hingler36

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by hingler36 6d ago
Thanks for clarifying your point. I didn't know about the reprap IRC channel being dead, that's a real shame
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by hingler36 6d ago
I feel like this has been a talking point for as long as off-the-shelf printers aimed at hobbyists have existed. Calling them AI factories is a bit off the mark imo, there are plenty of hobbyists that learn CAD and want to make their own st
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by hingler36 10d ago
I remember a story where some big wall climbers were stuck waiting for a storm to pass, and one of them had brought a paperback book to pass the time. Once he'd finished the first half he cut it in half so the other climbers could have
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by hingler36 12d ago
Meaningful decompositions have got to be my favorite subject in linear algebra, and SVD is the king of these. Another location this pops up is "eigenfaces", an early form of compression (and correlation) of images of faces. Years
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by hingler36 14d ago
Comparing OpenSCAD to CadQuery is super apples-to-oranges in the first place. CQ works directly with NURBS curves via the Cascade engine, and OS functions by performing CSG operations. Both certainly have their place, but for engineering ap
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by hingler36 17d ago
This is what it comes down to for me as well. If Apple has somehow magically solved the reliability issues this will be fantastic, if they are just fad chasing it'll be DOA
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by hingler36 24d ago
I love these kinds of problems, because they try to produce what humans perceive as random instead of something truly random. Another great example of this is blue noise
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by hingler36 27d ago
I see your point, but in this scenario how do you handle the problem of levying an accurate tax? I suppose we could rely on banks to value assets instead of the government, but since the banks are the ones giving out the loans to pay the ta
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by hingler36 27d ago
I guess I'm in the weird position of being a leftist who is generally against wealth taxes. Taxing non-liquid wealth like this requires the government to be able to accurately assess the value of these assets and that's an unreali
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by hingler36 27d ago
I think this is where my head goes when I think of the event: a large portion of the attendees have gone from community members to customers.
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Show HN: Writing a 3D Printing Slicer from Scratch(akintokinematics.com)
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by hingler36 29d ago
This appears to be a retelling of another well-known process for volume computation: sum together the signed volumes of the tetraheda formed by each face with the origin (or any other fixed point WLOG). Very cool derivation though!
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by hingler36 29d ago
Even if they are stuck with a fine, who enforces the fine? What's stopping them from just... Not paying it?
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by hingler36 29d ago
At this point, does precedent even matter? Based on recent rulings, I feel like this exact scenario could play out again and the result would be the exact same.
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by hingler36 1mo ago
TFA doesn't discuss why cities widely banned boarding houses. The most commonly cited reason I've heard is the decline of state mental institutions. People who would otherwise be in those facilities fell to boarding houses, and th
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by hingler36 1mo ago
It really revealed how much he relied on the gift of hindsight when writing his earlier books. Nothing wrong with that per se, but it's something he should have been aware of when doing a book on an ongoing event.
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by hingler36 1mo ago
"a Texas Corporation built on the foundation of Christ" Thank god, finally a spaceflight corporation that appeals to my traditional southern values!
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by hingler36 1mo ago
I have started using AI a bit, but I'm still trying to be careful in that if I ever lose access I can still perform my job at pre-AI ability. My understanding is that tokens are still heavily subsidized, and when that well runs dry I d
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by hingler36 1mo ago
This is a really cool demo, but I don't necessarily see these superceding traditional beziers so much as being another option for designers
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by hingler36 1mo ago
When I worked in robotics, it always pissed me off that our recruiters ignored game devs as candidates. There's such a huge overlap in the two fields in terms of the math underpinning the systems
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by hingler36 1mo ago
This dovetails into one of my favorite CS sub-fields: approximation algorithms. In many cases NP-Hard problems may be approximated with a guaranteed lower bound of accuracy. For example, solving the euclidean version of the travelling sales
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by hingler36 2mo ago
Welcome to the lucky 10,000! SIMD is actually a pretty integral part of how GPUs are able to work efficiently, it's part of why there's such a strong focus on branchless programming in the field.
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by hingler36 2mo ago
Where would you draw the line between someone advocating for their belief vs shoving it down your throat? Does the "extremeness" of the belief factor into the judgement? If so, how are we not back at the original question of the d
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by hingler36 2mo ago
I read Singh's book a few years ago, I really enjoyed it and left with a basic understanding of the underlying math
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by hingler36 2mo ago
I agree with a lot of this, and the framing is new to me and I really appreciate it. I especially appreciate the acknowledgement that there isn't necessarily anything wrong with having extreme beliefs; "extreme" is a label mo
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by hingler36 2mo ago
I'm using a mac for work, and coming from Linux I'm pleasantly surprised by how great homebrew is. It really makes the the experience a lot better
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by hingler36 2mo ago
Yeah, this take is wildly out of touch. Sure, it's great when you're able to derive philosophical meaning from your work, but at the end of the day the vast majority of people are here for the paycheck.
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by hingler36 2mo ago
The keyboard looks great in general, but jumping into switch design is a huge undertaking. If you're willing to share: how many presses are these rated for? What is the yield looking like for manufacturing these?
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by hingler36 2mo ago
Great project! Are vertex insertion and deletion also supported/accelerated? What compromises are keeping this constrained to 32-bit? It seems like you could cut back on quantization error by increasing bits, but if you're doing s
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by hingler36 2mo ago
A lot of the discussion here is pretty surprising. Saying "The information is in people's heads" is wild considering the allegations involve taking screenshots of documents, not just fond memories of working on hardware. Appl

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