Hacker News: petermcneeley

New comment by petermcneeley in "Coding a Brick Tower [video]"

petermcneeley — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:42:27 +0000

As a general technique yes. Less so as "create a model or entire world out of an sdf equation."

Btw to me this is one of the best of IQ: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4ttSWf

New comment by petermcneeley in "Coding a Brick Tower [video]"

petermcneeley — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:42:48 +0000

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/33GyRV

It runs at 10fps on my gen12 intel at fullscreen. These techniques are cute but limited.

New comment by petermcneeley in "VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'"

petermcneeley — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:25:46 +0000

What are you afraid of?

New comment by petermcneeley in "VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'"

petermcneeley — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:20:56 +0000

"My kids grew up under 24/7 adulting and had nowhere to go."

Yes but this has nothing to do with cars. What are you even protecting kids from anyway?

New comment by petermcneeley in "VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'"

petermcneeley — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:30:55 +0000

You think there wernt cars when I was a kid? I lived in the subs. Kid utopia!

Can you imagine bringing up cars in this thread?

New comment by petermcneeley in "Think of the Children: How to Force Real ID for All Internet Traffic (2023)"

petermcneeley — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:28:52 +0000

You know what we are talking about. It was written in the book.

New comment by petermcneeley in "Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself"

petermcneeley — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:14:33 +0000

They have played us all for absolute fools!

New comment by petermcneeley in "South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools"

petermcneeley — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:25:38 +0000

The catholic church fought the printing press for hundreds of years. Lets see how long our rulers fight the internet.

New comment by petermcneeley in "Floor and Ceil versus Denormals on CPU and GPU"

petermcneeley — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:36:38 +0000

WebGPU (WGSL) handles this by having a specified accuracy for each operation.

https://www.w3.org/TR/WGSL/#concrete-float-accuracy

This is all fully tested in the CTS.

https://gpuweb.github.io/cts/standalone/?q=webgpu:shader,*

New comment by petermcneeley in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

petermcneeley — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:04:49 +0000

Isnt the reason to by a Framework (or similar) because you would not want to be part of Apple's ecosystem? Why would benchmarks even matter here?

New comment by petermcneeley in "Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding"

petermcneeley — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:28:25 +0000

esp when the number is capped at only 64 bits which is quite small for some bigInt style numbers.

New comment by petermcneeley in "United flight collides with truck and pole as it lands at Newark"

petermcneeley — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:17:23 +0000

Sure but 911 was in 2001 when fully digital cameras were not common place.

New comment by petermcneeley in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

petermcneeley — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:40:48 +0000

Really makes you wonder about other things as well...

New comment by petermcneeley in "Canada's first sovereign wealth fund"

petermcneeley — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:49:13 +0000

I dont know who this Group is but it all sounds very schmittian.

It is not my role to convince someone of anything. I have to much respect for the human for that.

You, as human, should seek out the truth in your time and not turn away from it.

So you mentioned the 'truckers'. Here [0] is the truth in your time. I will make no attempt trick you into holding position.

Finally to complete the picture you should understand that the Carney government was recently formed in opposition to the democratic voice of the people. It was formed by nullifying the votes of the electorate. Everyone on all sides know this was a deeply immoral act. One has to ask what kind of leader is this?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307892

New comment by petermcneeley in "Canada's first sovereign wealth fund"

petermcneeley — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:53:48 +0000

Come now, that's just the cognitive dissonance talking.

I'm your huckleberry.

New comment by petermcneeley in "Canada's first sovereign wealth fund"

petermcneeley — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:08:27 +0000

> Perhaps I would have simply had someone different represent Canadians. Is this too much to ask?

This was in reference to Carney. I dont think Carney represents the people very well.

It is not a sovereign wealth fund. The name is intended to clash with a real sovereign wealth fund like say Norway has. Basically you need wealth and Canada has the inverse of wealth it has deficits.

The fund was created (of course) by debt. It is a bit like borrowing to invest in the stock market rather than trying to invest your savings/income. Canada already has massive federal debt due to insane levels of mismanagment.

So why would Canada create such a bizarre 'fund'. Well it is what happens when you put a banker in charge of a country. You get banking solutions to country problems.

So now you see why Carney's career path matters. This is just the tip of the iceberg. If you want to know more I can link you to many facets that you might find interesting.

New comment by petermcneeley in "Canada's first sovereign wealth fund"

petermcneeley — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:18:50 +0000

Your response is the quality of argument that I have come to expect in Canada.

New comment by petermcneeley in "Canada's first sovereign wealth fund"

petermcneeley — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:18:05 +0000

Look, I checked my email everyday and didnt see anything.

New comment by petermcneeley in "Canada's first sovereign wealth fund"

petermcneeley — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:34:20 +0000

Perhaps I would have simply had someone different represent Canadians. Is this too much to ask?

New comment by petermcneeley in "Canada's first sovereign wealth fund"

petermcneeley — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:39:16 +0000

This makes sense once you see the list of Canadian companies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_C...

#1 is Brookfield Corporation.

The now prime minister of Canada headed the ESG there. He is also an international central banker.