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a1o··on Aluminum foil (2021)
Aluminum is always present in physics laboratories. I bet it is used even in CERN.
a1o··on Pandoc Lua Filters
We use it for seven years and it still runs fine when we update Pandoc - we usually always update things. I don’t remember anything about the docs, so not sure what changed.
a1o··on The fall of the theorem economy
From reading this, it looks like the projected future is mathematicians working more applied to a domain, and the basic research in the academia being severely impacted by the AI companies - who have the money to hire the senior mathematicians from the academia. I guess if some of the biggest universities could come up with their own AI powered programs there could be something to “answer” in a more accessible knowledge, but I don’t see how to properly keep the students motivated to ensure the field keeps producing new people.
a1o··on FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder
The game doesn’t have to be publicly licensed, the issue is for a library used by this game - or their engine. This remark is what blocks anyone from Valve making their own opus compatible library to use on their engines and supported libraries from what I could tell.
a1o··on Bring back crappy forums
One thing about these old school forums is they are something you host yourself (directly or paying a server somewhere), and this requires but knowledge on doing so, and time to do its maintenance (beyond moderation and stuff). Additionally, I don’t think simple machines and phpbb development has kept as strong as the people trying to spam it.
a1o··on Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine
ok, so you haven’t tried box2c, there are some posts about it in the blog

https://box2d.org/posts/2025/04/box2d-3.1/

It became the current box2d implementation, now after version 3.0, it was entirely rewritten in C, it works differently.

a1o··on FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder
I think the biggest issue with Opus is the problem with its specification being lacking, see:

https://nothings.org/stb/stb_opus.html

This essentially causes opus to never be used in games or in things in stores that may have issues with specific licenses.

a1o··on Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine
Have you tried the latest Box2D (it started as the experimental Box2c)? It’s pretty good afaict. It may not be what you want specifically in your 2D game, as often people prefer more arcade-like mechanics than the physics it tries to deliver.
a1o··on Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report
Thanks for this comment, it lead me to look into I2S and I learned something new!
a1o··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
Meanwhile I had to do VHDL to design a chip and then write code for it in paper, and get the actual solution the software that was meant to run in my imaginary processor to work, detailing both the code and what we thought our code was doing. Teacher and TAs would later make it run in a Xilinx to grade and make themselves available at a few hours if you wanted to discuss your grade/solution with them at a later time with the thing actually running in a board.

We had 3 hours to make the test. The papers the teacher delivered had differences between them (I think it was four different versions of the test?). The Teacher didn’t stay in the class also, you had to deliver the test to them later in their office.

a1o··on Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch
It looks like it is based on this https://github.com/pganssle/cim, which I think is this web app
a1o··on Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch
Reading the CLAUDE.md, it looks like this is a rewrite from

https://github.com/pganssle/cim

a1o··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
I think the main reason of the flame wars is the fear the employer will decide to change things and erase all the years of knowledge on the existing tools, by something new. I believe this is the advantage of letting people use different tools for different things.
a1o··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
I think you can delete the history but it’s hard (more than three steps), at least that was my conclusion from the e blogpost below

https://janetgilbert.net/staging/2026/04/27/dealing-with-old...

a1o··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
git submodule update —recursive —remote is that, isn’t? Perhaps throws also an —init if it’s the first time.
a1o··on GLM 5.2 Is Out
Apparently this isn’t OpenGL Mathematics the C++ library I expected.
a1o··on Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public
It can work for students as a grant
a1o··on macOS Container Machines
With colima I can run AMD64 (x86) Linux containers in my Arm64 too. I think this is strictly for Arm64 Linux VMs, or is there some way to run x86 with this too?
a1o··on The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python
That is a cool algorithm, indeed very interesting 5 lines. Also fun to see things in C#. :)
a1o··on Cloudflare CEO Is Lying to You About the Bot Traffic Jump
What does pixel means in this context?
a1o··on Retro-Tech Parenting
I am looking for recommendations for a boombox that is kid friendly and can play CDs. Something not too big but also a bit more resistant. If it can be colorful that is a plus!
a1o··on MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production
I don’t know why you are getting downvoted, agree with you, Microsoft Office is awful on macOS, it just doesn’t work the same, has awful integration with Sharepoint (and Sharepoint in MS Teams and OneDrive), and continuously forgets its properly licensed and complains with a big message that it isn’t licensed - sometimes downgrading to read only. It’s just a terrible thing to use.
a1o··on Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it
This is a cool infection vector for the ai virus from earlier today to use. It could be like NDS feature that it greeted a passerby but now for spreading stuff digitally.
a1o··on U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device
I think an approach could be to use some engineered security issue or however people build botnets, and give it some AI llm that is small and minimal but comes with instructions to download models from hugging face, and some other minimal prompts and descriptions of tools. Then it could use this to grow in infected computers and try find more capable and vulnerable computers to run better capable models and also devise some minimal communication between the different points of the botnet. Perhaps set itself a goal to dominate the biggest amount of compute and have some other goal. Would be curious to see what happens.
a1o··on GitHub and the crime against software
Hey, I know it’s supposed to be simple, but any chance of a write up of the macmini as a server approach? I would be interested in learning about the details of how you set it up. I would read this blog post if you ever write one!
a1o··on The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid
On missing audio: usually I notice this when I watch with subtitles at night and then end up rewatching during the day with audio at much higher volume… And the thing that is said to be said is just… Not there?
a1o··on Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs
This would be very bad for Wine too. I think Wine has some answer to this, since Wine does run on Android, but I think it won’t make the current easy path that is just brew install wine and be done.
a1o··on Nvidia RTX Spark
SuperSpark and then UltraSpark. And then we can get SparkCube, Sparkii, and SparkiiU.
a1o··on Chuwi Minibook X
I love netbooks and I am curious to get one of these at some point - I can’t justify one right now.

I do have my ASUS EEEPC 701 4G Surf still working. I think it is 18 years old at this point? It is rocking Antix, in its 3.6 GB hard drive. It broke the S key in the keyboard last night and I ordered a replacement.

I use it as writer deck and to ssh to my server and raspberry pi from the sofa.

It is built in a very resistant way? Survived my kid so far.

a1o··on 1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices
That is very low, looks like it should run in base MacMini M4 with 16GB RAM. I understand it is not released yet? What sort of harness is necessary for this type of model? (I have only used coding agents through GH Copilot in VS Code, the JetBrains AI tool and Pi, this last one was sort of a pain to setup…)
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