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themadcreatoron Carbon – Create images of your source code

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.

themadcreatoron SEC Is Studying Spotify's Plan to Bypass IPO in NYSE Listing

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

themadcreatoron Show HN: 3D Renderer Built using 2D HTML Canvas

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

themadcreatoron Relative Likelihood for Life as a Function of Cosmic Time

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.

themadcreatoron Researchers create super-efficient Wi-Fi

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

themadcreatoron Researchers create super-efficient Wi-Fi

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/

themadcreatoron 2^74207281-1 is Prime

Neato! Verified with:

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

themadcreatoron Greek New Testament Papyrus Is Discovered on EBay

"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!"

themadcreatoron The universe's resolution limit

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

themadcreatoron Subnetcube – An anonymous minimal discussion board for individual subnets

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.

themadcreatoron TweetNaCl.js

How does this differ from the other javascript NaCl implementations?

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

themadcreatoron 2048 in 3D

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

themadcreatoron 2048 in 3D

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?

themadcreatoron 2048 in 3D

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

  git clone git@github.com: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

themadcreatoron 2048 in 3D

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.

themadcreatoron 2048 in 3D

A lot of people are commenting that the colors are too similar. This is partially due to the prismastic color scheme we chose. The specular phong shading model throws them off a bit as well. Here are the current color values:

    #ffffff
    #ffff00
    #9aCD32
    #2faa2f
    #20B2AA
    #1088fF
    #7b68ee
    #9932cc
    #800080
    #8b0000
    #333333

Any suggestions on a different scheme that has a natural progression and are sufficiently dissimilar?

themadcreatoron 2048 in 3D

I got the idea for using colors only from http://prism.clay.io/. I agree -- the colors become intuitive after just a few minutes.

themadcreatoron 2048 in 3D

Okay, I updated the colors so the dark green is darker.

themadcreatoron 2048 in 3D

There's an ordered palette of colors below that matches to the 2^N values from the original. Plus you get used to it after a couple minutes =).

themadcreatoron 2048 in 3D

Wouldn't the occlusion of the shapes behind it be confusing?

themadcreatoron 2048 in 3D

It's exactly the same under the hood as Gabriele's original 2048 from https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/2048

themadcreatoron 2048 in 3D

Cool idea! I plan on adding some rigid body physics to this library.