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This brings back memories. Buzz is how I got my start. And I've been producing electronic music as a hobbyist ever since.

(Kidding OFC. But I _would_ watch a 1 hour video essay on the history of alternative LOD systems.)

Anyone else remember the game Messiah? I'm probably wrong, but it still feels to me like that was a much earlier version of "nanite"/dynamic LOD building. No pre-built LODs, but automatically changed the number of polygons on anything based. Didn't work very well, everything in game looked kinda "blobby". But if we're gonna call Nvidia's library an alternative Nanite, I wanna call Nanite a Messiah alternative.

Less "unfair" IMHO, and more apples-vs-oranges.

FWIW, the javascript side of Rails is historically the least settled-upon part of the framework. I'm curious how many current Rails projects use React as an alternative over the current "convention" of Turbo. Or Hotwire. Or even UJS for legacy projects.

Hard disagree. "More discussions once more opinionated developers join" is universally true regardless of which frameworks/philosophies you start with. The point of convention being more important than configuration is that it reduces those conversations, because you can rely on the conventions as a default.

If an opinionated developer thinks a different configuration is better, then that helps form the conversation immediately. Everyone is already familiar with the convention, so the discussion only needs to inform everyone about the pros/cons of the alternative.

This is my #1 complaint with our new Model Y. The "Auto" setting is completely worthless. It almost never turns on when it's raining. When it does turn on, it's either too fast or too slow. It'll turn on randomly when there's no rain.

But it's not just the sensor, which would be inconvenient. The lack of control makes it *dangerous*. You have to push the button in _slightly_ on the left stalk, which makes the wipers go once. And then you have to push the left scrollwheel left or right (but not up or down!) to turn the setting up or down, while staring at the bottom left part of the screen to figure out what setting you're on. All of this takes your eyes much further away from the road, while driving in more dangerous conditions with reduced visibility.

If any hardware manufacturers are listening, I'd gladly pay $200 for an aftermarket part that lets me control my goddamn wipers.

I can't wait to try this out. I have a plugin installed now but table editing is still clunky. Decent first-party support of md tables is huge (for me) if true.

There are a number of Obsidian plugins that will automatically convert your notes into an actual website. I don't use any but I know they exist. (I don't use them _yet_, I have a future plan to completely remake my website and Obsidian is part of it). Does that fit the bill? Or do you want something more native-feeling?

The article addresses this.

Just one year ago, Tim Cook had this to say about RCS: "I don't hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy in on that at this point. […] Buy your mom an iPhone.”

Long story short, I will believe it when I see it. Apple has a long history of claiming they will support an open standard, then failing to add support. In 2010, Steve Jobs promised that Apple ‘would make FaceTime an open industry standard’. That never happened. More recently, in 2021, Apple promised to open their Find My network to competitors like Tile. Instead, they’ve penalized Tile by additional warnings in front of their app.

Personal experience: Bun has been a flawless drop-in replacement for both NodeJS and npm/yarn since I started using it around v0.4. Not only have I had zero issues running it, but it's been WAY faster. No benchmarks, but very noticeable, from "let's start a new build and go grab a coffee while waiting for it" on NodeJS, to "hit run aaaaand it's done."

I haven't thought twice about it. Frankly, I forgot that bun has been happily running behind the scenes for me. I highly recommend anyone using NodeJS to give it a go.

I wasn't familiar with BQN. Clicked through, reminded me of APL. "OH", I thought, "I see how you came up with the name." There was a (disproven) urban legend about Arthur C. Clarke's 2001, where "HAL" was secretly a reference to "IBM", where you transpose each letter by one.

H + 1 = I

A + 1 = B

L + 1 = M

Man, BQN is a clever name. Because,

A + 1 = B

P + 1 = Q

L + 1 = M...

...well crap. That theory didn't pan out at all. Needlessly disappointed myself upon hearing that it's short for "Big Questions Notation".

I wonder if this was an inspiration to the "Devs" miniseries. Won't say more about it for fear of ruining it. Amazing show.

If anyone else is interested in learning it, I'm getting back into it via Duolingo and that's working well for me so far.

To be fair, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition...

...I'll show myself out.

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BRB, installing tank wars again. What was the cheat code?

I keep looking at Eames replicas, wondering if that's an acceptable trade-off in quality. I also REALLY want an Eames. And I can afford a replica.

(Not all knockoffs are of dubious quality/legitimacy. I hear the people at Iconic Chair bought the rights to use the same molds from Herman Miller.)

The understanding of context here is maybe the most "hidden" feature, but the most impressive to me, because it's something that's still not commonplace in today's technology. For example.

I have an Ecobee thermostat with Alexa in my kitchen. The Ecobee has the location "kitchen". My kitchen has IoT-enabled lightbulbs.

I have a Google Nest Mini in my living room. That Nest Mini has the location "living room". I have a lamp in my living room with an IoT-enabled lightbulb.

