Gary Oberbrunner

Tech, VFX, science, music, outdoors. Not here much anymore; find me at @gary.oberbrunner.com on bsky, and @[email protected].

[Gary Oberbrunner @goberbrunner]

@OlexGameDev @maomao_2325 @oxcrows I haven't made it create a .sln file yet. Ninja is pretty great as a back end. Would VS sln files be useful? It does generate compile_commands.json so you get decent support in vs code.

[Gary Oberbrunner @goberbrunner]

@maomao_2325 @OlexGameDev @oxcrows You could also try pcons (https://t.co/6iZc8lmXdl). I wrote it to be better than cmake and I like it better than meson too. (Yes, full Fortran, C, C++ including C++20 modules)

[Gary Oberbrunner @goberbrunner]

@SvetlinTotev @_Felipe @basit_ayantunde If I may jump in here, might I suggest trying my https://t.co/uSkFG2zXC3 build tool? It's way, way better than CMake. Easier, faster, cleaner. You might like it!

[Academy Software Foundation @AcademySwf]

🚀 Want to contribute to open source VFX tech? ASWF Dev Days is Sept 17!
Spend 1 day coding alongside project maintainers on tools like OpenEXR & MaterialX. Beginners welcome!

🎟️ https://t.co/z46Cm5aiwH
#OpenSource #VFX #ASWF #DevDays

[Gary Oberbrunner @goberbrunner]

@samswoora Hard disagree. There will always be a ton of "glue code" wiring things together. A highly readable interpreted language will always be the best fit for that, and Python is dominant in that space, whether written by humans or AIs.

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Pre-order alert: @vincent_ialenti’s upcoming book 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 weaves together nature writing and ethnographic storytelling to invite readers to slow down, inhabit stillness, and cultivate wide-angle temporal imagination in an Age of Haste.

Pre-order here: https://t.co/GTPa5t7YBk

[Gary Oberbrunner @goberbrunner]

@memecrashes Yes, I agree. It is going to be a serious problem. I wrote an article on this: https://t.co/1qgoy9Yo9V

[Gary Oberbrunner @goberbrunner]

@ThomasVanRiet2 It's not just about getting the answers. It's also about teaching people to think and understand and wonder. An anthropomometic race will not find the same questions interesting.

[Gary Oberbrunner @goberbrunner]

@PSherman578071 @WKCosmo It won't be aligned. It will find entirely different theorems and proofs beautiful.

[Gary Oberbrunner @goberbrunner]

@WKCosmo @RedElixier I think customer support and most marketing and much IT support and paralegals will go before mathematicians.

[Gary Oberbrunner @goberbrunner]

@WKCosmo Yes I agree; see https://t.co/259P9gbKI2

[Gary Oberbrunner @goberbrunner]

@alz_zyd_ Try my climate viz tool: https://t.co/Y9ZVF8CtGo, or my deep world timeline app: https://t.co/gSeIjNieZF. There are lots more out there.

[Gary Oberbrunner @goberbrunner]

@sixprime_ @0xlelouch_ YES!! This is exactly why I wrote pcons. Please try it. We should stop hurting ourselves. (https://t.co/6iZc8lmXdl)

[Gary Oberbrunner @goberbrunner]

@StokeWillie That is cool. But in a modern simple build system like pcons, you can just add `lib.private.include_dirs` directly, and you're done.

[Gary Oberbrunner @goberbrunner]

@BeamoSupremo That's exactly why I wrote pcons. Please try it!

[Gary Oberbrunner @goberbrunner]

@df00z @BrianSpragge @peter0x44 Please try pcons, my new cmake replacement! Sooo much nicer than cmake & bazel.

[Gary Oberbrunner @goberbrunner]

@BiankaB12 @EvolvingJuan In today's polycrisis there are elements of both

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

[BOSTON] You’re invited to step out of sync with standard time into the deeper, slower rhythm of arboreal time, with artist-philosopher Jonathon Keats. He’ll be in-person for a conversation about his monumental installation Centuries of the Bristlecone and the science of measuring time with trees, plus a screening of the award-winning making-of documentary about the project.

Arboreal Time: A Screening and Conversation with Artist Jonathon Keats
Friday, July 10 · 3:00–4:00 pm
MIT Museum, Cambridge
Free with museum admission
Details: https://t.co/vva8bhmtfh

[Gary Oberbrunner @goberbrunner]

@rohanpaul_ai @EvolvingJuan Huge fixed *and ongoing* costs. All those GPUs go on the trash in 2-3 years, needing the next generation to keep up.

[Gary Oberbrunner @goberbrunner]

@johnarnold @EvolvingJuan ...and we are only at the beginning of the beginning of this transition.