brian-armstrong

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by brian-armstrong 7d ago
Ah, in that case, you would certainly be excused for trying to kill one or two of them.
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by brian-armstrong 23d ago
The people who still use Windows yet complain about this are quite confusing to me. There's been every indication that it will keep going like this for years now, and the cost of switching is just not that high. If you're still ri
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by brian-armstrong 27d ago
Is this related to the streaming service of the same name?
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by brian-armstrong 1mo ago
Interesting. I'll have to give it a try. If I understand your suggestion, you're saying that rather than doing 2 lookups for logs, then an addition, and then another lookup to exp back, we could just precompute the whole thing for
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by brian-armstrong 1mo ago
Oh! Gotcha! I put a table in the README that lays it all out https://github.com/brian-armstrong/fec#performance tldr: My library matches or beats libfec's SSE2 assembly for convolutional codes and pretty steadily
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by brian-armstrong 1mo ago
I used the benchmarking binaries that ship with libfec. My own crate has a libfec-compatible C shim, so I can link the benchmark against the Rust crate. The benchmark itself reports time spent for a given number of iterations, so the throug
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by brian-armstrong 1mo ago
You could certainly call this crate through a shim in goestools but you'd have to add a Rust dependency. But you could also rewrite goestools in Rust, though it wouldn't be a small undertaking. This crate does have everything you&
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Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust(github.com)
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by brian-armstrong 2mo ago
The models would have to get significantly better for this to help, though. Unedited LLM dialog is quite bad. Though, I wouldn't put it past AAAs to try anyway.
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by brian-armstrong 3mo ago
I read these stories and I can never figure out how people are managing to use these $200 plans. If I really go full bore, I can sometimes max out the $20 plan. Even then, it already produces more code than I can reasonably review and merge
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by brian-armstrong 3mo ago
Absolutely. Let them fend for themselves in the streets.
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by brian-armstrong 4mo ago
Yikes. That's a car that looks like it gets its lunch money taken by the other cars.
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by brian-armstrong 4mo ago
It's good, but you still have to pay monthly for it. Feels like it kind of defeats the point of having a local collection.
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by brian-armstrong 5mo ago
What? Most (all?) platforms let you opt out of this, and you receive payment when your shares are borrowed. And shares are fungible, how would it matter if one share is borrowed by 10 people or by none?
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by brian-armstrong 5mo ago
Not comparable at all. Xbox would be mostly transient traffic. It's probably not much more than packet forwarding for a lot of traffic. Github is a giant complicated stateful mess with a lot of reads and writes. It also has a lot of fe
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by brian-armstrong 5mo ago
Why would you ever accept a mismatched certificate? Even assuming that you think your ISP has no nefarious plans, are you going to be able to rigorously confirm it's their certificate? At that point you've bypassed all the mecha
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by brian-armstrong 5mo ago
Or the Cinco Encyclopedia of Numbers https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZI3QxgjLGbQ Thanks, Cinco
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by brian-armstrong 5mo ago
It'd be nice if AI-written articles had an [AI] after the headline
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by brian-armstrong 6mo ago
What kind of self-disrespecting dev is using MacOS in TYOOL 2026?
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by brian-armstrong 7mo ago
It seems unlikely that "is user adult" is not already easily modeled by any of these companies to within a very high degree of confidence. Even 15 or 20 years ago Google search could bracket your age pretty effectively. It doesn&#
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by brian-armstrong 8mo ago
Location: SF / Remote Remote: Mostly (Open to 0 - 3 days/wk in office) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, Elixir, Typescript, Python Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-armstrong-sf/ Ema
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by brian-armstrong 8mo ago
You don't really need Windows for gaming anymore unless you're playing the games that absolutely insist on kernel-level anti-cheat. Proton is extremely good on Linux these days.
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by brian-armstrong 9mo ago
https://archive.ph/g1a1X
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by brian-armstrong 10mo ago
Location: SF / Remote Remote: Mostly (Open to 0 - 3 days/wk in office) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, Elixir, Typescript, Python Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-armstrong-sf/ Ema
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by brian-armstrong 10mo ago
I'm curious, how did you make it this far in life without realizing that paint is delicate and scratches easily? Do you have untreated brick walls in your house or something?
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by brian-armstrong 10mo ago
It would surely depend on the SSD and the firmware it's running. I don't think you can entirely count on it. Even if it were working perfectly, and your strategy was to power the SSD on periodicially to refresh the cells, how woul
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by brian-armstrong 10mo ago
It's quite possible. Some SSDs are worse offenders for this than others. I have some Samsung 870 EVOs that lost data the way you described. Samsung knew about the issue and quietly swept it under the rug with a firmware update, but onc
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by brian-armstrong 10mo ago
Powering the SSD on isn't enough. You need to read every bit occasionally in order to recharge the cell. If you have them in a NAS, then using a monthly full volume check is probably sufficient.
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by brian-armstrong 10mo ago
As long as the car is dirty, then contact with it can damage the top coat. This is a lot more true if you need to drag or scrape the magnet to remove it.
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by brian-armstrong 10mo ago
Decided to scratch up some peoples' clear coats for a little science experiment?

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