virtualritz

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by virtualritz 1d ago
"Architecture and product design" but no STEP/IGES/BRep output, just triangles?
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Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding(heise.de)
167 points by virtualritz 16d ago|81 comments
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by virtualritz 23d ago
AI is the subtrate the future runs on. And so I think the idea is more to understand tomorrow ... from first principles. In the late 80's, as a teenager, I learned x86 assembly and C because that was the only way to squeeze out enough
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by virtualritz 26d ago
Indeed, looks super uncomfy. And yeah, I helped a friend who's a furniture designer [1] for a few years. After a while, when you 'beta test' pieces in development a lot, you understand that looks are great but comfort always
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by virtualritz 1mo ago
I seems to have the first part in common with Reticulum.
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by virtualritz 1mo ago
> Rust is comparatively worse, because LLMs don't make the same coding mistakes that humans do that justifies the existence of the borrow checker, [...] That's a pile of bollocks, pardon my French. Source/proof? And to the
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by virtualritz 1mo ago
the article opens with the fact that macOS uses 5 times less. The irony seems lost on the author. I wouldn't find this post less ridicule-inciting than if the title was "macOS's built-in weather app wastes more that 200 MB of
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by virtualritz 1mo ago
I build a tool like this with Claude in 2hs, uses Rust with OpenCV crate, egui GUI, PDF output. Basically it steps through a folder with images, finds corners, user presses Space if ok, or adjusts corner if not (about 1 in 20 pages has a co
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by virtualritz 1mo ago
But Rust has editions. That is a big lever language designers can use if they painted themselves into a corner.
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by virtualritz 1mo ago
Lety me reply to this bigoted trope with an apt Turkish proverb: The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
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by virtualritz 2mo ago
The one thing I'd put in context is "don't waste time on commuting". In Europe for sure and possibly many parts of Asia like Japan or bigger metropolises in China etc. most people will commute by public transport. You ca
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by virtualritz 2mo ago
It couldn't possibly be that Blender simply has much more volunteer contributions? Since hacking on a 3D DCC in your spare time may be more than three times as enticing to people than doing the same on an email client? I'd wager O
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by virtualritz 3mo ago
> mythos allowed mediocre people to get results by holding their hand through the process, Yes, just like early cars allowed mediocre horse riders to get from A to B with dignity. Or like my Japanese rice cooker allows a person like me,
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by virtualritz 3mo ago
We only know how many were discovered. Since we do not know the ratio to undiscovered this "1-2" is meaningless to assess the risk of this sort of attack.
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by virtualritz 3mo ago
That is what pure desperation about your moat getting nullifying looks like. Cast into TOS and code. Openly so.
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by virtualritz 3mo ago
Same with truffle mayo or truffle-based products. [1] People who grew up on the artificial flavor prefer it over the real one. I have quite a few in my circle of friends. You go to an Italian restaurant and you get plain pasta, panned in bu
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by virtualritz 4mo ago
255.0. Everything else makes no sense and is actually dangerous when working with colors. Trust me. :) And when you go from float to 8bit you should dither to avoid banding. If in doubt, error diffusion with a random number between -0.5..=0
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by virtualritz 4mo ago
And both are wrong since the values would have to be in a linear color space for for the compositing math to make sense. But in some non-linear space to be useful when mapped to 0..255 (e.g non-linear sRGB). Which happens right after the Po
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by virtualritz 4mo ago
PascalCase == Heap allocated makes a lot of sense to me. Even if one may argue that scripting languages usually abstract ideas like stack and heap away. :)
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by virtualritz 4mo ago
Why do not call a 'record' a 'struct'? Same with 'List' vs 'Vec'. And why are List, String & co uppercase? From what I gather these are built-in types the compiler knows? 'i32', not &#x2
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by virtualritz 4mo ago
Controls feel reversed for me. I would add this as a setting.
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by virtualritz 4mo ago
I would add that Rust also has naming guidelines and sticking to them removes or at least minimizes the occurrence of another common topic of discussions on PRs/reviews. In the article, if you were to mention & follow them GetUser(
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by virtualritz 4mo ago
RGB is not a color space but a color model. sRGB or ACEScg are color spaces. CMYK or RGB etc. are color models. This matters a lot. And yeah, it seems this supports neither and it is unclear if operations happen in linear light at a bit dep
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by virtualritz 4mo ago
"Materials Two types of spaghetti (regular No. 5 and gluten-free) produced by the Barilla company (Italy) were purchased in a supermarket." Are you kidding me? You did a study and tested /one/ kind of gluten-free pasta?
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by virtualritz 4mo ago
When I lived in Adelaide, Australia 2006 or 2007, flexible-neck LED lamps that you plugged into an USB port to have light on your keyboard (backlit keyboards were not the norm on laptops) were a novelty item. People simply didn't &#x2F
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by virtualritz 4mo ago
Like the author of the article, I write C/C++ since 30 years. Mostly close-to-the-metal code around computer graphics. Actually: wrote. After switching to Rust five years ago I agree with all the Rust hipsters as far as disliking those
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by virtualritz 4mo ago
No inverse kinematics? That is the most important feature this would make me use this over the good old wooden puppet, which is small (10cm). I.e. it travels with me with my drawing utensils. I guess I am asking: what exactly is the value p
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by virtualritz 4mo ago
I read the article. Their chess section makes no sense as in "why this wouldn't work for CTF". But I don't know enough that's why I asked. I imagine one could do CTF in public, machines you work on vetted/prepa
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by virtualritz 4mo ago
Chess and Go are not dead just because Ai got better than humans at these games. What am I missing here?
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by virtualritz 4mo ago
Personal take: terribly disguised pitch to get someone to buy that way too long domain name from you.

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