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by mbforbes 1y ago
My favorite essay on this topic, not yet referenced, is James Somers's "Speed matters:" https://jsomers.net/blog/speed-matters
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by mbforbes 1y ago
Really nicely done! It's always surprising to me how often computer graphics isn't "one weird trick" and more like "5 layered tricks." Doing it with cross-browser compat is an additional challenge. Do you have
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DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum(dynomight.net)
23 points by mbforbes 1y ago|4 comments
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by mbforbes 1y ago
You are not stupid! No need to be sorry. It's my job to write more clearly. Thank you again for writing the comment.
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by mbforbes 1y ago
Omg, I was not a BERT coauthor! But thank you so much for writing this, I had no idea that other post could have accidentally implied this. I will revise that section.
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by mbforbes 1y ago
Oh my, those figures are gorgeous! Thank you for sharing.
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Show HN: Weatherspread, visualizing recent weather and tourism data(weatherspread.com)
5 points by mbforbes 1y ago|0 comments
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by mbforbes 1y ago
Same. North America performance (US and Mexico) had ~200ms+ latency per query, spiking to 500ms or higher in the test application I made using workers and D1. Their support channel was a discord, so I posted in it and never got a reply. I w
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by mbforbes 2y ago
In case you're interested: there's an option in the settings to give yourself more time. I've also wondered about disabling the timer entirely. Have you ever had the experience in real life of being hyper-aware of your own &q
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by mbforbes 2y ago
Thank you for the feedback! Getting to speak any time is super interesting feedback, you're the first one to suggest that. It would be really cool if you could even interrupt them! Super mind-bending for me to think of how I'd han
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by mbforbes 2y ago
Thank you so much for buying the full version! I am impressed you broke it! Not because my code is that robust, but nobody's broken it in a while. I'm sorry about that. Investigating!
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by mbforbes 2y ago
Thank you, and thank you for the reference! I hadn't seen "Eliza," the emotional dashboard was really interesting / creepy / cool. 1. Exactly yes. The frontend is a light-ish amount of JavaScript + React, with a rel
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by mbforbes 2y ago
Thank you for the kind words, vision, and feedback! Will be thinking more along the direction of true 'life situation rehearsal.' Re: taking too long, I 100% agree. Wrestled with what to cut. Do you think skipping all the setup sc
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by mbforbes 2y ago
Hehe, I've been surprised how speaking makes the social pressure real. Thank you for the feedback, it makes me think I should add some more lighthearted challenges earlier.
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by mbforbes 2y ago
Thank you for the kind words!
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by mbforbes 2y ago
Too late to edit, but I realized I should have mentioned: I'm happy to answer any questions, and field suggestions, about the tech stack or game design. The tech especially isn't rocket science (first time using Tailwind, FastAPI,
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Show HN: Demo of my web game about social persuasion(talktomehuman.com)
144 points by mbforbes 2y ago|52 comments
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by mbforbes 2y ago
This comment single-handedly made me do an enthusiasm 180. I'd find it helpful if the developers responded to it. Just to give a bit more meat to my comment: these experiences are really helpful when you're in the position to adop
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Delete Your Backlog(maxwellforbes.com)
2 points by mbforbes 2y ago|0 comments
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by mbforbes 2y ago
Really impressive! I've implemented a few kinds of maps on my blog, and I fail all of their requirements: - I use a 3rd party platform - My maps are generated at runtime - They looks... let's say vaguely consistent on mobile &
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by mbforbes 2y ago
Funny coincidence, was just reading through an amazing thread on the three.js form a couple days ago about a web graphics implementation of virtual geometry (nanite). webgl, 2021: https://discourse.threejs.org/t/virtual
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Automating Screenshots: Relishing Making One's Own Tools(maxwellforbes.com)
10 points by mbforbes 2y ago|1 comments
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by mbforbes 2y ago
I've almost used these in projects many times when I wanted to add basic animations quickly. Credits to the authors for making a library with a nice CSS API, good docs, and a nice demo website. ... but I've always found the defaul
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by mbforbes 2y ago
For me, this approach works great with one enormous exception: I must already know exactly what I'm going to write about. I have tried outlining my writing countless times. But inevitably, the real work of thinking meticulously comes w
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by mbforbes 2y ago
Good question! I was (am) using FastAPI, not Django. Another decision that was easy to get started with, but I think is turning out to be more difficult to scale. Maybe.
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by mbforbes 2y ago
It’s interesting to read a lot of push back to the points here. I recently built a product with the backend using SQLite as the data store and ran into all these issues and many more. It is frustrating. I use SQLAlchemy and Alembic. It seem
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by mbforbes 2y ago
I also used Overleaf (and sharelatex before it) for most of my PhD and had no idea it was open source. That's awesome! I randomly logged in to Overleaf the other day to make something quick in latex, and discovered that my dissertation
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by mbforbes 2y ago
Since this article mention's Gwern's site several times: While I admire Gwern's work a lot, I often find his website is trying to do so much that my browser will really struggle. Especially on mobile. It's bad enough I u
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by mbforbes 2y ago
Agreed! I wrote a blog post about this a couple years back.[1] A few things I think are going on: - layout and hyphenation algorithms on the web are worse (or often disabled!) - the lines are often too long - the site's margins aren&#x
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by mbforbes 2y ago
I've been randomly thinking about this a lot! One hypothesis I've been kicking around: human brains like detail. I thought of this on a walk down a (sub)urban city street. - High detail: I first noticed the variety of plants in ju

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