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What’s the actual objection to it being vibe-coded? Would it somehow be more respectable if someone had wasted precious human hours hand-coding this silly thing?

Related: pnut.sh https://github.com/udem-dlteam/pnut just released. It’s a self-compiling C->POSIX shell transpiler that outputs readable shell, aimed at live-bootstrap and reproducible build chains. The shell edition is auditable and can bootstrap a native compiler from just POSIX sh + coreutils. Very much in the spirit of stage0 / compile-from-nothing work.

Nice work this actually looks great. Of course, it’s only a matter of time before someone drops the XKCD about standards proliferation, so I’ll save them the trouble. Pre-emptive XKCD #927 deployed.

Wondering What happens when we peer through a microscope or telescope?

finally feels like Python scripts can Just Work™ without a virtualenv scavenger hunt.

Now if only someone could do the same for shell scripts. Packaging, dependency management, and reproducibility in shell land are still stuck in the Stone Ages. Right now it’s still curl | bash and hope for the best, or a README with 12 manual steps and three missing dependencies.

Sure, there’s Nix... if you’ve already transcended time, space, and the Nix manual. Docker? Great, if downloading a Linux distro to run sed sounds reasonable.

There’s got to be a middle ground simple, declarative, and built for humans.

Quick search shows Altera held 30% of the FPGA market. That puts AMD’s $50B acquisition of Xilinx (which holds ~50% of the market) in an awkward light. Using some extremely crude math, Xilinx’s fair market value might now be closer to ~$15B.

Did AMD massively overpay, or has the FPGA market fundamentally shifted? Curious to see how this new benchmark ripples into AMD’s stock valuation.

There’s an interesting middle-ground worth mentioning: a 2-in-1 connector https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Rego-Electronics/845-00... that can take both HDMI and DisplayPort cables, which could be a neat solution for devices juggling both standards.

Here’s a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZpHizpZSPQ showing a PC with this connector in action.

Maybe not a game-changer, but it’s an interesting idea to reduce port clutter without forcing a winner in the format war just yet.

This reminds me of MIT’s work on femto-photography to see around corners. They used ultrafast laser pulses to bounce light off walls, capturing the reflections from hidden objects. By analyzing the time-of-flight data, they could reconstruct 3D shapes of objects not in direct view. <https://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/cornar/>

Finally, LLMs have brought us to the threshold of ancestral simulation. It's like the universe hit 'retry' on humanity, but this time with AI as the dungeon master.

KVM Forum 2023 Day 2 10:15 AM https://youtu.be/hyrw4j2D6I0?t=4684

https://xon.sh/ has an impressive approach merging python and shell

STH has a bit more information on the card

https://www.servethehome.com/mikrotik-ccr2004-1g-2xs-pcie-is...

There is an amazing video by Destin from Smarter Every Day about the Moon Samples Lab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxZ_iPldGtI&t=647s

Open Source software stack to run private LTE/5G with SDR https://github.com/srsran/srsRAN

https://www.calligraphr.com/en/docs/tutorial2/

How about this?

Is properly burying waste plastic underground and ensuring it doesn’t pollute water streams or break down into micro plastic a good way of long term carbon storage?

Liquifying or turning it into syngas seems counter intuitive as we’re releasing a long chain carbon store back into atmospheric co2

Apple and Google need to give people a chance to manage their own data.

These look relevant if anyone is interested in developing node based tools with react

https://reactflow.dev https://flume.dev

When can we reasonably expect the “cyclist gets banned from tour de france after committee finds athlete installed enteric oxygenation device in the saddle” headline?

I tried to find if there are any concrete ideas how to clean this mess. Can anyone point me to research on how these deep sea barrels can be lifted back and properly handled?

How does one destroy DDT? Is there any way it can be burned safely?

It would be awesome if sharp (https://github.com/lovell/sharp) would implement this algorithm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade >One proposed sunshade would be composed of 16 trillion small disks at the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrangian point, 1.5 million kilometers above Earth. Each disk is proposed to have a 0.6-meter diameter and a thickness of about 5 micrometers. The mass of each disk would be about a gram, adding up to a total of almost 20 million tonnes. Such a group of small sunshades that blocks 2% of the sunlight, deflecting it off into space, would be enough to halt global warming, giving ample time to cut emissions back on Earth.

Such a group of sunshades would need to occupy an area of about 3.8 million square kilometers if placed at the L1 point. The deployment of the flyers is an issue that requires reusable rockets. With 100t LEO booster a single launch per day would allow to release the required number of sails within 20 years.

Not quite the same but a similar interesting artificial sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bqBsHSwPgw

I once heard in central Anatolia people used to store grapes on the vine. They would trim the end of the vine, pluck one of the fresh grapes and stick it on the trimmed end. Finally vines would be hanged from the ceiling of a cool cellar.

My grandfather told me that the nutrients and moisture within that one grape would keep the others alive for longer.

Somewhat related: https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg

Good luck on your kickstarter. Hope you guys achieve your goals and ship this amazing tech!

I tried searching for the term "hogel size" I assume it is somewhat equivalent to resolution. Can you expand on it and tell us what are the limiting factors around resolution and how it can be improved in the future?

I am now curious how commercial sticker size holograms are printed.

Unmesh from Piximperfect did a nice review and comparison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfTbrJP5TXs

I had the urge to print as well. I doubt he'll be interested in giving away this masterpiece, atleast for an affordable price. I'll mail and ask; he might offer a print service maybe.

My observatory is located in the very center of the city Oulu in Finland. Due to massive Light Pollution I mainly do ...

Well I guess most of us live in filthy cesspools of light. Seriously I wonder what humanity misses out on. I think we would have been a much better species if only we could see our place in the universe every night.

You could calculate hash functions with pen and paper as well. It may be somewhat slow but once you get the hang of it you could calculate a couple hashes a week.

Should we ban pen and paper problem solving? Who is to decide which numbers and operators are public good? Is math in its entirety blasphemous?

Although comparing pen and paper calculations with the greedy wasteful world of bitcoin mining is ridiculous, I think it’s less ridiculous then associating anything you don’t agree with drugs or any other boogieman argument.

Law and ethics are not as clear cut as you are trying to portray. Nature and ecology are precious but so are Personal freedoms. They were not given to society, they were earned with blood and tears and they’re equally precious.