darkstarsys

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   by darkstarsys 5y ago

   I tried to do a clockless fully async bus interface in around 1988 in a chip I was designing at Masscomp for a fast data acquisition system. Never got built, but it was fun trying, and it would've been really fast. "Lower design c
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   by darkstarsys 5y ago

   I loved working at TMC. Amazing collection of some of the smartest and most interesting people.
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   by darkstarsys 5y ago

   One thing not noted in the article is how the albedo reduction from greening in the arctic affects warming, ice melt, etc. It is good that greening has a negative feedback effect, but albedo reduction likely reduces that benefit in those re
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   by darkstarsys 5y ago

   That's a really cool application of Blender! I'm also using Blender headless in docker containers on Google Cloud, though not using Cloud Run. I'm doing it for self-service molecular visualizations -- "create your own mo
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   by darkstarsys 5y ago

   BoI was a bit off the deep end, but FoR is absolutely one of the most important science books of the 20th century. Up there with Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach. It fully converted me to a MWI adherent, as well as being beautifully cr
6. 66.▲
   by darkstarsys 5y ago

   How would you debug serious web apps written in this Rust/wasm? Chrome dev tools can't load your Rust code, right?
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   by darkstarsys 5y ago

   I give significant academic discounts, so researchers can typically pay out of pocket. As for how to get in front of staff: all the old fashioned ways. Ads, content marketing, attend conferences (hard during COVID), give talks.
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   by darkstarsys 5y ago

   Thanks!
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   by darkstarsys 5y ago

   My app is https://bioviz-studio.com , a web-based tool to create beautiful video visualizations of molecular structures. App itself is at https://app.bioviz-studio.com . Front end: Vue, vuetify, vuex, NGL, three.js&#x2
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    by darkstarsys 5y ago

    Where's the Emacs lib for it?
11. 71.▲
    by darkstarsys 5y ago

    This is helpful, but it doesn't (yet) show you the actual matching part of the line, just the first N chars.
12. 72.▲
    by darkstarsys 5y ago

    It depends on how deep the file parser is. For 2d, the zero-level feature would just be pixelwise image diff of the rendered result. For photoshop or inkscape, you could diff layers, show added/deleted/changed adjustments, etc. Fo
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    by darkstarsys 5y ago

    This looks really interesting. I read through the docs on the site though, and it doesn't say anything about diffs and merges. Those are fundamental VCS operations so I hope it supports them. I recognize merging is complex for 2d/
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    by darkstarsys 5y ago

    This is good, thanks. But a much more interesting problem I haven't seen a good writeup for is how to interpolate smoothly between quaternions at different times. Quaternion slerp has jerks (C_0 but not C_1 or C_2) at the keyframes.
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    by darkstarsys 5y ago

    Interesting. In my family it was always "I've had an _ample_ sufficiency."
16. 76.▲
    by darkstarsys 6y ago

    Yes. Not to mention position tracking latency, frame latency, jittery/slow controls, mismatched depth cues (parallax vs. lens focus), and on and on...
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    by darkstarsys 6y ago

    Cool, so my phone has a 69.6 btu battery. % units --verbose -1 '4080mA hours * 5V' btu 4080mA hours * 5V = 69.607689 btu
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    by darkstarsys 6y ago

    Not the unit definitions in a spreadsheet; I'd like a spreadsheet where each cell has not just a number, but a number with its unit. Formulas would be evaluated the way `units` does it. B1=3m; B2=4s; B3="=B1/B2" would gi
19. 79.▲
    by darkstarsys 6y ago

    I wish someone would make a spreadsheet that tracks units like this.
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    by darkstarsys 6y ago

    Well, except for the timekeeping problem (there are workarounds but they're annoying) and the significant networking issues (no bidirectional port forwarding so "localhost:8080" doesn't work with server in WSL and DISPLA
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    by darkstarsys 6y ago

    Doesn't mention org, rst, or any of the other simplified ASCII markup mini-languages. Missed opportunity.
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    by darkstarsys 6y ago

    I have a startup (SaaS, web-based tool for scientists to make molecular videos). Looking at your site, I don't see how to tell if this would have any value for me. What are these "directories"? Why would I care about being su
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    by darkstarsys 6y ago

    This is from 2012.
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    by darkstarsys 6y ago

    Not a popular opinion I'm sure, but I'm all-in on OneNote. Works everywhere (at least basically) and it is just so rich. Full pen support for drawing (vital for me), tables, equations (sort of), multiple text blocks on a page (als