Wulfsta's recent activity
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Comment on My Accessibility Stack and the future on Wayland in ~comp
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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.
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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.
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Comment on Welcome to a multidimensional economic disaster - the AI boom wasn’t built for the polycrisis in ~tech
Wulfsta LinkInteresting - I wonder if the Chinese AI companies will be impacted in the same way? If this crash does come to pass, it will significantly disadvantage the U.S. in that capability race.Interesting - I wonder if the Chinese AI companies will be impacted in the same way? If this crash does come to pass, it will significantly disadvantage the U.S. in that capability race.
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Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information in ~tech
Wulfsta Link ParentAlso the shrinking ratio of representation an individual in the United States has had since the Reapportionment Act of 1929, where the house was capped at 435 seats.It was supposed to be the voters holding their representatives accountable, but now the voters are unreliable because of all the misinformation, propaganda, and the manufactured apathy.
Also the shrinking ratio of representation an individual in the United States has had since the Reapportionment Act of 1929, where the house was capped at 435 seats.
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Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information in ~tech
Wulfsta Link ParentThere have been several bills proposing laws like this, see the previous discussion here. I see your point that it does not report to the government, but if it’s software mandated by the...There have been several bills proposing laws like this, see the previous discussion here. I see your point that it does not report to the government, but if it’s software mandated by the government to prevent an individual from performing an action after a search has been performed, I fail to see how that is still not an unwarranted search and enforcement as a result. I am not a lawyer, but I think the reason so many people feel so uncomfortable about these changes is because they are a hair from rights violations at a massive scale, and nobody seems to be framing them as such.
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…