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immmmmm commented on Scott Adams has died   youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_Jr... · Posted by u/ekianjo
antod · 2 months ago
My physics is very rusty and very basic, but I don't think classical physics said gravity was a force either. eg in Newton's 2nd law or engineering mechanics, gravity is the "a" or the "g" not the "F".
immmmmm · 2 months ago
Well congratulations, you just stated the equivalence principle that led Einstein to GR (you need special relativity and a bit of maths and you’re there)!
immmmmm commented on Facts about throwing good parties   atvbt.com/21-facts-about-... · Posted by u/cjbarber
immmmmm · 4 months ago
As an occasional organiser of techno parties point 21) made me gently laugh. After decades of experience I’ve resorted to:

1) get the best quality, ultra high headroom, system money can rent

2) get a high quality monitoring system for the DJs

3) find a venue as remote as I can

4) go turn down the master volume on the main desk every now and then :)

immmmmm commented on Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?   josefprusa.com/articles/o... · Posted by u/rcarmo
immmmmm · 7 months ago
I have a good friend who’s in the “hi end desktop cnc” bizness (with some very cheap models). Asked why he doesn’t do 3D printers (he designed plenty) and he told me the market is SO competitive and products so cheap it’s impossible to compete.

Designing a controller for his machines and as much as I would love to put the thing as OH, I don’t even think of it.

His company:

https://www.badog.ch/

immmmmm commented on Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD application    · Posted by u/xiange
jasonthorsness · 9 months ago
"by compiling OpenCascade (OCCT) to WebAssembly"

I wondered what geometry kernel it was going to use! Interesting to me how few of these there are. Some of the solid modeling stuff is nearly 40 years old (parasolid) this must be hard.

immmmmm · 9 months ago
I’m doing a bit of BREP for GIS and even in 2D with line segments only the problem is really non-trivial, a lot of edge (pun intended) cases to take care of. Type system helps enormously, so probably rust will be a win here (I think I saw a project along those lines).

That being said, for CAD (personal usage) I switched from Fusion 360 to Freecad 1.0 with almost no project and the latter is an order of magnitude faster.

immmmmm commented on A SpaceX team is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic control system   theverge.com/news/614078/... · Posted by u/ianrahman
matwood · a year ago
So how many planes will they get to crash while they figure things out?
immmmmm · a year ago
Looking at some comments suggests quite a few
immmmmm commented on Noether's Theorem Revolutionized Physics   quantamagazine.org/how-no... · Posted by u/MindGods
immmmmm · a year ago
The beauty and power of the Noether Theorem is what pushed me to theoretical physics.

I consider it one of mankind’s greatest achievement.

immmmmm commented on Conda: A package management disaster?   pyherald.com/articles/16_... · Posted by u/osdotsystem
LarsDu88 · a year ago
`uv` is not a drop-in replacement for `conda` in the sense that `conda` also handles non-python dependencies, has its own distinct api server for packages, and has its own packaging yaml standard.

`pixi` basically covers `conda` while using the same solver as `uv` and is written in Rust like `uv`.

Now is it a good idea to have python's package management tool handle non-python packages? I think that's debateable. I personally am in favor of a world where `uv` is simply the final python package management solution.

Wrote an article on it here: https://dublog.net/blog/so-many-python-package-managers/

immmmmm · a year ago
I have been using pixi for half a year and it has been fantastic.

It’s fast, takes yml files as an input (which is super convenient) and super intuitive

Quite surprised it isn’t more popular

immmmmm commented on The Analog Thing: Analog Computing for the Future   the-analog-thing.org/... · Posted by u/cgeier
omani · a year ago
I agree. I highly recommend [0] Moritz Klein's channel. amazing explanations and learning effect.

[0] https://youtube.com/@MoritzKlein0/videos

immmmmm · a year ago
As someone that has been in the synth diy world for a quarter of century, I couldn’t agree more!
immmmmm commented on First Impressions: Lenovo T14s with Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 CPU   lists.freebsd.org/archive... · Posted by u/cnst
adrian_b · a year ago
I suppose that by CAD you mean mechanical CAD, with which I have less experience.

On the other hand electronics CAD had been run mainly on Solaris decades ago, but for the last 20 years Linux has been the most likely host, including for the most expensive commercial professional solutions.

I have never heard of anyone using macOS for any kind of electronics design.

immmmmm · a year ago
I do. With kicad and freecad 1.0rc. It is a joy and a pleasure.
immmmmm commented on On the Nature of Time   writings.stephenwolfram.c... · Posted by u/iamwil
immmmmm · a year ago
Did he tackle Lorentz invariance?

u/immmmmm

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