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jarrell_markon How the gut differentiates artificial sweeteners from sugars in mice

There's a new one called Reb M. Most stevia extracts are Reb A because it's found in high concentrations in Stevia. Reb M has less of an aftertaste and tastes more like sugar than Reb A. But it's expensive to produce because it's < 1% of the steviods in Stevia. 3 methods are changing the story here. (1) producing reb m through fermentation. Purecane does this and is available on Amazon right now. (2) breeding stevia plants that have higher concentrations of reb m. (3) converting reb a into reb m using enzymes

jarrell_markon Big Time Public License

This license has things in common with the Unreal Engine license. It's a source available license that is free up until a certain revenue (or equity / headcount) amount

jarrell_markon GnuPG used to ask for your support to help protect online privacy

There's a package called PGPy. It's a python implementation of PGP. BSD-3-Clause licensed. https://github.com/SecurityInnovation/PGPy When testing it out GnuPG compatibility, I just had to add the --rfc4880 when encrypting with GnuPG. Then PGPy could decrypt it using the private key generated by GnuPG. PGPy supports key generation and encryption too.

jarrell_markon OBS and Streamlabs Commit to Long-Term Collaboration

Streamlab's parent company Logitech is OBS's largest Organization donor and has been donating since May 2019

jarrell_markon OpenWorm

Here's OpenWorm controlling a robot : https://youtu.be/YWQnzylhgHc?t=31

jarrell_markon ChowJS: An AOT JavaScript engine for game consoles

Agreed, being able to compile to webassembly would be really nice.

jarrell_markon XiangShan open-source 64-bit RISC-V processor to rival Arm Cortex-A76

It's the first OSI approved open source license written in two languages

jarrell_markon Pixar RenderMan 24 with XPU Hybrid Rendering

"Researchers, individual artists, and students creating non-commercial projects will have access to Free Non-Commercial RenderMan the same day as the commercial release."

jarrell_markon DragonflyBSD 6.0

A bit unrelated but did you all know that PlayStation's and Switch's OSs are both based on FreeBSD to varying extents?

jarrell_markon Why I Work on Ads

I've been using scroll.com. It removes ads on many sites for $5 per month (Vox, The Atlantic, USA Today, Kotaku, ...). Apparently sites make more from scroll subscribers on average than they do from folks seeing ads. Twitter just announced they bought scroll.

As for this article, I think it is good to find a way to have targeted ads while preserving privacy.

jarrell_markon Godot 3.3

https://youtu.be/SQ7soQ-N-eQ this is the series I started out with. Would recommend it as an easy intro to 3d. I had tried pygame and pandas3d before but none of them clicked like Godot

jarrell_markon OpenGL Back End for MXNet/TVM

Good stuff. Reminds me of tensorflow.js which is also backed by webgl

jarrell_markon Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

Open source is nice but these recipes need to be stored on the blockchain

jarrell_markon Open source is not a business model (2018)

Open source tends to be used as a user acquisition strategy for companies in the growth stage not worrying about monetization.

Once they get to the stage of trying to monetize their newfound userbase, they rethink the value of releasing their product as open source.

jarrell_markon Ask HN: What are you working on?

Mobile game. Intent to monetize using ads and in-app purchases. Godot open source. Just for fun, probably won't make much .

jarrell_markon A distributed Posix file system built on top of Redis and S3

Well, maybe it's not a big deal. I guess programs using this POSIX filesystem might not be derivatives and wouldn't need to also be released under the AGPL.

jarrell_markon A distributed Posix file system built on top of Redis and S3

It's AGPL :(

jarrell_markon About those vector icons (2011)

This is a good use case for deep learning.

jarrell_markon Show HN: I created a no-code job board for careers in indie games

What did you use for no-code website creation?

jarrell_markon Winamp Skin Museum

Try these out on VLC using these instructions: https://www.hacktrix.com/how-to-apply-winamp-skins-on-vlc-me...

jarrell_markon Unity Software Inc S-1

Godot is written in Godot. Anything you see in its UI can be used by Godot developers.

jarrell_markon Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B

Intel should start investing in RISC-V or opening up their own architecture. This is the only way they will keep market share in the next 10 years.

jarrell_markon Gimp 2.10.20

I wonder if Glimpse will be updated to this version

jarrell_markon Maze Algorithms (2011)

Wilson's algorithm creates the best mazes by having a variety of short and long passages.

jarrell_markon Meshroom – Open-source photogrammetry software

Blender's decimate modifier can reduce the polys. Infact the model I got from Meshroom had more vertices than the one I uploaded to sketchfab. https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/modifiers...

jarrell_markon Meshroom – Open-source photogrammetry software

For those with laptops or who don't have Nvidia GPUs, Meshroom can be used for free in the cloud using Google colab https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom/wiki/Meshroom-in-Goo.... I created this scan using this technique and I only have an integrated Intel GPU: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/parvati-cantor-arts-center-a...

jarrell_markon Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

Surprised no one mentioned askjeeves.com I really liked that site

jarrell_markon A Taste of GPU Compute [video]

Tensorflow.js (tf.Tensor) can be used as an easy to use interface to GPU compute (similar API to numpy) which works on all gpus not just Nvidia because it's backed by webgl https://www.tensorflow.org/js/guide/platform_environment