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I think the key insight here is that 243 is 100000 in base3. So dividing by 243 essentially converts any 5 digit base 3 number to [0,1) interval. Multiplying by 256 converts it to [0,256) interval which conveniently fits into a byte.

In 2026? Path/ray traced global illumination.

better known as BCD, binary-coded decimal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal

There was a plan for Mars Sample Return mission. But it got scrapped by budget cuts/concerns.

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/mepagapril2025/presentatio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA-ESA_Mars_Sample_Return

conveniently there is a xkcd for that too https://xkcd.com/1330/

I find it very suspicious that the laundry folding segment of the video has awkward cuts of the interesting parts. Makes me question if it is actually capable of doing that

fyi "Bevy XPBD" got renamed to Avian Physics (it is not xpbd based anymore) https://github.com/avianphysics/avian/issues/346

that’s already the case with our existing leap seconds.

Which we are also in the process of getting rid of.

You can still wake up earlier and enjoy your sunrise even if your working hours are fixed.

You realize that you can change your own sleep patterns seasonally if you want to? Heck, you could do that even gradually instead of those abrupt 1 hour changes. That is your choice, we don't need to fiddle with clocks for the whole society for that.

xlr?

The problem is RPi though, and all the junk it runs before booting Linux.

for lot of image processing linearizing srgb is only half-way measure, and you might want to reach for a better colorspace altogether. cielab is obvious example, or maybe oklab/jzazbz/xyb/something else.

There is also another major DM42 firmware project: DB48x https://48calc.org/

I find it funnysad that python people coined the phrase duck typing and then ended up designing what they have now. Meanwhile TS manages to embody duck typing far better even though coming from very different background.

I'm struggling to understand what the concrete proposal here is.

So what is Thinnernet? Imagine a fiber optic bundle of undersea cables- maybe a hundred or so 10Gbps cables comprising....

and the question goes unanswered. is it a protocol? physical layer? guideline? no idea.

Reminds me of this little map I created some time ago: https://ibb.co/TPVMCR3

My intent was to simplify the shapes of state borders as much as possible while retaining the topological (?) relationship between states. But there is no fancy math behind my map, it's just hand-drawn mess.

I'm not really seeing the connection to projections here?

yes, here is 2013 AMD presentation of the topic as example: https://events.csdn.net/AMD/GPUSat%20-%20hUMA_june-public.pd... see slide 14 especially

AMD Fusion knocking from 2010.

or you could use 3-digit octal (so 000-777) for a 512 color palette, which arguably would be even more simple. as a bonus you can use it to color file permissions :)

Plus the fact you can "record" them from a real-world physical environment without ever having to "model" it opens up a lot of utility too.

This is the big thing imho. Sure, you can do traditional photogrammetry to capture meshes and textures but getting the shaders exactly right is afaik non-trivial etc, and if you want real-time rendering then you likely need some further post-processing of the assets. With 3dgs you can pretty much bypass all that complexity and the whole pipeline from photos to rendered frame is much more straightforward.

Yea, I think avoiding sorting is kinda the whole point here

It uses the entire width of the monitor rather than a slender column of pixels down the middle with large blocks of unused space on either side

Umm on my machine it has 560px margin on both sides with the content being only 474px sliver in the middle?

db48x/db50x is probably your best bet

That is very rose-tinted view of the era. In reality in early 00s lots of software had their own wacky UI toolkits. MS Office is of course the most notable example, but also iirc all of Adobe/Macromedia or every 3d modeling (Lightwave, Maya etc) and audio production software. In the enterprise realm people were doing Java AWT (and later Swing) UIs. And then there were the classics like WinAmp with its iconic theme support, or Mozilla with XUL (and themes).

10 round avg 4.5%.

A time limit would make sense imho. For extra challenge, add diagonal or curved lines.

fyi zyxel has some reasonably priced 2.5G/10G base-t switches with or without poe++. I got myself XS1930-12HP when I updated my home network to wifi6 and 10G. The biggest annoyance was that some features are gated behind "advanced" license, but iirc nothing too critical. Small things, but I like that it has integrated power supply so it just has standard iec connector in the back instead of needing a power brick. I did replace the standard 40mm fans with 120mm noctua; the airflow might not be optimal but I think it'll survive.

Is it because the perceived alternative is another run-off-the-mill Electron RAM guzzler, because there aren't any _good_ GUI widget frameworks?

Yeah, I think that is 90% of it. And the whole related ecosystem aspect. All the major ways of building GUIs suck right now, especially for tiny apps. And to further exacerbate the problem, GUI frameworks are generally tied to their programming languages, Qt is C++, SwiftUI is Swift, Flutter is Dart so on; spewing some terminal escapes to stdout is something that can done from basically any language with relative ease.

hardly anything grows there, almost 50 years later.

that seems pretty major exaggeration

https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3732/ajb.0800...