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the sharp point on the bridge is going to hurt your snout.

Great writing. But: The printing press did displace manual copying of texts, not calligraphy. Digital type setting did not displace typography but the manual labor of type setting.…

also: lame, no sound :D

As an old scener myself I both love and hate it. The scene is about breaking rules, even it's own, and in that spirit it's hella cool. On the other hand, at least for me, the scene…

I think 4x4 matrices for 3D transforms (esp homogenous coordinates) are very elegant. I think the intended critique is that the huge n*m matrices used in ML are not elegant - but t…

Super cool! Would love to see the build/deploy steps needed.

The corp speak bs is so strong in this one it could be mistaken for satire.

Twitter link is unreadable by clicking on it.

Really appreciate the very serious reply. But my initial comment had a very different intent: Economic analysis like in the linked article is crazy to me. Predictions for 15 years …

Because this was a reply to my comment: It reads to me a lot like "you are reading the tea leaves wrong". Switch the graph, the time frame. But what would be a better way to talk a…

Lol, yes! I should take my dad's advice and buy forest land in Germany instead of US index funds. And this is not sarcastic - it might actually be the better strategy! But the arti…

This article is initially very well written and convincing. And it started to stress me out a little bit! Am I at great risk for having most of my wealth tied to the dollar? But ta…

Oh, but it's backwards. The call of "Fair Access to Banking" means actually "Easy Access to Suckers".

Be amazed by learning about tail calls in WASM: https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-tail-call the key here is that there are new, different opcodes that can be tail call optimized! Because ta…

You can emulate synchronous await by using a worker thread, marshal your async operation to the main thread, then in the worker use Atomics.wait() to blocking wait on a SharedArray…

I always thought this was called the Tetris packing algorithm. Because you drop in pieces from the top like in a game of Tetris. (no sliding in sideways allowed :))

Adobe/Substance3D Modeler

unfortunate naming, collides with nvidia rtx.

Great stuff! I especially agree with teaching math via raytracing first instead of APIs.

I find this very interesting. I have been toying around how I would design a graphics 101 course myself. Should it start with putpixel style sdl code like we did in the 90s? Or sta…

Amazing experiment from the man who brought us shadertoy.

Love Tracy! One neat feature is that you can import Chrome traces. Instrument with normal JS perf marker API! The Tracy UI is just so much better for viewing them. That said, the t…

Made a (very simple!) shader toy for temporal dither on your webcam: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/clf3Rj

Yeah, I noticed. Tried to look at it myself - I don't have it archived anywhere myself. But last time I looked at it I cringed pretty hard. It's not great code :) But here you go: …

Note that extenders did a lot of emulation stuff for you, which was not really needed if all one wanted was flat 32bit mode. We did it for 4k intros back in the day: https://www.po…