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I am curious what kind of plasma is used, as there are many ways to create plasma under various conditions, with very different efficiencies, selectivity, yield, etc. Among the wor…

> the common usage connotation of “renewable energy “ today is “wind and solar” Hydro, wind and solar. Hydro is often even more important because it runs more steadily than the oth…

> [1] and [2] sound similar to what you are describing. They still involve triangulating the shape, but the triangulation process seems much simpler Yes, they describe one variatio…

> It avoids the issue of a winding number by assuming there's only 1 bezier curve per triangle The original paper did assume no overlap yes. But that is not how anybody would imple…

I think it is limited to integral quadratic bezier curves, which is sufficient for text rendering. But general purpose vector graphics almost certainly want rational cubic bezier c…

There are two ways to get winding numbers and then decide on filled or empty by some rule like non-zero or even-odd: a) The winding number of a point is the number of intersections…

John Lin used to work on such an engine where all voxels stay axis and grid aligned, even in animations: https://x.com/ProgrammerLin/status/1342786223811698688 https://voxely.net/b…

> I Think that DoS needs to stop being considered a vulnerability Strongly disagree. While it might not matter much in some / even many domains, it absolutely can be mission critic…

Really depends: In some areas it is quite advanced (rendering) and in others it is lacking / underdeveloped (editors / tooling). But there is an incredible amount of progress and a…

> The thing is that I myself don't even know what I want to do with it. Embrace the next challenge: Instead of roads on parabolic (Euclidean) geometry, have roads on elliptic (non-…

Another point in case: Life only exists in liquids, not in solids (too much structure) and not in gases (too much chaos). In fact one could argue that this is a definition of an in…

Yes, using mlx-audio. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46726440

> but [analytic anti-aliasing (aaa)] also has much better quality than what can be practically achieved with supersampling What this statement is missing is that aaa coverage is im…

For everybody claiming that locomotion without the impulse of a reaction mass is impossible: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09740v2 and before anybody only reads "spacetime curvature" …

> I honestly cant't think of any good examples where game mechanics and stories interacted in a way that gave you significant agency while still being fun. I'd love to be given con…

Not yet, I agree, but who is to say they couldn't? Limiting life to cell based biology is a somewhat lousy definition by the only example we know. I prefer the generalized definiti…

Yep, stroking is just filling of the space between offset curves (aka. parallel curves), and that "slightly scaled down version of the first" is the "calculate an offset curve expl…

> The distance is only irrelevant for plain 2D text rendering, right? Yes, as I said it is relevant for text rendering, but not necessarily 2D. It can also be embedded in a 3D pers…

> "a³-bcd ≤ 0" formula These are the coefficients of the implicit curve, finding them can be done once upfront. For integral quadratic bezier curves that is trivial as they are con…

> The next step is to work with chains of Bézier curves to make up complex shapes (such as font glyphs). It will lead us to build a signed distance field. This is not trivial at al…

Not just land and natural resources: All means of production, including infrastructure, intellectual property, capital, the entire economy.

Relevant "The Better Boarding Method Airlines Won't Use" by CGP Grey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo

Could be formed by viscous fingering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdwSMytC7y4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffman%E2%80%93Taylor_instabi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT5oMBN5W5M

Another similar data structure which has a balanced tree (instead of a list) that references array segments is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure) Its main adva…