IrritableOcelot 7h ago • 100%
Hmmm interesting idea!
I think your biggest limitations are going to be contrast and exposure bleed. First of all, typically mixing dyes of different colors (especially plant pigments which are not likely to be super dense), you get brown rather than black. For contrast, I think you'd be limited again by the lack of color density in your pigments, but as long as you're OK with pastel colors, that could work.
For exposure, at least based on the Wikipedia page you linked, you're talking one layer taking a 2h exposure. Trying to do say three layers would then take six hours, so whatever you're using as a mask has to be super absorbent or reflective to UV (think very thick black paper or tinfoil). Anything else, and your underlying layers are going to bleach somewhat.
IrritableOcelot 2d ago • 100%
Not familiar with HeliumOS specifically, but for a generic atomic distro I would try layering Python temporarily, and then getting rid of it when you're done.
IrritableOcelot 2d ago • 100%
Ive tried Scribus, and found the interface very hard to get used to. For folks coming from Adobe, I find Inkscape the easiest for design. I would use a separate program for cropping, I don't have a great recommendation for that.
IrritableOcelot 3d ago • 100%
In chemistry a lot of the foundational synthesis and work is as old as the 60s and 70s; people build on it, but in some cases those early papers said pretty much all there is to be said on a topic, so there's no reason to republish on it.
I've had to cite papers as old as the late 30s before, because no one has ever found anything to fix or correct about their work! Pretty impressive if you ask me, given how few tools they had.
IrritableOcelot 4d ago • 100%
Truly. Also the springer nature ones load so slowly for absolutely no reason, and break 10% of the time. I really don't get what their motivation is, do they think that after I've said no, I dont want a web version, I will be happy with a different web version?
IrritableOcelot 4d ago • 100%
Fusion used to work but autodesk changed the redirects in their login system, so it no longer does...
Tragic. Especially since there's no reason Fusion couldn't be a webapp or PWA, autodesk already made it annoyingly cloud-focused.
IrritableOcelot 4d ago • 100%
Can second this: direct heating of anything is always going to be more efficient. Also, only ~25% of incident energy on a PV cell is actually captured as electriciy (see here for theoretical backing), and the rest is lost in a lot of ways, but much of it is converted to heat at the PV cell, and if you're capturing that you're using direct heating anyhow.
IrritableOcelot 5d ago • 100%
Can confirm that the asusd and and asus-linux work fine on Bluefin and Ubuntu/mint; the Devs dont support X11 (which Mint is still on), but you can build it with the X11 flags on the GH repo and it works fine.
IrritableOcelot 6d ago • 100%
Is that true? I thought that pairs of USB-A ports shared the same PCIe lanes, and USB-C each got their own set?
Edit: thinking about it a bit more, I suppose it could depend on how the SOC/chipset allocates those lanes, but in my experience when writing a single USB I'm usually limited by the thermals of the USB, and writing well below the speed of the port. I suppose if you were writing many at once (or if your USBs were nice) that could bottleneck on the port speed.
IrritableOcelot 6d ago • 100%
Caaaaaalllllllzzzzooooonnnnneeeeeesssss!
IrritableOcelot 7d ago • 100%
Ummm or the authors are concerned about retribution because stallman and the FSF are very powerful in the FOSS community, and I think it's reasonably likely that they would be sued (seemingly with poor grounds) or harassed online for publishing it.
IrritableOcelot 1w ago • 100%
Good point. Though, the vast majority of ML training and use is tensor math on floating points, so largely dot and cross products, among other matrix operations.
IrritableOcelot 1w ago • 100%
I think you're thinking of the famous fast inverse square root algorithm from Quake.
With respect to the top comment, the only reason 3d graphics are possible (even at 850W of power consumption) is due to taking a bunch of shortcuts and approximations like culling of polygons. If its a reasonable shortcut it either has or will be taken.
IrritableOcelot 1w ago • 100%
Good question. Odd not to include one.
IrritableOcelot 1w ago • 50%
How did I miss that...
IrritableOcelot 1w ago • 100%
God can you imagine buying a game on the Microsoft store? Even for free, the MS store is a place I refuse to have any degree of lock-in into.
IrritableOcelot 2w ago • 100%
I mean you can do HTML -> TeX -> PDF with Pandoc, or to any other format pretty much. I would say writing markdown and passing it to TeX or directly to PDF is the most practical.
IrritableOcelot 2w ago • 100%
Jabref is great. Also, if you need other formats you can always import the bibtex file into Zotero.
IrritableOcelot 2w ago • 100%
No worries, it's pretty hard to keep track when their naming scheme is "it has a K in it"...
To deal with all this Intel CPU disaster, I've been having to manually check MSI's website for mobo updates. It occurred to me that keeping BIOSes and other drivers that aren't delivered through your OS's update manager of choice is such a pain, and it's common knowledge that a lot of critical BIOS updates just don't get applied to systems because folks don't check for updates unless there's a problem. Thinking about that, I realized that it would make life a lot easier if you could just have section in your RSS reader for firmware updates, and each mobo manufacturer published BIOS update announcements as an RSS feed. All your updates are in one place, and you're notified promptly! Of course, this would also apply to NVIDIA drivers, so you can get automatic updates on Windows without having to download Geforce NOW bloatware, but of course that's *very intentional* on NVIDIA's part. Does anyone know of other easy ways to passively keep track of BIOS updates?
OK, y'all. I'm trying to find a book I read many moons ago. I feel like it was by Diana Wynne Jones, but it's not in her bibliography. Massive spoilers incoming, obviously, but I can't remember what the spoilers are *for*. --- The book starts on an island nation in the south of the world, with a rigid code of conduct which one of the main characters is being disciplined for breaking. The main characters leave on a quest to the oppressive and powerful kingdom in the north, and its revealed that one of the other main characters is the crown prince of the evil kingdom in the north, and can use their magic. If I recall correctly, his use of that magic makes dark veins stand out under his skin, and he has to fight against it controlling him. There's some kind of time limit, I think if he uses the magic too much, it'll take him over and he'll become the new ruler. To gain some advantage over the evil kingdom, they visit an abandoned city, break into some kind of temple, and have an encounter with some kind of deity, which might then take over one of the characters? Later in the story they make it to the evil palace, and there's a plotline about multiple children of the evil king trying to kill this guy, so they can inherit the throne. I think the evil palace is embedded in a mountain somehow. Anyone who can set me on the right track, it'd be much appreciated!