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fallat··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
or the top 1% of value holders means your connection to other holders is vastly smaller than the other 99%. also highly likely to get cancer no matter who you are. i think the odds are better than people think, was just a matter of time

regardless of that observation: i am glad it's good people working with good people on these problems!

fallat··on Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application
So this is a smudge of like 4 projects? Huh. Definitely interested, but I wonder about the longevity of the system. That's one thing about the code cad systems I like: it's pretty easy to port code from one to another.
fallat··on Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language
If you use Google in any capacity, you already have.
fallat··on I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color
Not exactly this, but many "3D games" were pre-computed scenes. The normal map is the novel bit of this demo.
fallat··on Vouch
Sibil attack in 3...2...1....
fallat··on I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color
I don't think there's anything recent here, they are just pre-computing a normal map which doubles as already "baking" a 3D-looking image in.
fallat··on I am happier writing code by hand
These are starting to become daily horoscopes
fallat··on PicoPCMCIA – a PCMCIA development board for retro-computing enthusiasts
The RP2XXX microcontrollers are so incredible in terms of what it's opened to hobbyists. I hope microcontroller-based computers become a thing.
fallat··on Show HN: AI in SolidWorks
Why would I just not use some local desktop Agent?... Like what
fallat··on Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
How do I upvote 3 times
fallat··on Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”
I want to say, that your comment has been the most real, aligned thing I've read in this post's comments. The articulation of what I've also seen and felt is perfect. Whoever else passes by, THIS, is the truth. What dnw has written is the honest-to-god state of things and that it does not rob you of the passion of creating.
fallat··on Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”
Sounds like you'd use an LLM exactly for that.

We don't need you.

fallat··on Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades
Kind of feel that's already the case today... 4GB I find is still plenty for even business workloads.
fallat··on Claude in Chrome
My theory that you'll need a dedicated machine to access the internet is more true by the day.
fallat··on An attempt to articulate Forth's practical strengths and eternal usefulness
Oh, I'll have to correct this! I've only seen eForth mentioned with Dr Ting's name all over. Thank you.

The metacompilation part is really nice. Did the self-modification section of the essay not convey that to you? Because that's what it was :s I'll have to revise it.

I really want this essay to be definitive, so even after 4 revisions there is still some way to go. All the comments have been extremely helpful to further reach that goal :)

fallat··on An attempt to articulate Forth's practical strengths and eternal usefulness
(typing from phone) i simply had not known. it is a great example of a short path to a c dialect then! merci pour votre travaille au dusk et collapse! i will add a paragraph about it to the essay. this took me many days to write and many revisions and still i see it isnt perfect!

note the point of that section was really that anyone using gcc or clang should ack. the real cost when using them.

fallat··on Using LLMs at Oxide
The problem with this text is it's a written anecdote. Could all be fake.
fallat··on Be Like Clippy
This doesn't annoy me but the movement of using this image feels extremely confusing and uneventful. Like wearing a ribbon, but with some weird attachment to an enterprise?
fallat··on µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D
They do. The legal tape is more like how to use legal tape to protect it :)
fallat··on µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D
I'm not sure who you asked, or maybe you asked at the beginning of 2024 but the stance on no-local hosting not a hard one
fallat··on µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D
Zoo has said it's open to local hosting of the kernel for years. I believe it's a matter of time because it's mostly about legal tape.

ucad is based on Manifold, so unfortunately, not really comparable, since it's all meshes vs brep, like OpenSCAD.

Note KCL could be completely augmented with another kernel. There are people who've already tried :)

fallat··on Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates
This article is fricking OVERKILL to say "use a framebuffer".
fallat··on One Handed Keyboard
I use Dvorak, so I'm asking to maybe make the transition easier LOL.
fallat··on One Handed Keyboard
I want to pull the trigger on this so badly. I've had my eyes on it for years. It seems the best way to increase typing speed is to reduce finger movement via physical modifications to a keyboard.

Does charachorder support Dvorak-like layout mentally? Not a 1-1 but something similar? Like vowels on left hand?

fallat··on Zed is our office
Uh no? You have to pull in the change and recompile
fallat··on Zed is our office
...but it does mean there is a corporate controlled program that can back stab you at any moment!
fallat··on The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra
I've read them all. While they are fun to read as their commentary come from a place of logic, there is a lot of emotion baked in and little room for being open minded about potential alternatives that could find their ways to reality. Dijkstra was very smart but you can tell thinking is a little closed, which is not objectively bad, but it happens a little too much for my taste.
fallat··on New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair
Have we solved anything? /s
fallat··on Project Shadowglass
"Early alpha trailer"

For that reason, I'm out.

fallat··on WorldGrow: Generating Infinite 3D World
No. WFC is fundamentally different from this.
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