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This is a talk that was given Pr. Giulio Biroli in the Physics Department of a French University ("École d'Ingénieurs" technically) that talks about the use of generative AI in theoretical physics.

The love-hate relationship with LabVIEW is something I can not get closure about : great tool, abysmal ergonmics, revolutionnary piece of software, ubiquitous in some fields and still some LabVIEW ergonomics is just SO...bad : want to zoom on your diagram ? Out of luck !

Heard of death by a thousand cuts ? LabVIEW comes to mind.

I feel that one day I should write about this curse that NixOS brings into your life when you start enjoying it : you cannot go back to different systems but at the same time you (at least I) cannot vouch and recommend it to others as the languages and constructs (Flakes with a space or an utf-8 character in the path ? Here is a rabbit hole you can go down with) are just so byzantine and painful to work with but oh boy do they work... A crystal prison, nice but with sharp corners everywhere...

A Linux Evening 4 years ago

NixOS feels the same but somehow... I still end up in those Linux evenings but for different reasons...

I think that you will greatly appreciate the desktop distribution helloSystem : https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/index.html. From their own documentation : "[.…] desktop system for creators with a focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. Its design follows the “Less, but better” philosophy. It is intended as a system for “mere mortals”, welcoming to switchers from the Mac. FreeBSD is used as the core operating system."

If you prefer a video walk-through: https://youtu.be/MomHU2tP8fU

Factorio 1.0 6 years ago

For anyone who has wondered what would Factorio would look like in 3D, the game Satisfactory from Coffee Stains Studio would be a good idea.

I am actually wondering to see I buy one. Here is some links that I find interesting to consider before buying (some of those do answer some previous comments) :

* Here is a [previous occurrence on HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16321531).

* Here is a ["curated list of (code) projects related to the reMarkable tablet"](https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable).

* Here is a [framework](https://github.com/canselcik/libremarkable) for "developing applications with native refresh support for Remarkable Tablet " (with a growing Rust APi if you fancy that).

Some notes :

* As you will see by exploring some the links, the tablet is Linux-based so it is definitely possible to piggy-back on some API (see https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable#apis for examples)

* A bunch of alternative synchronization tools have already been implemented (see https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable#cloud-tools)

* The company seems really attached to software updates to improve the device (see https://blog.remarkable.com/).

* From all above, I think that the device could reach a critical mass of adoption and blossom in uses and third-party development but only if enough people engage with the device. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I am wondering if we are not too pessimistic about feedback for that application : why not use physical chord-like movements to different actions (delete characters, words, sentences) or like making distinct handsigns assigned to more used phonemes and less used one to chords of several finger joins like index / thumb, etc. Would be weird at first but, as learning vim taught me, building a coherent grammar can definitely make a big difference.