Wulfsta's recent activity
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Comment on Zig creator calls spade a spade, Anthropic blows smoke in ~comp
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Comment on US Supreme Court lets states block trans athletes from women’s and girls’ sports in ~lgbt
Wulfsta Link ParentVotes on aggregator sites have always been (as far as any example I’m aware of) “I think this deserves more visibility and contributes to discussion,” or in the case of those that have downvotes,...Votes on aggregator sites have always been (as far as any example I’m aware of) “I think this deserves more visibility and contributes to discussion,” or in the case of those that have downvotes, “I do not think this deserves visibility or does not contribute to discussion.”
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Comment on Solar with grid connectivity, but no networking? in ~life.home_improvement
Wulfsta LinkBaffling that you would need internet for stationary panels. I would understand if there was a more complex control scheme, like using GIS data to track the sun, but cramming connectivity into...Baffling that you would need internet for stationary panels. I would understand if there was a more complex control scheme, like using GIS data to track the sun, but cramming connectivity into infrastructure that becomes less secure because it has it is insane.
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Comment on My Accessibility Stack and the future on Wayland in ~comp
Wulfsta LinkThis is a rare article that I wish had a more clickbait title, like “Wayland Does Not Support Users with Accessible Input Needs,” in the hope that it would reach a larger audience. Relatedly,...This is a rare article that I wish had a more clickbait title, like “Wayland Does Not Support Users with Accessible Input Needs,” in the hope that it would reach a larger audience.
Relatedly, every time I hear about Wayland, I become more baffled that this was the chosen replacement windowing system…
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Comment on The one-and-done pen? in ~hobbies
Wulfsta LinkI am not really a fountain pen person, but I have been eyeballing a Platypus Model 20 for a while. The bladder design is uniquely interesting to me.I am not really a fountain pen person, but I have been eyeballing a Platypus Model 20 for a while. The bladder design is uniquely interesting to me.
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Comment on NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore in ~space
Wulfsta Link ParentArguably untrue, there are much more modern libraries like nalgebra in Rust, it's just that stuff like LAPACK is extremely highly optimized from decades of maintenance and Fortran being very close...Nobody wants to rigorously prove new code for things like matrix math
Arguably untrue, there are much more modern libraries like
nalgebrain Rust, it's just that stuff like LAPACK is extremely highly optimized from decades of maintenance and Fortran being very close to the metal. -
Comment on How democratic governments came to view VPNs as circumvention software that must be restricted in ~tech
Wulfsta Link ParentHaving an exit node only for your network doesn’t make it the same sort of traffic escrow that these modern companies sell. That said, it would protect you from insecure networks, e.g. wifi. I...Having an exit node only for your network doesn’t make it the same sort of traffic escrow that these modern companies sell. That said, it would protect you from insecure networks, e.g. wifi. I guess I am saying the effectiveness depends on your threat model.
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Comment on Looking for general monitor advice in ~tech
Wulfsta Link ParentUpdate to my thread, I have been liking the LG 32GS95UE-B.Update to my thread, I have been liking the LG 32GS95UE-B.
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Comment on Why do the top American sushi restaurants leave us so bored and so broke? in ~food
Wulfsta Link ParentI’d argue that the salmon thing depends on the chef and the market they are sourcing from. But otherwise I broadly agree.I’d argue that the salmon thing depends on the chef and the market they are sourcing from. But otherwise I broadly agree.
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Comment on Hundreds trying to storm Wisconsin beagle research facility met with rubber bullets and pepper spray in ~news
Wulfsta LinkI initially read this as bagels and was very confused. /noiseI initially read this as bagels and was very confused.
/noise
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Comment on Stop New York's attack on 3D printing in ~society
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Stop New York's attack on 3D printing
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Comment on Which Linux distro do you use, and why? in ~tech
Wulfsta Link ParentYeah, the Nix error messages are not great...Yeah, the Nix error messages are not great...
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Comment on Turning meshes into horrifying piecewise functions in ~comp
Wulfsta LinkI usually don't post things I've written, but this was a fun project that I wanted to share! It's a bit of an odd adventure into how you might represent bounding surface representations via SDFs,...I usually don't post things I've written, but this was a fun project that I wanted to share! It's a bit of an odd adventure into how you might represent bounding surface representations via SDFs, specifically STLs.
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Turning meshes into horrifying piecewise functions
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
Wulfsta LinkI have been working on a tool that takes manifold surface meshes, and converts them into F-Reps with unit gradients, which can be parsed by Fidget. For a higher level description, I am taking 3D...I have been working on a tool that takes manifold surface meshes, and converts them into F-Reps with unit gradients, which can be parsed by Fidget. For a higher level description, I am taking 3D objects and turning them into pure mathematical equations. I found and fixed a bug in Fidget's JIT evaluator as a result of this; this was satisfying as it was tricky to find. The representation could be more efficient, right now each triangle is represented as a unit gradient function, which means that for manifold meshes each triangle edge is encoded in the result twice, and each vertex at least three times.
Future work for this technique will involve using an oracle function that does raycasting to determine if an evaluation point is inside or outside the surface, and will allow for arbitrary remeshing of triangle soup with Manifold Dual Contouring (with the intent to rely on the Fidget or libfive implementation).
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Comment on I worked in a warehouse in ~life
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I worked in a warehouse
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Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes
Wulfsta Link ParentI think some people pull off blocking users via adblocking rules. There has been some discussion previously on this, but I don't have a link offhand.I think some people pull off blocking users via adblocking rules. There has been some discussion previously on this, but I don't have a link offhand.
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Comment on A.T.L.A.S: outperform Claude Sonnet with a 14B local model and RTX 5060 Ti in ~tech
Wulfsta Link ParentModels this small do not have much general knowledge. They are usually better at semantic extraction or transformation.Models this small do not have much general knowledge. They are usually better at semantic extraction or transformation.
This seems to be a major point that is conveniently ignored fairly often in these discussions (I will give a disclaimer here that I have mixed results with agentic tooling, my experience has been that it’s overall pretty awful at writing anything over a certain level of complexity). For years, Rust advocates have exclaimed things like, “If it compiles, then I know it probably runs!” I myself have said things like this about Rust. Agentic tooling is all about building harnesses for a clever statistical tool that makes a really good guess about how to complete some text. Is it really any surprise that making the lowest level of this tooling more rigorous helps this autocompletion loop write working code?