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> You're being downvoted unfairly. Careful, you are not supposed to breath the D word around here. We need philosophy now more than ever.

Since we are throwing around shallow mantras in lieu of a discussion, "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." If my original thoughts on bore you, I guess I'll sk…

I'm tempted to just say "Q.E.D. (see my unpopular comment above downvoted and greyed out.)". > A downvote, in contrast, isn't something that wastes our reading time. Unless the com…

There has been some research on directly visualizing the effects of relativity, e.g.: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2829521_Time_Dilati... It might be a fun project to i…

On the other hand, isn't an anonymous down-vote on a comment, without the need for substantiating reasons, also an extremely shallow dismissal of someone's thoughts? Maybe when som…

Blinn's classic paper "How many ways can you draw a circle?" seems relevant (discusses CORDIC): https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4057251

Thanks for the info! I'm currently using the hash table from Femtolisp, works OK for my small tests, might need something better for production. My symbols are currently limited AS…

I've been looking for a map like C++ STL written in C. I need to lookup symbols to get function pointers, among other uses. Part of a general process of replacing C++ with C. Maybe…

Overall, working on a CAD system using SDF and functional representation. Currently flattening a C++ OO scene graph library to a use functional approach. Also, today, continuing wo…

I haven't written any Tcl/Tk/Expect recently. It is interesting to know they are still being used, thanks for the updates. Expect was also quite useful for testing command-line app…

Arguments against Tcl like: https://vanderburg.org/old_pages/Tcl/war/0000.html aside, I found Tcl/Tk along with with the extension Expect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect to b…

It works both ways. I'm not addressing the Signal project in particular, but maintainers of free software projects need to be polite and professional (in words and deeds) as well. …

As a generalist trying to develop a CAD system using SDF and functional representation, the details of isosurface extraction are interesting to me (if somewhat tedious at times). R…

A winner from 1993 is very interesting too: https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#1993_dgibson It implements Conway's Game of Life by creating a DSL using the C preprocessor and printf.…

If you are interested in the evolution of film, including the silent ones, this course on MIT OCW is a good resource: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-011-the-film-expe..…

That's what W. Shatner suggests: https://twitter.com/WilliamShatner/status/122016331710624153...