pttrn

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by pttrn 22d ago
I thought so too when I bought a beefy iMac Pro in 2017. But then guess what, new CPU architecture and 10 years down the line it's not supported anymore. Yes I can stay on whatever OS was last supported, but the tools also start ditchi
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by pttrn 1mo ago
No this was in the UK.
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by pttrn 1mo ago
16pt is huge on this monitor, fits too few code lines on screen. 18 is almost headline sized. But anyway doing these acrobatics is not what a professional should be doing in 2026.
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by pttrn 1mo ago
No, just normal font sizes, macOS. 14pt looks huge, had to lower it to 12pt to look physically about the same as 14pt on a 4K/5K 27”, but at that physical size it’s a blurry mess due to low ppi. Edit: Oh I misread your comment as 6 pix
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by pttrn 1mo ago
Yeah I’m on macOS.
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by pttrn 1mo ago
Just started a new remote contracting gig and did a one-week on-site “getting to know each other” thing. I was shocked that everyone in the office had dual 27” 1080p monitors. Didn’t know they even made 1080p monitors that big! Anyway after
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by pttrn 7mo ago
https://archive.li/OAEU2 (archive.is seems down for me)
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by pttrn 8mo ago
vkQuake.app works great on Apple silicon Macs.
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by pttrn 1y ago
Just went there to check it out, it opened the front page in Russian(?) for me, even though English was selected in the top right. I re-selected English, it refreshed the page... in Russian. Close tab.
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by pttrn 1y ago
https://xkcd.com/2224/ But yeah, I agree with you.
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by pttrn 1y ago
+1, shame people are downvoting this.
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by pttrn 1y ago
Make triangles great again
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by pttrn 1y ago
“I just fuck around til it works”
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by pttrn 2y ago
cgmath?
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by pttrn 3y ago
https://archive.is/2023.06.18-160853/https://www.ft.com/cont...
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by pttrn 3y ago
+1, although I didn’t read it. Close tab.
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by pttrn 3y ago
Very ranty, I’m surprised it got this many upvotes.
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by pttrn 3y ago
I thought it was about windows as well :D
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by pttrn 4y ago
https://archive.is/2023.03.18-053710/https://www.washingtonp...
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by pttrn 4y ago
“Let’s put a pun in the headline, to make it pop”
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Show HN: Pomak – focus timer for Mac/Windows written in Rust+wgpu(brutalism.rs)
1 points by pttrn 4y ago|0 comments
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by pttrn 4y ago
Can we stop upvoting these clumsily disguised adguard marketing posts? It’s annoying: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=adguard.com
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by pttrn 4y ago
Note: this is from 2017.
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by pttrn 4y ago
An experimental weather forecast visualization app: https://brutalism.rs/project/itinerant/
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by pttrn 7y ago
Thank you, I appreciate it! :) There's https://kev.town/raymarching-toolkit/ but I haven't tried it. Looks promising!
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by pttrn 7y ago
No library, I wrote the SDF/raymarching shaders from scratch. But there are libraries out there...
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by pttrn 7y ago
I’m using DarkSky which gives you 1000 requests per day for free, and beyond that the pricing is quite reasonable.
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by pttrn 7y ago
I'm considering it!
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by pttrn 7y ago
Thanks! :) By all means do, we need more playful software if you ask me!
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by pttrn 7y ago
I'm not sure, although I developed this in Unity so I imagine it would be a lot of jumping through hoops to get there... (upvote for the pun :D)

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