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by astroalex 3y ago
I think it is a different person with the same name.
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by astroalex 3y ago
I agree! Which is why I'm excited by an award promoting small personal websites. It's like an oasis in a barren desert of people trying to sell you things.
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by astroalex 3y ago
> Maybe we have different definitions of "small". You do!
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by astroalex 3y ago
I think you have misunderstood their use of the word "small". It is not small in the sense of having a small file size, loading quickly, or eschewing the use of JavaScript frameworks, but "small" in the sense of being hu
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by astroalex 3y ago
This is awesome. Almost all content on the internet has been centralized by social networks, so it brings me joy to see an appetite for small, personal, non-commercial websites.
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by astroalex 3y ago
> Or the FaceTime call where the woman was talking to 3 other people – why weren't they wearing the goggles? I wondered about that too, but if you watch the whole announcement, they explain it. They create a 3D avatar of you for Fac
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by astroalex 3y ago
Except for the superficial similarity of an orthographic 3D view, this seems nothing like Habbo Hotel. Habbo hotel was multiplayer and had in-game chat. Rooms.xyz does not appear to be multiplayer in that way. Habbo hotel had an in-game cur
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by astroalex 3y ago
Huh? The author wasn’t talking about audio engineering, so I don’t see how that is relevant. The GUI programming issues they’re discussing would be true for any realtime application. The fact they are building a DAW is a bit beside the poin
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by astroalex 3y ago
All substack.com pages freeze for me on iOS Firefox. Anyone else?
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by astroalex 4y ago
Thank you! I used plain javascript without any libraries — firstly to keep the file size low, and secondly as a fun technical exercise.
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by astroalex 4y ago
Author here. Thanks for the kind words and the note about grid cells. That is fascinating.
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by astroalex 4y ago
Hi there, author here. By telling the personal story of how I inherited the rationality meme, I hoped to offer my own critique of rationality. I intended for the sentences you quoted to imply a subtle darkness to rationality, with phrases l
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by astroalex 4y ago
Hi there! Author here. Thanks for the suggestion, I will add that.
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Grid World(alex.miller.garden)
3 points by astroalex 4y ago|0 comments
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by astroalex 4y ago
Considering the audience, this language is more vivid and precise than saying something like "middle management causes bloat." It puts a picture in your head of how that bloat grows and what causes the bloat (the tree structure of
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Recreating artist Sol LeWitt’s procedural wall drawings with GPT-4(amygoodchild.com)
4 points by astroalex 4y ago|0 comments
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by astroalex 4y ago
It's definitely not manual, here are the scripts she used to generate the archive: https://github.com/shelbywilson/melvyn/tree/main/scripts
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by astroalex 4y ago
I love this project!! Ever since my partner and I discovered In Our Time a few years back, it’s been our go-to podcast to listen to together. Part of the allure is that the archive is so vast, but that makes it hard to browse. My partner ma
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by astroalex 4y ago
Anecdotally I have had the exact opposite experience. JavaScript projects generally work after running `npm install` and then running a single build command. Python projects (in my personal experience) require jumping through a lot of hoops
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by astroalex 4y ago
I think this is fascinating. The way that you stated this idea is more interesting and subtle than the original author's quote (to me).
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by astroalex 4y ago
There’s something very satisfying about the idea that the numerals themselves can be generated algorithmically. For example, here’s a nifty Cistercian numeral generator: https://shelby.cool/#/sketch/cistercian-nume
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by astroalex 4y ago
Really exciting work! This reminds me a lot of Physarum (slime mold) simulations popularized by media artists like Sage Jensen[1]. The combination of explicitly defined particles along with fields that those particles can interact with is p
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by astroalex 4y ago
I was a huge fan of Hapland back in the day! My friends and I were obsessed. It actually inspired me to make my own Flash games, which is how I learned programming. So nostalgic to see screenshots of that game.
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by astroalex 4y ago
He is no longer the CEO.
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by astroalex 4y ago
I found the writing beautiful. Sometimes if writing "gets to the point" too directly, it can fail to make an interesting point at all. Weaving together lots of references and ideas provides a lot more nuance and richness IMO.
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by astroalex 4y ago
It’s easy to discount a drawing app because it’s been done so many times before. But simply put, this one is just better than the rest. The UI interaction has been thoughtfully refined and never gets in your way. Over time, it’s become the
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by astroalex 4y ago
I used GPT-3 to help write a formulaic job negotiation email that I was stressing over. I would have spent an hour trying to get the language right; instead it took 30 seconds to write the prompt.
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by astroalex 4y ago
This is a web forum, not a news agency. And I personally find the discussion on these sorts of posts interesting and informative.
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by astroalex 4y ago
The author just explained the algorithm on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shr_id/status/1589238902325669893
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by astroalex 4y ago
Three.js is just a rendering engine -- it wouldn't allow you to create something like this anyway. Also, I don't believe that the bubble toy is related to their physics engine; it seems like a different type of physics. The engine

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