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New comment by wizzledonker in "Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft"

wizzledonker — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:55:26 +0000

Slightly unrelated: are the OCCT unfolding components a paid add on or included in the open source distribution?

New comment by wizzledonker in "FreeCAD v1.1"

wizzledonker — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:16:14 +0000

I don't necessarily agree in this case - OCCT is more than capable for what FreeCAD is offering. Add to that the development trajectory of OCCT also seems to be really taking off recently (with the 8.0-RC, they've re-worked how all B-Spline algorithms work, with implications for all operations).

New comment by wizzledonker in "It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]"

wizzledonker — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:38:29 +0000

That would require calibration with the camera, and even then the camera and lidar sensor can’t be in exactly the same place. I doubt results would be better.

New comment by wizzledonker in "The Codex App"

wizzledonker — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:45:49 +0000

I'm so confused. Sentry is a native client crash reporting tool. What does this have to do with MCP or the LLM itself? Do you mean when interpreting the crash data?

New comment by wizzledonker in "The Codex App"

wizzledonker — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:40:30 +0000

Qt is not a horrible mess to use, the problem is just people don't bother to learn any tech stack outside web. It's so obvious that this is the issue to anybody who actually does native development.

New comment by wizzledonker in "The Codex App"

wizzledonker — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:38:54 +0000

Qt with QML works fine. The real reason is that companies can't hire enough native developers because the skill is comparitively rare.

New comment by wizzledonker in "Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files"

wizzledonker — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:49:45 +0000

Only if they work in a fundamentally different manner. We can't solve that problem the way we are building LLMs now.

New comment by wizzledonker in "Writing a good Claude.md"

wizzledonker — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:29:18 +0000

Definitely a good one - probably one of the best CLAUDE.md files you can put in any repository if you care about your project at all.

New comment by wizzledonker in "Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux"

wizzledonker — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:53:18 +0000

After a cursory glance at commit messages, looks like most of it.

Like all AI co-authored code it’s a matter of time before this becomes unmaintainable and abandoned.

New comment by wizzledonker in "Pomelli"

wizzledonker — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 02:12:36 +0000

The reason most creative media is good is because you see the vision of a creative team or individual.

If the vision is diluted due to lack of control afforded by AI tools, then the tools won’t be used.

Many times in Hollywood have we seen directors spend unjustifiable amounts of money in the pursuit of creative control.

Hand camera tracking a dinosaur in Jurassic Park, developing a novel diffraction algorithm for THE ABYSS, hand-drawing 3-Dimensional computer animations for 2001, creating an entire scale model practically for a single fight scene in LOTR.

AI allows you to get anything. The best movies are a direct reflection of a particular vision. AI can’t provide this and I see no way to solve it.

A natural response is - well directors already outsource some creative control to VFX artists so why not to a machine instead.

Because an artist can control everything. Even if the artist is prompting a model, at the end of the day an artist can drill right down to the tooling itself (photoshop for example) and exactly achieve the vision.

I don’t see AI achieving this granularity while maintaining its utility. It’s a sliding scale of trading utility as a time saving device for control.

If you lean too far to the control side, well you might as well fire up photoshop. If you lean too much to the utility side, you sacrifice creative control.

When looked at under this lens the utility of AI generation is actually limited as it solves a non existent problem. One can think of it as an additional piece of tooling for use only as a generational tool where there is less need for control, such as for background characters.

The team at Red Barrels, for example, train a local model on their own artwork to automatically generate variant textures for map generation. Things such as this. No need to be doom and gloom about this stuff.

New comment by wizzledonker in "Debunking HDR [video]"

wizzledonker — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 23:40:04 +0000

If you watch a little further until about 20 minutes what follows is an explanation of what the primaries represent (described by you as “colorspace coordinates”) along with a reasonable simplification of what a transfer function is, describing it as part of the colorspace. I believe that’s reasonable? He merely explains Rec. 2100 as if using the PQ transfer function is innate. Definitely all seems appropriate and well presented for the target audience.

New comment by wizzledonker in "Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh"

wizzledonker — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:39:00 +0000

I’ve seen skeuomorphic designs done with vector art, surely this can’t be the only/real reason.

New comment by wizzledonker in "Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD application"

wizzledonker — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 22:06:58 +0000

Just because I’m curious, why the issue with reading GPL code? My understanding is that you would have to essentially directly copy and paste the code for the GPL license to apply to it.

New comment by wizzledonker in "Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust"

wizzledonker — Thu, 29 May 2025 00:46:49 +0000

Then I’d say just pick the one you are most familiar with

New comment by wizzledonker in "Hotspot: Linux `perf` GUI for performance analysis"

wizzledonker — Thu, 22 May 2025 13:24:40 +0000

This is a fantastic tool and I recommend it! I use it every day to recursively solve bottlenecks in our code base.

New comment by wizzledonker in "GIMP 3.0"

wizzledonker — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:30:09 +0000

It's genuinely not that bad

New comment by wizzledonker in "Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux"

wizzledonker — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:48:09 +0000

Are you talking heavily templated C++ code as well? I’ve got my suspicions about how much this affects things…

New comment by wizzledonker in "Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux"

wizzledonker — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:39:32 +0000

Yea, our software stack pulls many dependencies (our software probably totals over 200k loc). We depend on Qt, OpenCASCADE, and a few other heavy C++ Libraries. Stepping over a single line of code in GDB using the TUI can take 3-5 seconds in the worst case. I’ve been meaning to investigate or profile it further when I get the time, but it functionally means I avoid using the debugger except as a “last resort”, or only using it to catch segfaults or unhandled exceptions.

It’s very odd. It’s like it doesn’t cache something and ends up doing some strange expensive symbol search every time it hits a breakpoint or something.

Curious if anyone has a good solution to this also

New comment by wizzledonker in "Copy and Paste context menu entries sometimes disabled when they should not be"

wizzledonker — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 01:02:18 +0000

I can reproduce. Firefox 127.0 under wayland, arch linux

New comment by wizzledonker in "ClangQL: A tool to run SQL-like query on C/C++ Code"

wizzledonker — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 06:59:56 +0000

Yours actually looks useful for my use case (remote debugging wrappers)

The schema of the linked post doesn't look useful to me at all haha