robertknight

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by robertknight 3mo ago
This post is full of Claude's irritating verbal ticks ("It's not X, it's Y"). It is fine to use Claude (or another LLM) to help with this kind of reverse engineering, but I would prefer the write-up be done by hand.
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by robertknight 7mo ago
This would have been more effective if written by hand. The issue content is typical LLM-generated markdown that has a lot of noise (formatting, headings, lists etc.) which makes it fatiguing to read. It comes across like a PowerPoint deck
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by robertknight 9mo ago
The major constraint is that the compiler needs to guarantee that transformations produce semantically identical results to the unoptimized code, with the exception of undefined behavior or specific opt-outs (eg. `-ffast-math` rules). An ML
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by robertknight 1y ago
The custom scroll behavior on this page is infuriating and distracts from the content. It is like scrolling in treacle. If someone who works at Microsoft sees this and is able to file an issue, could you please do so.
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by robertknight 1y ago
I've seen talks on this topic at Rust conferences which seemed strongly influenced by Swift's approach, so that will probably be the direction this ends up going in.
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by robertknight 1y ago
I use fish + atuin. I leave the "Up" arrow set to use fish's default history search (see https://docs.atuin.sh/faq/#how-do-i-remove-the-default-up-ar... ), which keeps the UI minimal when just going back
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by robertknight 1y ago
Good post! The inefficient code for comparing pairs of 16-bit integers was an interesting find.
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by robertknight 1y ago
> Does Hypothes.is have a self-hosting option? https://web.hypothes.is/sales/ The code for both the client and server are open source ( https://github.com/hypothesis/h ) so this is possible. The
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by robertknight 2y ago
One interesting thing I discovered comparing various matrix multiplication implementations used in ML libraries is that several of them (ONNX Runtime, XNNPack, any others?) skip the step, from BLIS's textbook algorithm, of packing the
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by robertknight 2y ago
For context, ultralytics is the Python package for YOLO v8 and YOLO v11, two of the most widely used object detection models. The GitHub repo has 33K stars.
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by robertknight 2y ago
A couple of suggestions: 1. Try not to stress too much. The point of review is to improve the quality of the code that lands, and the health of the codebase as a whole, not to grade the author. 2. When you think your work is ready for an in
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by robertknight 2y ago
> This effectively means that if I were to bundle ffmpeg and ffprobe executables within my app, I would have to make the app open-source as well and provide it under the same license. This is a misunderstanding of the LGPL license requir
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by robertknight 2y ago
> All Maven/PIP/NodeJS/etc. dependencies are pulled through via proxy and scanned before first use. What does the scanning process check for / which tools are used?
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by robertknight 3y ago
This is not unique to X. Windows for example uses the same kind of "HWND" object for buttons as for top-level windows. Windows doesn't have the same client/server overhead as X though. In Qt, there is an option to use ei
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by robertknight 3y ago
Tools like https://web.hypothes.is exist and have a decent number of installs. The hard part of a generic third-party commenting tool is creating the right social context for it to actually be useful. Hypothesis for example is m
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by robertknight 3y ago
You could try something like https://aws.amazon.com/textract/ or https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/handwriting . Both have support for modern handwriting. I don't know if it will work
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by robertknight 3y ago
Related to this, I recommend Felienne Hermans' talks on Excel as a functional programming language - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yKf8TrLUOw .
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by robertknight 3y ago
Other than EasyOCR and Tesseract, PaddleOCR ( https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR ) is probably the most well known open-source OCR solution. What are you planning to do with the text after detecting / recogni
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by robertknight 3y ago
In general, no. React has been around for over 10 years now, and it generally remains popular and well supported. It is not going anywhere. Some sites will choose to migrate between React and Web-components based frameworks such as Lit for
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by robertknight 3y ago
EasyOCR is a popular project if you are in an environment where you can use run Python and PyTorch ( https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR ). Other open source projects of note are PaddleOCR ( https://github.com&
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by robertknight 4y ago
> How is Netflix so blind to this? They think they will gain those recipients of shared accounts, but in reality they're losing the ones who are actually paying for it. I would guess they see it as a numbers game. Enforcing sharing
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by robertknight 4y ago
It hasn't been officially deprecated or anything like that, and it still works fine for the most part [1]. However it hasn't received a lot of active development in the last couple of years. I do think the whole concept behind Gul
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by robertknight 4y ago
> Google does it with millions of search results Google cheats, but in a way that very few users will notice. You can only access the first 20 pages of search results. Depending on user behavior, this is one way to offer navigation via p
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by robertknight 4y ago
Thanks for this test case. When I drop that image I see that the individual words are recognized correctly, but starting from about mid-way though are not displayed in the correct order in the text box at the bottom. If the image is rotated
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by robertknight 4y ago
If you want to OCR a document image, modern versions of Tesseract can work well. If you last used it a few years ago, the recognition has improved since due to a new text recognition algorithm that uses modern (deep learning) techniques. Br
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by robertknight 4y ago
This was a fun distraction to start the morning with, and I like that it is testing a set of directly-useful-on-the-job skills. It feels well calibrated in terms of difficulty.
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by robertknight 4y ago
Misleading HN title. Actual title is "Chrome is experimenting with a Qt backend."
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by robertknight 5y ago
To expand on the link between generators and async functions, the way that async functions were made to run in old browsers that didn't support them by tools like Babel and TypeScript was to rewrite the async function in two stages: 1.
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by robertknight 5y ago
Async functions are conceptually quite similar to ES6 generator functions. In an ES6 generator every `yield` expression is a point where the function can be paused and later resumed. With an async function it is an `await`. The difference b
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by robertknight 5y ago
What are your requirements (data model, non-functional priorities, data size, data types)?

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