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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · 4d

I don't think there's any reason to expect the "return of democracy" given that non-democratic entities like Apple continue to be the most rewarded despite what you've gone over. Apple and Tim Cook are doing fantastically given the system we've put in place for them, where our problems don't matter.

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · 6d

It seems to me that your `Catching` protocol is better-represented as a union type. Thoughts?

$public enum FallbackErrorUnion<Concrete: Error>: Error { case concrete(Concrete) case any(any Error) } public extension Error { static func `try`<Value>( _ value: () throws -> Value ) throws(FallbackErrorUnion<Self>) -> Value { do { return try value() } catch let error as Self { throw .concrete(error) } catch { throw .any(error) } } }$

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · 11d

Not what I expected to see in my Graphics Programming feed! 😳

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · 11d

I'm all for the minimalism. I've always tried to start with minimal noise, minimal frequency rolloff pickups, and shape from there. And I stopped using real amps 20 years ago.

Have you tried www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYX7... or a competitor yet? Pickup modeling is still relatively new. I'm intrigued.

RE-GUITAR PLUGIN - 2024 Review and Demo - Blue Cat Audio

YouTube video by Josh Hammond

www.youtube.com

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · 11d

Do you have Fluence pickups in anything else yet? I wouldn't bother with an instrument without them at this point, but I also wouldn't get a non-multiscale instrument anymore either.

(I started playing ERGs and ERBs in about 2000, multiscale about 2010. Can't go back!)

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · 20d

Has anybody created an open source graphical (e.g. nodes) Metal shader editor? Or know of one?

I have not yet, and would like to know if my ideas on how to do so are the best currently possible.

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · 21d

Is the "F" for "Fatal Frame"?

That's the series I thought it was from the first time I saw the artwork. 📸⻤👻

It's on our to-play list!

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · 22d

I love it! But I kinda feel like it’s been a favorite of mine for 15 years already. 😉

music.apple.com/us/album/nig...

Night By Night by Chromeo on Apple Music

Song · 2009 · Duration 3:45

music.apple.com

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · 23d

Roll Player Adventures does use this arrangement, but only on multicolored (familiar 🐅) dice.

I still don't think I've seen this arrangement for 5:
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Using the negative space of 4, for 5, like this, might have helped 6 not be so unruly.

(Standard 5-quincunx is fine w/me in isolation.)

The game Roll Player Adventures, displaying its various colors of dice.

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · 23d

Don’t care. 😤😝
Both options are bad because standard 6- and 7-pip patterns don’t follow the precedent set by 2- and 3-.

Dice manufacturers should send out these replacements for all defective units:

⬜️⚫️⚫️
⚫️⬜️⚫️
⚫️⚫️⬜️

⬜️⚫️⚫️
⚫️⚫️⚫️
⚫️⚫️⬜️

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · 23d

The visuals to me are change for change’s sake. I’m ambivalent.

But the extra taps are indeed horrible. I don’t appreciate when design clearly doesn’t respect your time—especially when there’s a precedent where it had successfully been more respectful.

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · 23d

Because body is a ViewBuilder, the problem with view modifiers being View methods that return versions of `self`, is that, if you use them without leading dots, they are just more complex versions of this sort of infinite loop:

struct V: View {
var body: some View { self; self } // or just self
}

Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · Sep 25

I.e. with two vectors, these are all the same:

normalize(normal1 + normal2)
normalize((normal1 + normal2) / 2)
normalize(mix(normal1, normal2, 0.5))

But it works with any number of normals!

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · Sep 25

Ah! That’s an optimization of “Nlerp”. 🥳

When you add vectors without dividing the sum by how many of them you’re adding, the result gets scaled by the vector count. But if you normalize afterwards, the length of the intermediate result doesn’t matter.

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · Sep 24

I can't tell how you're combining the normals there?

This article has the three obvious options, but I also had good enough results on early iPads just by adding two normals and subtracting 1. 😆

blog.demofox.org/2016/02/19/n...

Normalized Vector Interpolation TL;DR

My blog posts often serve as “external memory”, allowing me to go back and remember how specific things work months or years after I spent the time to learn about them. So far it’…

blog.demofox.org

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · Sep 21

A chipmunk coming out of its house to inspect sunflowers seeds on a small pumpkin

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Catbus @hayao.lol · Sep 19

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possum on a power line in front of the moon captioned

babe come here you're missing the possum eclipse

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David Lenaerts @derschmale.bsky.social · Sep 16

Pretty good mouse mat.

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · Sep 7

What you showed here is exactly what people in the comments of this had warned me about, so I figure so.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6l3...

AI Compression is 300x Better (but we don't use it)

YouTube video by Gal Lahat

www.youtube.com

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · Sep 7

Is there new AI image compression in the beta? I hadn't heard about this.

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · Sep 2

Your videos are amazing. The best in the business. But I can’t believe how fast you’ve been putting them out, and figured you would get burnt out at that pace. Please keep it going, but much slower. 😮‍💨

Check out the history of one of my favorite series, for reference: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

From Zero to Geo - YouTube

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · Jul 27

I've never seen a guitar with three soapbars before. Sounds great. Nice work!

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · Jul 27

It's on our to-play list, but it's a sign of modern enshittification that it's on Apple Arcade, but unlike most Apple Arcade games, not on Apple TV. The Special Editions of the originals, which came out a decade and a half ago, were console releases, as they should have been.

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · Jul 25

There's a lot of mention of `===` in forums.swift.org/t/se-0261-id..., but it's not in the standard library.
The `===` we've always had doesn't require arguments of matching type, so I don't know that it would feel consistent. (github.com/swiftlang/sw...)

@Test func test() {
final class A { }
final class B { }

#expect(A() !== B())
#expect(nil as A? === nil as B?)
}

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Jessy Catterwaul @jessymeow.bsky.social · Jun 23

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Las...

The Last Dragon (soundtrack) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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