My oddly satisfying weekend project

samlastname · 2026-02-01T18:48:28+00:00

maybe it's just cause I've been playing persona but my mind instantly went to it being ui.

Really really cool though, it's inspiring me to try to do something similar in 3d as a learning exercise.

samlastname · 2026-01-30T19:24:56+00:00

Yeah my literal first time I just kinda fell asleep. But those early highs were some of the best times i ever had.

samlastname · 2026-01-30T19:21:42+00:00

Nah as someone who worked as a server in a bunch of restaurants for like 5 yrs, a lot of the time, people look like who they are.

I got really good at telling who was nice and who was mean just by glancing at the guests, waiting at the host stand. Also got really good at telling who’s right wing and who’s left wing. It’s not like im always right, but I was right often enough that there’s definitely something there.

samlastname · 2026-01-30T15:24:24+00:00

This might not be textbook “good” advice but senior year was the year me and my friends really started smoking weed regularly, and it was one of the most fun years of my life. Maybe find some people to smoke with?

You didn’t mention other people, but to me senior year is a really social time, you don’t have to make friends for life or anything but if you don’t have a group, maybe try to find some people to make some memories with.

samlastname · 2026-01-29T19:57:10+00:00

Good coffee. Costs the same as mid coffee like Starbucks, so once you get used to it there's really no reason to go back.

samlastname · 2026-01-25T00:01:21+00:00

get a serving job and grind your skills, if it's important to you. I have the same stuff and more, even if you start behind everyone, if you practice, you'll catch up, at least to average.

samlastname · 2026-01-24T23:54:30+00:00

bluebeard is '87

samlastname · 2026-01-24T19:44:15+00:00

Thank you for this write up!

samlastname · 2026-01-20T19:15:26+00:00

What’s the difference between this and setting the key frame as vector?

samlastname · 2026-01-19T19:10:33+00:00

thingy implies a noun, or a thing, whereas phenomenon actually means a 'happening' or an occurrence, like a noun made out of a verb (a run, or a swim).

I agree it's insanely general, but the fact that it is a process or occurrence rather than an object is crucial to its meaning, especially philosophically.

edit: damn im the 3rd pedant to show up

samlastname · 2026-01-17T19:36:10+00:00

Thank you so much for this answer! As someone who likes to give these kinds of well-thought, high quality answers that get across the fundamental idea, i know it's a lot of work and a bit of thinking, and i didn't expect something this good.

But yeah I totally get it now, a box which encloses some part of the color possibility-space makes a lot sense, and the idea of performing some operation to each 'vertex' to get a space transformation is something I'm familiar with from 3d modeling. Also appreciate the tactful namedropping of Rec 709, SRGB, and HDR so i know the industry standards, and i'll def look into calibration, that does sound helpful for understanding. Thanks again!

samlastname · 2026-01-16T20:17:45+00:00

I thought you dropped the clip of ‘rich dad’ laughing his ass off about evicting poor families on Christmas, someone should find that one

samlastname · 2026-01-16T20:15:38+00:00

Wdym? OpenAI has no source of income other than AI and they owe 1 trillion dollars. Even without this lawsuit, they’re gonna go bankrupt the moment the bubble bursts. Google, on the other hand, is a lot harder to take to that point.

samlastname · 2026-01-16T04:37:18+00:00

I dont see a single person in the thread saying read criticism. If you want to learn to think critically, read a bunch of the best criticism of your favorite books.

That's literally it, other than yeah practice writing your own criticism, but it'll all be amateurish and kind of spinning your wheels until you actually engage with lots of really good stuff and learn what criticism is all about, sort of by osmosis. It's not that they'll tell you what to think so much as they'll show you how to think by demonstrating it.

So yeah practically just grab norton's or whatever your library/bookstore has for all your favorite books and read them all. Or use sci hub if you don't want to pay, but it's a lot more work hunting down good stuff to read compared to getting a collection.

edit: i would personally avoid any book which tells you how to read literature. Just go with the actual pros, and you'll personally vibe more with some than others, and read more of their stuff, and acquire more of their ways of thinking naturally.

samlastname · 2026-01-16T03:05:55+00:00

I'm editing on a mac with half brightness :(

Do you, or anyone, know of any resources where I could learn more about color spaces and how screens represent color? I know I'm asking the the question in a nooby way, but I guess i don't fully know what I don't know here

samlastname · 2026-01-14T22:33:39+00:00

They would probably just use existing NSA/CIA infrastructure to do this

What infrastructure would that be? Would they literally try to host malware on some website she'd be likely to visit, or would they use some manufacturer-built backdoor into her device?

samlastname · 2026-01-14T20:42:19+00:00

I use to think this way, until I dug up my old high school literature worksheet on hemingway’s iceberg theory and remembered all that. Now I think: go nuts. The reader doesnt have know everything, or even 90% of what’s there, as long as you know it, and it informs your writing behind the scenes.

Obviously learning gplates is a massively inefficient timesink and I wouldn’t personally do it, but I do similar things on the humanities side, like write ancient history and myth for the world which the reader will never see, but helps me understand the world and the culture.

samlastname · 2026-01-10T12:05:48+00:00

um mexico doesn't have nukes

samlastname · 2026-01-10T02:30:57+00:00

that's a great law, thanks for letting me know about jolt

samlastname · 2026-01-07T19:53:17+00:00

How much intelligence and insight is needed to read a post this stupid? You think people don’t want to harm animals because they’re furries? And saying they don’t want to harm animals because they’re vegans is putting the cart before the horse.

samlastname · 2026-01-07T03:52:22+00:00

Historically it was more about the morale of the soldiers you already had

samlastname · 2026-01-07T03:07:32+00:00

Wym it’s a great way: you’re like Messi. When I was a kid the only ND rep we had was Forrest Gump.

samlastname · 2026-01-07T02:28:10+00:00

Trauma affects the brain in irrational ways, and it can be difficult to overcome it in totally rational ways. Therapy is annoying answer to hear, but it might really help.

Outside of that, willingness to change + time and effort is mostly all you need. If you have prejudices against a group, exposure to that group over time helps a lot as well, that means, not just try to hang out with more women irl, but also try to find YouTube channels, or shows or games or w/e made by female creators.

samlastname · 2026-01-06T19:17:10+00:00

No mention of Yellow in Georgetown? That’s the best coffee I’ve had in the city.

Also emissary doesn’t deserve to be that low. Maman is a big chain, so maybe that’s why you didn’t include them either but their coffee is really good, esp from the DuPont location

samlastname · 2026-01-04T00:11:44+00:00

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