I have a Google Nest Mini in my master bedroom. That Nest Mini has the location "master bedroom". The nightstands in the master bedroom each have a lamp with an IoT-enabled lightbulb.

If I ask any of these devices to "turn on the lights", they turn on every single light in the entire house. Me, my wife, and my children are all trained now to tell the devices exactly which room should have the light bulbs turned on, because even though I've told each device what room it's in, they're still completely context-unaware.

I've thought about trying out whatever home-mini-pot-hub thing Apple came out with most recently, to see if they're more context-aware. But this is still a far cry from the demo in the OP. I wouldn't dream of telling these devices to "turn on all light lights on the second floor", or "turn on the lights in the big room next to the kitchen", or "turn off the lights after we leave the house".

Forget security, competing standards, walled gardens, lack of visibility, etc. Until IoT devices are more aware of this kind of context, it will always be easier and more reliable to flip a lightswitch yourself than to ask another device or robot to do it for you.

"Oh no, the consequences of my own actions!"

It's stunning to watch videos of Britons confused about why they've lost certain privileges, only a short while after voting to leave the place that gave them those privileges. It's like canceling your gym membership because it's too expensive, then wanting to fight the manager because they won't let you work out there anymore. I have so much sympathy for those that knew what Brexit meant, tried to fight it, and lost the vote.

I've been mentally comparing this to the 2016 US election where an (electoral) majority got Trump elected as President. But we still have large swathes of the US population that were VERY happy with all 4 years of his presidency. I'm curious how many Britons in 2016 were similarly as vocal for their support of the referendum, and are still just as happy today with the results.

I ended up getting a Dirtywave M8, but the Deluge was a VERY close second. If I ever get tired of the M8, I still have my eye on a Deluge.

Here's a tool to play with all the options. SO. MANY. SLIDERS! https://v-fonts.com/fonts/roboto-flex

Didn't know what to ask. I asked where my wife was (she's in the next room).

The board responded with the name of the town we're living in. (State College)

Uh... there's no way this thing knows our location, does it?

Huge fan of WLED here.

- I wanted a semi-permanent lighting fixture for Christmas, but something that would work for other holidays as well. I took a bunch of bullet-style leds and inserted them into holes I drilled on a piece of material that matched the gutters. Mounted them just underneath the gutter, you don't even see them unless you're looking for them. "Hanging" my xmas lights outdoors means I hit one IOT button that turns on the power supply, then I can navigate to the private IP attached to the strand. The interface is easy enough that the kids/missus change the lights whenever they feel like it.

- Two years in a row now for Halloween, I used WLED for my pumpkin carving. Carve out the inside, then drill evenly-spaced holes around the pumpkin and insert the same bullet-style LEDs into each hole facing the outside. Wifi-enabled pumpkin. The neighborhood kids call us "the house with the UFO pumpkin that gives out full-sized candybars".

I've been looking for a summary like this for years. I'm quite comfortable with IPv4, but haven't understood IPv6 well enough to start using it in my home network. Thanks for sharing, going to read this over a few times to make sure I understand everything completely.

Each of your two eyes only sees a 2d image, and your brain combining this information is what gives you depth. I'd say it's holographic in that each eye receives different information and you perceive depth when looking into it.

If you're asking whether you can see multiple translucent layers, like a hologram from a movie or tv show, then I'd also say yes. But I'd warn that there's a 58 degree viewing angle in front that you can see the images from. You can't look at the sides (or back!) of the display and see anything, for that matter.

Muse Group could have taken a lesson from this with their (attempted?) addition of telemetry to Audacity. If the community feels a sense of ownership of the data that's being collected from said community, you'll probably receive less push back.

I used to use Dropbox as well, but it started freaking out when I had folders with over 500,000 files in them. I started writing scripts to zip up folders first, moved some things off Dropbox, but it would just take up several CPU cores when going through everything. I tried Syncthing, and it had zero issues with the number of files I had. Everything just worked. I was amazed that the free solution was so much better than the commercial solution for which I was paying $10+ each month.

I love Syncthing. I've found some unconventional uses for it in syncing program settings. My fonts folder is now synced between my Mac, Windows and Linux computers and that works surprisingly well. My projects folder does a one-way archive (like rsync) for backup to my home NAS and an offsite VPS. I have a Streamdeck that I use between my Mac and Windows work machines, and I sync the settings on that so it operates the same way regardless of which machine I plug it into. I love it.

Yeah, came here expecting to hear about an update from Inkle Studios. (I checked them out anyway since Heaven’s Vault is one of the most kind-blowing games I’ve ever played, and they do have a new game out! Their ink language is worth a look.)

And ECMAscript still sounds like a disease.

I loved this answer, and I struggle the same way. When you said

why don't companies invest in coaching for their expensive engineers?

This is what makes a great manager, on the work side of things. Someone who sees the potential in other people and has the ability to unlock it, and doesn't settle for simply managing time and tasks. But for clarification, do you mean a third-party that can also help coach things like work-life balance? Because I could see a lot of value in that. I'm wondering now if I should find one for myself...