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by structural 11mo ago
These things are amazing for maintenance programming on very large codebases (think, 50-100million lines of code or more, the people who wrote the code no longer work there, it's not open source so "just google it or check stack o
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by structural 11mo ago
Good on the Arduino folks for getting acquired, then. They still have a niche and a brand with name recognition, even if that niche might be stable at best, collapsing at worst.
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by structural 1y ago
Quite a few radar systems are in the 8-10GHz range and satellite communications just above that. The general idea when using a SDR for these things is to have a separate frequency converter & amplifier at the antenna feed itself, then h
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by structural 1y ago
The threading model is still difficult, and it's still enough slower that thinking you're going to be comparable to custom silicon that's been designed for a particular protocol is silly. It's great fun for doing signal
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by structural 1y ago
The more fine-grained you make a capability system, the more you have an explosion of the number of permissions required by an application, and the chance that some combination of permissions grants more access than intended. It also requir
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by structural 1y ago
LLMs are approximately your employees on their first day of work, if they didn't care about being fired and there were no penalties for anything they did. Some percentage of humans would just pull the nearest fire alarm for fun, or wor
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by structural 1y ago
A good simplification of what's going on is this little loop: 1. LLM runs using the system prompt + your input as context. 2. Initial output looks like "I need more information, I need to run <tool>" 3. Piece of code ru
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by structural 1y ago
1. If you want to advance the state of the art as quickly as possible (or have many, many experiments to run), being able to iterate quickly is the primary concern. 2. If you are publishing research, any time spent beyond what's necess
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by structural 1y ago
Where it really has value is if what you work on is like 33% extremely difficult and 66% boilerplate/tedious. Being able to offload the tedious bits can make more senior engineers 2-3x more productive without the coordination effort of
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by structural 1y ago
There really isn't a great solution here. The notice that a vulnerability has been discovered puts even more pressure on the fix to be deployed as close to instantly as possible, throughout the entire supply chain. Why is this? Espec
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by structural 1y ago
Would be interesting to see a compare and contrast between this and Typst, which has gotten a lot of attention recently. Kinda surprising that it isn't mentioned in their feature comparison matrix at all.
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by structural 1y ago
1. The initial price of the ticket serves as advertisement to get more people interested in the event than if it was advertised at the scalped price. Some fraction of the people will end up paying the higher price anyways, even if it was mo
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by structural 1y ago
I was just looking for something very similar, this is neat! I think even moreso I can understand the sense of Rust feeling too large not because the language itself is, but because there are SO many of these neat tricks and little utility
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by structural 1y ago
One major difference is that while indexing, you're generating an internal data structure that represents that site. Once done, if the site doesn't change, you don't have any need to revisit it, and in fact, fetching the site
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by structural 1y ago
The underlying issue is that many sites aren't going to get feedback from the real people they've blocked, so their operators won't actually know that tuning is required (also, the more strict the system, the higher percentag
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by structural 2y ago
Good connectors are expensive. All-plastic connectors like these are extremely cheap. Here's an example of a connector style as used in internal PC power cabling: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail&#x2
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by structural 2y ago
Interesting, we're using a completely different module (Xavier NX). And the same, disgustingly hacky, fix, of forcing a reset until it works.
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by structural 2y ago
Mind sharing what board/Jetson module you've seen this on? I've seen this exact symptom very intermittently on a custom board and we've wondered for a long time if was an issue with a specific type of module (or manufact
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by structural 2y ago
> the point of all those processes is to help you make things more efficiently I think this viewpoint -- that these processes somehow could increase efficiency if only they were good -- has a lot to do with why engineers dislike systems
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by structural 2y ago
This is not universally true, and it's pretty common to hear people who moved out to the suburbs hate it, but they needed the third or even second bedroom! Slightly larger condos simply didn't exist on the market, or were priced a
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by structural 2y ago
The "airlines" that are using something like FlyCASS are themselves smaller operations and typically running on razor thin margins (if not just unprofitable and wishfully thinking that money will suddenly appear and make their bus
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by structural 2y ago
AI lets the agency better be able to afford to hire and keep the excellent humans around to solve complex problems. It's better than a human that also can't fix your issue themselves and has to ask you to transfer to the other per
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by structural 2y ago
I've been very productive using LLMs, without any expectations of them "writing functional code". Instead, I've mostly used them as if I was working with a human research librarian. For example, I can ask the LLM things
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by structural 2y ago
Exploiting this can be as simple as a social engineering attack. You inject the prompt into a public channel, then, for example, call the person on the telephone to ask them about the piece of information mentioned in the prompt. All you ha
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by structural 2y ago
I agree. And ideally, every time you raise the question and get the "no" response, you learn something about the system you're modifying or the reviewer learns something about your solution. Then you improve your solution, a
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by structural 2y ago
For comparison, the Houston metro area (which is basically just the original city limits + what used to be its suburbs but have really just all grown together) is the size of the entire country of Belgium.
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by structural 2y ago
Not only was the funding effectively unlimited, but it was developed over 20+ years (so the whole program was designed to the standard that "the next person touching this code will never have touched this system before, and the last pe
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by structural 2y ago
Worked on a codebase for a large safety-critical system where everything was 100% documented, and the development guide for the project was followed so closely that you couldn't tell, across millions of lines of code, that the whole th
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by structural 3y ago
This is just blogspam sponsored by the vendor (as mentioned at the bottom of the post) that shows that you can in fact "make; make install; make test" using software provided by the vendor.
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by structural 3y ago
ACPI table issues are just as unpleasant as devicetrees if not moreso. What makes x86 feel nicer is that most of the peripherals fall into two categories: 1) Standardized for the arch, so their configuration can be assumed and hardcoded,

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