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by dllu 5d ago
OP here, ask me anything! I've also written about the process previously: - Line scan camera image processing: https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2025-09-21-line-scan-camera-... Previous discussions: - https:&#x2
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by dllu 8d ago
Rhino is unusually suitable for AI agentic generation since it is very command line driven and there are a lot of example RhinoScript projects. McNeel, the Rhino developers, also have a lot of open source stuff, Rhino MCP, and explicit supp
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by dllu 9d ago
Since NVIDIA owns huggingface now and huggingface has the excellent Candle [1] crate for inference on Rust, this seems like a good step towards nice native Rust kernels. [1] https://github.com/huggingface/candle
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by dllu 12d ago
haha, I see you recognized me from my line scan photography work. But unfortunately that only gets rid of perspective in one axis but not the other. Probably just taking photos with a really long telephoto lens would be good. In theory, you
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by dllu 12d ago
Extreme vibe coding!!! * better squares-in-circle packing for n = 31 and n = 34: https://github.com/dllu/packing and https://erich-friedman.github.io/packing/squincir/ * vibe coded CAD applic
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by dllu 12d ago
That's not the same thing as those are photos with perspective distortion.
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by dllu 15d ago
I found it interesting that Thorsten mentions the importance of attaching screenshots. In my experience, it varies widely by workload. Vision is great for some UI stuff but extremely terrible for my work, which involves visualizing connecti
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by dllu 16d ago
I stand corrected. However, fundamentally, the idea of "tiny CPU-only neural network" combined with traditional alpha-beta search is substantially different from "big GPU network" combined with Monte Carlo Tree Search. A
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by dllu 16d ago
The Stockfish NNUE is completely unrelated to AlphaZero.
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by dllu 16d ago
I recently scored an amazing deal on the Samsung Odyssey G8 G80HS, which is 32", 6144 x 3456 at 165 Hz for only $700 via perks at work [1]!!! Even if computers typically cannot game at 6144 x 3456 px, it is incredibly nice to simultane
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by dllu 1mo ago
The windshield wiper controls are a physical button plus physical scroll wheel on the steering wheel. You don't have to touch the touchscreen.
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by dllu 1mo ago
I feel like taking pictures is a fun experience in itself. For me, it isn't really "missing the experience". If anything, it makes me pay more attention to the amazing view and details that I'd have otherwise missed as I
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by dllu 1mo ago
I travel to tourist sites to take the exact same photo that is taken thousands of times every day because I have an above-average camera so I can take better quality photos than most other people lol
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by dllu 1mo ago
As someone who also did some line scan photography, I also ran into a lot of similar challenges! > Displaying and sharing the pictures I've taken has been a pain throughout the project. Most software on my computer doesn't like
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by dllu 1mo ago
I've further improved my long trains scanning setup with: * portable battery-powered enclosure with display: https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2026-06-12-standalone-cnc-li... * fine-grained distortion correction by
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by dllu 1mo ago
Neat. It links to some of mine from an older HN comment but here's another one of some houses from Caltrain: https://i.dllu.net/2017-11-23-14-30-54_stack_cdb771693eea9fe...
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by dllu 1mo ago
No pre-prompting, although I can't be sure it didn't use memories. "No tools" should theoretically have prevented it from looking up memories. FWIW, Grok and Gemini both failed in a similar way. With Python, it was able
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by dllu 1mo ago
Vision is still embarrassingly bad. ChatGPT Pro with GPT 5.6-sol: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a834217-ca8c-83e8-a8e8-45d5b8797b... The puzzle: https://activityvillage-files.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3f
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by dllu 2mo ago
In terms of using experience, I found Grok 4.5 to be way more pleasant to use than GPT 5.6 Sol and Claude 4.8/5. It just gets to the point, and is super fast and concise, no yapping. That's how AI agents should be imo. None of the
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by dllu 2mo ago
Talking about being "tired", the phrase お疲れ様でした (otsukaresama deshita) is commonly used to express "thanks for the hard work" and it's a catch-all greeting for coworkers now, but it literally means something like &q
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by dllu 2mo ago
Japanese also has a word you say to the cook, ご馳走様でした (gochisousama deshita) but that's said after the meal as thanks.
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by dllu 2mo ago
The Smithsonian has a great book called "Wheels and Wheeling" that covers the early history of bicycles. Fascinating stuff. https://repository.si.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/02b8e94...
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by dllu 2mo ago
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/9/claude-fable-5/ The bike is generally okay, apart from medium which derped hard. Max has correct diamond, correct head tube, and so on. Only nitpicks are that the fro
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by dllu 2mo ago
Agreed. It's far from solved. Modern LLMs still generate pelican bike SVGs with obvious errors: * some omitted the bottom of the diamond which connects from the pedals to the rear wheel * some added an extra connection from the pedals
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by dllu 2mo ago
Original founder of darktable, hanatos, went and made vkdt which fixes a bunch of my pet peeves with darktable: https://github.com/hanatos/vkdt https://jo.dreggn.org/vkdt/ * Vulkan instead of Open
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by dllu 2mo ago
I have a pet peeve that darktable-cli requires the GUI darktable to not be running. It would be nice to export photos using my script without having to disrupt my editing workflow...
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by dllu 2mo ago
I use Darktable a lot for 10 years. It has improved vastly over the years. I love the new additions like AgX! However I tried out the new AI denoise and it still isn't great. I also wish there was a way to manually correct barrel disto
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by dllu 2mo ago
iirc the bug that the R8127 patch was addressing was fixed in the R8169 driver upstream in kernel 6.18 and later. Not super sure what other patches there are and what the status of those are...
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by dllu 2mo ago
The Ampere cpu in that post has a "lack of single core CPU speed" despite ripping through compilation tasks with its 80 cores. But the DGX Spark's CPU has fairly decent single core speed and is more like Apple Silicon in this
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by dllu 2mo ago
It's an Orico 9948C3 with four Seagate Barracuda 24TB drives. They were on sale last year [1]. Unfortunately, the enclosure doesn't work super well on Linux. There is a weird bug where the drives don't enumerate when I boot u

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