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Superformula 10 years ago

I wonder if there is a distance function to it, so you can render it in 3D using sphere tracing.

Crying 10 years ago

Same. I haven't cried since i was a little kid in the 90's. I've always found strange when people cry at movies and such.

I also started with BASIC. First was Commodore BASIC and then QBasic. I remember there was also LOGO, one of the original didactic languages. IMHO, if you want a simple language in the same spirit as BASIC, the closest you can find is Lua.

I used to work for a private server that shut down in 2010 (Phoenix Wow). It was my first exposure ever to a big code base, teamwork with version control and some reverse engineering. The "cores" were usually forks of the Mangos project (TrinityCore, R2) written in C++ and pretty unstable (uptime was usually only hours). If Rust existed in that era it would've been much better.

Go enjoy Python3 11 years ago

Rust version:

    fn main()
    {
        if let Some(arg) = std::env::args().nth(1)
        {
            println!("{}", arg.chars().take(12).collect::<String>()); // chars() iteraters over codepoints
        }
    }

That's why you should never allow loading Lua bytecode. Disallowing it is trivial, don't know why they didn't do it.

I've used this page for a long time. Writing stuff in fullwidth unicode for sure makes it look more funny

How fast is PDF.js? 12 years ago

For me it's faster than the 32 bit Acrobat Reader plugin that hung the entire browser for 1-2 seconds every time I wanted to open a PDF with it.

Pencil 13 years ago

It probably has a noticeable latency, like most touchscreen inputs. The video just shows silly camera/pen movements and no actual drawing scenes.