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Reminds me of juicero, apperently it's engineering was also pretty solid.

The juicero wasn't well-engineered, it was overbuilt, and comically so. Apparently BOM cost did not feature in the product requirements.

There's a saying - anyone can design a building that stands, but only an engineer can design a building that just barely stands.


> There's a saying - anyone can design a building that stands, but only an engineer can design a building that just barely stands.

Haven't heard that one but it makes a lot of sense lol


Would be fun if this devolved into psychodelic, hypnotic videos that have no cognitively discernable content (like white noise) but evoke an urge to press the like button.

I'm just curious if such thing is possible.


Half of TikTok is blurry videos wtere you can’t tell what’s happening overlaid with meaningless text and random noises, so this wouldn’t be much different.


Yeah, I thought lack of typing in python was intentional to support this another paradigm of programming for geniuses who don't need hand holding.

Turns out they just didn't know any better?


How would a static type system have anything to do with handholding?


This is random, but I wonder if it would be possible to render BG3 with isometric camera, and then, on the fly, convert most of 3d objects into sprites.


In an alternative reality, Chris invented Mojo at Apple (instead of Swift).

If one language was used for iOS apps and gpu programming, with some compatibility with python, it would be pretty neat.


That was originally what swift was meant to be actually.


Interesting that the perception of objects/text does not disappear immediately, there is smooth fade out.


> that said, the default mode network should not be unjustly demonized.

Yeah, scrolling tiktok is pretty good at silencing the DMN. This practice does not seem to be particularly beneficial.


Funny that EU made iPhones more compelling by enforcing USB-C and side loading.


How does this compare to React-like approach (React, Flutter, SwiftUI)?

It seems like those libraries do what IMGUI do, but more structured.


ImGUIs you do whatever you want with your state. You read your state and call UI functions.

React requires knowing about your state because it wants to monitor all of it for changes to try to optimize not doing things if nothing changed. This ends up infecting every part of your code to do so. It's the number 1 frustration I have using React. I haven't used Flutter or SwiftUI so I don't know if they are analogus


Reminds me of bitcoin for some reason. There are some logical reasons for these things to exist, but from outside perspective, it's just more advanced ant mill.


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