opticfluorine

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by opticfluorine 3mo ago
Wow, what a portfolio! This one in particular caught my eye: https://adazshen.com/Viral-Placenta I have little artistic ability myself, but I am continuously in awe of what artists create. It makes me hope for the optimisti
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by opticfluorine 9mo ago
I wonder if you could generate it via a Roslyn incremental source generator instead of as a file to bypass this limit. I'm guessing not, but it does sound like fun.
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by opticfluorine 11mo ago
Minor nit, Joule-Thomson is not just the ideal gas law - it is a separate thermodynamic effect entirely. Case in point, for certain gases the change in temperature due to Joule-Thomson has the opposite sign that you would predict from the i
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by opticfluorine 1y ago
I have occasionally, just for fun, written benchmarks for some algorithm in C++ and an equivalent C# implementation, them tried to bring the managed performance in line with native using the methods you mention and others. I'm always s
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by opticfluorine 1y ago
I personally think this last sentence from my quote makes it unclear: "In short, if you use this project to generate revenue, the Open Source Maintenance Fee is required." Perhaps I'm being too semantic, but I don't feel
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by opticfluorine 1y ago
I came across this a few months ago when I was evaluating open source installer options for my own open source project. I have no issue with charging for binaries while the source is available under an OSI license, but this from the README
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by opticfluorine 1y ago
Wasn't suggesting at all that you use my distro or that you can't use X11 as your solution. Debian is great and I use it for all of my servers. I'm just responding to the assertion that Wayland doesn't work with NVIDIA t
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by opticfluorine 1y ago
I have an RTX 4060 with latest drivers, KDE, and Arch. Wayland works perfectly for me. Maybe Debian has some outdated packages that haven't caught up yet?
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by opticfluorine 1y ago
This definitely resonates with me. One of my favorite pasttimes is to code away on a 2D multiplayer RPG engine, and I've ended up doing at least a few of the projects on this list as part of that (ECS framework, voxel renderer, physics
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by opticfluorine 2y ago
I wonder, how close does Godot get with its web export support? The "authoring tool" seems pretty good, and it exports to WASM.
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by opticfluorine 2y ago
Especially when one of the language's main purposes is to be embedded in applications written in other languages (which are predominantly zero based) - and so you tend to have a lot of back-and-forth integration between these two style
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by opticfluorine 2y ago
It is funny, isn't it? I always wonder how the language would be perceived had they gone with zero based indexing from the start. I'm a big fan of Lua, including for the reasons you mention. I suspect the reason this one thing is
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by opticfluorine 2y ago
Having just gone through the exercise of integrating Lua with a custom game engine over the past few weeks, I have to echo how clean the integration with other languages is. It's also worth noting that the interface is clean in such a
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by opticfluorine 2y ago
To add to this, there are also official Microsoft extensions to VSCode which add absurdly useful capabilities behind subtle paywalls. For example, the C# extension is actually governed by the Visual Studio license terms and requires a paid
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by opticfluorine 2y ago
When I used to work in defense contracting, this is precisely what we (the contractor) did. We would buy up all available stock of any difficult-to-replace parts (often specific SBCs) when the manufacturer announced end of life.
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by opticfluorine 2y ago
I've ruled out several properties in my current homebuying search for this exact reason. Having lived next to the neighborhood collection pond once before (a rental thankfully), I'm extra paranoid about stormwater and drainage now
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by opticfluorine 2y ago
My organic chemistry professor always liked to point out that while CO2 is a gas that is easily dealt with following metabolism, SiO2 - silica/quartz - is most decidedly not a gas. Add that to the list of challenges for silicon-based l
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by opticfluorine 2y ago
Out of curiosity, if it is known that the nth bit is set, don't I also have the same risk but in (n-1) bits? Genuinely curious here. Edit: Ah, nevermind, I see now why I don't have that issue. It's because I can't easily
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by opticfluorine 2y ago
For the purposes of key generation, however, wouldn't you want the full n bits of entropy? Otherwise the search space for a brute force factorization (haha right) is 2^(n-1) instead of 2^n, or half as many possibilities. The domain of
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by opticfluorine 2y ago
> The random number returned is OR-ed with 0b1000000000000001 to set its first and last bit to 1. The last bit set to 1 makes it an odd number and the first bit set to 1 ensures that it is a sufficiently large number which covers the ent
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by opticfluorine 2y ago
Not disagreeing with your point, but it couldn't be a compiler optimization, could it? The compiler isn't able to infer that the class will not be inherited anywhere else, since another compilation unit unknown to the class could
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by opticfluorine 2y ago
Very similar experience here, and I ended up going directly into industry instead of a postdoc because I had the same realization. I'm glad I did it that way, though, because I'm very proud of my research and I think we did someth
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by opticfluorine 3y ago
Welp, glad I didn't go through with trying to contribute to TMW. That's disappointing to hear. I've had a much better experience trying to build my own MMO engine instead.
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by opticfluorine 3y ago
In 200 years this is going to be like when we discover yet another proof of Euler or Gauss, 20 years after a current mathematician arrived at the same result.
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by opticfluorine 3y ago
One reason is new applications in legacy enterprises that are slow at adopting newer/better languages for a variety of reasons. I used to work as an embedded SWE for a Fortune 500 that made heavy use of C++ and was very resistant to Ru
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by opticfluorine 3y ago
Speaking as someone who used to work in DFT (the computational side), the multiple interesting computational results showing band structures often associated with high-Tc superconductors seemed interesting. It's a long shot (because pr
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by opticfluorine 3y ago
If I'm not mistaken this doesn't appear to be a catalyst. The reaction is driven by the irreversible formation of a strong P=O double bond, and the reagents are consumed. So great for chemical synthesis, but no clear path to fuel
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by opticfluorine 3y ago
Is maple walnut ice cream not a thing across the US? I grew up in New England not far from the Canadian border, now live in upstate NY and have easy access to maple walnut ice cream. Never realized how lucky I was.
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by opticfluorine 3y ago
The LBNL DFT paper isn't claiming to have modeled the strong correlations. Rather, they observe a specific feature of the band structure (flat bands crossing the Fermi level formed from d-orbitals) that have also appeared in DFT calcul
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by opticfluorine 3y ago
As a fully remote manager who has never been an in-office manager, I have to wonder if the control being lost is really necessary. In two years of leading a department of 25 engineers, I've never found a need to exert any control that

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