Tags: AI Ethics, Human Agency, Philosophy of Tech, Gemini, The Future of Humanity, Creative Stewardship While contemporary anxieties—like “Terminator” scenarios or displacement of the workforce—are understandable and often justified, they overlook the essence of the subject. AI is not an alien force, it is a linguistic model synthesized from our entire cultural and technical ancestry. […]
Tags: C++, Philosophy of Code, Engineering vs. Trade, Software Architecture, The Art of Programming While C++ developers still exist (as endangered Red List species), the Global Market’s ever-growing hunger for faster and cheaper solutions is actually killing this frighteningly thinning layer of unique Real Engineers. We are seeing a shift from Craftsmen to easily-replaceable Technicians […]
The Architecture Logic of Biblical Creation: programmer’s POV Tags: System Design, Linguistics, Philosophy, Ancient History, C++, OOP In short: What if Biblical Creation wasn’t about “making” stuff ? Disclaimer: This is NOT a religious discussion. I’m not trying to question the Bible. I’m trying to question my own perception of it through a “reverse engineering” […]
Tags: Game Engines, Custom 3D Engine, Software Architecture, Unity and Unreal, Independent Development, Low-level Programming Some people ask why I choose not to use Unity or Unreal, considering them obvious, almost the only possible choice. Will try to explain in details: From the beginning I was looking for what could differ me from what is […]
For 3D modeling, this is actually a non-trivial question. When we talk about humans, our natural assumption is that “right” is relative to the back, not the front. For example, what is to the right of your face is actually your left hand: The same logic applies to cars: the “right” side is determined from […]
How to download repository from GitHub 1. Open provided GitHub repository link, for example (like in chapter 3) https://github.com/bkantemir/_wg_403 2. Click green button “Code”. 3. I usually use “Download ZIP”. 4. When downloaded, go to your Downloads folder and unpack downloaded zip file to your hard drive (usually C:). 5. Since in my case all […]
Suddenly noticed that while running, memory consumption is slowly but steadily creeping up: which can only mean one thing: Well, then we need to find (detect) and fix it (or them). Some sort of memory leak detection tool would help. Visual Studio offers it’s own set of “CRT debug heap functions”. However, I was unable […]
I’ll admit, I had my doubts about my initial choice of OpenGL ES: After digging deeper, I finally have some answers. Vulkan: The Powerhouse Is it good? In short: yes. However, my primary interest is portability, and that is where Vulkan falters: For my intentions, these drawbacks are enough to exclude it from consideration. OpenGL […]
A few days ago I started receiving the following messages from Windows Defender: Microsoft Visual Studio: Unable to start program ‘C:\CPP\…\w.exe’. Operation did not complete successfully because the file contains a virus or potentially unwanted software. At the beginning it didn’t bother me much, since project rebuild usually helped. But finally Defender “promoted” me (along […]
I reached the point in my blog where I had to share not just a screenshot, but video. This task splits in a few steps: 1. Capturing the video So, I have an animation on my screen, which I want to record/capture. Windows 10 offers a Capture Utility to record your display. It’s a part […]