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14905. Scott F (192.184.181.252) – Today 03:38:05 AAD-28: It involves liquefaction ]
This is such a treat! I hope we don't have to wait eight years for the next one. ;)

Seriously though, I went back to the page for this and was surprised not to see hearts next to "Canaday" and "AI DJ" because those are my favorites. Also "Edififice" and "What a Waste." Wow! I have totally disjoint favorites from you. But your favorites are good too!
 
14904. Scott F (192.184.181.252) – 09 Sep 01:00:21 Of all homonymic months, August is the most majestic ]
Nice wiki-ing! Impressed by the thoroughness of that article, all written solo in a short amount of time. A major pollution source around Pittsburgh seems like it should be widely known about.

This is apparently my first comment here in 3 years. Time makes fools of us all.
 
14903. x666 (115.99.95.87) – 04 Sep 04:07:29 Quake 3 Done! ]
Well, after 20 long years, I am here to make a correction to my previous comment :-)) It was a ATI Radeon 9800 PRO that I had on those days (98000 was a typo).
 
14902. jonas (88.87.242.184) – 03 Sep 19:37:37 Of all homonymic months, August is the most majestic ]
> need to do it on this mediocre wi-fi

Oh right, you probably don't carry the huge video card and 128 gigabytes of RAM with you on vacation, so you now need wifi just to nicely typeset any article or blog post.

> making my own video codec, […] the inherent benchmarkability

Please add as a benchmark test case Flock Step from Rhythm Heaven Fever downscaled to 480p. If you can compress it quickly enough to a non-huge file and there aren't visible artifacts at any time then you're ahead of the state of the art in video compression. You'll have to either emulate the game or capture losslessly, otherwise your input will already have compression artifacts.


 
14901. Tom 7 (104.234.212.12) – 02 Sep 12:38:22 Glue and Boxes ]
The goal here is certainly not to save money, but it's not actually that bad. 1kg of Bambu PLA-CF is like $35. I think the box pictured probably used 1/3 of a spool, so this definitely cheaper than something like a Pelican case (as long as my time is worth nothing). The PLA-F is pretty stiff and rugged, so I don't need to use as much infill as I would in the old days to get a strong part. Print times are 12h+, so the cost of electricity and printer maintenance may be nontrivial, but probably no more than a few bucks.
 
14900. Anonymous (184.97.112.210) – 13 Aug 23:33:55 ARST ARSW ]
Conan link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150414024202/https://teamcoco.com/video/alphabetical-kardashians
 
14899. Anonymous (37.221.112.216) – 04 Aug 23:10:21 ARST ARSW ]
wowza
 
14898. Anonymous (180.149.192.133) – 02 Aug 00:04:45 Glue and Boxes ]
Custom boxes are great, until you need to add just one more cable. Now you have two custom boxes. Does look very nice though. How does all that PLA-CF compare costwise to a similar commercial box?
 
14897. Anonymous (179.217.229.149) – 01 Jul 13:44:00 June 2024 ]
I highly agree with mixmix, thank you for bringing this issue to attention in the Tom 7 Radar comment section
 
14896. mixmix (122.135.13.133) – 01 Jul 00:36:02 June 2024 ]
I once again encourage you to make a technical, supplementary video on BoVeX. The world needs a 2 hour crash course on compilers by Tom 7.
 
14895. 7 (147.0.5.249) – 22 Jun 23:58:23 Found: RAP SNACKS ]
I just saw rap snacks in 2024!
 
14894. Tom 7 (74.109.249.246) – 12 Jun 23:26:10 Green scream ]
Rory: I didn't banish the spider, but I don't do a lot of "SEO," you know? It works for me to search for something like "site:radar.spacebar.org prime".

I haven't played Factorio (or Satisfactory, or Dwarf Fortress), though I am aware of all of those! I'm worried to try them because I would obviously get way too into 'em and lose precious life force. I am mostly playing games that you can just play through and be done with, these days.

On the ! issue, this is because I just crammed zeroes into that line until it looked as good as it could. Only the hyphens go outside the end-of-line, though I agree that other punctuation can look good there too.
 
