Yeah, hypers need to cool their language down a bit and llmuddites need to acquire a bit of nuance. New technology tends to create large camps initially on both sides :)
I’m embarrassed to admit how
readily I overlooked the “on” in “buttonhole”, and even more embarrassed how afraid I became when your post still made sense.
Huh. I also have that personal policy. Yet this time I jumped first to the comments before reading the article. I’m not certain why. Perhaps I subconsciously intuited that the ambiguity in the headline might be resolved by some of you smart people. Brains are weird; mine is, anyway.
Your video is so pedagogically beautiful. The subtext of what you’re doing in those two minutes hints deeply at the cyclical, iterative process practiced by most engineers and many other creatives. Concise, illustrative, memorable. I’ll be showing this to students regularly. Well done.
This one also loaded basically instantly for me as well, but for example this one: https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/clouded_cracker_2/cloude... took ~15 seconds to load and then runs at 9 fps on a pretty powerful dev machine. (granted, it is running a bit slow and I'm also running a vm at the same time, so maybe that's the cause)
Ok, it turns out it's all my fault: fps was terrible due to the vm I was running simultaneously, it oes to 60 fps with vm turned off; and the loading time was because I was downloading it through my company's vpn.
As Diane Rehm once lamented on her radio show about two decades ago, as she was interviewing some cutting-edge engineer about his work, “why does it have to be so haaaard?!?”
I will make some personal comments to Lars privately, but let me say this, publicly:
I read between 10 and 100 articles or posts linked from HN every single day, and I have for years. As you can see for yourselves, I almost never comment. At this late stage in my life and career, it just seems fruitless to add my lone voice to the world of mostly-vapid, interconnected noise.
But Lar’s three poignant and vulnerable essays, as well as his comments on this post, seem to have brought out nearly universally the best people I’ve yet to see on HN or even on the larger net.
Wow. Most of you commenting are demonstrably fine people, and without calling out any in particular, I must decloak for this brief moment to say thank you for being such thoughtful, expressive, kind people.
I certainly hope some of your best comments resonate with and help Lars. However, even if not, your wisdom and humanity have helped me today — helped me process my own life and my still-too-raw tragedies.
Well done, HN “friends.” Keep up your “good works.” May we meet again, in real life or beyond.
> I almost never comment. At this late stage in my life and career, it just seems fruitless to add my lone voice to the world of mostly-vapid, interconnected noise.
Late stage implies you’re older, and thus have seen a lot. You might get comments from people you’d rather not hear from, but your writing itself reaches people like me, who want to learn from your perspective.
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