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__grob

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About __grob

Software engineer at NASA ARC working on SHERPA and VIPER lunar rover mission planning. Founder of SpinAttack Studio, LLC making video games.

I love graphics, simulations, AI (LLM and classical), etc.

https://groverburger.xyz

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    Glad you enjoyed the technical postmortem! I agree with what you said, but I think it's reductive for a few reasons: - It was (and still is) amazing to me that GPT Image 2.0 was th…

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    Let me know how it goes!

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    Comment #47391199

    Neat! Glad it's a cognate for cool words haha :)

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    Very actively developing this project, so hopefully it'll become a suitable replacement relatively soon. Please open GitHub issues or PRs if you have specific requests, happy to he…

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    Haha glad it brought back fond memories! Grob is just the nickname of my username GroverBurger. Fun coincidence.

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    Comment #47384531

    Yep, magic wand already exists with contiguous/global toggle and tolerance slider. : )

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    Comment #46769773

    It still amazes me that so many people can see LLMs writing code as anything less than a miracle in computing...

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    This is sick, loved the 2swap video on this. Happy to see more content visualizing lambda calculus and Tromp lambda diagrams.

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    This is so cool to see. Saw tons of Waymo in LA/Santa Monica area when I was there in October. Very excited to see them expand basically all through SoCal!

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    Thanks! I appreciate the kind words. I didn't get around to that because my monitor is not amazingly wide (mainly using a laptop :P). Thanks for the feedback though, I may add that…

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    Show HN: Dead-Simple HTML5 Markdown Editor/Viewer

    Made a super simple vanilla JS/HTML5 markdown editor/viewer recently, just wanted the basics and especially to be able to hit CTRL-P and print the resulting HTML nicely or save to …

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    This is a fantastic release, been looking forward to --trim since the 2024 JuliaCon presentation. All of the other features look like fantastic QoL additions too - especially redef…

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    This is so exciting! Been waiting for this for years, very interested to see what people can do with this

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    Comment #44807654

    Cool, I had a very similar idea recently, awesome to see it live! Congrats!

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    Comment #44540273

    I know Berkeley Mono when I see it! My go-to terminal font for coming up on three years. Automatically gets me pumped about this conference.

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    Comment #44166046

    Using Devin's DeepWiki for the docs page gives me an uneasy feeling. I would rather have real docs.

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    I use Perplexity as my daily driver and it seems to be pretty good at piecing together the path forward from documentation as it has that built-in web search when you ask a questio…