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by adfm 2y ago
WebGPU is most definitely not outdated. It's a unified interface for all things floating point. From the datacenter to the watch on your wrist. However, most folks not deep into the inner workings will ever touch it. What it does do is
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by adfm 2y ago
Dan Kaminsky once showed me a volume renderer he was noodling with, but instead of MRI data, he had loaded frames from video footage of an explosion. I remember it having a 4D feel to it.
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"Yes, it's like 'goldy' and 'bronzy' only it's made out of iron." --Baldrick
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You are witnessing culture propagating beyond algorithmic boundaries. If you find this strange, consider the etymology of jazz itself.
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Messy Nessy is a popular blog and Django Reinhardt is "considered by some the greatest guitarist who ever lived," so I find it odd that you'd declare that his music hasn't aged well. Adrian, Simon, Jacob, and the folks a
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by adfm 3y ago
Seems like you’re looking for something to scrub rendered frames. Otherwise, just upload to Sketchfab and embed their viewer. It’s very capable and purpose built for what you’re looking to do.
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or one of these… https://xkcd.com/466/
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Is there much of a performance hit with a stereo view?
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Not open source, but plays well with others, SimpleMind is an inexpensive mind map tool that works across Mac, iOS, Windows, and Android. Actively developed for over 15 years with regular releases, it’ll export plain text, OPML, PDF, etc. a
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No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind.
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No joke: The guy that coined the term is the same guy that made the merit badge. Enjoy looking that one up.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride…
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The use of “full-stack” was the first thing I noticed. Everyone, please stop using that term. I’m pretty sure, with a high degree of certainty, you don’t know what it means. If you do, there’s a merit badge waiting for you. And can we pleas
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There is a lot of noise out there and it is only going to get worse with generative AI effortlessly pumping out hallucinatory mediocrity. It is up to all of us within earshot to boost the signal and suppress the noise.
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If this project is abandoned, what are the simple options for building graphical programs on Mac, Windows, and Linux?
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The current top story on vice.com, “Inside the Christian Nationalist Church Where Proud Boys Go to be Baptized,” is a bit thick. “Meaner, faster, and more dynamic.” Ha! David Carr had their number off the bat: https://youtu.be&#x
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I just ate a bowl of Bob's steel cut oats this morning. They're the best in the business. The flours that Bob's Red Mill produces are top quality and of a purity hard matched by others. I admire his dedication to producing a
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Joe Rogan ceased his podcast the moment he signed with Spotify. The Joe Rogan Experience lives in a walled garden and I stopped paying attention to it as a result. Did the move get Spotify more subscriptions? Maybe. It turns out he recently
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Django + htmx
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They are all related as they are all primary examples of technologies enabled by hardware-accelerated floating point math. Pro tip: WebGPU provides a common API to all hardware acceleration going forward. From the din of bitcoin miners park
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Everyone is looking for the "killer app" so they have something to anchor the concept. Put simply, the Web fits the bill. Apple has invested in the space because they can't afford not to. Their App Store model starts to show
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With DHH and others promoting a post-SaaS approach (once.com, etc.) we might see hardware refresh as cost-cutting. Astronomical compute bills and lack of granularity bring all things cloudy into sharp focus.
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Adrian Cockcroft wrote about his Hertz experiences back in April. Update: Bad experiences renting electric cars from Hertz https://adrianco.medium.com/experiences-renting-electric-car...
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by adfm 3y ago
Yeah you do! King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Amyl and the Sniffers, Tame Impala (Perth), The Chats (SC) are murdering it.
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Grifters rely on shame for the con to work. It’s a trip watching marks double down and reenforce the narrative. Those talking points become your mantra because you don’t want others finding out how far in the hole you are.
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You’d think they’d consider using a clear oleophobic overlaminate instead of flashy graphics that attract attention to the issue. Good design is more than visual.
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What steps are being taken to transition to other forms of sustainable power generation beyond 2030? Solar and wind are pricing coal out of the market and modern nuclear options seem viable, yet we keep hearing “five more years.”
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The core of what Adobe offers is centered around a deteriorating print paradigm with digital capabilities tacked-on. Figma is of the Web whole cloth. They may look similar and do similar things, but there's a reason they made a move. A
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Fascinating article. If this catches your attention, do check out The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated: The Empire That Was Russia[^1] exhibit at the Library of Congress website. Not only is it a technological marvel itself, b
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O'Reilly transformed into a learning platform a while back. They still publish books, which are great for going deep, but their selling point is that you get unlimited access to a good chunk of the tech publishers' books, videos,

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