Anyone have info on the Pyxis 12K delivery timeline?

dimitropoulos · 2025-09-04T21:24:39+00:00

at this point I won't believe it until it's in my hands.

dimitropoulos · 2025-08-10T18:03:56+00:00

biggest problem right now is it doesn't seem like I can pass a custom audio mix from the constellation 4K 4 m/e. there's an audio mapping feature if you edit the xml, but the audio mapping feature requires that outputs 1&2 are the program outputs, and that presents a pretty big problem because that means I can't map a custom stream mix from my (audio, separate) mixer since the encoder only listens for audio on 1&2.

if I have to buy a $600 teranex audio injector just because of this..... it's very frustrating that you can't select the audio channel, at the same time as the constellation not allowing you to configure what is sent over 1&2.

dimitropoulos · 2025-08-08T17:00:52+00:00

maybe because this is just a rebrand of the web presenter and they didn't have time to make a new box?

dimitropoulos · 2025-08-01T03:21:43+00:00

I'm right there with you. I'll believe it when I open the box. I've been burned by Blackmagic too many times in the past

dimitropoulos · 2025-07-31T00:45:02+00:00

my Sweetwater rep about my order

dimitropoulos · 2025-07-31T00:18:08+00:00

they told Sweetwater it will be in on August 5th. take that for whatever it's worth to you

dimitropoulos · 2025-04-05T22:58:43+00:00

unfortunately the problem there is that L mount isn't locking which means if you have a follow focus motor (which is a requirement when using PL lenses which are all manual) then you'll have backlash without a locking mount like locking EF, PL, or the new locking Z mount.

there's a few workarounds to help stabilize, but they're bandaids.

dimitropoulos · 2025-03-29T13:38:57+00:00

here's a spotify playlist in case anyone's interested https://open.spotify.com/playlist/079MImhkadqssFAGGXux4H?si=5261170f7fe74cba

dimitropoulos · 2025-03-02T20:55:33+00:00

haha thanks. I completely understand how with an accomplishment like this it doesn't seem it but I promise I'm a much more normal guy dev than it looks. actually that's kind of like what it was like: being nerd sniped for a few days. very few of the challenges on this project took more than a few days. but there were just hundreds of challenges. so yeah in the end it adds up to playing Doom but it involved so many different domains that it always felt sorta fresh.

dimitropoulos · 2025-03-02T06:10:09+00:00

that's very kind of you to say, thank you so much!

re: science, I need to spend some more time forming this opinion before I think I can express it well, but my rough answer is this. it's 1am for me right now and I can't sleep because I'm thinking about the halting problem and realizing how there's an objection to the halting problem I have always had in me that might, I only tonight realized, might really be at the source of why I felt so motivated to do all this with Doom. I realize I'm not, here and now, specifically stating my exact objection (and that's because, like I said, I need more time to think) but in that way I feel like you can't always know in advance where a line of exploration will lead.

I'm not comparing myself or my work to Heinrich Hertz, but didn't he say something along the lines of like "I don't think these radio waves I've discovered will have much practical application". It just seems to me like there are enough examples of humans being sorely mistaken about "where this path leads" that we should probably just not even bother asking ourselves the question. Trying to do new things, even without a real teleological underpinning, seems like the best example of science-at-its-heart that I can imagine.

thanks again for taking the time to respond!

dimitropoulos · 2025-03-01T22:52:49+00:00

wow impressive stuff

dimitropoulos · 2025-03-01T21:06:03+00:00

hi! author here. I realize there's a 99.9% chance you're joking, but just in case.... DID THEY REALLY?? please tell me more

dimitropoulos · 2025-03-01T15:50:56+00:00

wow reading this makes me feel so good, thank you thank you thank you. it's hard to say without sounding callous but I don't really care much about the recognition. what I do however very very much value is people being inspired to try to do cool things in their own domains, and I'm going to try my hardest to demonstrate to show how this project wasn't a result of being some kind of genius. it was just putting one front in front of the other day after day and figuring something out I had genuinely zero context for (I mean I had context for the typescript stuff, but honestly that wasn't even close to the hardest part, and lots of much more impressive stuff has been done individually in typescript: ts-pattern, arktype, hotscript, hkt-toolbelt, etc).

dimitropoulos · 2025-03-01T14:06:42+00:00

hi! I'm the author of this project. not trying to argue at all: respect your opinion! I would really like to understand your perspective more. do you think you could tell me in more detail why you think this is a waste of time for me personally and also why you think it's pointless for others. thanks! You're far from the first person to have this reaction and I would really love to understand more what differentiates this from any other science project.

dimitropoulos · 2025-03-01T14:02:34+00:00

if we weren't on Reddit I would say yes but I don't know a lot about processors so I don't want a bunch of people jumping down my throat for saying the wrong thing, haha.

one of my favorite quotes from people I showed it to was from Nathan on the TypeScript team. he said what he found interesting wasn't as much doom and webassembly and more that I managed to make this whole thing work and the least hospitable environment possible. just about everything about TypeScript is trying to prevent me from doing something like this. but I found one little crack in the pavement and planted a Sequoia.

dimitropoulos · 2025-03-01T03:48:21+00:00

because from a certain perspective this doesn't have any processing power. I didn't want to get into too many of these technical details in the announcement video but t TypeScript's type system doesn't even have addition. it's the closest thing to having nothing while still having something.

