And sidecar would not work over vpn

This looks aesthetically pleasing but this is not ASCII Art it seems, where’s ascii? All those differently sized dots are not ascii chars, are they? Perhaps this is unicode-art?

There are lots in there with proper ASCII check out https://ascii.rest/julia-set/ for example

Your point is valid, I just want to add that deriving ASCII versions of them should be trivial as ASCII already has dots of different pitch, etc.

The point is that what you've described is no longer a useful definition of "ASCII art". That's now "art with dots". The fact that it's "technically" ASCII is as irrelevant as it is unimpressive.

"ASCII art", defined honestly, means "limited set ASCII art".

Please, go right ahead and make your own trueascii.rest and show it to the class.

If you insist:

https://github.com/garciahurtado/ascii-art-studio

Where's yours?

This isn't ascii art either, since nearly all of the information is in the color. This is, what we used to call, ANSI art [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art

Well, it's technically PETSCII art, but the model can be trained on any bitmap charset. So you can make ATARIART or SPECCYART or whatever.

It's not correct to say that most of the information is in the color, though.

I can't remember if it's explained in the readme or not, but what makes this different from other converters is that it matches 1bit 8x8 blocks from the source image to the best matching character, increasing the perceived resolution of the output image.

It's a dumb idea I wanted to implement to amuse myself, and it's not better or worse than any similar tools, but AFAIK it uses a novel approach: fast by using a custom trained NN and uniquely looking output, similar to what a human artist might create by hand.

For no particular reason I will share with you my favorite by an unknown artist.

____\o/______/\__

It's called Help shark.

Reminiscent of Frank Zappa's album "Ship_Arriving_Too_Late_to_Save_a_Drowning_Witch"

    ---7
       /
      /
     /        /\
    /________/  \__

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_Arriving_Too_Late_to_Save...

from the WP article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droodles Interesting!

I love how prepared for this you were.

You're asking for the impossible!

Fwiw diagram renders OKay in Brave on iOS

This is interesting sloproject but in spite of all verbosity I still didn’t parse how do you interface with it when it’s running on intended hw rather than in browser.

It needs a USB audio interface. Looks like USB Audio Class 2 interface is the go. There are a couple specific models listed.

https://github.com/dashersw/coyopedal/blob/main/docs/USB_AUD...

I was wondering how they got any usable latency with esp32. External adc/dac card- okay

Has one been built ? Not clear from the docs

ESP32-S3 is a great USB host. I have a custom version where I use a Daisy Seed 3 as the ADC/DAC (it uses I2S for audio, not USB) that I built with around 4ms total latency. If you turn off the amp model (which is pointless, but) it's around 2.6ms. I also patched the iRig HD X firmware so its analog latency is around 1.2ms, practically achieving the same performance as the custom Daisy Seed 3 interface.

Hmmm. I wonder if it will work with the USB-C guitar cable I have here…

For 1000w draw it also generates almost as much heat, is your math including all the cooling required?

Moving 1000W of heat generation takes way less than 1000W.

Hyperscaler PUE (which includes cooling, power conversion, etc) is typically 1.10-1.15, so multiply 1.5% by 1.1.

The person you replied to already mentioned cooling and multiplied by 1.67 to cover ancillary uses.

Going landscape seems to be a bit better..

Nit: TALA could be another layout engine for graphviz but its not a format itself (I suggested this in comments above). Graphviz also doesn’t imply specific layout unless you mean “dot” that is default. So conversion is somewhat undefined. Maybe you mean graphviz language to d2, afaik there is no official, 100% loss-less automatic translator because of some subtle differences in these declarative languages

Would integrating/implementing this into graphviz be a good move or mixing wrong things?

The funny thing is that these days they would make it a lot worse with LLMs, perhaps post lots of wins on LinkedIn too. It’s not impossible to steer that ship but it’s never gonna be one shotted in “do refactor, make no mistake” way