pixelpoet

7 ms·

91.
by pixelpoet 6mo ago
Good, because I was seriously considering returning to NZ out of fear of being drafted into a war.
92.
by pixelpoet 6mo ago
Great post, and I instantly recognised the lyric; love Enya <3
93.
by pixelpoet 6mo ago
... in the multiverse. Who are we kidding, this is literally Marvel's combinatorial formula.
94.
by pixelpoet 6mo ago
The Shark of Wall St
95.
by pixelpoet 6mo ago
We've already had Cocaine Crabs from Outer Space: https://imdb.com/title/tt28651516/
96.
by pixelpoet 6mo ago
> Usually, they generate so much text that it becomes impossible to follow through. Quite often on reddit I'll write two paragraphs and get told "I'm not reading all that". Really? Has basic reading become a Herculean
97.
by pixelpoet 7mo ago
As it happens I'm just on a train to Airbnb with large group of demoscene and fractal art friends, full week ahead of the Revision[0] demoparty! Hells yeah My top pick for pixel art would be anything by Made of demogroup Bomb, don&#x27
98.
by pixelpoet 7mo ago
Not in British English, is my point. Look for example on the BBC, it's written "Nasa". I'm not saying I agree with it, but it's something you learn living in UK and former commonwealth countries.
99.
by pixelpoet 7mo ago
Yeah it's such a buzzkill when you have to respect the rule of law :'( Won't someone please think of those poor tech giants and their ability to push purposely addictive and radicalising social media to children?!
100.
by pixelpoet 7mo ago
So let's just fully descend to barbarism too, because petrol is a touch on the pricey side and I wanted to go on vacation to Spain this year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
101.
by pixelpoet 7mo ago
That's a direct lie, just read the page you ostensibly wrote. It contains several times the imperative "support us" and talk about paying your bills, which is obviously asking for money. You know what, fuck this. It's Fr
102.
by pixelpoet 7mo ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the burden of proof lies with the one making the claim. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law - > The amount of energy needed to refute bu
103.
by pixelpoet 7mo ago
Are you sure you asked enough times for money on the website? I only counted 5 instances, not counting the AI-produced PDF doc.
104.
by pixelpoet 7mo ago
Great article, thanks for sharing. And such a lovely website too :)
105.
by pixelpoet 7mo ago
I hate everything about this headline and metric. As a lifelong graphics programmer from Pentium U/V pipeline assembly optimisation days: so fucking what . I have never cared about LinkedIn or GitHub stars or any of those bullshit met
106.
by pixelpoet 7mo ago
> Anyone building modern software depends on language registries such as Maven Central, PyPI, npm, crates.io, and others So, who's going to tell Linus Torvalds (among many others) he's not writing modern software? I have a feel
107.
by pixelpoet 7mo ago
> Gatekeeping. OK, fine, but at the very least this has been Apple's stance for a very long time now Are you sure you're not apologising for Apple?
108.
by pixelpoet 7mo ago
Amdahl's law is about the maximum speedup obtainable from parallelism, not balancing memory bandwidth with compute.
109.
by pixelpoet 7mo ago
It's an acronym (like Nasa), not an initialism (like the NSA). I think it might be a British English thing.
110.
by pixelpoet 7mo ago
Quite a coincidence, but how did you know he's Austrian?
111.
by pixelpoet 7mo ago
I stared at that little image for hours, just being blown away that a computer can show so many colours. Then I became a graphics programmer...
112.
by pixelpoet 7mo ago
> 6k would be a no-brainer. "It’s one banana, Michael, how much could it cost? 10 dollars?"
113.
by pixelpoet 7mo ago
Too little, too late; I've already switched to Linux last November and never looked back. Microsoft Copilot 365 Operating System App is just trash, plain and simple.
114.
by pixelpoet 7mo ago
Compared to yesterday my Claude Max subscription burns usage like absolutely crazy (13% of weekly usage from fresh reset today with just a handful prompts on two new C++ projects, no deps) and has become unbearably slow (as in 1hr for a p
115.
by pixelpoet 8mo ago
I wrote about this solution vaguely the last time this link came up (wasn't that long ago either, I think?) and you've filled in all the details and the essential Karras paper link; great post :)
116.
by pixelpoet 8mo ago
My goodness, finished all your Jira tickets early this week huh? That's a good boy! [fuzzy scritches and wharrgarbling intensifies] Honestly I wouldn't mind a bit of that now and then myself, but I guess stable employment will h
117.
by pixelpoet 8mo ago
Who's a good software developer? [scritches]
118.
by pixelpoet 8mo ago
like Mondo 2000 :)
119.
by pixelpoet 8mo ago
I'd appreciate a link that isn't full of thousands of individual "legitimate interest" things to click off.
120.
by pixelpoet 8mo ago
Pretty great demos, and they do indeed run well on my phone; I suspected it might be an AI thing because of the tautology in the title, but it seems hand written. Particularly cool is the recreation of that classic scene from Kajiya's

More ›