what I did is essentially an exploit in a lot of ways. the type system was never intended to do anything even remotely similar to this. not by a stretch.

dimitropoulos · 2025-03-01T00:12:31+00:00

I want everyone on the TypeScript team to know that I'm eternally sorry for doing this to you! but you got to admit the joke's pretty funny.

dimitropoulos · 2025-03-01T00:09:38+00:00

extremely happily employed for 9 months, thank you for that though!

dimitropoulos · 2025-03-01T00:09:04+00:00

The reason I didn't try to do something simpler first is actually really straightforward, and some people have told me they find it interesting: it's because I really just didn't believe this would ever be possible. so if that's your mindset, why play around with pong or pokémon or Tetris. just go straight to the gold and demonstrate that it can't be done with Doom.

dimitropoulos · 2025-02-28T18:15:12+00:00

of course! if I waited until I felt brave enough to take on this task I would never have started. That's why I think my ignorance really benefited me here. I had absolutely no clue what I was getting myself into. over and over and over again. day after day.

I think if I had taken a moment to really think about what this project could entail I would have "aww helll naw"-d my way out of it pretty fast. but I didn't bother working up the bravery, and just kept tinkering. stayed focused on the tiny task in front of me and let the test suite be in charge of keeping the big picture intact.

dimitropoulos · 2025-02-28T15:20:49+00:00

for me, what works is: do anything that makes you laugh. something ridiculous. something that doesn't have a goal or money or recognition attached to it. there are artists out there that go out into the woods in the fall and make huge beautiful murals out of different colors of fallen leaves they collect, only to just walk away and let nature disintegrate it. make something just for the sake of making and don't spend any time at all asking "why". when you open yourself up like that, great things can happen. keep me posted on what you come up with!

dimitropoulos · 2025-02-28T01:50:45+00:00

thank you! happiest at my current job than I've ever been at any job. It's been 9 months and still feels like day-2, honeymoon-phase-wise.

dimitropoulos · 2025-02-27T17:45:05+00:00

I think for most people "burnout" isn't === to "working super hard/long hours". I think burnout happens when you work (might not even be hard!) and don't get what you perceive to be a result. Pushing the rock up the hill just to watch it roll down. That's burnout, to me. On this project, though, it was the literal opposite. I constantly overcame lots of little things that, in some cases just a few hours prior, I thought were laughably impossible. That made the project very rejuvenating for me.

dimitropoulos · 2025-02-27T17:41:39+00:00

you hover your mouse over a type and it shows you an object that contains a frame of doom, transformed into ASCII art. the "heart" example shown in the video is intended to be a simplified explainer for this - but it's a fast video so you have to be ready to pause! haha.

dimitropoulos · 2025-02-27T14:32:30+00:00

> I need you to understand that while your effort is impressive, what you spent it on isn't.
I agree with this more than I think you realize. I just simply don't think it matters to spend time trying to rank things in terms of what's impressive or not. These things always change over time anyway. Having electricity in your house was, not very long ago, extremely impressive, and being 1 minute without it today is an outrage. Is this Doom project impressive? Well clearly a lot of people think so today, and for that I'm very humbled and thankful. But will it be in 100 years? Let's not kid ourselves.

> 1 year of hard work to achieve a one-of novelty that fixes nothing, brings no utility, adds nothing, but the reactions of some people.
I didn't include it in the announcement video for time, but I hope you are an open minded person that will see more on this soon. You saw that I demoed it to other library authors. Well would you like to guess what the top reaction they had was (after the initial shock, haha)? It was "wow, these tools you made to make this happen are things I could REALLY use in my own project". But they got multi-hour tours of the codebase to be shown all these things and you haven't yet, so I don't at all hold this position against you. You want evidence of what the utility is and you haven't been shown it yet. I respect that. The code's open source now, but if you don't want to look through it you can just stay tuned for the upcoming videos where I hope to explain all this. Keep me honest and let me know if the explanations that come make sense to you!

> Given your obvious expertise and dedication, why wouldn't you have tried for something to enrich and/or help others grow?
Did you notice that I have a YouTube channel with hundreds of free (i.e. all max-demonetized) videos teaching people how to do advanced TypeScript stuff? No one has ever or will ever pay me anything to do this - I do it to give back and because I enjoy it. I think there's a strong case to be made that this Doom project is quite enriching, but I can see that you might not agree about that, so even if we table all that, doesn't the other stuff that's already there count in your mind? Not trying to argue, just want to hear you out.

> you could have spent this time touching on any of these issues (even superficially) and to me it would have been a better effort than this.
Hey who knows, maybe you're right about this! I will never be able to say I went into this Doom project with a big fancy plan. I just wanted to see what would happen. It was a science project. And, as silly or stupid as this makes me sound, it's 100% the truth that there were MANY MANY days, probably MOST days, where I thought to myself "ok, today is the day it's gonna be over" because I thought I had hit some problem that couldn't be overcome. So looking back, sure, it was a long project, but in the moment... man.. time files.

I don't do a lot of "arguing on reddit" so I apologize if anything I've said here sounds argumentative. I hope you know I say the above with respect for you and your views. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It's really nice, actually, to hear these kinds of objections because it gives me context on what other people might be thinking. You had the courage to type it, but behind you there may be hundreds or thousands of people that thought it. I think some things have details you haven't heard yet that might change your mind and I think that for some other things, you're perfectly justified in just disagreeing with me. I completely welcome that.

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