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Lots of javascript for a "css-only" tool. Looks like just the rendering is css-only.

You can open up your terrain in codepen with nothing but CSS/HTML, and it renders fine. It's just not interactive / draggable anymore.

So the JS is only being used, essentially, as a nice UI for configuring your terrain and the camera angle from which it's viewed.

This is still an incredible feat.


I guess it'd be more accurate to call it a "Generator for CSS-Only Terrain", as the generator itself is not CSS-only.

It's a "(CSS-only Terrain) Generator", not a "CSS-only (Terrain Generator)"


Not to mention of all of those pesky HTML tags and images, clearly not CSS-only, what a fraud.

"CSS-only" colloquially tends to mean HTML and CSS without Javascript, sometimes without images.

The tone of the parent comment suggests they were writing in jest and are aware that "CSS-only" includes HTML.

Yep. Can confirm this does not work with JS disabled. I'm disappointed by the misleading title.

is it a Generator for CSS-Only Terrain? or a CSS-Only Generator which creates Terrain?

We need PEMDAS for English.


Let's use sexpr?

actual meaning -> ((CSS-Only Terrain) Generator)

incorrect interpretation -> (CSS-Only (Terrain Generator))


maybe RPN?

actual meaning -> CSS-Only Terrain + Generator +

incorrect interpretation -> CSS-Only + Terrain Generator +

Really we may need BNF here


Loglan anyone?

> Why the hell is there no key to delete a file?

Cmd+delete? I don't really want it to be a single key as it's too easy to accidentally trigger (say I try to delete some text in a filename but accidentally bump my mouse and lose focus on the name)


One implies "we should regulate AI" and the other implies "we should regulate the wealthy"


Should we regulate guns or dangerous people using them?


Yes, this shouldn't be controversial


Porque no los dos?


Both of them


> Like most good stories, this one starts in the middle and works its way back and forth

Don't tell me your story is "good," let me read it and I'll be the judge of that.


Oh, I did something similar on my website! https://interruptkey.com


beautiful site!


Yeah, people who aren't firemen shouldn't be allowed to shout "fire!" they should just burn to death.


On a charitable reading I think the gist of the comment you're responding to is that we could use some more volunteer firefighters.


> I wrote Forth/2 out of pure spite, because somehow I heard that it just wasn't possible to write OS/2 applications in assembler

I was thinking about this recently and considering writing a blog post about it, nothing feels more motivational than being told "that's impossible." I implemented a pure CSS draggable a while back when I was told it's impossible.


We've all done it. (-:

For some while I read people saying that, despite the existence of Paul Jarc showing how svscan as process 1 would actually work and Gerrit Pape leading the way with runit-init and demonstrating the basic idea, one could not do full system management with daemontools and wholly eliminate van Smoorenberg init and rc.

* https://code.dogmap.org/svscan-1/

* https://smarden.org/runit/

It was one of the motivating factors in the creation of nosh, to show that what one does is exercise a bit of imagination, take the daemontools (or daemontools-encore) service management, and fairly cleanly layer separate system management on top of that. Gerrit Pape pioneered the just-3-shell-scripts approach, and I extended that idea with some notions from AIX, SunOS/Solaris, AT&T System 5, and others. The service manager and the system manager did not have to be tightly coupled into a single program, either. That was another utter bunkum claim.

* https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/#SystemMangement

* https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/guide/new-interfaces.html

Laurent Bercot demonstrated the same thing with s6 and s6-rc. (For clarity: Where M. Bercot talks of "supervision" I talk of "service management" and where M. Bercot talks of "service management" as the layer above supervision I talk of "system management".)

* https://skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/overview.html

The fallacy was still going strong in 2016, some years afterwards, here on Hacker News even.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13055123


I agree but it'll never make it there, this is exactly what your average user of this site wants to avoid hearing.


Is it Bit Chat or Bitch At?


I’m assuming that it’s Bitch At since with a ~30ft range you’ll be able to see who you’re bitching at


Nice double entendre for sure.


Or like the old chat client BitchX


Bitch At. Same as Bitch Ute.


Yes


Depends if you're messaging your friends or your girls.


"Area Codes".


I agree, I also would argue that this counts as an earlier incarnation of the System Settings icon: https://i.imgur.com/cqtpKhI.png


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