- doawooOnly because humans before Claude wrote many NES emulators…
- See the benefit of just using what the original mathematician wrote, is that if they had a problem with a way the graph was rendering, or they wanted to tweak it, they just had to edit the code, no translation layer needed. It shipped like any other component of the product at the time.
- I want to come out and say that a long time ago at a startup we needed to generate a very particular type of analysis graph for a human operator to review in our SaaS.
and I just straight up installed GNU Octave on the server and called out to it from python, using the exact code the mathematician had devised.
- Awesome demo page! SDFs are super fun, and usually pretty useful (in addition to being pretty)
I recall a paper published by Valve that showed their approach to using SDFs to pack glyphs into low res textures while still rendering them at high resolution:
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/2007/SIGGRAPH2007...
- Lol it feels like this is their solution to the "phone too big" problem. Anyways, when's the next iPhone Mini???
- The Tumblr app does this and it’s infuriating
- Well, time to donate more money to Krita, Inkscape, etc.
- > but still in the uncanny valley
that and the guitar player behind the singer in the concert example has three arms :)
- I've gotten used to it on iOS 26 at least, but, I have been using the official macOS release on my work macbook and it's _horrid_. I'm holding onto macOS 15 as long as I possibly can on my personal machine.
- This is a company owned by the same guy whose other company is dumping huge amounts of pollution into the air around Memphis, TN. And when asked they basically said “no we aren’t.”
Something tells me it’s not NIMBYism.
- Glad you say you're coming around on the BEAM. It really is a fantastic virtual machine. Of course if you look at my comment history you'll see I'm a big fan of it and tend to push it, but that's only because it has actually made my job (and hobby) of engineering easier.
There's something elegant about how everything lives inside a process, and communication between those processes is crazy simple, you just `send(pid, value)` and boom you can not only talk across large codebases, but you can talk across _networked clusters of BEAM VMs_ with little setup.
At my current job, we're using it on embedded Linux for IoT devices, and it's really amazing to section off the code into processes that, if something like an i2c sensor or component glitches out, just let the process crash, and have it be restarted automatically by a Supervisor into a fresh well known state.
Definitely give it a look, it's nothing like the JVM ;)
- I ended up grabbing an Ioniq fully electric 2019 and i absolutely love it. Got it for a decent used cost, interior wise it was like new, no huge touch screen, but a decent one for CarPlay and Android Auto, real knobs and buttons, and the online portion is entirely obsolete since it used 3G so it has no connection to the internet! It’s perfect for me
- the beginning of walled garden “AI” tools has been interesting to follow
- Really interesting perspective honestly, I legitimately have no issue with machine learning being used as a tool, like all technology it has benefits!
It’s when it’s used as a replacement for creativity that really gets to me.
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- I wanted to upgrade my NAS with some 12TB drives and two of them in the box from Amazon had been powered on (according to the SMART data) for over a year!
Thankfully got my money back.
- wild that I booted up my SGI O2 the other night just to remember the name of the tech used in the demos that ran inside Netscape! And then spent a whole while reading about VRML.
I wish we had something as easy to deploy interactive experiences on the web like that today.
- I am primarily an Elixir engineer so Dart was the exact opposite of what I’m usually working in, that said it’s not hard to get up to speed on Dart conventions- and other team members were able to get up and contributing in a couple weeks
- Unknown, we don’t use web views at all in our app but I assume it’s possible with some work to get the plugin working
- Flutter Pi had other issues. It required systemd as a dependency just for the event loop which we ended up having to hack out. The Sony embedded project is still being updated and active. And the code quality is much better