rezmason

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   by rezmason 3y ago

   Got the matrix working. I tried adjusting the UV so we could see the top of the sphere, but I gave up. For what it's worth, the threejs uniforms "projectionMatrix" and "modelViewMatrix" can be referenced in the GLSL
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   by rezmason 3y ago

   In 2006 I shipped my iBook to Apple to fix its screen bezel. I made a Flash animation where my laptop cheekily described its issue, thanking the technicians in advance, and I made it launch on startup. The iBook came back with a factory res
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   by rezmason 3y ago

   In many ways, you're right. In my opinion, the main strength of WebGPU is it removes the cost of re-implementing something when targeting a different platform. If that was present in 2015, maybe we'd have more games, more interest
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   by rezmason 3y ago

   Buffalo Bill is taking a Break from Victim in a Hole
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   by rezmason 3y ago

   I'm not misinterpreting the FIRE survey, because I'm not interpreting the FIRE survey— I'm interpreting Nate Silver's stance in his article. After all, he's framing this as the left abandoning free speech. Also, whe
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   by rezmason 3y ago

   I'm not ignorant or acting in bad faith just for disagreeing with you. You can inspect my stance and speculate on where we agree and disagree, or you can ignore me. I'm choosing to ignore you. But first: welcome to somewhat-anonym
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   by rezmason 3y ago

   The megaphone isn't your right. You're confusing it, again and again, with speech. The megaphone isn't speech, and you aren't entitled to it.
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   by rezmason 3y ago

   Generally, the people who get one are: - the ones who buy one - the ones who borrow one - the ones who find one - the ones who make one And if you hurt someone with a megaphone, you should expect to lose it. In other words, a megaphone is j
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   by rezmason 3y ago

   It's wrong to equate people abandoning free speech with people not wanting to host people with specific stances at a venue. Free speech isn't about flinging the door open to everyone. It's about not incarcerating them, and no
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    by rezmason 3y ago

    Here is my Base64 encoder shader: https://github.com/Rezmason/excel_97_egg/blob/main/glsl/base... I got it down to about thirteen lines of GLSL: https://github.com/Rezmason/exce
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    by rezmason 3y ago

    This looks great. Audio's left-speaker only? Might be a problem on my end. I will learn video poker, and get good at this. I wouldn't mind an option to disable the CRT simulation, but it's outstanding anyway.
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    by rezmason 3y ago

    I was conflicted when I first read this, because it's beautiful and speaks to the actual tenets of ideal conservative thought: preserving and making accessible the hard-learned lessons of the past. But like real conservative thought, i
13. 163.▲
    by rezmason 3y ago

    I own one of only 5,000 copies?!
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    by rezmason 3y ago

    I wonder if this book informed the programmers who created the Excel 97 magic carpet / flight simulator easter egg
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    by rezmason 3y ago

    Not only cool looking, but good code and attention to detail!
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    by rezmason 3y ago

    I readily admit I'm taking some pixeliberties with it. :) The font's because of me, and the purple title bar, but I think I grabbed those grays from 98.css. I might change them to values in my own color lookup table. ...God DAMN d
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    by rezmason 3y ago

    Another great resource to create web experiences that look like old versions of Windows is 98.css by Jordan Scales: https://jdan.github.io/98.css/ With it, you don't need to use React to get decent results, see?
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    by rezmason 3y ago

    I hope WebGPU is going to pull it off.
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    by rezmason 3y ago

    If you're reading this from the future, I've changed the URL params in my project. Up to date ones should be in the about page: https://rezmason.github.io/excel_97_egg/about.html
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    by rezmason 3y ago

    I think the "Hacker News readers" and "People who like dithering" Venn diagram has converged slowly over time. I'm a happy resident of the overlapping zone. A classic visual explainer from the team behind Myst and R
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    by rezmason 3y ago

    Also, we may be able to create those packages from parts of browsers, which wouldn't be a re-implementation, and would benefit from the rigor of the standards. I agree that it would be kind of silly to then put this in the browser. Ins
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    by rezmason 3y ago

    Thanks for writing this article! I am super excited about WebGPU. One not-so-fancy prospect worth commenting about on HN, though, is replacing Electron. With WASM-focused initiatives to create hardware accelerated UI in the browser, we may
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    by rezmason 4y ago

    If you compiled me, you'd know that you are a type who I respect ;) I think you're right on many counts, and I appreciate the effort you took to see what TS could do for this kind of project. If you create an issue on the repo, I
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    by rezmason 4y ago

    I love seeing folks pour monumental effort into their passion projects.
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    by rezmason 4y ago

    That is very odd. I wonder what your Chrome browser's zoom is set to, that might affect its resolution. If you create an issue on the repo, I'll try and figure it out when I have the bandwidth.
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    by rezmason 4y ago

    Yep, my third attempt in ten years! The original was written in "JujuScript", with strong types and novel operators. I pretended it was Haxe, and ran around fixing compiler errors it till it compiled to JavaScript. I built out a s
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    by rezmason 4y ago

    I agree, but the original creator put them in and they add some spice to the environs. I like to joke that Australia (where Drivey originally comes from) has a low enough population that the pedestrians are in no real danger ;)
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    by rezmason 4y ago

    Pleased to meet you! ^_^ Nightdrive is a jewel. Some people are making a strong case (I think) for calling these types of projects "demos", but also, I think the inability to fit them in the arbitrary structure of existing nomencl
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    by rezmason 4y ago

    Not sure why you're downvoted, the Matrix is canonically AI-generated. Any personal objection I'd have to this just cements the idea further to the fiction, you know?
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    by rezmason 4y ago

    Everyone needs a hobby! :D A year ago, when the fourth movie's trailers premiered, I wrote a script to slice the glyphs out of the video, and then identified the new ones and redrew them as best as I could. I missed a couple "punc