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by gdubs 1y ago
Not to mention one of the most ridiculously stacked casts — it's incredible how many greats are in it. And it's one of my favorite hacking movies of all time.
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by gdubs 1y ago
His performance in Spy Game is really great — recently rewatched it. The way he captured so well the idea that younger generations think they've got it all figured out — but the old hats still have some tricks up their sleeve.
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by gdubs 1y ago
They really don't make them like Robert Redford anymore — truly one of my favorite actors who could elevate anything he was in. 89 is an impressive run — especially given how sharp he was right up til the end. If you've never seen
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by gdubs 1y ago
I wanted one of these so bad as a kid. Obviously the mystique was supercharged by their use in VFX, and how filmmakers would sneak them into various shots in movies. Wrote to SGI and they sent some brochures including for this machine. Prin
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Apple's Vision Pro Gaining Traction in Some Niches of Business(wsj.com)
2 points by gdubs 1y ago|0 comments
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by gdubs 1y ago
Time to raise it up again: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
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by gdubs 1y ago
One thing I don't hear a lot of people talk about is building prototypes. That's where I see a gigantic time savings. It doesn't have to be beautiful code, it just has to help me answer a question so I can make a decision abo
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by gdubs 1y ago
I'm not above the old print here or there but the value of an interactive debugger is being able to step and inspect the state of variables at all the different call sites, for instance.
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by gdubs 1y ago
I think the water-usage stuff regarding data centers is really lacking context in online discourse – and yet, I still believe that freshwater usage really needs to be more of a concern for people, generally. I'm not 'anti-AI'
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by gdubs 1y ago
A huge part of the American economy (to take an example) is information services. Yes, we're also incredibly productive farmers, etc. But, a huuugge part of our wealth as a nation is making 'stuff' that isn't really &#x2
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by gdubs 1y ago
AI has been improving at a very rapid pace, which means that a lot of people have really outdated priors. I see this all the time online where people are dismissive about AI in a way that suggests it's been a while since they last chec
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by gdubs 1y ago
This is so satisfying. These types of experiments are something I really love about the open-web, and part of what bums me out about how most social networks tend to throttle links. The dragging behavior is so intuitive – it's funny be
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by gdubs 1y ago
As a kid, I started to get really into computer graphics. But, the textbooks I got as a 15 year old from Borders Books were full of calculus that was literally greek to me. I was also not really enjoying my public school math education. One
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by gdubs 1y ago
Buy a sports team :)
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by gdubs 1y ago
Well, that's delightful. Works really well here in the Pacific Northwest :)
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by gdubs 1y ago
I'm a big proponent of native apps — but credit where it's due, Figma is just one of the slickest web apps. The performance is amazing, and it really never feels like it suffers from being in browser.
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by gdubs 1y ago
I always thought one of the things that made Figma successful was that it was multiplayer from day one. A lot of apps start as single player and then try and bolt the multiplayer experience on later. But Figma was designed around collaborat
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by gdubs 1y ago
Well, funny enough I'm actually working on a visionOS sculpting app at the moment! It's metaballs based, and kind of a different vibe / niche than what you're going for. Eg, more like a sketch than asset production, and
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by gdubs 1y ago
Having been in the app development game for a long time, I know the feeling but have also learned to realize that this is actually not a negative; it means there's a strong signal that there's a desire for 3D apps on these touch d
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by gdubs 1y ago
This is a great question. We've restored over 20 acres of native ecosystems at our farm in the PNW, and one thing that's clear is that some conservationists are attempting to essentially create a painting of a particular moment in
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by gdubs 1y ago
Yea it's funny because I was JUST thinking about how important StarLink has been for us here in rural Oregon. When it goes out, it's even more stark — but it hasn't happened in a very long time here.
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by gdubs 1y ago
I mean, the South Bay is a gigantic suburb and it costs more than that a month.
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by gdubs 1y ago
I mean, some of us are still uploading various hacker-newsy things like this article by Naughty Dog on how they used a custom LISP for their development of Crash Bandacoot for the Sony PlayStation — but they get like, one upvote ;) https:&
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Making the Solution Fit the Problem(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
4 points by gdubs 1y ago|0 comments
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by gdubs 1y ago
Been building my YouTube channel where I cover things like Apple Vision Pro development — as well as some new storytelling directions for me, like my newest short on the Voyager mission's camera problems when it was 2 billion miles fro
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by gdubs 1y ago
I know the "what would Steve say" thing is tired, but seriously you can just imagine him on stage: "And ads in the operating system? YUCK."
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by gdubs 1y ago
Because they designed those guidelines for the best user experience.
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by gdubs 1y ago
Jim Blinn is one of the pioneers of computer graphics. In the early days of the Voyager mission, he was tasked by JPL to create animations illustration Voyager's mission through the solar system. Created on a PDP, with absurdly limited
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How to Make a Planet, by Jim Blinn(archive.org)
3 points by gdubs 1y ago|1 comments
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by gdubs 1y ago
The Star Trek computer – I grew up with TNG – is the example I always think of. They ask it in human language to pull up some data, create a visualization, run an analysis. You get the sense that people also still write programs in the futu

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