Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point chip in 1980 to make math faster. The chip does tangents, square roots, and so forth, but fundamentally everything is computed through additions and subtractions, performed by an adder at the heart of the chip. Let's look at the adder's circuitry... 1/N

My game isn’t even out yet and it has already been cloned three times.

FlatOut (PlayStation 2, Bugbear Entertainment, 2004)

Fashy Tech Bros: Back in Roman times, men were men. Just conquering the world with the boys, no time for woke feminist soi boi bullshit. Actual Roman who fought Hannibal: I'd like to share my recipe for poppyseed cheeseballs with you (Cato Agr. 79)

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A message of love to our trans friends and colleagues and partners at the end of another week of being brutalised by the State. We're still here, we care, we're fighting for you. Please don't despair. Oh, and, lest I forget, #FuckWesStreeting

Fairly proud of this interview discussing some of the work my former team did, and trying to have a nuanced view on the issues around GenAI Shout-out to Alex @gibiz.bsky.social for wanting to dig a little deeper into this topic than most of the articles written about our layoff ❤️

Things like this really make me happy and proud. We struggle to make things and it helps others to struggle and make things. This is the way. Go do something cool. @xbox.com

Opinion: You might have thought the world’s richest man had enough on his plate teeing up history’s biggest IPO. Yet he has been devoting many of his waking hours to stoking up racial hatred in Britain on his social media site. ft.trib.al/B4elnzv

The World Documentary Repository: K is for Karel Reisz. Key figure of the British Free Cinema movement who rejected institutional propaganda in favor of poetic and jazz-inflected observations of working-class youth culture, such as We Are the Lambeth Boys (1959).

I did a panel earlier this year on character development, and the idea of "earned subversion," where there an "earned" payoff to keeping a characters traits very consistent for a long time, for the purpose of getting to make jokes way later on in their arc. This is my favorite example of this 😭😭

‘The question at this point isn’t whether there is an AI bubble. It’s whether the market expectations of where value accrues match the medium-term reality. They don’t. That’s the real AI bubble that investors should be paying attention to right now.’ aijourn.com/the-ai-bubbl...

Before it disappears down people’s timelines please as your MP to sign EDM 240 against the Starmer/Philippson transphobic “guidance”, and to explain why, if they have not. More than one-sixth of all MPs have now signed.

is everyone forgetting the crates - I thought you could always solve problems in an immersive sim by stacking a lot of crates...

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

That must feel SO good!

With Alt Text. The Chair of the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission, follows 38 accounts on Bluesky that have transphobia labels and/or are on one or more transphobia block lists due to their content. It appears she does not follow any trans people, nor any trans-supportive organisations.

Defragging was cool.

> @kylec.bsky.social gets the John Oliver treatment: @ivanthek.bsky.social

reading about the May government for a thing and mad, mad, mad that a Conservative Prime Minister said this nine years ago, I hate how much we've lost since then! I hate it so much! www.theguardian.com/society/2017...

new William Gibson book opening line dropped

Adorable young kestrels surprised by a butterfly.

Last week was a bit complicated for me and I didn't post anything, but today I have this video for you where I make some dramatic impact sounds using just an aluminum can. Let me know what do you think about the result :) #sounddesign #gamedev #indiedev #gameaudio #soundeffects

A story I love about Anthony Stewart Head. Thank you to this person for sharing it on Tumblr. What a mensch.

Developer Rytelier_Official shared an iterative parallax mapping shader for Godot, creating a sense of depth without the cost of traditional parallax occlusion mapping. 👀 More details: www.reddit.com/r/godot/comm... #godotengine #gamedev #techart

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

This year, Pride is more protest than party. Today I again raised my concerns - if these questions and others are not answered adequately by the chair of the EHRC when she comes before @commonswec.parliament.uk next week, I will be signing the fatal motion on the code of practice.

If the government doesn't act, there's a serious chance that Twitter rubbish leads to somebody being killed. We regulate broadcast media but Labour seems terrified to regulate broadcast social media. Why?

One of my favourite startup genres is “we named our product so badly our first ad campaign is dedicated just to that”

"Dignity and respect" is this decade's version of "Thoughts and Prayers"...

This is horrifying. It classes disabled people as not fully human, because it is saying that they cannot ‘feel’ the same way as an able bodied person would in the same circumstances. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

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"Niles, we're lost. That's the fourth time we've passed by the pile of frankly rather tasteless sheraton armchairs." "Yes, the style clashes with the yellow wallpaper and endless billowing void. Then again, feng shui might fail to accommodate an open floor plan this... er, OPEN"

this is art

Life changing #booksky

hope you brought urine!

Love this bit on Ai from the Royal Society. A classic case of the probability engine getting itself in a mess and revealing its complete lack of understanding

Attempt 2: I've added a shiny new interface to Procedural Race Engine Sound Generator, here is a run through the GUI and sounds for a random set of cars #gamedev #indiedev #unity #screenshotsaturday

It's all kicking off in Canterbury.

The video of JK Simmons at The Mets game tonight is funny on its own, but I most appreciate the respect for Spider-Man continuity that Peter Parker is a Mets fan

THIS IS YORK (1953)

This indie developer is making a slice-of-life sim where you run a night kiosk (think convenience store) in Russia and get to know your customers over time. It's called I Have No Change, will you play this?

Trans people like me are facing segregation now. We need parliament to restore our rights | Alexandra Parmar-Yee l

Been cooking up a visualisation of level generation. What do you think? #madewithunity #indiedev #gamedev