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WillMorr

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    When I get out of my domain, I always ask it to describe things to me "like I'm a senior CS student who doesn't know any industry terms". I find it really easy to skim past the def…

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    Comment #49156104

    The thing I think is so frustrating about this is it's the absolute worst case middle ground between two much more productive experiences. Either solve the problem yourself by unde…

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    Comment #49140581

    Nice work!

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    Comment #49130364

    It's really interesting hearing moderate takes from an author. It feels like most people with strong enough opinions to make a blog post are either (reasonably) digging in against …

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    Comment #48708013

    You can always go full Danger and just title tracks with the time you finished them at

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    Comment #48621266

    I played a ton of ZK back in 2016-21, it's the most polished game of its kind imo. The cold takes series is excellent, rts balance is such a hard problem and it makes for interesti…

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    Comment #47948493

    Hell yeah. I feel like if the world ended there would be a group of trans woman with a wind powered experimental estrogen generator inside of a week.

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    Comment #47916358

    Clever! I really appreciate how well done the tutorial is, it's just about the easiest game intro I've ever experienced.

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    Comment #47381067

    Thanks for organizing this! I had a great time playing with the system for a week even though I did not get anywhere close to the prize pool. I have no idea if anyone checks these …

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    Comment #47279211

    I've been working on a surprisingly similar project for the last week: plants grow cells on a grid by executing a raw chunk of memory according to a simple instruction set. I'm aim…

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    Comment #47247906

    Very nice visualization, the fade out really adds to the organic feel. I've been playing with a similar system but designed for 3d printing, it's simple to make it self-supporting …

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    Comment #47068308

    Since IP law is apparently dead, does anyone want to invest in my ai generated novel startup where it just spits out Harry Potter verbatim but uses a bunch of power to do so.

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    Comment #47042320

    Not a golfer but I'm a big fan of the pretty plots.

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    Comment #46963894

    It's fascinating how he has fully outsourced his conscience to the TikTok content guidelines. With all of the discussion about what restrictions should exist on platforms it never …

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    Comment #46636453

    I've recently starting posting again on my project blog https://willmorrison.net . Someone else shared my most recent thing here and I wound up sticking around.

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    Comment #45878291

    I haven't actually measured it but that's a good thought, I may borrow a thermal camera and do some testing! It's not noticeably warm to the touch but this functionally a system th…

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    Comment #45872143

    Mostly speed, I'm mostly doing large boolean unions of primitives or chain hulls and OpenSCAD chugs pretty good at large numbers of operations. Don't get me wrong, they're great to…

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    Comment #45872065

    I've actually done clear prints with LEDs installed. The bottom is much brighter than the top and it just look kinda tacky. I briefly hollowed out the supports and tried running fi…

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    Comment #45872035

    That's pretty much it! It's the simplest method of supports I could come up with that allows for robust keepout zones. I did have a bunch of issues at first with supports blocking …

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    Comment #45869715

    I actually attempted this, the idea of a python script that converts a midi track into a marble run is just too good to not try. I printed a large drum with different track structu…

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    Comment #45869157

    That sounds super interesting, do you have a link?

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    Comment #45869151

    It's actually much weirder than that: banking changes the axis of rotation and thus kills the rotational inertia. The tracks bank super aggressively in order to prevent the ball fr…

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    Comment #45869039

    It's specifically using SolidPython2 to generate the models. I originally wanted to do a quick code cleanup and have the specific math be much clearer but by the time it was workin…

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