The amount of compression that was applied to these photo is downright criminal.
Is there any place for me to pay to download one of these for personal use as a desktop wallpaper?
Readit Newsxd1936 commented on Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astron... · Posted by u/speckx
xd1936 commented on Touch Mapper – open-source 3D printed tactile maps for the visually impaired touch-mapper.org... · Posted by u/speckx
I work in Higher Ed IT. Used this to make a 3D Printed campus map two years ago for a fully blind student. I cleaned up the OpenStreetMap data in our area and it worked great!
xd1936 commented on Building Bluesky comments for my blog natalie.sh/posts/bluesky-... · Posted by u/g0xA52A2A
See also: Toot toot! Mastodon-powered Blog Comments [2023]
https://cassidyjames.com/blog/fediverse-blog-comments-mastod...
xd1936 commented on Show HN: When is the next Caltrain? (minimal webapp) erikschluntz.com/caltrain... · Posted by u/eschluntz
I have a command line app for this somewhere I wrote a few years back when I was commuting on Caltrain a lot, I should dig it up and publish it. It had some extra pathfinding/fuzzy search stuff. I almost always have my bike with me and I wanted to cover the edge cases where it's faster to bike to a nearby station to catch a bullet or where you can take a train the wrong direction a stop or two for the same purpose.
I wish there a maps app that would build entire itineraries taking into account that you have a bike with you, and ideally your average expected biking speed. It's so annoying to plan any sort of multi-transit itinerary in the bay, you always have to piece things together yourself or get stuck with some nonsense that takes 30% longer than it needs to.
Of course all of this could also be resolved if we had a sane transit system with short intervals.
Does Transit[1] not do this? It suggests routes including walking and biking when I input my destination...
xd1936 commented on I hacked my washing machine nexy.blog/2025/07/27/how-... · Posted by u/JadedBlueEyes
I have a magnetic Zigbee vibration sensor on my washer and dryer connected to Home Assistant. I hadn't thought of monitoring smart outlet current/voltage instead, that's a good idea too.
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xd1936 commented on Apple's MLX adding CUDA support github.com/ml-explore/mlx... · Posted by u/nsagent
If Apple cannot do their own implementation of CUDA due to copyright second best is this; getting developers to build for LMX (which is on their laptops) and still get NVIDIA hardware support.
Apple should do a similar thing for AMD.
I thought that the US Supreme Court decision in Google v. Oracle and the Java reimplementation provided enough case precedent to allow companies to re-implement something like CUDA APIs?
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/5/22367851/google-oracle-sup...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_....