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ffin··on Perspective-stable 3D pixel art using Texel Splatting
Unfortunately the demo doesn't work on Firefox from me due to the WebGPU requirement. The creator does have a video that shows off the technique nicely however:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SELiz9VRg5Q

ffin··on I am building a cloud
> Agents, by making it easiest to write code, means there will be a lot more software.

He's saying that agents make code much cheaper, therefore there will be a large increase in demand for code. This appears to be exactly what you're describing.

ffin··on Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
Is data about how long links are on the front page available publicly anywhere?
ffin··on Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
I find Zed has some really frustrating UX choices. I’ll run an operation and it will either fail quietly, or be running in the background for a while with no indication that it is doing so.
ffin··on I miss using em dashes
Okay, you’re right that the LLM writing style isn’t singularly producible by LLM’s. However, I’m not sure why this writing style would become increasingly common? I don’t see why people would mimic text that is seen as low quality or associated with academic dishonesty.

Additionally, I do think it is valuable to determine if a piece of text is valuable, or more precisely, what I’m looking for. As others have said, if I want info from a LLM about a subject, it is trivial for me to get that. Oftentimes I am looking for text written by people though.

ffin··on I miss using em dashes
I think Google Docs does this automatically.
ffin··on I miss using em dashes
> this supposed ability of determining whether or not content is AI-generated doesn't exist.

It seems like you’re just wrong here? Em dashes aside, the ‘style’ of llm generated text is pretty distinct, and is something many people are able to distinguish.

ffin··on Framework Laptop 16
I think you may be confused. This is an upgrade for the Framework 16, not the Framework 12, which is the 2-in-1.
ffin··on Self-Guaranteeing Promises
The only real way to do this “for free” that I can think of would be to self-host on an old laptop. Unless you meant free as in open source.
ffin··on Self-Guaranteeing Promises
If the promise is: when using the AT Protocol you have control over your own data, then this is self-guaranteeing, since it is a part of the spec that you can self host a PDS.

The promise that Bluesky will always be compliant with the spec, or that the spec won’t ever change to disallow this isn’t self-guaranteeing, but you could say something similar about any of these self guaranteeing promises. For example the promise that Obsidian will always use markdown isn’t self-guaranteeing.

ffin··on Basic Social Skills Guide
In the US I was taught you don’t need to signal at roundabouts. Am I doing something terribly wrong?
ffin··on Why F# could be the next mainstream programming language (2024)
not to get into this debate, but linux is far from mainstream
ffin··on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online
I think this question concedes that there is some possibility that one could experience an incorrect puberty.

Given the definition of maturity is being fully grown, this comes across as an inherently unhelpful thing to ask. If we say “only once someone is fully grown they are able to determine if they experienced the incorrect puberty” then this makes it impossible to help children who are going to experience the incorrect puberty. Unless we have some way to determine a child is trans without any input from them, there becomes no way to help them.

ffin··on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online
The way you experience puberty is (to some extent) a result of the hormones in your body. Generally the hormones in your body are a result of your sex, however, it is possible to stop your body from producing certain hormones, and replace them with different hormones. In this way, one can have a puberty more similar to a different sex than one’s own.

Why do you think you can’t experience the wrong one? Also, unless you are saying there is only one sex, how could there only be one puberty?

ffin··on Show HN: Just a Line: Resurrected
It might be good to add some pictures to the GitHub repo.
ffin··on The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
the cube is full of $1 bills
ffin··on IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
source?
ffin··on A receipt printer cured my procrastination
Great article, however, the word interactive in this sentence is styled like a link despite not being one, which was kind of frustrating.

  > Test the concept in this interactive demo: