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guidopallemans··on Blender 5.3 released with Gaussian Splat support
Tried the beta on my M4 a couple of weeks ago on a scene of 4M splats (exported from spirula studio, great tool) , and found that it's immediately very mature, fast, and well-integrated. I could not find anyinconstencies with the rest of the interface. Congrats to the team!
guidopallemans··on Gemini 4 Carbon is now available
A nice nod to simonw in one of the highlight videos;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNbkThtNzS8

guidopallemans··on Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen
Neutrino detectors are essential in receiving communication from other galaxies.
guidopallemans··on The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
Just hope they don't add a service worker to remain functional offline
guidopallemans··on 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes
This is explained in the article. Including the hurting brain.
guidopallemans··on Delacroix's Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople Restored
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entry_of_the_Crusaders_in_Cons...

(and https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prise_de_Constantinople_par_le... )

give a bit more context.

Stood out to me:

> 498 cm × 410 cm (196 in × 160 in)

guidopallemans··on Iran mulls taking control of all 7 cables passing through Strait of Hormuz
Are there better sources to this than WioNews?
guidopallemans··on Is my blue your blue? (2024)
> most people acknowledge that there is a color between blue and green

For many people, there is no difference between blue and green at all!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...

guidopallemans··on Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Visual Studio Code is the compromise
guidopallemans··on Everyone Is Stealing TV
I think the point the article wants to make is that specifically 6K isn't used by consumers, whereas indeed 4K and 8K are.
guidopallemans··on I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
This is the one thing I brought from my time of trying out vim.

I have now set all my editors to move by paragraph with ctrl+up/dn. It fits so well together with ctrl+left/right that I think it should be standard behaviour. I also set up ctrl+shift+up/dn to select, of course.

guidopallemans··on Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers
Surely a gaming handheld counts
guidopallemans··on A “frozen” dictionary for Python
When you are making str -> Any dictionaries it's quite likely you're better off with dataclasses or namedtuples anyway.
guidopallemans··on A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2
Chuck in a !wayback before the url, it gets you here: https://web.archive.org/web/20251124090635/https://mastodon....

edit: wayback machine doesn't work, though !ais does:

https://archive.is/ng0ke

guidopallemans··on Steam Machine
The original steam deck was already exactly the product Microsoft should have made. There is now a whole class of similar (but generally more expensive) windows-powered devices. If Microsoft would have made the "XBOX Deck" they could have sold 10 times the numbers Steam Deck did.

But indeed, I'd think Phil Spencer's days are numbered now.

guidopallemans··on Jujutsu for everyone
I listened to the same podcast, and agreed with the points that Casey made. However, there were some aspects of version control that were glossed over.

What was described was actually quite close to developing through a Dropbox folder + (implied) tooling. And that makes a lot of sense for Casey Muratori's current work, which I believe is a small 5-10 person team doing game (engine) development. Such teams can quite easily work all in the same source branch (and this could in fact be preferred, e.g. for large assets in gaming).

However, as organizations grow, you want different levels of staging (that could be provided by your version control). A split between local and _the common_ stream, release branches, splits between projects or features, review states, etc.

So I believe the optimum is somewhere in the middle, and jj does take a step towards it. But still some friction remains.

guidopallemans··on Zig's Lovely Syntax
I don't like how Python does lambdas, its indentation-based blocks, how there's both ' and ", I could go on.
guidopallemans··on Figma Slides Is a Beautiful Disaster
One thing I like to do is interleave these two kinds of slides one by one. Put your visual on one slide, and longer-text bullet points on the next.

Then while presenting the visual you have the bullets of the next slide in your presenter's view, and you can just skip that slide during the presentation. Then, when people ask for the slides they will indeed get all they want.

guidopallemans··on The US has approved CRISPR pigs for food
Then crispr yourself some leaves as well
guidopallemans··on Htmy – Async, pure-Python rendering engine
What's wrong with the old PHP+html ways? It's one of the best toolchains to knock out a small to medium sized project. I guess that fundamentally, it's not scalable at all, or can get messy wrt closing tags and indenting. But with this approach I think you're good on both these aspects?
guidopallemans··on Everyone has JavaScript, right?
> most interactions are form-like

I'd say that most interactions are link-like, but that proves your point even further.

guidopallemans··on FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor
I used to have this problem as well, so I talked it over at my endo office. They suggested that I order some specially shaped stickers to keep them on, but instead I just bought some Kinesiology Tape (hansaplast, but also exists store-brand). 10cm of that works perfectly, even for heavy contact sports combined with sweating (and many showers).
guidopallemans··on Intel slaps forehead, says I got it: AI PCs. Sell them AI PCs
> On stage, Gelsinger teased what he claimed would be the "world's largest AI supercomputer in Europe," and one of the "top 15 AI supercomputers in the world."

Disregarding what constitutes an "Ai supercomputer", surely "world's largest AI supercomputer in Europe" would just be Europe's largest Ai supercomputer?

guidopallemans··on The journey to Nintendo Switch
This comment was about the upcoming Factorio expansion.
guidopallemans··on Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about
You can swipe songs to the side to add them as next up
guidopallemans··on Queen under medical supervision at Balmoral
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lesser

> lesser: of less size, quality, degree, or significance : of lower status

No need to be so rude. "Lesser" is used correctly here, whatever you think of royalty.

guidopallemans··on Why train when you can optimize?
wavenet and transformer models already come dangerously close
guidopallemans··on Facebook-owned sites were down
He just deleted all his updates.

user:

https://old.reddit.com/user/ramenporn

some messages:

* This is a global outage for all FB-related services/infra (source: I'm currently on the recovery/investigation team).

* Will try to provide any important/interesting bits as I see them. There is a ton of stuff flying around right now and like 7 separate discussion channels and video calls.

* Update 1440 UTC: \

    As many of you know, DNS for FB services has been affected and this is likely a symptom of the actual issue, and that's that BGP peering with Facebook peering routers has gone down, very likely due to a configuration change that went into effect shortly before the outages happened (started roughly 1540 UTC).

    There are people now trying to gain access to the peering routers to implement fixes, but the people with physical access is separate from the people with knowledge of how to actually authenticate to the systems and people who know what to actually do, so there is now a logistical challenge with getting all that knowledge unified.

    Part of this is also due to lower staffing in data centers due to pandemic measures.
guidopallemans··on Cheap material converts heat to electricity
Time to air-con the world, I guess
guidopallemans··on Valve Steam Deck
Get yourself a small bluetooth keyboard, there's even mechanical full-size keyboards that can fit in a medium-sized bag.

I got myself an Anne Pro 2 from banggood for 65 euros and I take it everywhere. It connects to my laptop, tablet and phone.

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