout prix, on commet un impair, on fragilise d’emblée un bâtiment militaire …. Faire simple et dans la tradition, parfois, c’est mieux.

@Nain_Portekoi non ca sera du SP95, moins cher que le diesel à la pompe :)

Quel gâchis... Tout ce bitume où on pourrait faire rouler des bagnoles qui puent et qui polluent. Et à la place on a quoi ? Des piétons, des cyclistes, des sportifs ! Heureusement c'est bientôt fini, quand Rachida Dati sera Maire de Paris retour à la normale et au diesel.

@oldyzach the first successful game I've worked on. Good times

Moto Racer (1997) is now cheap as f... on the GOG, $0.45 😎 gog.com/en/game/moto_r…

@otlg30 @hamen Legendary for sure. But too me the technical gem of quake is how pers-corrected texture mapping is implemented. Pipelining float div with integers math every 8 pixels is genius. (and It's by michael abrash btw)

@leonard_coder @hamen True, but that was the first time I think it was widely used... certainly in anything at that scale.. and it's legendary.

Imagine you're John Carmack you're 22 years old and you just wrote a 3D engine in assembly that runs at 35fps on a 486 Doom drops. Quake drops. Half the planet is playing your code. you're the reason GPUs exist. you're the reason your friend Jensen has a yacht today. then in 2009, you sell id Software. people call it betrayal. you call it "they made an offer I couldn't refuse." VR obsession. Oculus. Meta buys it for $2B. you're CTO. but Meta thinks you're a liability. your demos are "too intense." your emails are "too long." your focus on frame timing is "slowing us down." 2022. they push you out. not fired officially. just "restructured." the media writes "end of an era." some crypto bro calls you "washed up." silicon valley moves on. but you don't. you don't write a book. you don't start a podcast. you don't collect speaking fees. you go completely quiet. you take the money. you buy a warehouse in Texas. you hire 10 engineers. and you start coding. not games. not VR. AGI. two years. radio silence. no tweets. no conference talks. while everyone's debating ChatGPT, you're debugging CUDA kernels at 3AM, testing world models. then in 2025, Keen Technologies pivots hard. you're not "exploring" anymore. you're building it. here's what people get wrong: everyone calls it a comeback. a redemption arc. "revenge on Meta." it's none of that. you're a 54-year-old engineer who still codes 12 hours a day because you genuinely can't stop. most CTOs would have bought an island. most legends would have written memoirs. you just kept typing. the most dangerous person in any codebase is the one who goes quiet and never stops shipping commits. karma doesn't need to be real. but obsession is. welcome back, Carmack.

@otlg30 @hamen right. But it was invented before Id Software

@leonard_coder @hamen Assembly or not the sqrt hack is legendary.

@tsotchke doing HPC since decades (and still doing demoscene optimization stuff). Just had a look at your website and have to admit I'm impressed! win95 look and "winamp" icon says more than any resume :)

if you're a software engineer who's talented at C/C++, Python, distributed systems, GPGPU, and has considerable interests in physics-based and high performance computing looking to do some bleeding edge AI development please contact me

@ocornut well deserved!

An unexpected thing happened: somehow I received a special award at the Pégases (french game industry awards), partly recognizing the continued work on Dear ImGui. Thank you🙏 academiejeuvideo.org

@Chelsea_Uncle french comedy at its finest :)

When you have PhD in cheating. 🙃

@Geo1m @DariusRochebin @EmmanuelMacron si premier vol en 1986 le design doit dater de 50 piges à minima. C'est un vieux machin, qui coute une fortune à l'état

@leonard_coder @DariusRochebin @EmmanuelMacron 40 ans, premier vol en 1986 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_…

Le vol de @EmmanuelMacron escorté des Rafales, qui peuvent porter l’arme nucléaire, sur le Mont Saint-Michel. Continuité de la souveraineté voulue par de Gaulle - et de la clarté, là où tant de pays européens disent vouloir s’émanciper, tout en gardant des bases US sur leur sol.

@akafaceUS fresh leek and coca cola aren't a great match. Not french at all :)

An American woman went viral after sharing a video demonstrating how she gets into her apartment in Paris.

@cmuratori @IanCutress Do you have same feeling about your smart phone? :)

@IanCutress The fact that laptops no longer have physical buttons is emblematic of the catastrophic decay of user interfaces in general over the past ~20 years.

1000%. I need immediate, dedicated functionality. I also want the return of physical left and right click buttons on laptops.

@johnrheritage @Om_Codes_ LZ+arithmetic coding is pretty close to theorical limit for lossless and generic input data. Future may be in AI that could model algortihms very specific to each data. But don't expect lossless compression ratio to sky rocket, physics have laws :)

@leonard_coder @Om_Codes_ (off topic). Given how much compression improved in the 80s and early 90s, I expected compression to be much better by today.

- Meet Eugene Roshal - Creator of WinRAR - RAR literally stands for Roshal Archive - Avoided Silicon Valley - Avoids media attention - Keeps his personal life extremely private - said software will expire After 40 days of trial but it never actually expired 😭 - It became one of the most installed software tools on Earth - Estimated Net Worth: $100 million – $250 million - In a world of loud tech founders - He chose silence and still won While the world was just getting used to personal computers.. He was building one of the most powerful compression algorithms ever made Legend 🗿

@AnnatarTheMaia it's old and simple concept. when you pack tons of similar files, they are virtually packed as a single data stream (so LZxx like packing can find more matches). It improves packing a lot in some real life case with tons of small similar files in a directory

@leonard_coder I still don't get the "solid archive" part (present in 7z as well); what's that all about?

@Jonathan_Blow At the same time period, with very similar CPU, I prefer PS3 way more ( I miss SPU programming so much... )

The Xbox 360 was a really good game console.

@vkrajacic @inthevibedev just tested and it works. Obviously slower because software renderer and old laptop, but could be a nice work around to be used to filepilot while you're working on the directx version.

I know, it's probably the number one issue with OpenGL. Dozens, if not hundreds, of people have complained about it. There are other issues too. You can actually "fix" this one by dropping the Mesa 64-bit driver into the same folder as the exe, although that might degrade performance for File Pilot. fdossena.com/?p=mesa/index.…

File Pilot 0.7.0 is out! Drag & drop from external apps and ZIP archives is finally here, plus dropping files onto other files. Also launching the public roadmap toward v1. filepilot.tech/roadmap

@schteppe right, and your job is to get rid of these bugs before the game is shipped (talking about game programming industry maybe I'm bias). I'm old enough to have ship console game on cartridges, assembly written. Very hard to get rid of all bugs, but no choice. Great time!

@leonard_coder And you *will* get bugs in prod. There’s no question about it.

I’m tired of all these threads debating the “safety” of programming languages. If you write code without bugs, you’ll be safe—no matter which programming language you use.