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by slimsag 2y ago
Unless the best models themselves are costly/hard to produce, and there is not a company providing them to people free of charge AND for commercial use.
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by slimsag 2y ago
Congrats Mitchell! It has been really cool to see Ghostty progress as a project, and I've enjoyed having it as my daily driver these past few years :)
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by slimsag 2y ago
While there is criticism of MBTI, it can actually be quite useful in sparking interesting conversations about work styles and preferences. It also helps people reflect on their own tendencies/behaviors in general. I won't pretend
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by slimsag 2y ago
SDL provides.. ..an image decoding library. ..an audio input/output library. ..a multi-channel audio mixer. ..ttf and rtf font rendering. ..networking. ..runtime shader cross-compilation ..its own entire graphics abstraction layer &#x2
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by slimsag 2y ago
I am referring primarily to the fact that a restricted subset of WebGPU is needed ('compatibility mode') to support D3D11 / GLES era hardware[0] [0] https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/4266
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by slimsag 2y ago
This is the right answer^ But even more, the level at which WebGPU exists (not too high level, not too low level) necessitates that if a native API graphics abstraction sticks with the WebGPU's API design and only 'extends' i
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by slimsag 2y ago
Unfortunately not everyone shares that opinion of their restricted use-cases. I've seen ~100 line HTTP handler methods that are implemented using generics and then a bunch of type-specific parameters inevitably get added when the codep
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by slimsag 2y ago
The article seems to focus on YubiKeys (even despite using a mac device), but at least in the Apple ecosystem the state of the art is far ahead of plugging in a thumb drive style device IMO. When I navigate to various websites that support
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by slimsag 2y ago
...and once you have a threads account, the UI in instagram pushes you to one-click accept cross-posting everything to Threads
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by slimsag 2y ago
Reminds me of a Zig proposal I saw recently to make the std.Thread.Pool API respect the Linux jobserver and macOS dispatcher automatically out of the box: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/20274
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by slimsag 2y ago
Javascript in browsers already has a full atomics API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... I'm not sure why Web Locks is useful TBH. I guess if you don't understand
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by slimsag 2y ago
The real solution is games designed for playing with friends and treat all non-friend players as potentially malicious. Early first-person shooter games had this figured out (small servers with 20-30 regular players, the server admin could
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by slimsag 2y ago
Lots of possibilities here. People are learning to prompt LLMs in ways that produce better results for their LLM of choice, so switching to another one they find their approach no longer works as well. Or.. LLMs have different personalities
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by slimsag 2y ago
Has anyone worked on making tokens 'clusters of words with specific semantic meaning'? e.g. instead of tokens ['i', 'am', 'beautiful'] having tokens ['I am', 'beautiful'] on the pr
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by slimsag 2y ago
Is there something similar for GCP?
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by slimsag 2y ago
it uses absolute difference epsilon equality ('close enough to be considered equal'): static int pretty_float_equal (float a, float b) { return fabsf(a - b) < FLT_EPSILON; } static int pretty_double_equal (double a, d
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by slimsag 2y ago
In 2021 Automattic, the company that effectively owns Wordpress, has a valuation of $7.5 billion in 2021, and revenue of $750M in 2024. It's big money.
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by slimsag 2y ago
MoltenVK doesn't support geometry shaders for ~3 years now[0] [0] https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK/issues/1524
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by slimsag 2y ago
Interestingly, public U.S. state property records will just disclose where you live whether you like it or not. With as little as your name, a home address is trivial to find.
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by slimsag 2y ago
The attorney general’s office consumer protection division in your state does what most people think the BBB does. BBB is just a review website. Like Yelp. Filing a complaint with BBB is like saying 'I left a bad Yelp review' ...
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by slimsag 2y ago
I haven't been able to get llama.cpp's mmap logic to work on macOS
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by slimsag 2y ago
Its close in spirit to DRM: they enforce that if you are using their projects, it is under their legal terms. Many of their VS Code extensions[0] have license terms which /prohibit/ them from being used in editors that are not Mic
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by slimsag 2y ago
This is better indeed, but from recollection last time I tried this.. I think that still requires a full OpenJDK installation and I believe those `sdkmanager` commands install multiple GB of tools sadly.
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by slimsag 2y ago
Selling to businesses is an easier way to make large profits in general, definitely. A single sale can be worth millions, and you have fewer stakeholders that you have to convince - especially if you already have contacts in those businesse
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by slimsag 2y ago
You cannot compete with free, unless their experience is so bad that people are willing to throw money at the problem to have it be better. Most of the time, that isn't the case. 'Facebook that values your privacy' is not a v
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by slimsag 2y ago
> We are moving past the “Airbnb for dogs” era and into the “build a better quantum computer” era. I disagree. Most software still sucks for the average user. Every app comes with its own nickel-and-dime subscription fee. You want to mak
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by slimsag 2y ago
DJI sells a product called Aeroscope which is an antenna platform used by airport towers; it shows them via the frequencies the drones operate on where the drone is, that it is active, all information tied to the serial number including the
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by slimsag 2y ago
In FPV communities, DJI is considered the closed/proprietary ecosystem that locks you in. Even their product lines are not exactly compatible with each-other. You can pick up Walksnail-protocol or HDZero-protocol goggles for ~$500 new,
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by slimsag 2y ago
Nostr is a protocol. Bluesky is a product.
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by slimsag 2y ago
The other reasonable course of action would be to go to court, where a jury of average citizens could determine whether or not Apple or Docker is in the wrong and decide damages. Docker wasn't pushed into taking the image down, they *d

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