themadcreator

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Comment · 8 years ago

The quality of the text rendering could really be improved by using subpixel render https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering. Most desktop apps do this. Your browser does it. Your terminal probably does it. VSCode does it. Even the canvas tag in browsers supports this.

Basically, every place you're likely to read code is going to look better than the images generated with this.

Comment · 9 years ago

They provide antifraud protection via chargebacks, which account for a sizeable portion of their fees. Fees are about 3%, fraud is about 1-2%.

Comment · 9 years ago

I'll also plug my own canvas rendering 3d library: http://seenjs.io/

Comment · 10 years ago

There is scope for considerable refinement in the choice of the second factor p(life|HZ). [...] In our simplified treatment, this constant value has no effect on dP(t)/dt since its contribution is also cancelled by the normalization factor N.

Though this paper does provide some needed formalism around the Drake Equation, I don't understand how its results can be meaningful if it "cancels out" one of the largest sources of uncertainty.

Comment · 10 years ago

The NSA ANT catalog of spy devices (leaked by Snowden) also includes cheap analog retro-reflectors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog

Comment · 10 years ago

This is pretty incredible, and congrats to the research team!

But, could you please not use phrasing like "Reduces Power 10,000x". I don't think I'm the only that has an aversion to this: http://timesless.com/

Comment · 10 years ago

Neato! Verified with:

  echo "H4sICBPHnlYCA2EuYmluegDt0LENQQEUQNHnK7xINF8rLIAVbKH88VU0ZlATK4gt1DQ6vURMoBIDiN4CknOa29/BNrN72U+LZj2eL1fxPDU6EXE+3CbvUTEMAAAAAAAAAODfPfq9/DZfx6petw2B32Z5XZT31mYXH9vDv0RTIwAA" | base64 --decode | gzip -d | gzip -d | xxd

Comment · 11 years ago

"It needs to be available for research, to be put on display."

It seems like this artifact studying Dr. Jones is really trying to avoid saying "It belongs in a museum!"

Comment · 11 years ago

If this affects only the most distant observations, I wonder if this can already be detected in our observations of the CMB.

Comment · 12 years ago

I appreciate the minimal interface, but a little CSS could go a long way to making this look a lot nicer.

Sans serif fonts and some margins and spacing would help.

Comment · 12 years ago

How does this differ from the other javascript NaCl implementations?

https://www.npmjs.org/search?q=nacl

Comment · 12 years ago

Sorry, there was a glitch in the lighting. I fixed it. The next tier of values should now look like this:

http://snag.gy/aNY0t.jpg

Comment · 12 years ago

The tiles should start to cycle through the colors again after 2048. From 2^12 - 2^22 it does triangular prisms, from 2^23 and beyond it does pyramids.

Are you only getting white shapes after 2048?

Comment · 12 years ago

pokpokpok also suggested this. I created a branch where you can try it out yourselves!

  git clone [email protected]:themadcreator/seen.git
  cd seen
  git checkout vary-heights
  npm install
  npm run site

then nav your browser to http://localhost:5000/demo-2048.html

it looks like this: http://snag.gy/RdOtD.jpg

Comment · 12 years ago

Alright, for those of you that are experiencing nausea while playing this version of 2048, I've added a "toggle nausea" button to disable the rotation of the board.