conorbergin

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by conorbergin 11mo ago
Very funny to put a bibtex citation under such a small piece of work
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by conorbergin 1y ago
Redefining commonly understood phrases to mean something else in your own little world make you look ignorant.
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by conorbergin 1y ago
I've being trying out SQLite for a side project of mine, a virtual whiteboard, I haven't quite got my head around it, but it seems to be much less of a bother than interacting with file system APIs so far. The problem I haven&#x27
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by conorbergin 1y ago
If you are a hobbyist or small business in desktop manufacturing you are basically forced to buy Chinese products. I have never owned a Prusa, but I have owned several Creality and Bambu Labs printers, because I could get the same utility a
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by conorbergin 1y ago
I think everyone has this reaction until they start using it, then it makes perfect sense, especially when using editors that have multiple cursors and can operate on selections.
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by conorbergin 1y ago
I would rather rely on a bunch of sanitizers and static analysis because it is more representative of the core problem I am solving: Producing machine code. If I want Rust to solve these problems for me I now have to write code in the Rust
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by conorbergin 1y ago
I think the problem with this attitude is the compiler becomes a middle manager you have to appease rather than a collaborator. Certainly there are advantages to having a manager, but if you go off the beaten track with Rust, you will not h
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by conorbergin 1y ago
Monads are the poor man's early return.
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by conorbergin 1y ago
Very few people are too “advanced” to be challenged by a sufficiently difficult undergraduate degree, ridiculous thing to say imho, I went to a UK university this decade and I can give you a laundry list of issues more significant than “exc
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by conorbergin 1y ago
Oh absolutely, I flatter myself to think I use them for "serious engineering", and I am well aware of my debt to Warhammer players who don't want to pay Games Workshop prices.
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by conorbergin 1y ago
I don't think the fact that you can make fairly serious mechatronic devices with pocket money can conceivably be a bad thing for engineering as a discipline. However this does mean there are a lot of people that own a 3d printer that w
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by conorbergin 1y ago
Zig is becoming a real do-everything tool for me. I was learning gpu programming recently and found you could compile it to SPIR-V!
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by conorbergin 1y ago
I've been using it for a while and I honestly don't even check the output until I'm done sometimes. I think it's more important to make good preliminary sketches and have a good idea of what you want to make, checking th
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by conorbergin 1y ago
I see you still have to add a fudge number to stop the faces intersecting when doing a difference boolean. I'm afraid this is still strictly worse than Build123d or any other DSL than wraps OpenCascade.
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by conorbergin 1y ago
I could not imagine trying to design a 3d part without fillets. I use Build123d mostly, and have even gone as far as using the Open Cascade library directly, but if I had to choose between FreeCAD or OpenSCAD/Solvespace I would rather
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by conorbergin 1y ago
I think someone says this in every HN post involving CAD, but the reason FreeCAD is "buggy" and Solvespace is small and fast is Solvespace has a fraction of the power. FreeCAD uses the Open Cascade kernel, which can do complex 3d
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by conorbergin 1y ago
Interesting that you talk about using shape optimization leading to more manufactureable results than a continuum approach. What sort of manufacturing do you envision, welded tube frames, cast parts? The weird organic results you get from t
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by conorbergin 1y ago
Bach's fugues are amazing, they sound great on harpsichords and organs, whereas some piano music sounds very wrong when it is payed without all the volume modulation, the fugues are carried by the interactions between the melodies, the
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by conorbergin 1y ago
Your prompts are very long for how simple the models are, using a CAD package would be far more productive. I can see AI being used to generate geometry, but not a text based one, it would have to be able to reason with 3d forms and do diff
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by conorbergin 2y ago
I agree with learning React, it pops up in all sorts of places, vscode extensions, the windows start menu apparently. But yes, mixed-rendering, server functions, meta-frameworks, etc. You are in real danger of spending years learning all th
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by conorbergin 2y ago
When I made my first website I read things online like "svelte is better than react" and "solid-js will be the next big thing", and I thought this was an important part of web development. Newbies should read MDN and ign
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Centring the Cursor(conorbergins.blog)
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