offByJuan
Re:Ray tracing Voxels made out of Glass
on Sunday October 23, 2022 @01:29PM (#33308603)
Warning. This link brought my aging laptop to lock up. I’m on Firefox.
Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print
on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:42AM (#33096180)
What is the recommended MMIX emulator ?
Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print
on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:34AM (#33096085)
“The best way to communicate from one human being to another is through story,” Knuth said.
Great quote and great insight. Understanding how the brain works and is stimulated augments communication. Especially important for dry, theoretical subjects.
Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print
on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:25AM (#33095970)
Just search Knuth organ on youtube an you get several hits
Re:Why was western printing superior to Asian printing?
on Sunday September 04, 2022 @05:35AM (#32711374)
Let’s not forget Aldus Manutius. His orders of magnitude cheaper books than Gutenberg made books available to regular people. He can be seen as inventor of paperback books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldus_Manutius
Re:Why are D-sharp and E-flat considered to be two different notes?
on Sunday August 28, 2022 @07:50AM (#32627635)
I think to understand the difference between the two notes is context. Like the word ‘read’. The same word is pronounced different according to context. ‘I read the book’ vs ‘Did you read the book’.
When you read music you expect a e flat not a d sharp and vise versa
Re:Music for Programming
on Thursday July 07, 2022 @02:32AM (#32010609)
I enjoy Lo-fi while working. One of my favorite lists: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4fC6wXPXXrgsV27NGs4I2v?si=...
Re:Bytebeat Composer
on Saturday May 07, 2022 @02:30PM (#31297182)
In similar vein I have played with ibniz.
Re:Art Bits from Hypercard
on Friday April 22, 2022 @09:55AM (#31121559)
Reminiscent of Victorian clip art
Re:The Evolution of Smalltalk from Smalltalk-72 to Squeak [video]
on Saturday August 28, 2021 @09:59AM (#28338107)
The threshold for starting new research projects from scrath is getting much higher all the time. When Smalltalk was developed you could implement most of the software stack in a quite small team in a few years. I’m not sure that is possible anymore if you want to connect to outer world eg. web. You will create dependencies out of your control quite fast. These dependencies will shape design decisions. Lowest common denominator rules and fighting that will take considerable resources and effort. I think this is one reason we are stuck with Unix like file based systems for most foreseeable future