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by spease 4mo ago
> the Rust community is aggressive "rewrite it in Rust!", "no memory unsafe languages!" This is more of a meme than reality at this point.
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by spease 4mo ago
> You can't have a house built 100% fast but also 100% cheap and with 100% quality. That’s essentially what technological development does, is make those tradeoffs more favorable.
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by spease 7mo ago
Yeah, I cannot understand why people are thinking a gigabyte of RAM in this context save for their context being imagining what this would take with a python HTTPS server streaming video via WebRTC to an electron GUI running out of local do
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by spease 7mo ago
I really feel like a lot of the people objecting in this thread are people who have just written web apps in Python whose closest experience with the audio-visual space is WebRTC. Tech for cars is “standard-sized”. Not everything revolves
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by spease 7mo ago
The original comment was complaining about backup cameras seemingly adding significant electronics requirements. In practice, you’re not going to tie intimate knowledge of the matrix headlights into the infotainment system, that’s just bad
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by spease 7mo ago
https://wiki.st.com/stm32mpu/wiki/How_to_display_on_HDMI But mostly it’s the fundamental problem space from an A/V perspective. You don’t need iPhone-grade image processing - you just need to convert the raw
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by spease 7mo ago
A gigabyte!? You shouldn’t need any dedicated RAM. A decent microcontroller should be able to handle transcoding the output from the camera to the display and provide infotainment software that talks to the CANbus or Ethernet. And the bare
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by spease 8mo ago
There was a library for Rust called “faster” which worked similarly to Rayon, but for SIMD. The simpleminded way to do what you’re saying would be to have the compiler create separate PTX and native versions of a Rayon structure, and then c
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by spease 8mo ago
“…just think, Wally, everything that makes this thing go was supplied by the lowest bidder.” - astronaut
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by spease 8mo ago
> Surely everyone would want such a key piece of technology to be air tight and easy to debug 1. Tragedy of the Commons ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons ) / Bystander Effect ( https:/&#
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by spease 8mo ago
Just because the fed exists doesn’t mean the entire economy shuts down with the government. It depends on how it’s structured.
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by spease 10mo ago
> It is the first model to get partial-credit on an LLM image test I have. Which is counting the legs of a dog. Specifically, a dog with 5 legs. This is a wild test, because LLMs get really pushy and insistent that the dog only has 4 leg
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by spease 10mo ago
I started with desktop applications, so my go-to for GUI has been Qt, especially QML. It works on Windows / MacOS / Linux as well as iOS and Android. I think there’s now a way to compile QML to webassembly as well. It also has a t
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by spease 1y ago
Yeah, they could call it Tizen or something.
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by spease 1y ago
Yes. And everyone is glossing over the benefit of unified memory for LLM applications. Apple may not have the models, but it has customer goodwill, a platform, and the logistical infrastructure to roll them out. It probably even has the cas
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by spease 1y ago
Slint recently added Bevy support. I’ve been keeping an eye on it since I’ve used Qt and love working in Qml.
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by spease 1y ago
Whose interests corporations act in is not arbitrary, it’s tied to how they make money. Meta and Google make their money primarily from advertisers, Apple makes money from consumers buying iPhones. One of the upsides to paying for something
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by spease 1y ago
Reminds me of “The Bully and the Beast” by Orson Scott Card.
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by spease 1y ago
Personally, I’d really like a crossplatform declarative package manager in a mainstream or mainstream-style language, where the nixpkgs equivalent can be JITed or AOTed including the shell scripts, so it isn’t painful to work with and can s
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by spease 1y ago
> It would be very expensive to run such a trial, over a long period of time, and the administrators would feel ethically bound to unblind and then report on every tiny incidentaloma, which completely fucks the training process. I wonder
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by spease 1y ago
Yeah, Rust tends to have enough type-safety that you can encode project-specific constraints to it and lower the learning curve to that of Rust itself, rather than learning all the idiosyncratic unconscious and undocumented design constrain
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by spease 1y ago
> I had my journey of using Rust to implement a WinAPI-based app in which I did lots of unsafe (from Rust's point of view) operations. I spent more time on fighting with Rust's protections than on the actual implementation. The
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by spease 1y ago
There are some big caveats to this approach. Note “Known Problems” for the library. Particularly, you need to use a polling backend for network / VM filesystems. I didn’t see any notes for the Python library and the fact that notify is
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by spease 1y ago
Or using cameras to render what’s behind the phone as a background. That would help explain the continued focus on thinness.
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by spease 1y ago
> While Nixpkgs is an amazing resource, Nix != Nixpkgs. Nixpkgs is highly unideal for cases where you want to be able to pull arbitrary versions of toolchains, but it is not the only way to go. For example, there is amazingly good Nix to
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by spease 1y ago
That assumes that the person setting up the NAS is the same person using it, which is not going to be the case for non-tech-savvy users. Everyone will understand it costing more, fewer people will understand why the NAS ate their data witho
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by spease 1y ago
> That's a great argument for selling drives, not for locking your devices down to practically require them The counterargument is, people won’t listen and then blame Synology when their data is affected. At which point it may be to
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by spease 1y ago
Back then Google was trying to be social. Remember Google+? https://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1523.html
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by spease 1y ago
Basically. I guess part of the issue is that NAT is also used as a security measure, so there are competing interests in making the ports chosen by outgoing UDP packets deterministic to make STUN easy, versus randomizing and restricting ret
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by spease 2y ago
Some things can only be done at scale, or are a side effect of solving problems at scale. It’s not quite so simple as “big is bad”. Also, it’s harder for international companies to buy, say, Google, than a browser-only company, just through

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