14893. João Vítor Fernandes Dias (186.192.59.18) – 10 Jun 21:00:24 Green scream ]
Rory, Factorio and Satisfactory may be games the he would like. Also Dwarf Fortress.
 
14892. João Vítor Fernandes Dias (186.192.59.18) – 10 Jun 20:07:34 ARST ARSW ]
Conan Link?
 
14891. João Vítor Fernandes Dias (186.192.59.18) – 10 Jun 20:02:58 NEW: Apacer Audio Steno: The Final Solution ]
It's funny to go through all this Tom VII rabbit hole
 
14890. João Vítor Fernandes Dias (186.192.59.18) – 10 Jun 19:20:14 Ludum Dare 24: One of the best birthdays ]
No flash support :(
 
14889. Anonymous (50.35.110.217) – 10 Jun 18:54:51 Green scream ]
I was somewhat shocked to find that the Epsom's version of the paper uses the fornication epithet "for) and" in describing C++: "AST pools. datatype declarations are for) and annoying in C++."

The Knuth version has the much more polite "AST pools. One of the main things I need to do is
create tree-structureddata to represent the abstract
syntax tree of the various languages involved.
This is very nice in ML (it is what the datatype declaration is for) and annoying in C++."

I also was disappointed that the style for "!" at the end of a line was inconsistent in the Knuth version. Just before "Maybe!" two lines above "The boxes-and-glue algorithm" does not extend beyond end-of-line, while, as expected, "10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000!" does.
 
14888. João Vítor Fernandes Dias (186.192.59.18) – 10 Jun 18:45:38 The Entire Screen of One Game ]
Oh, hello! 💠
 
14887. Rory (82.39.107.48) – 10 Jun 17:54:09 Green scream ]
Hi Tom

Two questions

Have you played Factorio? I think I'm the last person on the planet to discover it.

Is it possible to search your blog? Google is a bust - I presume you banished the spider

 
14886. Anonymous (78.129.35.193) – 10 Jun 04:44:15 "April" 2024 ]
Since you like to meddle with the GPL justification, you may be surprised that there are many versions of the GPL 2.0, https://github.com/pombredanne/gpl-history/tree/master/allvers
 
14885. Anonymous (162.247.72.193) – 08 Jun 15:45:36 Green scream ]
Amazeballs video/project. You dot the i in me, and cross the t.
 
14884. Tom 7 (74.109.249.246) – 08 Jun 11:06:40 "April" 2024 ]
I added the Widths table, but it turns out there was another issue (which I could only find by stepping through pdf.js in the debugger!): Firefox really wants the "argument" to /FontName to begin with a slash. I guess that makes sense, but none of the validators I found reported any issue here!

FWIW I think the text rendering looks much better in Chrome, but I am happy to have it working in Firefox. Thank you everyone (especially mixmix) for the help and encouragement.

The PDFs on the site should work now. They still don't open in Illustrator; that would be nice to fix but I don't think it'd be a serious obstacle for the main use of the papers, which is to print them out and shred them.

I'll try to make the source code a bit easier to use when I find some more energy.
 
14883. Tom 7 (74.109.249.246) – 08 Jun 09:34:09 Green scream ]
mixmix: I do have a lot to say on all those things and the fact that you're interested is heartening! I am not going to think about making videos for at least 2 days, however.
 
14882. mixmix (27.127.18.207) – 07 Jun 21:53:44 Green scream ]
I really enjoyed the video, Tom! It's such a pleasure to watch you having fun together with your family.

Now, what does it take to make you produce a supplementary, low production cost video on BoVeX (full language description including its type system, semantics, lowering it down to the EL and the IL, and the register machine with its own primops), the boxes-and-glue algorithm, and the PDF generator?

We want to know everything, from how you compile mutually-recursive polymorphic functions through how you traverse the rephrasing tree (any hope for A*?) to how you cope with the missing kerning pairs. What you've tried, what did work and what didn't, what unexpected problems arose, and what's your secret on maintaining sanity while writing a compiler in C++.
 
14881. jonas (37.191.60.209) – 07 Jun 06:24:41 Green scream ]
The video about this project is now online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65FRxE7uMc
 

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