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Comment · 11 days ago
If you wanna share with friends and family; it's way more accessible than setting up access to a VPN/tailscale/etc.
Comment · 11 days ago
I've been running an older client version (last one before the new UI) on both Android (mobile) and Fire TV Stick 4K. Hasn't been too much of an issue to setup for friends, you just have to make sure to disable auto-updates.
Comment · 28 days ago
Even on desktop panning is remarkably slow.
Comment · 2 months ago
The README is in the header file (picophysics.h)
Comment · 3 months ago
The repository hasn't been made public yet it seems.
Comment · 4 months ago
What field are you in that you'd actually wait two years, rather than retract your submission and go somewhere else?
Comment · 4 months ago
Their "technical validation (CFD)" document looks like AI slop...
Comment · 4 months ago
Rejections from journals are not uncommon and sometimes it's for somewhat questionable reasons.

Uploading the manuscript to a preprint server and/or submitting to another journal, which Adamala is doing/planning to do, is the normal response.

Sending it to journalists beforehand is what I consider an overreaction.

Comment · 4 months ago
> “It’s an unusual way of doing things,” says Kerstin Göpfrich, a synthetic biologist at Heidelberg University.

That's being kind; it's a complete overreaction, simply put.

Comment · 8 months ago
> Yes 1-based indexing is a mistake. It leads to significantly less elegant code - especially for generic code - and is no harder to understand than 1-based indexing for people capable of programming.

Some would argue that 0-based indexing is significantly less elegant for numerical/scientific code, but that depends on whether they come from a MATLAB/Fortran or Python/C(++) background.

A decision was made to target the MATLAB/Fortran (and unhappy? Python/C++) crowd first, thus the choice of 1-based indexing and column-major order, but at the end of the day it's a matter of personal preference.

0-based indexing would have made it easier to reach a larger audience, however.

> and is no harder to understand than 1-based indexing for people capable of programming.

The same could be said the other way around ;-)

Comment · 8 months ago
The approach could be helpful for searching though large 3D model libraries like GrabCAD for some visual placeholder part by just describing it.

The generality of the part descriptions made me chuckle.

> A bevel gear with a circular base and a series of angular, tapered teeth extending radially outward. The teeth are uniformly distributed around the circumference, allowing for meshing at an angle with another gear. The gear's face includes a set of holes, varying in size and symmetrically arranged around the central bore, likely for weight reduction or mounting purposes. The central opening likely acts as an axle or shaft attachment point. The design facilitates the transmission of rotational motion between intersecting shafts, typically at a 90-degree angle.

Comment · 10 months ago
This is a about Groq, not Grok (Musk's chatbot).

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