Rob Povey @polygonhell

Former games programmer working on search & knowledge systems for big data. polygonalhell.blogspot.com Redmond, WA Joined July 2009

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bmcnett @bmcnett

3 years ago

Instead of being annoyed by the asymmetry here, I grow more confident that there's something fundamentally suboptimal about boxes as a fundamental geometric primitive.

Daniel Piker @KangarooPhysics

3 years ago

Instead of being annoyed by the asymmetry here, I grow more confident that there's something fundamentally suboptimal about boxes as a fundamental geometric primitive.

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Been trying ChatGPT as a programming assist. It has promise, but so far I've seen code without error handling, code that doesn't compile, code that is obviously broken and worst code with subtle problems.

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Mickey @HackingThings

3 years ago

Yeah, let me just scrape the SOC to expose JTAG pads on the package…

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Rob Povey @polygonhell

4 years ago

I now have more hours in Elden Ring than any of the other souls games. Certainly not a 10/10 for me, but the open world makes it less frustrating. I did kill Margit after about 25 attempts, and I can't say I thought I was better at it on attempt 25 than I was on attempt 1.

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Akiyoshi Kitaoka @AkiyoshiKitaoka

4 years ago

An instance of the kickback illusion (Howe et al., 2006) Blue and yellow rectangles are moving at a constant speed, but their edges appear to be caught by thin lines.

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hardmaru @hardmaru

4 years ago

Game of Life running a Game of Life. Since the Game of Life is Turing Complete, it is capable of simulating itself. youtu.be/xP5-iIeKXE8

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Paul "Paulie" Hughes @PaulieHughes

4 years ago

Another blast from the past... Who remembers this fella...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm

5 years ago

Let's say it. The President intentionally and explicitly demanded a violent mob storm the center of government to force legislators to keep him in office in defiance of the constitution and the will of the country's voters.

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Ben Rhodes @brhodes

5 years ago

If you don't impeach and remove a President for staging a coup, what's the point of impeachment.

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Philip Bump @pbump

5 years ago

First spotted by @dansinker, this is just a remarkable correlation. Google searches for "loss of taste" and "loss of smell" versus population-adjusted new coronavirus cases. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…

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Justin Rose @JRoseDet

5 years ago

What is this MAGIC

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Marshall Julius @MarshallJulius

5 years ago

Although their ‘Kill all Humans’ policy is, of course, troubling, I can’t help but admire the Daleks’ flawless social distancing.

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

5 years ago

One of the most powerful motion illusions I've seen: The cubes appear to be rotating in opposite directions – but they're not actually moving at all… 😮 Credit: @jagarikin

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Trevin Chow @trevin

5 years ago

This is so perfect.

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Sy Brand @TartanLlama

5 years ago

Objection! A Language Lawyer Story 🔊 for my awful voice acting

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Massimo @Rainmaker1973

5 years ago

A tussle for supremacy between left and right halves of your brain is why yellow dots disappear, staring at the green one bit.ly/2sgU0ZK

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Rob Povey @polygonhell

5 years ago

There is obvious 7 day periodicity in the reporting of Coronovirus deaths. It's not useful to look at data smoothed with less samples than that.

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Alan Zucconi @AlanZucconi

6 years ago

It's hard to believe that this amazing video was generated in just about 120 lines of code. shadertoy.com/view/3l23Rh "Protean clouds" by @stormoid is a good example of what mastering shader coding can unlock. @Shadertoy #gamedev