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Words I don’t use
Paul Niquette has inspired this post. Maybe this is something which comes with age, but there are words and phrases that other people use that I do not like to use. As I have considered these, I don’t really like how I feel about people who misuse words. I guess many people also feel the same way when they here folks using words incorrectly. For example there is large controversy in how to say the word “gif” regarding the file format (hard ‘g’ like in “gift,” for the record).
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Everything is a Tool
It is obvious when you think about it, but I hadn’t realized it until John Vervaeke pointed it out early in his very good series, Awakening from the Meaning Crisis: Nearly everything in our lives is a tool. Our homes are tools to keep us warm or cool, and out of the rain, and to contain our other tools. Our car is a tool to take us places farther, faster, and with much less effort than our legs. Our clothes are tools to help keep us warm and modest.
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I.A.
This is still in draft
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More Operating System Ideas
Here are some more operating system ideas from web pages I’ve stumbled upon. First there is this proposal for a new Lisp OS. I like the ideas presented there. He reinforces my thoughts about our standard heirarchical file systems, and how I can’t seem to remember where I’ve put anything.
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Cyberpunk story
Just a story idea I had. Three friends in their early 20’s: Kevin (Kev), Jake, and Julie. Kevin’s the protagonist. Setting is a near-future cyberpunk city. Kevin and Julie stumble upon Jake on the street seemingly suffering from some drug overdose. Kevin quickly pulls out his deck and jacks into Jake with a flat, two-wire ribbon cable with sharp gold contacts which enter his skin where is middle and index fingers attach to his hand, palm side.
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Quantel Paintbox
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Read more...is a piece of graphics technology that is little known, because it was massively expensive, and only used in the professional world, mostly broadcast media. The Quantel Paintbox. This device was capable of 24-bit computer graphics all the way back in 1982. Unsurprisingly, it cost a quater of a million dollars.
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Fury GPU
Steve from Gamer’s Nexus alerted me to this one-man project to create a GPU. Thanks, Steve. It’s called the FuryGPU, and it is built on a Xilinx FPGA. In my Welcome post I mentioned an effort to create an open hardware graphics card, which sadly hasn’t gone anywhere.
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Dot Dot Dot…
I need to use Microsoft Teams at work. To say it is a pile of crap is an insult to feces. Lest I stay up all night writing my complaints about it, I shall focus on just one aspect, its overuse of ellipsis (…) everywhere to hide additonal actions. Including those in Edge, which I must also use as my company does not allow me to use the web app version of Teams for Linux, I have eleven (11) ellipsis visible when I log into Teams.
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Operating System Ideas
I think about benefits and drawbacks in various operating systems. Here I am talking specifically about desktop operating systems; those used on desktop computers or laptops. I’m not discussing mobile operating systems as found on phones or tablets. This is important, because what I am discussing expects one to have a mouse and keyboard, as opposed to primarily using one’s fingers to interface with the device.
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A.i.L. #3: The Glyphs of Lisp
Common Lisp uses symbols (I mean the symbols on your keyboard, separate from numbers and letters) in different ways from other languages. And since the word “symbol” in Lisp is a very distinctive concept and not what I am discussing here, it is almost impossible to search for this information. So I am going to use the word “glyphs” for lack of anything better, and as I understand these, this article will expand to describe them all.
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Adventures in Lisp Part 2: Self-Redefining Functions
The more that I learn about Common Lisp, the more I am awed at its seemingly limitless potential to allow for any concievable programming paradigm. I’m still in my age of wonder phase with Lisp. I remember this phase while learning C++ after college and realizing there’s more to it than just classes. While I’m here I might as well try some crazy experiments to see what I can do.
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Adventures in Lisp Part 1: Bresenham’s Line Drawing Algorithm
Read more...I’ve been meaning to learn Lisp for a long time. Since I like computer graphics, I think a basic algorithm for drawing straight lines on a computer screen is a good first attempt at a real program (beyond “Hello world” of course).
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Pong: The Motion Picture
Inspired
Read more...by a blog post about a hypothetical 1970’s retro-future movie about Pong, I came up with these ideas for a plot.
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Nvidia DLSS 3.5
Did you know that Nvidia’s DLSS 3.5 actually makes video games look better upscaled than they look rendered at full resolution? I found that very hard to believe, so I had to try it out myself.
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Comments
I’ve been working to add comments to this site. Everyone has their own priorities, and hence different requirements for their comment systems. This is how I want things to work:
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My Graphics Wishlist
As I work on this web site, I think about some things I’d like to be able to do relatively easily, but for whatever reason the technology isn’t there to do it. I’m putting together my wishlist.
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Migrating from Jekyll to Soupault
I have recently built and rebuilt this web site. I like the use of static site generators more than other web stacks like Wordpress. Most content on the web is actually static, so it should be more efficient to bake the web pages at creation time than to fry them up with JavaScript AJAX or somesuch pulling down the content dynamically for each page and each visitor.
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Whatever happened to…Jahshaka
There once was this interesting open source software for video editing called Jahshaka. I first heard of it at the 2006 SIGGRAPH in Boston. It seemed rather interesting, and they gave me a t-shirt with their cool logo on it.
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Unicode
I’ve never cared for Unicode. First off, if you’re going to make a “universal” character encoding standard, then make one. They have UTF-1, obsolted by UTF-8. Then there’s UTF-16, UTF-32, and another obsoleted UTF-7, not to mention others not even prefixed “UTF.”
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Astro Mammal
Here’s a random video game idea. How about a 2-D side-scroller outer-space shoot-‘em-up where you are a space whale? You can shoot lazers out of your eyes, power up a large beam to shoot out of your mouth, and if you hold your breath and close your eyes, you can pop out rockets or somesuch out of your blow hole.
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Welcome
I’m leaving the first post up from when I originally created this site (but never published it) as an interesting historic footnote surrounding the activities of the time.
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Wayland
Wayland is a graphical subsystem intended to replace the X11 window system.
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Tell ATI/AMD what you think!
ATI/AMD has a web page where you can inform them about your issues regarding their drivers. I think this is a wonderful opportunity to also let them know that they have users who feel that Free and Open Source drivers are as important as FOSS software. Tell them what you think.