Chat Official Chat Thread - The Third

She dooooooooooooooo.

Also put me on the list of people screwed over by the overcast last night. fml

 

Holy slagging molten SHEET!
There is flowing, salty water on mars!

This piece went shortly after NASA's press conference, which you can check it here:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

 

DNA research seems to be going along pretty well.

'Kay.

 

I really need to get back into coding, coding is so fun, but I always go into it and then lose motivation, despite how profitable it is (the maker of flappy bird was making $50,000 a DAY when he took it down, thats over 18 million dollars a year.)

 

mars so salty

What resources are you using?

 

This so makes me want to get into deep system level programming. I want to make a programming language that is built for the GPU, since GPUs seem to have their own processing and memory like a CPU and system memory does, why not make a language for that? This way GPUs will be able to do better processing, allowing consumers to get good graphics power for a cheaper price.

Yo Simon, there's gonna be a crap load of stuff for you to study when programming. The firs thing you wanna do is get some core stuff like basic syntax and structure. Know the loops, data types and arrays. Python is a good language to start on. After that, find out what kind of programming you wanna do. Systems, applications, games, science, networking, web, whatever and find out which language is common for that subject. There's also plenty of free books and tutorials to find. Also learning coding like any other craft, is gonna be tedious in the beginning, most of the time you're probably gonna be messing around with strings and other things that is text only. You'll get into the nitty gritty soon, just keep at it and remember why you want to code in the first place.

 

Visual Studio Community 2015, and that's pretty much it.

Hey, its probably that same card I mentioned that had 16GB HBM2 VRAM and like 7500 cuda cores

 

Systems programming is hell don't do it

SEMAPHORES SO MANY SEMAPHORES

Also there's no specific language, I suggest if you wanna get into that stuff you learn more about how computers and stuff work on a technical level. GPU hardware is largely utilised through libraries like DirectX. Systems level programming is typically done through a low level language such as C (hell, a text editor like vim or nano and GCC is pretty much enough to write your own OS, although you'll need a little bit of microcontroller knowledge to handle bootstrapping iirc). Microcontroller level code (such as for embedded systems) will vary depending on the architecture of whatever you're using.

 

Thanks for the tips, I know that systems level is harder compared to the other kinds, but I like to get into the deep stuff, even though that stuff is complicated. Plus since its so much of a hell, there's probably gonna be way less programmers working on that stuff and more on the application level of things, so that means more job openings for me, or so I think. Any more tips? Websites and books maybe?

 

Maybe I should get this game...

 

learn machine code /s

Now that I think about it, is there any use for programming something in machine code in the modern day?

 

sick performance gainz

 

you should

edit: also fun fact, the song debuted in an Earthbound hack and then reappeared in Homestuck.

 

Absolutely. Anything that's not running an OS (read 99% of all electronic devices) requires machine code. Even more advanced electronics running firmware and stuff probably have to dabble in it.

 

I just need to figure out how to install Ruby on Linux.

 

You should, but fair warning, to go to the boss that plays this theme, well, you are gonna have a bad time

 

I saw hot fuzz a while ago. I was disappointed in the lack of fuzz.