bramstolk.bsky.social
Game Developer behind "The Little Crane That Could."
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Wait until you hear what the US military planned for ICC under Bush jr:
Unbelievably, they have pre-approved authorization to invade the Netherlands.
No congress approval req’d. Diaper Don can invade at will to destroy ICC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act
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This got worse over time, too.
I remember rolling my eyes when Apple put OOP in their shader language.
And now the industry thinks this is totally fine.
More abstraction.
And when perf lacks, the coder needs to think about totally nebulous concepts like warps.
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GPU has always suffered from too many abstractions between you and the HW.
Even Vulkan+spirv is guilty of this.
We have always written scalar shaders for vector machinery.
CPU at least let’s you write intrinsics that are straight vector operations.
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The result, you ask?
"Go, Canucks, Go", on 49th and Main st.
#Vancouver #Translink #Canucks
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It ran during the Olympics.
I guess so that the athletes could hop on, in their village and grab a bite to eat at Granville market?
I rode it, and it was cool.
I wish Vancouver could have more nice things, like this tram. Or better yet: close Main St and bring back the trams that ran there.
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Maybe it is more on COVID19 than AI?
Getting COVID, even mild, means losing between 3 and 9 IQ points. That will end the Flynn effect.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-19-leaves-its-mark-on-the-brain-significant-drops-in-iq-scores-are/
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Be honest, did you time your insurance to expire in July, just to get that red ➐ on the plate?
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Seeing your image had a visceral reaction in me.
Let me try to incite some too...
Anyone remember these? #BlastFromThePast. #Z80.
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That's why I prefer to use a less nebulous term when it comes to DOD: SoA (Structures of Arrays.)
It's concrete, everyone knows what it entails.
@noel-llopis.me has put it well: "Code your system as if it was a particle system."
I find that for large N, SoA always delivers, especially w/ intrinsics.
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Yeah, I have been zapped by one, too. Quite a shock.
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Good stuff!
I have been mulling over the same problem.
(My camera doesn’t even collapse.)
So I am currently thinking a custom bicycle-trailer.
https://www.bikesatwork.com/blog/filming-movies-from-a-bike-trailer
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Setting: McDonalds, early 2000s, in the Netherlands.
For one summer only, they had “country fries.”
They looked similar to below, but not quite the same. More steak-fries shaped, and I am pretty sure sprinkled w paprika powder.
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Cool feed!
So mine was an accidental lomo.
Normally I go for the opposite, with crazy large lenses projecting onto ultra large format, imaged at 100MP.
I just happened to try out one lens full of aberrations. I made one other shot w it. Definite low-fi look, but interesting, and unique bokeh.
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That picture could be from Lynden, WA?
5.04.035 - Dancing prohibited—When.
Dancing, either singly, or in groups of two or more persons, is prohibited in any establishment where beer, wine or other intoxicating beverages are sold for on-premises consumption.
(Ord. 633 § B, 1981).
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I have never roasted my own beans, but I wonder if you can keep raw beans for longer than you can keep roasted ones?
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Don’t give them any more ideas, or we will see “All major credit cards accepted” printed on the cars of campus security, just like in the burbclaves.
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For completeness:
Elements 3 and 4 have a 170mm spacing.
Elements 4 and 5 are mated via a 2mm spacer between them.
(Also: #TuxifyYourKeyboard)
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Liberated elements number 2 and number 3.
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Recording this for posterity:
Spacing between lens elements 1, 2 and 3.
Todo: measure spacing from 3 to 4.
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It is off a K-38 aerial camera in use by USAF in the 1950s.
Some people say a U2 spy camera, but I don't think that is true.
But it was definitely used on bombers and fighters.
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2nd element had a fully frozen retaining ring.
I had to fight the Bell&Howel 36”, but after drilling it out, I won.
Victory is mine!
Now to rehouse the elements in PLA.
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Somehow, we use the best real estate for storing corpses.
Italy doesn’t have a housing shortage, but Vancouver does.
I calculated that if re-zoned residential, its Mountain View cemetery would be a $2.4B plot (low density residential) or a multiple of that when zoned for high density residential.
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I don’t know about your workplace, but we still are, at mine!
It is about the F1 legend though and his transfer to Ferrari, not about a mathematician, a politician or a musical. 🤪
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Yeah, it is prettier that way, but I have to be wearing long pants, because in shorts, my anxious mind would not stop thinking about ticks.
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Technically Pong, but really, K.C. Munchkin was the first ‘real’ one. I am sure Pong did not even have a CPU, I bet it was it all analog circuitry?
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Ooh! An Oude Delft! Sweet!
I have this obscure Oude Delft 6.3/400mm.
I never found out what its original usage was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOPnk97gTtI