greggman3

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by greggman3 4y ago
Sabine Hossenfelder had a pretty good video about the issues not yet solved with renewables. In particular we don't have viable method for storage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8xsg9iK5yo The short version, when the
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by greggman3 4y ago
The code being compiled, when run, could do anything. As for build time, nearly all the build systems that people use in languages like C, C++, Java, Node, etc can do nearly anything. Saying the compiler can't run user code and make sy
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by greggman3 4y ago
The OPs comment was about 3D. Today, browsers have the Canvas API that makes it trivial to draw on pretty much any platform. Way easier than it was in the past.
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by greggman3 4y ago
I have zero problems with 3D in the browser and I love it way more than native. I can edit/refresh way faster than native, it works across all platforms (Linux/Windows/MacOS/iOS/Android). And I can share things with
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by greggman3 4y ago
Most browsers render nearly everything with the GPU. Chrome and Firefox render most of the browser via Skia and Skia can render with many different native GPU APIs or fallback to software rendering. Safari renders via Core Graphics which is
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by greggman3 4y ago
> If I need to touch 3D hardware, I now have to deal with different API's on different platforms. Been programming since late 70s. Graphics in many ways WAY easier than they were in the 70s, 80s, 90s. Sure there's Metal, Direct
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by greggman3 4y ago
what part of taxes can't be done in paper and basic math? Sure there's possibly 100s or 1000s or tens of 10000s papers to read and basic math to do but haven't personally run into anything other than addition, subtraction, mu
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by greggman3 4y ago
This appears a choice by Europe or at least some cities. Pictures of how bike unfriendly it was in the 70s https://inkspire.org/post/amsterdam-was-a-car-loving-city-in...
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by greggman3 4y ago
Unfortunately, letting the assholes win breeds a world full of assholes. I don't want to die and I'm not going to assert my right of way and risk my life, but, the laws need to be enforced else we get lawlessness and a world of wh
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by greggman3 4y ago
I'd be curious to know what countries don't start the year January 1st and where the origin of their chosen day comes from. I know China's new year is different by a ~3 weeks? Also, I only know a little USA and Japanese cultu
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by greggman3 4y ago
I have that issue with many appliances. Both the washer and drier in my house buzz so loud when they are done I'm surprised my neighbors 2-3 apartments away have not complained. Also have that issue with MacOS!!!! If you have headphone
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by greggman3 4y ago
On the one hand I hate help vampires who appear to show no effort and just want "gimme da codez!" On the other hand, it's impossible to remember what it was like to not know something. So often, just giving hints isn't e
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by greggman3 4y ago
I'm curious what you see as wrong there? The original study said that 50-55% made it back into prison. The new study says it's more like 33% that make it back into prison. Yes, 1 of 3 is better than 1 of 2 but it's still 1 of
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by greggman3 4y ago
I've argued that Likes are evil and should be banned. I've tried in some places to remove them from my life. Via ublock-origin I have them blocked from HN beacuse I feel the rush of elation everytime I see I've posted somethi
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by greggman3 4y ago
I guess I'm not aware of their history. I thought they (Carmack and Romero) were indie bootstrapped business. Their success is being repeated today by 10x to 20x the indie teams, or so it seems to me.
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by greggman3 4y ago
this might sound selfish but for me I think part of it is it's no longer special. In 2002-2003 I was having fun doing something semi-rare, post thoughts online. That all changed with Facebook and Twitter. Suddenly everyone was doing it
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by greggman3 4y ago
I re-watched Sneakers a few months ago based on comments like this. I didn't really enjoy it when it came out and I didn't enjoy it this time either. Not sure why it doesn't work for me.
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by greggman3 4y ago
What part of their story are you referring to? There are lots of indie devs that appear to be having great fun making games and doing well to boot. Valheim, Black Rock Galactic, Celeste, Dead Cells, Papers Please, Stardew Valley, Enter the
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by greggman3 4y ago
Expo: Magic of the White City https://youtu.be/f6HuBYiQEeM I'd have never even gave it a 2nd thought except it is narrated by Gene Wilder and he retired in the late 80s so I though "wow, I wonder how this would br
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by greggman3 4y ago
other wxWidget apps running in the browser?
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by greggman3 4y ago
I'm not. But my iPhone can't run an app as sophisticated as 3DSMax and it doesn't multitask to the same level as that 1995 machine.
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by greggman3 4y ago
It's kind of insane to me that my phone (Android or iOS) requires 2GB of ram and 16GB of storage given that in 1995 my WindowsNT 4.0 PC with 128Meg of ram and maybe 2gb HD ran 3DStudio Max to render 3D effects and movies and and ran Ph
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by greggman3 4y ago
It's not just accessabilty, nothing but English works. Even the keyboard doesn't work as it's hardcoded to keycodes so click the top of the track and click "Name..." and try to enter é and nope let alone 音 I'm
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by greggman3 4y ago
What affect will it have on kids? Every kid can now just stick figure draw into painting or else ask Siri "draw me a picture of Trogdor holding up a sword" etc... I can imagine that having some kind of large influence on creativit
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by greggman3 4y ago
Reading about how it's done it's not so clear those other things are close at hand. Most of these SD things generate very low-res images and then use upscaling to make them high enough resolution that they don't look like cra
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by greggman3 4y ago
Be aware, the code is not framerate independent. Maybe that was intentional? Put up a PR to make it framerate independent but also just wanted to pass it on, if you have code using requestAnimationFrame and you want your effects/animat
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by greggman3 4y ago
I agree with the idea, at the same time I'm sure there's some income vs expense graph that shows expenses raising faster than income and at some point surpassing it. I wonder when it will hit github. At the moment they offer free
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by greggman3 4y ago
I very much disagree with JBlow because I came from games, I had similar opinions, and then I worked on "real software" (Chrome) and I had my thinking corrected. The problems JBlow and similar game devs are solving are not the sam
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by greggman3 4y ago
Strange then that this company based in Germany is full of these dark patterns https://www.internations.org/about-internations/ see the reviews complaining about them https://www.reviews.io/company-revi
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by greggman3 4y ago
> And exploit that difference whenever you can. no thank you. I'd rather live in a world where we try to make it better not race to the bottom

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