utopiah

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by utopiah 5mo ago
Art isn't craftsmanship. You can make art with a literally piece of shit, or a toilet if you want to be more traditional, at least in 1917. You can't be a craftsperson without mastery of your domain and its tool. You can be a arti
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I tinkered with https://extism.org and basically the use case is that they suggest, namely you can extend software in another programming language but without having to setup a container or VMs on the client. They "just&quo
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Sincerely appreciate you took the time to reply and clarify. Honestly I don't care for downvotes but I admit it's frustrating that somebody believes I'm wrong (perfectly fine! I'm wrong very VERY often.) but doesn't
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Thanks, you taught me a new word today! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatomancy
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No but you see, I have a system! /s (I spent too long by the horse racing track)
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For NASA I don't know but all others that are private companies the "mission" is never "the mission". The mission is "making more money" and everything else, including the change in culture, is the result
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"This file doesn't look like what I remember. Are you sure? It's been a while since you last opened it. Memory is funny like that. The file is fine — maybe take another look with fresh eyes." from https://gith
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True but it's an arm race. Only mentioning that it feasible or even has been done few times mean that people who care will act accordingly. It doesn't remove the problem but it makes it radically less effective already by just bei
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Yes but not free either. Spam works because it scales and even though 0.0000001% only might fall for it, it's still "worth" it. Here it might be 0.0001% instead but it's a lot more expensive, even with subsidized tokens,
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Thanks but I'm aware of it, linked to an alternative just yesterday (but might replace by the InternetArchive one instead). A Web version would be so neat as we'd be able to link to pages, even states of the interactive explanatio
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Oof... well thanks for sharing but that's basically unusable for me. It neatly all packed in a 2MB file containing all assets, threejs, etc. I assumed it's based on a three.js template due to the `Rendered live with three.js · Dra
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by utopiah 5mo ago
"Advantages : A motor can be built upon any flat structure, such as a PCB, by adding coils and a bearing." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_flux_motor with image of "A miniature DC brushless axial mot
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Thanks for sharing. I wish it was a bit more interactive especially when there are parameters, e.g. "Widen the disc and torque rises with diameter cubed" I wish there was a slider to see that effect and thus maybe why there might
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by utopiah 5mo ago
Related professional ramblings few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48353270 (TL;DR: more code isn't better, doesn't matter who or what wrote it)
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Interesting I didn't think about it this way but it's indeed a kind of IKEA effect assuming that P-creative is H-creativity (as defined by Boden) which is totally aligned with incentives of using models. They have to be useful, ot
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Neat, thanks for explaining and sharing the code too!
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I'm speaking on behalf of my friend. I don't want to misconstrue his message. Even though not a developer himself he is familiar to the command line and can for example manager backend stuff like containers. In that sense he'
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No idea, sending him the link I'll see what he says about it, thanks!
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"Vibe reverse engineering" yep, was talking with a designer friend just yesterday who vibe coded a driver for his unsupported Wacom. He's not a developer but his pen tablet now works. It seems quite useful and efficient for t
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by utopiah 5mo ago
Selling shovels during the gold rush. Except there is no gold. Or arguably that "gold" is prohibitively expensive to use (not just store, it deprecates fast) so the entire rush is being subsidized. Let's go! /s
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Neat, opened an issue there for a finicky bit of code that'd help me quite a bit. /s
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One day I'll write about my 1-liner physics engine... let gravity = setInterval( _ => { if (projectile.object3D.position.y > 0) projectile.object3D.position.y \*= .99 }, 100) Jokes aside I find that providing ridiculousl
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by utopiah 5mo ago
If you haven't combined terminal tools together then you haven't use the terminal the way it's intended. If you start 1 command and get 1 output, the terminal isn't particularly powerful. One you do start combining comma
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You might enjoy playing with Turing Tumble.
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> Companies hopefully follow a PnL model. Eh... this is HN. The goal is precisely to reach BS escape velocity and SpaceX is the model to follow. It's not healthy IMHO (I'm not an economist) but that's definitely the arm
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> powerful 3D video game engine inside a standard web browser [...] JavaScript alone can't handle that kind of heavy lifting efficiently. True... but also WebGL/WebGPU on Vulkan/Metal/etc is a thing. You can run shade
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TBH I'd rather have both and in sync, namely physical in place, nearby, and digital always with me. Unfortunately I can't afford that so I have a messy compromise.
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Have you considered printing a book side and putting it on a wall as a growing poster while keeping a Calibre or Zotero collection in sync?
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Yes sorry I misspelled it in the whole thread.
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Did I say that the science is irrelevant and wasted?

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