slightknack

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by slightknack 10mo ago
The minimaxir/gemimg repo is pretty cool, fwiw. Going further, one thing you can do is give Gemini 2.5 a system prompt like the following: https://goto.isaac.sh/image-prompt And then pass Gemini 2.5's output direc
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by slightknack 4y ago
In my opinion, writing derivations in Guile Scheme, using Guix[0], is a breath of fresh air[1]. If only the ecosystem were as large as Nix's... [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guix [1]: https://g
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by slightknack 4y ago
> He identified the four forces which act on a heavier-than-air flying vehicle: weight, lift, drag and thrust. [...] He also designed the first glider reliably reported to carry a human aloft. He correctly predicted that sustained flight
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by slightknack 4y ago
A language with a function-color-agnostic effect system, generic over asynchronicity?
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by slightknack 4y ago
I mocked up a prototype for something similar to this using TreeSitter and its query language the other day for some heavy refactoring I had to do. This looks like a really cool project, will have to try it out!
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by slightknack 4y ago
I had a little too much fun... x>0.2-abs(sin(t*2))*0.05&&x<0.8+abs(sin(t*2))*0.05?(i%2?(min((x-sin(t%1.57)*0.3-0.5)*tan(-t%1.57)+cos(t%1.57)*0.3+0.5,(x-sin(t%1.57-1.57)*0.3-0.5)*tan(-t%1.57-1.57)+cos(t%1.57-1.57)*0.3+0.5
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by slightknack 4y ago
I love Actual, one of the best local-first apps I've used. I'm excited that it's been open sourced, but I also understand that this release is a bit bittersweet. Awesome work James, best of luck in your future endeavors :)
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by slightknack 4y ago
Thanks for the link to the guidelines: I removed the 'Show HN' prefix as this project isn't anything quantifiable yet. I'll be sure to post a proper Show HN when I've got something to show.
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I bought a short domain name. What should I do with it?(hb.sbs)
11 points by slightknack 4y ago|15 comments
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by slightknack 5y ago
Don't forget the built-in chat in google docs that nobody uses! (Yes, the one other than the commenting system).
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by slightknack 5y ago
We shouldn't have to live in a culture when being called out for making a 'choice with tenuous political relevancy' is socially expected, and something someone is 'guilty of'.
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by slightknack 5y ago
Like you, I am not a huge fan of JS, but I'd like to say that the ideas behind TermKit — namely having a shell with richer graphical interaction (e.g. cat works for images too), semantic awareness and tokenization of commands, rich aut
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Tell HN: GitHub is down (Update: Back online now)
188 points by slightknack 5y ago|64 comments
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by slightknack 5y ago
Just letting you know, it's also the name of a pretty well-known suit of cards present in decks of playing cards. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spades_(suit)
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by slightknack 5y ago
This is a neat idea. Would love to run some queries against this with a larger index. Here's one instance of the question just going over the transformer's head, I guess: My question: > how does google work The response: > A
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by slightknack 5y ago
Yes, but this almost seems intentionally genius at the same time.
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by slightknack 5y ago
A snapshot is a the entire state of a program at a single moment in time. Continuations are basically exposed snapshots, i.e. taking a snapshot, storing it in a variable, doing some work, and then 'calling' the snapshot to return
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by slightknack 5y ago
I've written some documentation for it in the past, but had to scrap it because things tend to move so quickly that it's better to read the code and ask Shaw than use incorrect documentation. As things stabilize, these issues will
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by slightknack 5y ago
Oh, I did something like this a while back as well! Aside from ray tracing, my renderer also supports ray marching , so it can render some cool fractals[1]. Writing path tracers is so much fun, love the write-up! [1]: https://gi
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by slightknack 5y ago
> Tossing my hat in for Passerine [1]. Gorgeous ML inspired syntax. I work on Passerine, cool to see the language mentioned in the wild, glad you like it! > Written in Rust, and I suspect scripting Rust libraries is in the cards. We h
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Effective Concurrency with Algebraic Effects in Multicore OCaml(kcsrk.info)
148 points by slightknack 5y ago|59 comments
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by slightknack 5y ago
Hey HN, Isaac Clayton again[0]! This summer I worked as an intern at tonari[1] where I developed algorithms for real-time 3D scene construction on the GPU. As a part of my research, I developed a library / tool for prototyping shader-b
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Show HN: Shadergarden: Create reloadable graphical pipelines with Lisp and GLSL(blog.tonari.no)
47 points by slightknack 5y ago|2 comments
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by slightknack 5y ago
I vote that we add our blogs / other good blogs we have come across as children on this comment. I'll start, here's mine: - https://slightknack.dev/blog Here are some others: - https://journal.stuf
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by slightknack 5y ago
As someone who lives in Rome, it's about as quick to order a fresh pizza to go from a local restaurant as it is to get one from this vending machine. Alice Pizza is a popular pizza-to-go chain, but the place with what I think has the b
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Writing a Nanopass Compiler – Andy Keep [video](youtube.com)
1 points by slightknack 5y ago|0 comments
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How DAT Works: A Distributed Protocol for Sharing Data (2019)(datprotocol.github.io)
2 points by slightknack 5y ago|0 comments
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by slightknack 6y ago
Because Passerine is pass-by-value, it only allows each reference to be owned by one object. > So if some code somewhere hands me a list that contains references to some heap data, how do you track this? Passerine is a high-level langu
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by slightknack 6y ago
Thanks for your excellent questions. They're really helping me fuzz through my approach - I wish I had people I could do this with more often, haha. :P Anyway, something I realized after I posted that question is that assignment doesn&
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by slightknack 6y ago
It's loosely based on Proust ASAP, but without the explicit quadratic-time construction of paths (in a sense, this is done 'dynamically' at runtime with the CoW strategy we've discussed). When you think about it, Vaporiz

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