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Arelius

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Arelius··on Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch
Yeah, also whatever they would build, the other platform vendors won't choose the same thing, and it wont be the exact variant of lisp or w/e that even the few nice developers would want.

I wish vendors would be just more supportive of different llvm tool chains. Rust isn't even well supported.

Arelius··on Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch
Over the network most likely?
Arelius··on Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch
Yeah, maybe. But also the official SDKs are pretty good and you get support from Nintendo. It seems like a pretty big risk to use an unsupported SDK... for what benefit?
Arelius··on Openly Licensed Streetview with Panoramax
To be clear, streetview was originally built to improve mapping. You can thank the wealth of street names and address labels on streetview.
Arelius··on Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?
Do you have a sense of why, according to you Gusto will remain the only company that doesn't sell payroll data to Equifax?
Arelius··on Why I self host my servers and what I've recently learned
Yeah, none of those seem to be covered in the parent post, so the Nix example is equally simplistic.
Arelius··on Poor Foundations in Geometric Algebra
No, I'd love to chat about it sometime.

For context, the game is Fat Princess Adventures

Arelius··on Why I self host my servers and what I've recently learned
I mean, I don't know what that is, but looking at the documentation, it should be something like:

  config = {
    services.uptime-kuma = {
      enable = true;
      settings = {
        PORT = 3001
      };
    };
  };
Arelius··on Why I self host my servers and what I've recently learned
> Does it seamlessly handle the case where you have 3 different apps that all require 3 different version of python with different python dependencies?

Ohh yes! That is exactly what it does on a repeatable and documented way..

But it also does a lot of work to do this. And doesn't hide the systems of that so much. So that means you're likely to have yo care about how it does all that work. And if you start doing something weird, might have to do a lot of work yourself..

Arelius··on "Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button"
Yeah. I think they have seperate models, I forget the details but it's working in my panel!
Arelius··on "Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button"
> All of the Seasonic power supplies that go beyond 1kW or so will trip my shitty (i.e. probably defective) Siemens AFCI breakers.

In my experience, the Siemens AFCI just do that. I recommend switching them out for Eaton AFCI. That fixed all my nuisance tripping, especially from induction in other lines

Arelius··on Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships
Exactally, which is why I think this is a subtle and important point.
Arelius··on Poor Foundations in Geometric Algebra
So, I've shipped a game with his engine, so have a unique relation ship with him, and he's a complicated individual.

To be clear, he is a very talented, intelligent individual. But he form strong opinions, has a very hard time taking criticism, or understanding other people's differing context, and has a hard time not taking disagreements personally.

This is really nothing new from him. I think the best way to interact with him, is hear out his points, and use them to synthesize your own viewpoint. And be careful to take his views as your own. I think if you do that, you can learn a lot from him, but to be careful as his strong disagreements are often more nuanced then he makes them out to be.

Arelius··on Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships
I think this is a subtle and important point. Types are a potential useful tool to restrain and and specify the schema of data structures. But concern for types is very different then concern for the data structures.
Arelius··on Pixel Watch 3
These + contactless payments for me. I still have a pair of pebble time rounds I use occasionally. But use my pixel watch more for payments.

I've been eyeing the Garmin Venu and Vivo active as replacements though

Arelius··on You've got to hide your myopia away: John Lennon's contact lenses
Interesting! I have always worn symmetric contacts when I (rarely) wear contacts, because I can’t get astigmatism contacts them to sit comfortably in my eyes and not pop out. I wonder if I were to align them first if they would be comfortable enough to wear. I’ll give it a try next time I’m at the optometrist.
Arelius··on Isometric Projection in Game Development
Iirc, Bastion's characters are 3d characters rendered to 2d videos.or maybe that was just transistor and later?
Arelius··on Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out
I assure you, that many tabs can certainly happen with the standard horizontal tab bar..

I have a similar amount regularly, and have never tried vertical tabs. I did recently start using all tabs helper though.

Arelius··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
I think it’s a pity you’re getting downvoted, I think it’s a very valid opinion and one that I think is getting underrepresented in this thread.
Arelius··on Testing AMD's Giant MI300X
I work in this field, and I think so. This is actually the project I'm currently working on.

I'm betting with current hardware and some clever tricks, we can resolve full production frames in real-time rates.

Arelius··on Intel's anti-upgrade tricks defeated with Kapton tape
> I would say that Intel is a company ... and isn't motivated but directed

You know, it's a matter of perspective, but I'd disagree.

