Pretty cool.

I’ve been noodling on what else you can run inside a GPU shader. Problem was data persistence. This is a pretty interesting approach.

Wonder what kind of performance you get running something like this on a bare, high-end GPU (outside the VRChat/Unity scaffolding).

… to have and to hold, … in sickness and in health …

Always been amazed this song doesn’t get used for Rickrolling during the last two months of each year. It’s a systemic failure.

You are correct. That’s such an excellent idea…

I did this years ago. What was amazing was how quickly the trees completely disappeared as the altitude rose.

On other volcanic sites, like old Mt. Saint Helens, trees grew back up on top of volcanic debris. Not Lassen.

Hasbro headquarters.

Watched a video years ago of someone doing this before re-seasoning and baking the pan in the oven.

The end result was actually pretty fabulous.

Side effects: sharp fangs and uncontrollable drooling.

I sat hunched under my elderly mother’s car, video running on the phone in one hand, showing how to remove a ridiculously complicated headlamp cover, just to replace a busted headlight. Hand scraped and bleeding, but it got done. Would have NEVER figured it out otherwise.

Thanks that one YouTuber.

https://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/a-sip-of-conflict

This, in a folding, commuter e-bike.

Glad they kept the original 15th century cast metal street grate, underground sewer, above ground metal pipes, electric lighting, and acrylic signage.

/jk. Nice shot!

The BBC Microbit was designed for exactly this scenario: https://microbit.org/

If you want them to have a more desktop-like environment, the Raspberry Pi has kid-specific projects: https://www.raspberrypi.org/learn/

Or you can get a Pi Kano kit and it has everything you need: https://www.kano.me/

Privacy, shmivacy.

Can someone plausibly explain the Bending Spoons business model?

Big chunk of debt financing for decrepit brands with old tech. Other than strip-mining user data, I can’t figure it out.

Sack of Rome by Alaric and the Visigoths. All over the news.

Way back when, MSFT would set up developer meetups and give everyone who showed up a free Windows phone for development. I still have a couple in a box somewhere. People would take them, but nobody wanted to make apps. Everybody was busy enough with iOS and Android.

MSFT even tried to pay companies to port their popular apps to Windows Phones. A few took the money and did the port, but nobody wanted to support it.

Samsung was also trying to get people to write apps for their watches. Same issue. It’s really hard to break in if you’re entering an already crowded market.

Was in San Francisco last Sunday. Ridiculous number of robotaxis everywhere, most of them empty. Mostly Waymos, but also a few Zoox ones and 3-4 others with a training driver.

I kept trying to get away from them, but there were groups of 2-3 driving around, boxing me in. Mostly clustered around popular tourist spots.

On top of that, San Francisco has now started implementing traffic cameras that will snap your license and automatically send you a speeding ticket if you’re 5 miles over the speed limit. I get that it’s a congestion management thing, but add that to all the robotaxis and I’m not sure many people will be driving in San Francisco.

Come to think of it, that’s actually a good thing. Carry on.