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Revision 4 is the new version of the Starlink user terminal. As of February 2024, the new version is only available in the US. I decided to test the new hardware and compare it to the well-known REV3 (a.k.a. Gen2/V2 or “Standard Actuated”).
Thanks to Samantha Cole at 404 Media, we are now aware that Automattic plans to sell user data from Tumblr and WordPress.com (which is the host for my blog) for “AI” products. In respon…
Since the 2019 SIGGRAPH course [1], Geometric Algebra, and Euclidean PGA (plane-based or projective geometric algebra) in particular, has been gaining traction within the computer graphics and machine learning communities [2, 3, 4]. Despite its broad applicability, including for higher dimensional geometry and…
I’m interested in HTML, CSS, and making the web less annoying
How I learnt Elm (its good parts and bad) by porting a medium-sized web frontend from React.
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct - the best kind of correct. I hereby promote you to grade 37. - Number 1.0 (Futurama, S2E15 )
Wait, but how does async even work? (Animated)
How to implement 1D LUTs to color grayscale thermal vision videos, 3D LUTs for color correct and smart hacks from video games
Today, I’m going to write a bit about our GPU cluster machine we call cogito at Driveline Baseball. I’m going to timebox these blog posts so I get them out and also save my sanity, so t…
This quote from Charity Majors is probably the best summary of the current state of observability in the tech industry - a total, mass confusion.
Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids content
Interactive article explaining the physics of an airfoil and what makes airplanes fly
Welcome to the blog. As a way to kick things off, here’s a single-page version of my thread on the F-35C tailhook.
The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. – Randall Jarrell
1/ I’ve been mega-obsessed with this feeling. A year as a 36-year-old seems so much shorter as compared to when I was a kid or even as a teen. It seems cosmically unfair – we have fewer years to live, and each year flies by faster. 2/ But, why is that happening? My tentative conclusion is that… Read More
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
A guide to domain-specific types that make sense.
After a lumbar puncture caused a chronic spinal CSF leak, my life of travel and food changed overnight. (Now with a 7 year update)
I was asked (again) today to explain why integer division in Python returns the floor of the result instead of truncating towards zero like...
This post is based on my project in my Computer Vision class last semester
The Google Gemini fiasco shows that the biggest challenge for Google in AI is not business model but rather company culture; change is needed from the top down.
While looking for something else, I came across this rather incredible photo in the Imperial War Museum collection. That's a seaplane stuck 300 feet up a 350ft tall radio mast! If that's not amazing enough, the pilot was rescued by three men who climbed up to retrieve him. And he survived.
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I got a pull request from "tea.xyz" related individual and unraveled a mess of a disappointing project.
Trying to cobble together your own billing system is like wrestling an octopus that's armed with tax codes and invoices instead of tentacles. It's a beast of complexity that can tangle up everything from customer support to compliance. I have 14 points on why it's hard.
I have been tinkering with the vanilla source code of Wolfenstein 3D from 1992. Even though it is more than 20 years old and has rotten for modern systems, you can still compile it if you recreate the environment. All you need is :