I think we'd like to think companies are directed, but I think as they get larger and older, especially public companies, they operate less by difection, and the systemic forces take over, and they operate and function more by the aggregate sum of all the motivations of the actors involved.

I think it's true that some companies do exist, perhaps by sheer force of personality of their leaders, that remain primarily "directed" but feel that's more the exception than the rule.

Arelius··on M2dir: Treating mails as files without going crazy
Sorry, I had meant by "stats" anything about the average among users, since I suspect that you might actually be an outlier on the lower-end among people who work professionally in or with technology.
Arelius··on M2dir: Treating mails as files without going crazy
> Most people do not get 10 emails/day on average.

I'd like to see the stats, but I seem to average around > 40 emails a day, (most are unactionable) but always considered my email load quite light. For people like my wife who do much of their work communication over email, it appears to be much higher.

Arelius··on Passkeys: A shattered dream
Maybe it’s the old USB version? I haven’t had so much luck… I had a couple of nanos, and those broke pretty quick. More recently, I switched to a usb-c version…. And while it still works and stays attached to the key ring. The plastic housing has broken already. I got a corp branded one now, that I’m trying and seems a touch more robust
Arelius··on How does this full-track, 3-wheel snow bike even turn?
I responded to your other post, but I think the confusion is mostly about considering different forms of bikes, and their respective weights compared to the rider.

Also, I'll be honest I haven't ridden a snowmobile in so long that I don't really have a mental model of it. I'm interested though, Do you think they are a similar experience? Don't they normally have like many more points of contact?

Arelius··on How does this full-track, 3-wheel snow bike even turn?
I think, some confusion, at least mine, comes from comparing bicycles to motor bikes. I imagine you are right that initiating a lean with a bicycle without steering should be fairly doable. The confusion, is motobikes are much heavier, and with heavier wheels, maintain much stronger gyroscopic forces. So while I recognize the ease of your experience leaning a bicycle. It becomes much more difficult with a motorbike.

Bringing this back to the original post. Looking at this thing, I imagine it'd be hard to properly lean it given what appears to be significant heft.

Edit: To be clear, I mostly agree that it's the lean that's the primary factor in the turn. Just a subtle bit of confusion over how important steering is over initiating the lean in heavier bikes.

Arelius··on How does this full-track, 3-wheel snow bike even turn?
So, to read into this, "countersteer" is the term that'll get you into a lot of discussion about this.

But, in-fact at speed, while pivoting the wheel will initiate the lean, the lean itself is the primary factor in steering the bike.

These weird unintuitive mechanics, are part of why learning to ride a bike with training wheels, or from a tricycle is so hard, the steering mechanism of a bike inverts from when there are 3 wheels on the ground, to when there is 2 wheels. And also a significant reason that "Balance bikes" have replaced a lot of tricycles and training wheels when teaching kids to ride a bike.

Arelius··on How does this full-track, 3-wheel snow bike even turn?
> turns that I make do not involve turning my front wheel at all (in the sense that: I don't move my hands consciously).

In all likelihood you are doing it unconsciously, generally, as one goes to initiate, say a right-hand turn, as you begin to lean right, you also apply a slight additional pressure to the right handle bar, which steers the wheel to the left, this initiates counter-steer which leans the bike to the right. With a stable bike, and a fixed front fork, it would be exceedingly difficult to initiate a lean significant enough to navigate most roads at the speed that we do.

Arelius··on How does this full-track, 3-wheel snow bike even turn?
I mean, this is a bit subtle. With a fixed front fork, it's very difficult to get a bike to lean. It's just the case that with a free front fork, shifting balance may be enough to get the wheel to counter steer, which can initiate a deeper lean.

Having said that, it's 100% the case that a 2 wheeled bike with rounded tires in a lean will turn. Just consider that the circumference of the tire shortens as you approach the edge, it must travel a shorter distance per revolution. so without sliding, it clearly needs to turn.

In-fact, at speed, the lean of a bike is the primary factor that contributes to the turn.

Arelius··on How does this full-track, 3-wheel snow bike even turn?
I mean, bikes are weird though right? They actually have multiple modes of steering. You're right, the standard mode is to lean the bike which causes the steering, however you generally counter turn the wheel to initiate the lean. Most bikes are much too stable to lean purely with weight alone.

Secondly, at lower speeds and higher turning radius' bikes do in-fact steer with the front wheel, counter to their lean. Often encountered while navigating a parking-lot for example. I imagine an All-terrain bike is more likely to be needing to operate more often in this envelope however, so am also a bit confused on how it's anticipated to work.

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