joshu

i've been making a bunch of fun physics games like this. i need to push out the latest one. try this one, torture a parking optimizer: https://truckslop.joshu.dev/

btw these guys worked for me on del.icio.us back in the day. i have been playing with it for a bit and it’s really great. i already set up a spare monitor just for this

ha i just tried making a sort of ouija board for jev this morning. it struggled. i look forward to reading how this one works.

we are definitely getting AGI before a new starcraft

is... this a reference to "language is a virus from outer space" by ws burroughs?

thank you.

which ones have you recreated? i mostly use python w/ shapely.

Fun TED talk about plotters: http://go.ted.com/joshuaschachter (me)

berkeley/stanford birthed risc. acorn was inspired by the berkeley risc i papers.

this is awesome. i have always wanted to build something like this. figured i would just use a regular sensor and use the adjacent pixels to calculate optical flow.

discontinued and going for almost double the msrp on ebay, alas

I'm not complaining - I even have a Forth pet project myself. Just noticing that it's showing up a lot lately.

is it me or is forth coming up a lot lately? or am i just having a plate-o-shrimp situation?

well played

2.5 flash was absurdly capable on a cost basis

Oh, this is awesome. I actually have this book. Also, for some reason, I am writing a hacking game based around fourth which has been interesting.

it is real. serial number 2. it’s a terrifying car. i can’t drive it much at my home track (laguna) because of the sound level, and it’s not eligible for most track days. https://www.jalopnik.com/don-t-feel-bad-if-you-get-passed-by...

it runs knobbly tires so just going to slicks would probably help a lot, but i don’t think the transmission is built for it.

HLAGHAGHLAGHLAGH

my ae86 is caged and my s13 was a formula D car. they can be amusing

i have a '62 lotus 23, i am tempted to put carbon fiber body panels on it to lower the weight even further (currently ~ 900 lbs)

that’s a good list. i also collect japanese beaters (currently several miatas, an ae86 and an s13) and british lightweights (two vintage lotus racers and a modern aston factory race car) so lots of overlap.

i have been looking for a 944 as well. there’s a great porsche shop across from my workshop so at least it will be convenient.

what’s the list?

i had a gr corolla for a year and sold it. the ITCC (the sealed clutch pack that transfers power to the rear) “overheats” and the throws the car into 2wd limp mode after a session and a half on track. “overheat” is in quotes because supposedly it doesn’t have a temperature sensor at all, the ecu runs a model based on other sensors (rear diff etc) and guesses that it is overheating.

still, a pretty amusing car. the traction control system is outstanding, it’s very hard to upset and you can trivially drift it around every corner. even with aggressive play on an empty track it was a incredibly difficult to spin the car. sadly it wasn’t that fun as a DD (you really have to wind it up.) i also had a focus RS (i like hot hatches, i guess) and found it somewhat boring on track and a lot more fun on the street (way more torque at the bottom)

anyway, it remains: miata is always the answer

the projects part is the manifesting

Thinking Machines: "We are building a machine that will be proud of us."

i love the "hardware from an alternate universe" projects.

30 years ago when i worked as a quant, i always wanted something like this. i love it.

that's all true. i'm not really trying to get a huge audience, just make a fun internet thing...

hooray! one potential user, market validated

I've been writing a game off and on that's sort of at the intersection of a Zachtronics game and... Starcraft? I guess? With some Factorio in there, for good measure.

The idea is that you have to break into and exfiltrate data from a laboratory that uses their own transputer-like architecture. Write a mobile program to explore the network, another to start migrating the data, and so on. Migrate too hard and the humans notice and reboot the network, kicking you out. There could be other players in there too. Of course, the nodes run the lab's terrible version of Forth. There's no UI, you connect via a TCP socket, and are expected to write your own tooling.

I'm not sure if this is a good idea or if I'm having a psychotic break.

Where are you based, I can get you something beefier?

I got a Tang Primer for one of my own projects recently.

Use litex to define/build a riscv soc-on-fpga, boot qsoe instead of Linux on said fpga?