alanbernstein

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   by alanbernstein 8mo ago

   Right, it seems the appropriate analogy is the shift from analog-photograph-developers to digital camera photographers.
2. 32.▲
   by alanbernstein 8mo ago

   I bumped this video to the top of my watchlist because of your comment, thanks for that. My takeaway is that the rocker-bogie is one of the best examples of an elegant passive solution I've ever seen.
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   by alanbernstein 8mo ago

   I really like this pure-math way of looking at airfoil behavior: https://complex-analysis.com/content/joukowsky_airfoil.html
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   by alanbernstein 8mo ago

   Considering things like Palantir, and the doge effort running through Musk, it seems inconceivable that this is not already the case. I think I'm more curious about the possibility of using a special government LLM to implement direct
5. 35.▲
   by alanbernstein 9mo ago

   I think they're the same? both are built layer by layer but consumed in vertical chunks, right?
6. 36.▲
   by alanbernstein 9mo ago

   After all, what is a sandwich but a stack of food?
7. 37.▲
   by alanbernstein 9mo ago

   If I'm working in a dark room, then light mode is eye strain hell. With dark mode, the minimum brightness I can achieve is about 100x lower than with light mode.
8. 38.▲
   by alanbernstein 9mo ago

   I do agree that both styles of treemap shown in the article are inadequate for various reasons, but I don't think that applies to treemaps as a whole.
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   by alanbernstein 9mo ago

   Personally, I find treemaps unmatched for disk space analysis. Specifically, I like to use the squarify layout algorithm, to NOT use the "cushion gradient" shading method, to use inset frames to convey depth visually, and to inclu
10. 40.▲
    by alanbernstein 9mo ago

    Why do treemaps suck?
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    by alanbernstein 10mo ago

    Before reading the article, I interpreted the quotation marks in the headline as addressing this exact issue. The author even describes dark patterns as a product of design. For an LLM which is fundamentally more of an emergent system, sure
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    by alanbernstein 11mo ago

    I'm generally very much for open-source software, but after my brief experience with FreeCAD and Fusion, I think if I'm going to sink 10+ hours into learning one of them, it will be Fusion. I bookmarked this recently and plan to t
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    by alanbernstein 11mo ago

    I adopted bosl2 recently, it's wonderful! Anchoring is a huge improvement, which does eliminate a lot of that work. But it's a very large library and I am slowly expanding my knowledge of it.
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    by alanbernstein 11mo ago

    I have a lot of experience with openscad. I design a lot of small, simple-to-moderate parts. I want to use something like fusion instead, but the GUI learning curve is a huge blocker for me. I'm not a CAD professional, I can't see
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    by alanbernstein 11mo ago

    Practically nothing in health science is universal, your anecdote does not disprove anything.
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    by alanbernstein 11mo ago

    Ok, now for the people using motor vehicles instead of their own muscle power, account for the time wasted at the gym for the equivalent exercise. Or for time at the hospital, due to their sedentary lifestyle. Then account for the various t
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    by alanbernstein 11mo ago

    I think the verb "promote" was chosen over "say" here very deliberately
18. 48.▲
    by alanbernstein 1y ago

    Thanks, will look into it. For some reason I thought all the RF options were super expensive, maybe not.
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    by alanbernstein 1y ago

    I see, thanks. Sounds like I was overthinking it.
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    by alanbernstein 1y ago

    `aunpack` does the trick for me.
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    by alanbernstein 1y ago

    Thanks for sharing. I'm very familiar with the basic mechanics of quaternion rotation, and I've been interested in a deeper understanding of this double-cover concept, but I just don't get it. I've seen the belt trick an
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    by alanbernstein 1y ago

    I find the smartphone controller options for my Canon t6i so frustrating and dodgy, I gave up on them. The IR remote works for about 20 seconds and then the receiver shuts off for some reason. Practically useless for family portrait selfies
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    by alanbernstein 1y ago

    This was my first thought, but after reading the comments here, I see I had no idea how many other alternatives already existed, so why not add another one.
24. 54.▲
    by alanbernstein 1y ago

    Cool! Did you consider using more compact keys and caps?
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    by alanbernstein 1y ago

    There was a demo app showing artists' studios in very high detail. It was really neat. I imagine if you ever want to "hang out in VR", it would be nice to do it in your own virtual living room, instead of the imaginary virtua
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    by alanbernstein 1y ago

    They are hoping to invest in the companies that will be the (next) electronic equivalent of rent-seeking land owners, as faang are now. It's better since land is physically necessary to live, but only marginally so.
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    by alanbernstein 1y ago

    This is amazing, it reminds me of a biology article about a new life form that is not quite virus, not quite bacteria, but something that manages to blur the line between them. Resource extraction eventually fills all niches, for better or
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    by alanbernstein 1y ago

    This is backwards, it's not about eliminating the landfill, it's about recovering the materials which were previously not scarce but now are or will be soon.
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    by alanbernstein 1y ago

    They mentioned it, seem to prefer pepakura.
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    by alanbernstein 1y ago

    I think I misinterpreted your comment as not understanding the AI effect, but actually you're just summarizing it kind of concisely and sarcastically? LLMs are one of the first technologies that makes me think the term "AI effect&