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nathanfries··on Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
I noticed that too. I feel like this might be a new way of laundering AI written text, just provide the quote verbatim as if the they believe it was actually written by the author.
nathanfries··on ESP32-S31
I similarly don't know much about motor control or hardware in general, but would this maybe open up multiplexing options?
nathanfries··on Discussion on why SQLite is gaining popularity [audio]
I followed this line of thinking last week due to curiosity w.r.t ECS & SQLite. I found that the bottleneck was not on the reads, but on the complexity of the writes (iterating each entity and subsequently you have num_systems X num_components writes). You can actually avoid this entirely if you write your systems in SQL.

Since I had already thrown out logic & reason for the sake of curiosity, I took it a step further and learned that the Bun JS runtime actually has SQLite baked in, which allows you to create a :memory: db that can be accessed _synchronously_ avoiding modification of most ECS implementations. (I'm not familiar with the larger SQLite ecosystem, but being a largely TS developer this was very foreign to me)