Tossrock

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by Tossrock 2y ago
this was from the current ACX Open Thread
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by Tossrock 2y ago
A working mathematician recently got GPT-4o to prove an (afaik) novel lemma while pursuing their research: "My partner, who is mathematician, used ChatGPT last week for the first time to prove some lemmas for his research. He already s
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by Tossrock 2y ago
Phew, crazy stuff, I guess it pays to be a defense contractor.
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by Tossrock 2y ago
I'd be interested to know which CNC machines have 8 figure price tags. You can get a fully loaded Integrex for under a million.
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by Tossrock 2y ago
If you want gold-plated, there's Hilti, but you're paying a lot extra for a marginal increase in reliability. Milwaukee, Bosch, Makita, and DeWalt are all in the same range, ie contractor/prosumer (and all mostly are manufact
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by Tossrock 2y ago
I find CNC is a time-saver for one-offs when the work is complex enough that it'd be difficult-to-impossible to do by hand, eg complex curving cuts, engraving/pockets, etc. I actually saw an unusually straightforward example of th
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by Tossrock 2y ago
Funnily enough, Unity's latest UI approach is to just use web tech, with their 'UML' XML dialect plus CSS-like styling via the yoga embeddable C++ flexbox renderer. Also, Fusion 360 is now known as just Fusion (it's clea
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by Tossrock 3y ago
At a certain point, you're just reinventing real life with worse graphics.
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by Tossrock 3y ago
A "slip ring" for fluid service is called a rotary union.
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by Tossrock 3y ago
Oh man, that's good. Would really benefit from some old Ambrosia SW games!
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by Tossrock 3y ago
Oh right, I forgot Reforged (and the accompanying changes to the base game) was a thing
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by Tossrock 3y ago
World of Warcraft used Lua, but Warcraft III used a proprietary language called JASS.
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by Tossrock 3y ago
It's true - the Lyapunov exponent shows that even arbitrarily close points in the system's phase space become separated by exponentially larger distances in time. So even with a computer the size of the universe, you can't re
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by Tossrock 3y ago
Planet has sub 10-cm resolution? That's surprising
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by Tossrock 3y ago
Electric unicycles can do all that and are better in every practical aspect, but don't have the cool-factor of standing sideways on a board.
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by Tossrock 3y ago
Interesting correlate with "stocks take the stairs up and the elevator down" - stock prices being strongly influenced by trust.
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by Tossrock 3y ago
I made an art installation around a large circular LED array that can display patterns generated on a computer with shaders: https://youtu.be/LBZls9jwa0g (I designed all the mechanical hardware and the current electrical de
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by Tossrock 3y ago
gnip (reverse ping)
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by Tossrock 3y ago
The 'cube within sphere' shape is probably an airborne radar reflector, as detailed by thedrive: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28640/could-some-of-th...
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by Tossrock 3y ago
I made a visual programming / node editor environment similar to TouchDesigner, vvvv, Unreal Blueprints, etc, on top of Unity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyDpnzfSg_o It was originally created to drive a particular
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by Tossrock 3y ago
Roblox is a big C# shop that's pretty fun - platform tech in the gaming space. And hiring!
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by Tossrock 4y ago
Wrong unless you consider China and Taiwan the same country, which is a pretty hot take anywhere except China.
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by Tossrock 4y ago
This is how Roblox has worked for more than a decade. Note the valuation.
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by Tossrock 4y ago
“D&D has never been more popular, and we have really great fans and engagement,” Williams began. “But the brand is really under monetised.” - The CEO a month ago
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by Tossrock 4y ago
Digital personas already exist, see eg VTubers, vocaloids, Charlotte Fang, etc
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by Tossrock 4y ago
Your phone does not contain anti-lock break control, differential torque control, engine tuning control, or the huge amount of other automotive control software that's in a car. You're mistaking the user-facing software (infotainm
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by Tossrock 4y ago
Polycarbonate is stronger and more shatter-resistant (it's used for fighter jet canopies, among other things) but also substantially more expensive.
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by Tossrock 4y ago
I think most of them didn't actually read it and instead skimmed a few paragraphs, saw "$20,000", and rushed back to comment.
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by Tossrock 4y ago
This is an Amazon problem, not a markets-in-general problem. Amazon is currently completely taken over by cheap Chinese manufacturers and drop shippers. But, other sites are not. If you want something high-quality and handmade, go on Etsy.
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by Tossrock 4y ago
"you’re probably not going to be using any of the AI art tools to make a reference sheet for a character, nor be able to get it to generate images that consistently have the appearance of a custom character" This was true maybe a

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