crashprone (u/crashprone)

crashprone commented on Shader Academy: Learn computer graphics by solving challenges shaderacademy.com/... · Posted by u/pykello

szpro · 9 days ago

Hey, so if you go to for example https://shaderacademy.com/challenge/raymarching_3 and open Learning section and scroll through there. We literally link these great resources you mentioned. Also, we literally have discord with resources where we link a lot of them https://discord.com/channels/1358424822551674880/13584277359...

Do you think we should put these inspirations more on homepage?

crashprone · 7 days ago

Hey sorry I missed these links when looking at the exercises. I guess anyone who is interested in actually understanding the concepts will click on the Learning tab and be led to those resources. As a user I would like to be inspired by what's possible with shaders, so I would prefer to have links to various ShaderToy examples on the homepage. However, that's just me, maybe others might find it overwhelming and prefer the simpler, easy to grasp examples. Thanks for your response to my feedback, wish you both the best for your product!

crashprone commented on Shader Academy: Learn computer graphics by solving challenges shaderacademy.com/... · Posted by u/pykello

crashprone · 9 days ago

The idea is amazing, congratulations on getting the product out! However, there's a lot about this site that doesn't sit well with me. The rather generic site design and uninspiring results of the challenges are something that I could probably overlook, but what irks me the most is the lack of any human aspect throughout the site. How does an academy completely gloss over the contributions of various amazing people who've been teaching shaders for years now and are responsible for making shaders accessible and fun? I would've never learnt what GLSL is, without ShaderToy. If someone started learning shaders through this site and never discovered the treasure trove of material on iquilezles' website, how do we expect them to jump straight into "Ray Marching"? I can't help but think that the site intentionally holds back information on various other phenomenal shader learning resources.

Existing works of art like iquilezles "Planet Fall" should be part of the recommended curriculum if only to inspire others and set the baseline for what's possible with shaders.

crashprone commented on Shader Academy: Learn computer graphics by solving challenges shaderacademy.com/... · Posted by u/pykello

E-Reverance · 10 days ago

Ex. of unvetted output : https://shaderacademy.com/challenge/ranked_1

crashprone · 9 days ago

Another example : https://shaderacademy.com/challenge/height_map_1

crashprone commented on Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks blocked.org.uk/osa-blocks... · Posted by u/azalemeth

Telaneo · 20 days ago

The list's probably going to get a lot longer. I wonder how it's going to compare to the list of sites who block Europeans due to GDPR concerns. I've only ever noticed two sites that did that, even though the amount of noise from Americans was not insubstantial. The OSA is a lot more invasive than the GDPR though.

crashprone · 20 days ago

Would you mind elaborating on your statement? How is the GDPR invasive? Invasive from the content providers' POV?

crashprone commented on Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds” blog.kilocode.ai/p/ai-pri... · Posted by u/heymax054

shlant · a month ago

are you going to answer what the bait and switch was?

crashprone · a month ago

Bait : "For 200$ a month you get to use Claude 20x more than what the Pro users are entitled to. You don't know how much exactly though, but neither do we. We may limit your usage with weekly and monthly limits. Sounds good?"

Switch: "We limited your usage weekly and monthly. You don't know how those limits were set, we do but that's not information you need to know. However instead of choosing to hoard your usage out of fear of hitting the dreaded limit again, you've kept it again and again, using the product exactly the way it was intended to and now look what you've done."