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69 | 17 | |
3,008 | 2,325 | |
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7.2 | 9.5 | |
8 days ago | 6 days ago | |
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solvespace
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Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?
Can second this!
However, I would recommend https://solvespace.com! It hits a sweet spot between features vs complexity/learning effort.
- My favorite code comment/rant
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Why large companies and fast-moving startups are banning merge commits
We use rebase on solvespace, along with sensible squashing so most commits along master are pretty self contained. You can see the clean history here:
https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/commits/master/
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A one line code change inside iOS made me waste 5 minutes
I changed a behavior to the "more standard" one because it felt obviously right. This was a 3 line change. But the was enough backlash right there in the pull request. So I spent a couple hours remembering how to add a configuration option to keep the old way for those guys:
https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/pull/1425
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RattleCAD
> If you like Linkage, you might also like Solvespace.
No, I mean Brent Curry's Linkage[1] bicycle design software, not David Rector's Linkage Mechanism Designer and Simulator[2].
You should read Wikipedia article.[0]
N.B. About SolveSpace, as I'm its experienced user[youtube,patreon], I may say next: yes, it could be used for bike mockup, as any other CAD, but it still has a lot of limitations and even does not export correct STEP files yet[3], and in FreeCAD such STEP could fixed only partially.[video]
So, for serious 3D CAD work I highly recommend use FreeCAD (and LibreCAD for 2D CAD work) instead of SolveSpace, and use SolveSpace only as a helper tool like a calc or as a notepad for noting ideas.
About Linkage Mechanism Designer and Simulator, it is only useful for planar (2D) kinematics analyze, and if You are looking an alternative for it take a look on Pyslvs[4], that is in part based on SolveSpace's solver.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rattleCAD#History
[1] https://bikechecker.com/
[2] https://blog.rectorsquid.com/linkage-mechanism-designer-and-...
[3] https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/206
[4] https://github.com/KmolYuan/Pyslvs-UI
[video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3LJMeqUDrU
[youtube] https://www.youtube.com/@appsoft
[patreon] https://patreon.com/app4soft
- SolveSpace has been ported to Qt
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Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?
C++ this file covers all the math for working with NURBS curves and surfaces:
https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/blob/master/src/srf...
There is a lot more in other files - triangulation, booleans, creation - but the core math functions are there in very readable form.
- My favorite rant in a code comment (on OpenGL compatibility)
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The Great CPU Stagnation
>> Maybe somebody has statistical survey of how much of the existing deployed CPU core count is typically used?
My guess is very few cores are used on average. I did some testing with Solvespace to see which build options contributed most to performance:
https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/972
Obviously using OpenMP for multi-core was the big win. But what's not shown is that in typical usage (not the test I ran) if you're dragging some geometry around it will use all cores (in my case 4 cores / 8 threads) at about 50 percent utilization. That percentage probably drops as more cores are thrown at it due to Amdahl's Law. In other words, throwing double the cores at it will give a good boost to a lot of code that is already taking less than half the time (wall clock time, not CPU time).
We added OpenMP to a number of functions for significant performance gains. And in fact, any remining single-thread operation that gets the parallel treatment is likely to have a significant impact on overall performance since that is where most of the time is spent now. At this point we're more focused on features and bugs.
Algorithmic improvements are possible and I'd like to do those in the future, but they are much harder to do than sprinkling some #pragmas around critical loops. That will improve the scalability though, where multithreading really did not.
- Free, mac compatible, relatively easy CAD/CAM software?
FS2
- Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?
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The Great Concurrency Smackdown: ZIO versus JDK by John A. De Goes
Recently, CE3 has had similar issues reported across multiple repositories, almost an epidemic of reports!
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Parallel streaming in Haskell: Part 1 – Fast, efficient, and fun
Thanks for the explanation!
So it's pull based and not push based like most other streams lib.
Does maybe someone know how this compares to FS2 or Iteratees than? (Both are also pull based streaming solutions).
https://fs2.io/#/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iteratee
Looks quite similar to me. Is the Scala FS2 lib maybe even a clones of the Haskell solution? Or are they different in important aspects?
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Grasping the concepts and getting them down to earth
Most important/known: * https://http4s.org/ - an HTTP client/server * https://github.com/typelevel/fs2 - streaming * https://github.com/tpolecat/doobie - JDBC
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Should I Move From PHP to Node/Express?
On the contrary, switching to the functional mindset, with something like Typelevel Scala3 and respective cats and cats-effect fs2 frameworks, helps to rethink a lot of designs and development approaches.
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Is Scala a good choice for a data intensive web backend?
fs2 for streaming.
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Is “Functional Programming in Scala” 1st edition still relevant?
Finally, the last chapter has been rewritten to be based on some of the main design ideas from FS2 (https://fs2.io), which I hope will be more approachable than the 1st edition.
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FS2 stream doesn't work as I expect it to
Just to clarify, is your doubt about the meaning of the api, or do you think you have found a bug? In either case, you can also open a Github discussion https://github.com/typelevel/fs2/discussions.
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How to update and access state that needs to be shared across multiple API endpoints with FP?
Another more reactive solution would to use signals, as in FPR sinal network. fs2 implements this very nicely here https://github.com/typelevel/fs2/blob/8b285a6b54c63d43ed6aa3bb91365652035c90e5/core/shared/src/main/scala/fs2/concurrent/Signal.scala
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Introducing effects systems S.A. ZIO at work?
Assuming the bug mentioned here is https://github.com/typelevel/fs2/issues/2568, we came up with a partial fix in a day (https://github.com/typelevel/fs2/pull/2569) and a complete fix in 2 days: https://github.com/typelevel/fs2/pull/2572. Note the original bug was opened on a Saturday. :)
What are some alternatives?
cadquery - A python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT
cats-effect - The pure asynchronous runtime for Scala
Autodesk-Fusion-360-for-Linux - This is a project, where I give you a way to use Autodesk Fusion 360 on Linux!
Diffy
blender-cad-tools - a collection of Blender addons to make CAD design with Blender even more enjoyable
Http4s - A minimal, idiomatic Scala interface for HTTP
FreeCAD_assembly3 - Experimental attempt for the next generation assembly workbench for FreeCAD
ScalaMock - Native Scala mocking framework
LibreCAD - LibreCAD is a cross-platform 2D CAD program written in C++17. It can read DXF/DWG files and can write DXF/PDF/SVG files. It supports point/line/circle/ellipse/parabola/spline primitives. The user interface is highly customizable, and has dozens of translations.
ScalaTest - A testing tool for Scala and Java developers
DesignSpark-Mechanical-for-Linux
ScalaMeter - Microbenchmarking and performance regression testing framework for the JVM platform.