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Re:Pluckable Strings on Thursday May 23, 2024 @10:20AM (#40455088)
No sound on firefox on mac or ipad, and glitchy sound on safari on mac
I don’t disagree, but it also seems possible to identify periods that are more unusual compared to their neighboring periods, and useful to talk about them.
Re:Show HN: Procal: A simple Qt-based programming calculator on Saturday March 04, 2023 @12:21PM (#35022540)
Thats really convenient, but probably not the most discoverable.
That being said, it does provide some recourse for those who can show they’ve been discriminated because of their caste against the perpetrator. It doesn’t fix the root of the issue, and cases might be difficult to prove, but seems like a net good to add this protection. Might force discrimination on these grounds to be more subtle, but that means blatant discrimination would have consequences. Which again, seems better than the status quo.
Re:How to Draw Ideas on Saturday January 14, 2023 @04:16PM (#34384234)
They actually link an article they wrote on some drawing exercises. https://ralphammer.com/a-quick-beginners-guide-to-drawing/ Remind me of a lot of what we did in some of my old beginner art classes.
Re:The iPhone Keyboard – Make It or Break It (2022) on Saturday January 14, 2023 @05:36AM (#34379129)
Perhaps the reason they keyboard feels worse is the keyboard getting too “smart” already rather than being too dumb. But could also be an uncanny valley style curve, where “a little bit smart” is worse than both dumb and very smart.
It was built to interop well with obj-c which is a c superset, but it’s not a c-family language more than something like c# or kotlin
Re:Fourteen Discoveries Made About Human Evolution in 2022 on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @07:36PM (#34168005)
Since when is group selection a defunct theory?
Re:Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming (2012) on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @07:08PM (#34167785)
SFML isn’t perfect, but for 2D in the c++ space, that’s what I have reached for
Re:Gkurve: Simpler Vector Graphics [video] on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:42AM (#33516517)
A very interesting concept. I really like the idea of a "triangles as control" for GPU rendered curves. I think having multiple primitives is less pure but very practical. Too bad you don't get the continuous curve for free like you do in a Bezier curve, but it seems like something good tooling could really help with.

One thing that came to mind: It's pretty easy to encode or include addition points within the vertices of a triangle. So as long as the constraint that the whole section of the curve is contained within the triangle, it might be worth thinking about adding additional control points related to the triangle-control/Gkurve-primitive

Re:Google is shutting down Stadia on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @09:50AM (#33095564)
What do academics say?
Re:If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever on Saturday September 03, 2022 @11:22PM (#32709485)
I’ve loved straterra. One of the few non stimulant adhd meds
Re:FOMO is disastrous for company strategies on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:36PM (#32269803)
Yes
Re:Swift Proposal: Move Function on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:34PM (#32269784)
Would you speak more about swift for things other than Mac apps? Last I heard swift was limited to Ubuntu on Linux, and Windows was experimental. Which is too bad because it seems like a really nice language, and I like the ARC garbage collection. But I’m hoping the cross platform story has improved since I last heard.
Re:Nova by Panic on Friday September 18, 2020 @03:18PM (#24520827)
I really wish there was c support. At least c syntax highlighting. Seems like an awesome editor, but lacking c, c++ and rust support is a real bummer