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by ttd 23d ago
Pretty sure that earlier work did reach the light of day in the form of a set of GL extensions. Also, his other work on polar stroking influenced one of the gpu-accelerated path renderers in Skia (graphics library powering Chrome and Androi
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by ttd 1mo ago
This is great! No need to require a button click in between rounds IMO. Just start the timer.
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by ttd 2mo ago
It seems like you know quite a bit of the history here. Were you involved in some way? If so, I'm curious to know why you think NaCL did not achieve broad adoption? And what's stopping the world from catching up to your line of th
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by ttd 2mo ago
There's a big gap between WASM has issues/limitations, and WASM "might as well not exist." NaCL was also Chrome-only IIRC, whereas WASM is a successful web standard (no small feat).
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by ttd 2mo ago
> Just because you can do something well doesn't mean it's worth doing. I'm not sure if there's more context to this quote, but on the surface: what a dismal take! Letting some measure of worth dictate what you do fee
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Rough and Ready, California(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by ttd 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ttd 3mo ago
Vibes was perhaps a poor choice of words. Work with me here people, what else do you call the unspoken part of conversation.
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by ttd 3mo ago
Incoming wall of text, because this is topic that hits close to home for me, and I've spent a lot of time in the last few years exploring it. So, knowing absolutely nothing about you or your life or how it compares to my own, I'll
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by ttd 3mo ago
I respectfully submit that your neat categorization of interactions into those three profiles may reflect a gap in your understanding of others. Namely, that your definition of what makes a "good faith" conversation may not be the
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by ttd 3mo ago
Author here. This is an exposition on my journey trying to figure out if and/or how PDFs can have simple interactivity added in a portable way. The answer (spoiler) is ...sort of. I learned from some other discussion on this that grey-
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Test Page(supportdownloads.adobe.com)
5 points by ttd 3mo ago|2 comments
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by ttd 3mo ago
Someone at Adobe must've left a server running in a closet and then forgotten about it. Make sure you visit the HTTP (no S) version.
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by ttd 4mo ago
> the clean modeled structure we want to see is for humans to maintain and extend, but the AI doesn't need this. This does not match my experience. I do a lot of AI-assisted coding at this point, and what I've seen is that when
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Cloudflare Issues for Anyone Else?
3 points by ttd 5mo ago|2 comments
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by ttd 5mo ago
I love these optimization tales. Memory throughput bottlenecks (extremely common, perhaps moreso than they seem) are my favorite to tackle - there are frequently some juicy optimizations that can apply there. Do model weights have any spati
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by ttd 6mo ago
Like pretty much everything else about human beings, I expect most of us exist at a point on a spectrum rather than belonging to this type or not. I think the engineering mindset comes from a place of curiosity. I don't agree that ther
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Anthropomorphic Polygons(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ttd 6mo ago|0 comments
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by ttd 7mo ago
Well, IMO there's not much reason for an LLM to be trained to produce machine language, nor a functional binary blob appearing fully-formed from its head. If you take your question and look into the future, you might consider the exist
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by ttd 7mo ago
Some random thoughts, since I've had a similar train of thought for a while now. On one hand I also lament the amount of hardware-potential wastage that occurs with deep stacks of abstractions. On the other hand, I've evolved my p
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by ttd 10mo ago
It's been a decade+ since I used to catch the Green line at Park St, but at that time it was the noisiest, squealiest station that I regularly used. Not surprising to learn that parts of that station are left over from the 1890s.
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by ttd 10mo ago
IMHO there's no gatekeeper of what the "real" web is or should be. It grew organically - regular people building things they liked or needed. It's certainly more of a life necessity than it used to be, but that happened
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by ttd 11mo ago
I've got a pretty large flutter app in production, using just the flutter-provided building blocks like ValueNotifier, ListenableBuilder, InheritedWidget, etc. It has scaled quite well for me. The main issue IMHO with many of these boi
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by ttd 11mo ago
I still haven't found a way to coax MathML into looking the way I want it... Even using the same fonts (like Computer Modern or its descendants) there's still something not quite the same as LaTeX-drawn math. It's a nitpick b
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by ttd 11mo ago
Been a happy customer of Fastmail for ~10 years now. Nice web and mobile interfaces. I've never been impacted by downtime in that time (to my knowledge).
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by ttd 11mo ago
Ah, ok - thank you for elaborating on that. I don't actually have that type of interactivity at the moment, though you're right in saying all the information is there in order to make it happen. I also like your idea of changing b
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by ttd 11mo ago
Thank you very much for all this feedback! I really appreciate your consideration. For your note on different states for screens. Can you elaborate or give an example? I'm quite interested in this mode that you're describing. The
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by ttd 11mo ago
This is a great point and not one that I had considered. I suspect I am the same way - scanning back and forth while studying a diagram. It's possible this tool may be more appropriate for e.g. presentation of info to a mixed audience.
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Show HN: Create interactive diagrams with pop-up content(vexlio.com)
47 points by ttd 11mo ago|6 comments
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by ttd 1y ago
If you're fond of state machines as an abstraction for system design, I highly recommend reading the Harel statechart paper. It's well-written and understandable. And, it's truly a useful extension of the type of state machin
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by ttd 1y ago
I appreciated this - well written and useful review of their business and why they think it didn't work. In addition to the challenges listed here, IMO there are rapidly diminishing returns for the type of recall learning that spaced r

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