Watch the thing if you are interested in the history of participatory media and early internet culture.
I'm sure it gets a lot of things wrong, and it seems like it's probably overly generous with it's subject/narrator/director/writer, but ... That's the point in a lot of ways, I think?
I don't live my life in public in the same way, but I do live my life in public. I get recognized IRL for things I've published, videos I've made, etc.
I've missed out on jobs over things I've published. I've been embarrassed by things I've shared.
I haven't been on the internet since 1994, but I definitely published my first web page in ... 97? 98? I was a child.
But it raises some points I want to talk about, because the story isn't about links.net or Justin, or at least it isn't just about Justin and Links.net. It's also about publishing, participatory media, #diymedia, the potential transformative power of the internet, and what it means to be a human being who is Very Online.
This leans towards another concept of the "maximalist aesthetic", which Everything Everywhere does have in a more distinctive & thematically-appropriate way.
Maximalism refers to the aesthetic of "how much can we fit onscreen?", which we see everywhere since the ascendancy of computing. How many pixels? Detail? Portraits? Sprites? What else?
It's often treated like the inevitable march of progress, but it'd probably help the planet to move away from it! Useful to think about.
I want to see more movies distributed outside Hollywood studios who demand DRM. In making that a reality we can't compete with Hollywood on budgets, but we can compete on storytelling skill & imagination.
We can't afford a more populace alien world than Pandora, but we can afford a more imaginative & alien one.
With computers effects today are cheap & set to get cheaper (not to discount talented CG artists), soon theatre groups may be able to compete with mid-budget movies!
Finally saw Everything Everywhere All At Once the other day (missed it in theatres because, well, I'm not trying for any movie; saw Nope instead), and wow! It deserves every single award its been getting if not more!
What I want to highlight using it is basically how relatively small its budget & crew are! Please take inspiration from it!
I think this movie serves well to highlight my concept of "feats of skill" (e.g. Everything Everywhere) vs "feats of budget" (e.g. Avatar franchise).
There's an implementation of the Mersenne Twister PRNG formula upon MPZ. With a seperate methodtable for seedable MT-random. Includes a default-state lookuptable & plenty of bittwiddling I don't understand.
Or there's a more traditional Linear-Congruential random-number generator implemented upon MPN. Again, plenty of bittwiddling!
The core logic works similarly parsing the core logic into a "param" struct & calling the appropriate serialization function, some of which are defined here. With macros handling the serialization & functions handling the formatting.
Today I'm looking over GNU MultiPrecision's textual serialization library.
This has several public API wrappers around the core logic for different function signatures. And methodtables of underlying utilities, specified by those public APIs.
There's a replacement printf implementation repeatedly looking for "%" & examining subsequent character(s) calling the core logic where appropriate.
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