Rantenki

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by Rantenki 2mo ago
Nice! I'm surprised how snappy this browser editor is, especially once I start doing really tiny, like 0.3mm large maze fills and other tricky stuff. I do a lot of generative art (not AI) stuff, and have a plotter lib for rust based pl
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by Rantenki 3mo ago
Is it that they are copying existing stuff, or that success is biased to the attempts at something that has a lot of existing examples to plagiarise? I would propose that plenty of people are trying to use LLMs to build unique new projects,
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by Rantenki 3mo ago
I used svg2polylines to load the SVG into line segments, interpolating any splines into something easier to use for a plotter. Feel free to take a look at the core/project/import.rs in the project I linked. You might also want to
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by Rantenki 3mo ago
I am inordinately amused by the fact that Microsoft's Github has suspended access by Microsoft's Azure (and anyone else) to their Microsoft code-base because of a TOS violation. Really drives home this org chart: https:/&#x2
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by Rantenki 3mo ago
I wrote a pen-plotter GUI and gcode sender in Rust. By hand. Like an animal. I am the only user. Sometimes it's the process that matters, and exercising your brain is important too. I get that there is a lot of existential dread around
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by Rantenki 4mo ago
/me looks at the `build.rs` file in my Rust's project's `Cargo.toml` and laughs nervously... (For non Rustaceans: "Placing a file named build.rs in the root of a package will cause Cargo to compile that script and execut
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by Rantenki 4mo ago
It would absolutely have been valid to ask that question of the inventor of the tractor too. It's even more relevant to ask of the CEO/CTO/COO/etc. of the companies that are selling hard on eliminating humans from as man
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by Rantenki 5mo ago
If a headline asks a question, the answer is always "NO". Ahhh crap.
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by Rantenki 6mo ago
While I am sure there are stylistic reasons for using that color, there is another common reason why you see blue-green colors in paint, especially in older industrial environments: zinc chromate/phosphate corrosion protective coatings
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by Rantenki 7mo ago
To clarify my thinking on this, I don't expect that we are going to end up in an air OR land war with the USA anytime soon (and honestly hope we won't). I do expect that Trump, for as long as he occupies office, is going to exploi
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by Rantenki 7mo ago
Canada shouldn't buy the F35. The Saab is a less capable plane, for sure, but it doesn't leave Canada (and it's defense) dependent on the US at a time when the president is openly floating the idea of "acquiring" Ca
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by Rantenki 8mo ago
I am somewhat confused by this post. If the AI assistant is doing such a bad job that it lights up the linting tool, and further, is incapable of processing the lint output to fix the issues, then... maybe the AI tool is the problem? If I h
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by Rantenki 1y ago
This paper runs very parallel to Dunning-Kruger, and it's surprising that nobody here has commented on it (although the paper itself DOES reference Dunning-Kruger). It's a bit sad, really. When you realize that most people that bu
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by Rantenki 1y ago
That 68k/yr wage only sounds good if you're still thinking in circa year 2000 dollars. Nobody is making the mortgage on a house on 68k/year, and they're not starting a happy family if they have to do 20+hrs/week ove
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by Rantenki 2y ago
BBC is reporting that the Army has confirmed that it was a UH-60, not a VH-60, ie: not a VIP transport: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cy7kxx74yxlt?post=asset%3A62b9... Although it's early on and these communi
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by Rantenki 2y ago
Executive whose dominance is dependent on a moat (cost of training large models), points out the importance of that moat... Of _course_ he wants to discourage competitors, but that is PR, not technical commentary.
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by Rantenki 2y ago
The problem with LLMs as a replacement for StackOverflow (and any other peer reviewed Q/A site) is that the LLM has, shocker, no peer review. Combined with the fact that the user has insufficient expertise to adequately vet the respons
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by Rantenki 2y ago
As a comparison, here's the "Why RON" for the native RON/Rust format: Note the following advantages of RON over JSON: * trailing commas allowed * single- and multi-line comments * field names aren't quoted,
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by Rantenki 2y ago
This study doesn't propose anything that can actually move the needle for food security. It requires animal based feedstock for the Pythons, which kills the efficiency claims because you need to grow an animal of mass X in order to obt
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by Rantenki 3y ago
New car reliability measured in warranty returns per vehicle is much WORSE over the last few years than 15 years ago. Turning your nose up at the 15 year old Toyota is probably making a choice to be _less_safe, since at least the old Toyota
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by Rantenki 3y ago
If you're on a 737-max-anything, then worry a _tiny_ bit, otherwise, no. All their other planes have excellent safety records. For comparison, Russia had a 2.29 fatal accidents/million departures safety rating in 2021, which is te
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by Rantenki 3y ago
> A switch on a wall with an arduino in it where you flip it and DNS is updated to point there & a message is displayed to the users. If you want a Klugey non-production IoT solution that bodges up something really important THESE da
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by Rantenki 3y ago
We upgrade our distros pretty much fearlessly, all the time. While I have had breakage from Kernel upgrades, they've been very rare (and generally related to third party closed drivers). Kubernetes is _not_ more complicated than the Li
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by Rantenki 3y ago
Not sure I trust these guys to do long term support, even after they promise it: https://killedbygoogle.com/ Hell, I don't even trust that they'll still own/maintain _Android_ in 7 years.
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by Rantenki 3y ago
I never mentioned reinforcement learning, and my DK statement was completely around using flawed fonts for graphic design, etc. My partner _is_ a professional graphic designer, and we _have_ seen some pretty terrible client graphics that ca
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by Rantenki 3y ago
OK, that's cool, but those fonts are all terrible. The serifs are all different sizes and shapes, sometimes on the same letter. The kerning looks like a random walk. The stroke widths are all over the place, and/or the hinting is
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by Rantenki 3y ago
It's a neat thought experiment, but the underlying assumption: The world's energy consumption was about 5.67x1020 Joules in 2013.[18] This number has increased by more than 2% per year on average in the last 50 years. The aver
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by Rantenki 3y ago
This is hardly a new problem though. Thieves used to be able to pull the wires from under the steering column and start a car. For the more serious attacks mentioned, the automakers are essentially saying that they build extremely vulnerabl
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by Rantenki 3y ago
That doesn't return your money to you like the credit card though. The irreversibility 'feature' of most cryptocurrencies makes it really hard to recover funds stolen through fraud... I guess that is a desirable feature for a
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by Rantenki 3y ago
>They could just have operators translate the configs automatically on the fly How do they test that across the infinite number of permutations of configurations and deployments of K8S in the field though? It'll work for some people

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