Takiwa

PA46 tailwheel mod

xrchris.com/39-2/

Be less creepy with technology

Nobody had an app to view gaussian splats on visionOS that works with Open With and generates thumbnails, gotta do everything in this house smh

woah

Splatland.

The twitching bodies are creepy.

splat.land

I want to do motion prediction once I can find a good freely licensed database, but ragdolls are definitely an important part of it.

I have such a high frame rate that I want to do motion matching. Has anyone got a good motion matching database trained for mixamo rigs?

Building a MMO engine on Flecs. Runs nice at 69hz.

I think I worked out how to vibe code. You gotta get reaaaal relaxed so you can review the code but not write the code.

I really liked the ChatGPT 4o they released last week and it sucks they rolled it back. :(

I'm booked to go to Paris, Milan and New York later in the year on a work trip - but I honestly would rather spend that time down at Westport driving the ute or working on my PPL.

Being Autistic is awesome for my finances, but sucks for being a fancy traveller man.

When I was first building voxels, I could always top up flagging motivation on a long work day by daydreaming about fast cars I'd buy one day.

That hack no longer works and I had to shift the goal posts.

SYNCHROTRON.

Bens first law of robot ethics:

"No bot or human shall devise a test that distinguishes bots from humans"

Been playing with the Analog Rytm lately. The pads are quite hard, but I forgot how lovely the elektron workflow is, and the sound engine is amazing (once you remember to turn up the drive).

I did my first solo flight on Saturday.

I had an extra cool voice on when I advised I would be making a full stop (to drop off my instructor). After landing my circuit, the tower congratulated me. My voice broke when I said thank you to them.

2 years work.

Going to Openstar on Monday to see some friends and serve at their HTS windings. There's a bit of a HTS scene in Poneke, which gives me hope for success at building my synchrotron.

The last 3 days:

* Drifting the caravan
* Jumping the ute
* Burnouts in the mini
* Wheelies in the tractor

Then I'm off to CERN next month. #bogan

Had a beautiful few days in Westport.

I'm excited for the Navion to get here. It is all steam gauges and is beautiful, but I hope to get some GI275 avionics in it and a GFC 500 with field approval.

And a CD300 one day. 😅

I am slowly working on my direct air capture plant; I have a neat plan to 3d print zeolite into a matrix using a ceramic 3d printer.

It’s so hot tonight. It’s the middle of autumn. I always feel worse about global warming in winter. In summer it’s easy to forget.

In winter you’re constantly reminded.

It’s funny to miss the cold.

I found this neat proposal for a 12GeV proton synchrotron.

inspirehep.net/files/8f02a3...

This weekend:

I want to build a proton synchrotron of ~12GeV. I think it will be the largest privately funded synchrotron.

I've got monitor audio bx5s at the office and a pair at home. The office has a giant triad gold subwoofer - but the speakers run off a class-d reciever.

The speakers at home run off a class-a/b rotel integrated amplifier and they go so much harder.

This could be trigger by chinese regulatory reform to make their equity markets more singapore-like. I'm following news about Wu Qing to see if there are any indications this may happen.

I think theres a new 2008 financial crisis coming.

2008 US Mortgage Debt $12T
2025 US Visible Corporate Debt $14T

The key word here is visible. There is unreported bank exposure which you can get some visibility on with $BKLN and CDX IG vs HY spreads.

I acted as a support person for an acquaintance today. It was about 3 hours at the local medical center, then an emergency referral to the hospital for followup.

X is anxious of visiting the city and on the drive in they abused me and I had to leave and recommend they get another advocate.

😢

We've got a cool version of Sudoku running on the TDeck. #meshpunks