cdev_gl

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by cdev_gl 9mo ago
On mobile it took me three tries to find how to get from "Dungeon Crawler" to "Books Like Dungeon Crawler Carl" - you might consider surfacing those lists outside the "what is this book about" collapsible.
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by cdev_gl 9mo ago
I can't speak to the rest of the text or the laptops themselves, but as someone who works with color reproducibility in video and print, those photos comparing colors of two different screens are worse than useless. Uncalibrated screen
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by cdev_gl 1y ago
Really cool project! I like the twelve color palette the author presents, and the grayscales, but I'd love to see more about the choice to use twelve bits to encode it. Presumably enough of the rest of the possibility space is needed t
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by cdev_gl 2y ago
Yea, I too was not expecting a list of past benchmarks. If not the aforementioned actual human deaths, I had expected either a list of companies whose pivot to AI/LLMs led to their downfall (but I guess we're going to need to wait
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by cdev_gl 2y ago
As much as I'd love a long-term solution to dental cavities, I'm leery of any treatment using silver nanoparticles, which can cross the blood brain barrier and accumulate in the brain, where they've been shown (in mice and in
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by cdev_gl 4y ago
Absolutely. The minimal mesh is just 3 triangles rendering a 3D texture that contains depth information that gets raytraced in a shader. Or you could send a single point vertex over and have a geometry shader generate the geometry vertices
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by cdev_gl 4y ago
I was going to argue that remembering "CorrectBatteryHorseStaple.com" is leagues easier than remembering an 128 bit number, but then I did the math and using the 20k most common english words to encode 128bits you'd need an 8
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by cdev_gl 4y ago
This is true, but LastPass proved that by the time the worst case occurs it's already too late. A security breach means, at minimum, redoing all your passwords, and these sites are a very compelling target. OTOH I wouldn't want to
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by cdev_gl 4y ago
Yea, I feel similarly. I'm actually really excited for Lenovo's upcoming T1 wearable display. It's a monitor in glasses form, not VR, but I realized that the appeal of VR desktop environments for me is having a large screen,
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by cdev_gl 4y ago
Before Creative Cloud became subscription only, you could budget the software as a one-time fee; $2500 for their entire suite of software, $600 or so for just Photoshop, iirc. With the subscriptions, you're paying $600+ a year, every y
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by cdev_gl 4y ago
If you scroll down a bit there's a wireframe of the skeleton which is what's actually being animated, and you'll notice it's lacking in bones to define the fingers or even possibly hands. Hence why the hands maintain tha
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by cdev_gl 4y ago
The film Arrival (2016) is well known for hiring consultants- experts in linguistics, other scientists, even Stephen Wolfram- to improve its portrayal of an alien language and the people working to decipher it. Nobody complains when a consu
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by cdev_gl 4y ago
I'd wonder if that's an artifact of the source data, drilling down in the possibility space to be more like some subset that duplicates the image label- for example pulling tweets with body text and alt text. Alternatively I guess
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by cdev_gl 4y ago
When I buy a physical book, I can lend that book to a friend. I own the book. When a library buys a physical book, they can loan that copy out to patrons. They own the physical book. For over ten years now, libraries have taken a single phy
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by cdev_gl 4y ago
Sorry this comes a bit late, but the answer is you don't really need a performance machine for doing layout. Since Adobe's apps were originally built 30 years ago, the minimum requirements remain quite low. Moving images around a
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by cdev_gl 4y ago
I don't know about brave, but the funniest thing I've done with my phone and keyboard is access an amazon workspace to run adobe InDesign for magazine layout while in my tent— sitting in a sleeping bag, a cold rain pattering again
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by cdev_gl 4y ago
This is basically similar to the process I've used to turn my phone into a dev/writing environment for spending months thru-hiking in areas without internet. I use termux to host a jupyterlab instance and bring along a tiny foldin
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by cdev_gl 5y ago
“Death and rebirth, trying and overcoming—we want that cycle to be enjoyable. In life, death is a horrible thing. In play, it can be something else.”
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by cdev_gl 5y ago
I rent a small Linode to run a minecraft server for my extended family. Sometimes it struggles to keep up with just a half dozen of us, and when I tried swapping from a spigot based system to a forge one so the kids could have mods it was b
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by cdev_gl 5y ago
Just like in programming, different spoken languages have different capabilities-- certain ideas are easier to express in one language versus another. Some concepts don't even have words across languages. And there's beauty and rh
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Ask HN: Impressively Responsive Modern Software?
3 points by cdev_gl 6y ago|5 comments
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by cdev_gl 6y ago
I made this same tech-stack decision while working for a company in the manufacturing industry. React, GraphQL, Node.js. There was a reason behind it. The head of the company was pushing to modernize our process flow via software meant to d
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by cdev_gl 7y ago
I'm always impressed by the way a simple turn of phrase can hide disproportionate impact on human lives. Specifically interesting in this context is that the turn of the 20th century, and the 1920s in particular, is really the birth pl