u/MediocreDiamond7187

▲ 3 r/webgl

Why is WebGL so slow on my browser which used to run it at a good speed?

Some time ago, WebGL began running very slowly on my PC's browsers (both Chrome and Opera and therefore probably others) after many years of running fast enough to render even those raymarching apps on ShaderToy at a decent framerate. I didn't change anything in the browsers. To give you some idea of how slow it is now, today I tested a really simple spinning cube app on ShaderToy which runs at less than 20 fps on my PC now but 119 fps on my mobile phone despite the obvious differences in video card ability. More elaborate ShaderToy apps are now so slow on my PC as to be unviewable (sometimes less than 1 fps if they run at all). What would cause this, and how do I fix it?

[Edited to include Opera among the browsers where this effect occurs]

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u/MediocreDiamond7187 — 1 day ago

"Metamorphosis of Narcissus" by Salvador Dali, 1937

This is a Dali painting that I don't remember. What do you make of its symbolism? I know who Narcissus is, but Dali paintings always have something else going on in them.

u/MediocreDiamond7187 — 3 days ago

How do you interpret Edvard Munch's "Death and the Child" ?

Like many Munch paintings, it obviously focuses on the theme of death, but why is the little girl covering her ears? For whatever it's worth, this painting is allegedly haunted (I suppose all Munch paintings look haunted, but this one includes reports of the girl disappearing from the painting on occasion).

u/MediocreDiamond7187 — 3 days ago
▲ 32 r/hbo

Article : "HBO's new sci-fi show looks like it knows it's bad – but that's not the point" ("Stuart Fails To Save The Universe")

Article about "Stuart Fails To Save The Universe".

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u/MediocreDiamond7187 — 4 days ago

All men named "Bob" are part of a large conspiracy trying to take over the planet by sheer force of numbers

How else would there be so many people named "Bob", which would be a silly name if it wasn't part of an organized effort to gain dominance by organizing all Bobs into a cohesive army. Every Bob is a sleeper agent waiting to strike once the order is given by the Chief Bob.

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u/MediocreDiamond7187 — 6 days ago

The "Men In Black" are unemployed IBM programmers (suits, ties, pasty white skin from sitting in front of a computer all day)

Think about it: IBM employees are (or were) famously required to wear a suit and tie, and rarely see the sun and therefore have chalk white skin. So do the Men In Black. ::dramatic pause:: Just coincidence? I think not.

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u/MediocreDiamond7187 — 6 days ago
▲ 103 r/MedievalHistory+1 crossposts

The Voynich manuscript (early 15th century) is written in an unknown language that still hasn't been deciphered

One of the most mysterious documents from the medieval period, the Voynich manuscript still has not been translated despite ongoing attempts to find a method.

u/MediocreDiamond7187 — 14 days ago
▲ 156 r/medieval

Medieval art tended to have a fixation on snails, but this one is unusual even by the usual bizarre standards of medieval snail art: a full painting of people living inside giant snail shells for a book called "Secrets of Natural History".

u/MediocreDiamond7187 — 14 days ago