foone OP , vor 29 Tagen

why do calculations when instead you could just do...
im.putpalette(gamma_ramps_applied_greyscale_palette)?

foone OP , vor 29 Tagen

two of the best feelings when programming are:

1. figuring out a really clever way to solve a problem
2. figuring out a really stupid way to solve a problem

mherbert , vor 29 Tagen

@foone ... even better when these describe the same solution ...

eplotner , vor 29 Tagen

@foone It's also great when the clever thing turns out to be incredibly stupid and there's an actual clever way that takes half the code.

lulu , vor 29 Tagen

@foone I love finding out both and then implementing the stupid one out of spite.

allwelikeworms , vor 29 Tagen

@foone Mine "just figuring out any way to solve the damn problem"

sortius , vor 29 Tagen

@foone this is why I struggled with programming, and stuck to server/network admin; I could never tell which were the clever ways, and which were the stupid ways 😖

18+ Toble_Miner , vor 29 Tagen

@foone @whitequark Extra points if the solutions is also really cursed. God, I love it when every vtable, bitbanding region and DMA controller cowers in fear of what I will do to them x)

efi , vor 29 Tagen

@foone how about finding a solution without actually figuring it out?

danderson , vor 29 Tagen

@foone I'm currently debugging a CAD algorithm. I am every way of problem solving right now.

CliftonR , vor 29 Tagen

@foone

I call the latter my "Brute Force and Massive Ignorance approach", after a Roger Zelazny line.

raymierussell , vor 29 Tagen

@foone
Gotta love a Brute force solution that just works.

brokenix , vor 29 Tagen

@foone 3 - figuring out a clever way, only to realise how stupid it was in retrospect

dabeaz , vor 29 Tagen

@foone "There were two paths in the forest. I chose to take the stupid one and that made all the difference."

wolf480pl , vor 29 Tagen

@foone
3. figuring a way to do something that should't be possible
4. figuring a way for something that should be impossible to stop happening

neoluddite , vor 29 Tagen

@foone @dabeaz

edyoung , vor 29 Tagen

@foone as Johnny Mnemonic says, you can either go techical or go crude

requiem , vor 29 Tagen

@foone @santiago The latter is actually even more satisfying I find

drwells , vor 29 Tagen

@foone the best solutions look like they were written by a simpleton and just so happen to correctly cover all corner cases.

WolvericCatkin , vor 29 Tagen

@foone 😹

Why Not Both Take Both GIF

rye , vor 28 Tagen

@foone do while

TheMNWolf , vor 27 Tagen

@foone figuring out where the missing semi colon was supposed to go

elrohir , vor 16 Tagen

@foone quake inverse square root be both

bytebro , vor 15 Tagen

@foone
3. (Possibly a cross-over with point 2) Figure out an 'elegant' way to solve a problem

😂

BoydStephenSmithJr , vor 15 Tagen

@foone Best thing about programming is that you don't actually have to solve the problem(s) to have these feelings! ;)

guardeddon , vor 15 Tagen

@foone
Previously worked for a UK based company. Achieved #2 in Sweden then had to follow up about 6mths later with #1 in Australia. Same problem.

nick , vor 15 Tagen

@foone @cianmm I always prefer (2) because (1) always bites me later 😆

thaggie , vor 15 Tagen

@foone

electranyx , vor 15 Tagen

@foone the irony being that you always understand the stupid solution when you revisit them later while clever solutions are forever lost to time.

stargazersmith , vor 14 Tagen

@foone
I think that's why I slid over into computer science, that satisfaction that comes when you see a solution working before your eyes.

SkipHuffman , vor 13 Tagen

@foone wrong order

dryak , vor 29 Tagen

@foone I am certain several early DOS 3D games did exactly that.

(Doom and Quake, I think? )

foone OP , vor 29 Tagen

@dryak yup. I'm mainly amused at being able to use 90s-ass palette tricks in 2024

sabik , vor 29 Tagen

@foone
Last time I was messing around with palettes, I had accidentally created gif animations with more than 256 colours and needed to work further with them

Amazing how things break if you have an animated gif with more than 256 colours

mogul , vor 28 Tagen

@foone I did something like this to implement a solid-edge toon-shading look to solid-color models on the PS2 in 2000! I gave the polygons a 1D texture where the color ramp was smooth except for a few discontinuities.