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Data-Oriented Design Book Review

Pekka Väänänen, Sep 14 2020

Data-Oriented Design (2018) by Richard Fabian

Computers keep getting faster but the future ain't what it used to be. Instead of higher clock rates we get deeper pipelines, higher latencies, more cores. Programming these systems requires paying attention to how we structure and access our data. In Data-Oriented Design Richard Fabian—who has worked at Frontier Developments, Rockstar Games, and Team17—presents us an approach to reason about these issues from a C++ game developer's perspective.

Data-oriented design is about caches and decoupling meaning from data. The former implies laying out your data so that they're compact and predictably accessed. The latter means exposing the raw transforms from one sequence of bits to another. For example, finding the pla

pesterhazy

This gist lists challenges you run into when building offline-first applications based on IndexedDB, including open-source libraries like Firebase, pouchdb and AWS amplify (more).

Note that some of the following issues affect only Safari. Out of the major browsers, Chrome's IndexedDB implementation is the best.

Backing file on disk (WAL file) keeps growing (Safari)

When this bug occurs, every time you use the indexeddb, the WAL file grows. Garbage collection doesn't seem to be working, so after a while, you end up with gigabytes of data.

Random exceptions when working with a large number of indexeddb databases (Safari)

mickeypash

George Hotz - talking hour

• Recommendation Martin Shkreli Finance Lesson

• Book: White Noise by Don DeLillo

• Nietzsche, Kirkegard, Kafka are accessible reading material

• The Century of the Self

• David Foster Wallace

  • David Foster Wallace - The Problem with Irony

• Post-Modernism is irony, cynicism, deprication, seen in Fight Club

katef

/*
 * John Conway's Game of Life.
 *
 * This is written for POSIX, using Curses. Resizing of the terminal is not
 * supported.
 *
 * By convention in this program, x is the horizontal coordinate and y is
 * vertical. There correspond to the width and height respectively.
 * The current generation number is illustrated when show_generation is set.
 *

briandeheus

[Unit]
Description=Restart trackpad after suspend
After=basic.target suspend.target hibernate.target

[Service]
User=root
Environment=DISPLAY=:0
ExecStart=/usr/bin/restart-trackpad

[Install]

hunterloftis

3 Ways to design the lightmap API

The purpose of the module is to create and update path-traced 2D lightmaps. For example, to create interesting dynamic top-down lighting in a 2D game.

Option 1: Trace on lightmap

lm := lightmap.New(image.Rect(0, 0, 100, 100))
light := lightmap.Light{

briandeheus

# Names of herself and her friends
names = [
    'megumid.',
    'anna',
    'kana'
]

for name in names:
    print('Hello', name)

silvesthu

GPU Optimization for GameDev

Graphics Pipeline / GPU Architecture Overview

• 2011 - A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
• 2015 - Life of a triangle - NVIDIA's logical pipeline
• 2015 - Render Hell 2.0
• 2016 - How bad are small triangles on GPU and why?
• 2017 - GPU Performance for Game Artists
• 2019 - Understanding the anatomy of GPUs using Pokémon
• 2020 - GPU ARCHITECTURE RESOURCES

JoeyBurzynski

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

munificent

#include <time.h> //  Robert Nystrom
#include <stdio.h> // @munificentbob
#include <stdlib.h> //     for Ginny
#define  r return    //    2008-2019
#define  l(a, b, c, d) for (i y=a;y\
<b; y++) for (int x = c; x < d; x++)
typedef int i;const i H=40;const i W
=80;i m[40][80];i g(i x){r rand()%x;
}void cave(i s){i w=g(10)+5;i h=g(6)
+3;i t=g(W-w-2)+1;i u=g(H-h-2)+1;l(u