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by virtualritz 4mo ago
Well, Python's uv seems to suggest people can see the light and pivot to one build/dep mgmt tool. Decades into a language not having a single one projects/people agree to use, solely. So I wouldn't be so hasty with that
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by virtualritz 4mo ago
"Rust, [...], a build system that fought you" I started using Rust in 2018 and I've never used a build system that fought me less, ever, before or after. I stopped reading after that sentence.
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by virtualritz 4mo ago
On that note, there is a recent live action Pinocchio film [1] that is very faithful to the book and absolutely magical; with Roberto Benigni playing Geppetto no less. It has some highly entertaining scathing reviews on Amazon of not being
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by virtualritz 5mo ago
Ever heard of CARIAD, the biggest trainwreck, er carwreck, of a software company south of the north pole? 6000 people to develop a software stack for VW. Go figure. The fact VW supported CarPlay early is footnote in this comedy.
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by virtualritz 5mo ago
And who ever heard of this in the majority of the world? It was news to me, I'm white and European btw. Did you know the US consititues about 4% of humans? When we look at adults and age range that likely ever hear of D4vd we are talki
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by virtualritz 5mo ago
This is a stark reminder why you use LaTex or typst with a good template for typesetting your scientific contributions. Unless you learned basic typography that is. This eyesore looks like it was done in Word & Co. What a pity, given wh
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by virtualritz 5mo ago
Yeah, clearly AGI must be near ... hilarious. This starkly reminds me of Stanisław Lem's short story "Thus Spoke GOLEM" from 1982 in which Golem XIV, a military AI, does not simply refuse to speak out of defiance, but rather
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by virtualritz 5mo ago
Maybe re-read the last sentence of parent which my reply was to? Your presumably Ai-generated reply missed that, unsurprisingly, because you probably just copypasta'd parent and my reply in there? P.S. air dominance in Iran is meaningl
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by virtualritz 5mo ago
The replaceable battery is still inside the case. How is it more protected because "glue"? I also replaced glued batteries in phones following ifixit instructions a few times (using a hair dryer/heat gun). They didn't ha
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by virtualritz 5mo ago
The US blockade of the strait does not affect Iran's ability to blockade the strait. And the latter hurts the US (and the rest of the world) way more that the blockade by the US hurts Iran. No amount of F35s will change that. Iran has
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by virtualritz 5mo ago
Not sure what replacable has to do with thickness. When I bought my first smartpone, a Moto G (1st gen) it was as flat as any phone most people carried around at the time (2014, I think). And the battery was replaceable. I think also Samsun
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by virtualritz 5mo ago
There are dozens of DCCs where you have a UI where you stack things (over-compositing, bottom to top). And when you select one of these things you can change the parameters. If this is a 'slopfork' of shaders.com then the latter i
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by virtualritz 5mo ago
So CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_ADAPTIVE_THINKING=1 is not available/is ignored in 4.7?
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by virtualritz 5mo ago
You can vibe code an app like this, relying on OBJ import (no editing apart from cutting/opening constraints), in possibly half a day. If you doubt me, take, me up on it. Sure, I have 35 years of experiences writing computer graphics c
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by virtualritz 5mo ago
You know Apple lost it and have become what Jobs most hated when the instructions to suppress an obvious UX flaw in macOS read like a registry tweaking hack for some atrocious UX in Windows, ca 2005.
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by virtualritz 5mo ago
> Transparency needs no further analysis of second order effects. By that logic we don't need judges. Just read what the resp. law says and 'apply' it. Bizarre.
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by virtualritz 5mo ago
My verdict after last night trying what was suggested here: yes, with CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL=max (or at least high, for this you don't need to set an env var, it will remember) and CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_ADAPTIVE_THINKING=1 you can get
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by virtualritz 5mo ago
Ah, and yes, this for real. Just now I had a bug where a 90 degree image rotation in a crate I wrote was implemented wrong. I told Claude to find & fix and it found the broken function but then went on to fix all of its call sites (inse
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by virtualritz 5mo ago
None of this is surprising given what happened last late summer with rate limits on Claude Max subscriptions. And less so if you read [1] or similar assessments. I, too, believe that every token is subsidized heavily. From whatever angle yo
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by virtualritz 5mo ago
This is the best thing since I asked Claude to address me in third person as "Your Eminence". But combining this with caveman? Gold!
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by virtualritz 5mo ago
Looks great. But I can't help wondering: If it is similar to Rust why not make it the the same as Rust where it feature-matches? Why import "foo.bar" instead of use foo::bar? Why Bar.Baz => instead of Bar::Baz =>? What
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by virtualritz 6mo ago
I have a 16GB RAM laptop. It's a beast I bought in 2022. It's all I need for my work. RAM on this machine can't be upgraded. No issue when running a few Codex instances. Claude: forget it. That's why something like Rust
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by virtualritz 6mo ago
> Turns out those functions were basically a verbatim copy of Inigo Quilez's work. Are they? A lot of these were used by people >20 years before Inigo wrote his blog posts. I wrote RenderMan shaders for VFX in the 90's profe
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by virtualritz 6mo ago
You could ask Gemini (Deep Research) to create a jargon file with mappings. That's the equivalent of LMGTF, in 2026. ;) I mean all this is documented publicly online (docs/help for CAD software), market leaders are known and the L
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by virtualritz 6mo ago
I opened the article and read the first paragraph. Then skimmed the rest. As others pointed out: the fact you can do this in CSS tells you everything you need to know if you consider what CSS is for. Even w/o ever looking at the spec o
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by virtualritz 6mo ago
CSS is /the/ spec to look at to understand how awful something designed by committee gets. In web specs closely rivaled by SVG. You can pick which one is uglier and you'll be right.
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by virtualritz 6mo ago
Usability? SolveSpace is a PITA in that regard. You also need to re-learn most terms that are common in other CAD software. It's a typical OSS thing. Why care about professional users that have years of learning invested into an ecosys
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by virtualritz 6mo ago
Libfive has been superseded long ago by fidget (same author, Rust not C++). https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/fidget/ https://github.com/mkeeter/fidget
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by virtualritz 6mo ago
My comment was not on why but what. A brand is still free to commission a copy/clone of an 'interesting' font that has character (or, beware even serifs) ...
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by virtualritz 6mo ago
I love how all these 'brand' fonts look indistinguishable to an untrained eye and still brain-frying-bordedom-inducingly close to each other to someone like me who actually studied & worked in typography. Related: https:&#x2F

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