Gazoche

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   by Gazoche 11mo ago

   Unless we build giant bridges spanning the oceans, I think we'll sooner have electric jetliners than a global maglev network.
2. 32.▲
   by Gazoche 11mo ago

   Same for auto-translated titles. It's like they can't fathom the idea of people speaking more than one language. At least give an option to turn it off!
3. 33.▲
   by Gazoche 11mo ago

   Pretty insightful article, it resonates with what I remember of my experience as a kid. But while I believe the general trends outlined here, it's important to remember that "the world" != "the West" != "the US
4. 34.▲
   by Gazoche 11mo ago

   > One [way to integrate ads] was to show a cool video from a respected company (such as Nike) every time the Mac starts up. Of course Jobs blocked this, but it's insane that it was even proposed as a serious idea. I'm pretty su
5. 35.▲
   by Gazoche 11mo ago

   I'm no machine learning engineer but I've dabbled professionally with both frameworks a few years ago and the developer experience didn't even compare. The main issue with TF was that you could only chose between a powerful b
6. 36.▲
   by Gazoche 1y ago

   Which is almost meaningless for a meme coin. If I mint 1 trillion meme coins and sell one to my friend for 1$, the market cap is now 1 trillion $.
7. 37.▲
   by Gazoche 1y ago

   The Rust OS tutorial you're thinking of is probably this one: https://os.phil-opp.com/
8. 38.▲
   by Gazoche 1y ago

   With geostationary orbit you won't ever get less than 200ms round-trip latency from the ground (at the speed of light). Fine for some applications, but a massive regression from modern fiber infrastructure and definitely not suitable f
9. 39.▲
   by Gazoche 1y ago

   I've barely started reading the post, but > “In space, you get almost unlimited, low-cost renewable energy” Low cost???????? Sending a solar array into space would probably rank among the most expensive forms of energy production. &
10. 40.▲
    by Gazoche 1y ago

    And power, maintenance, cost...
11. 41.▲
    by Gazoche 1y ago

    There is no "solved" in computer vision, there is only "good enough" and what constitutes "good enough" depends on your problem domain. Take an OCR model with 99.9% character-wise accuracy. Sounds pretty good,
12. 42.▲
    by Gazoche 1y ago

    The other day I had to use Acrobat at work and was absolutely flabbergasted by the UI. I counted no fewer than six buttons for the AI assistant but couldn't figure out how to see chapters for the document I was reading.
13. 43.▲
    by Gazoche 1y ago

    > written by cc "in a loop" in ~3 months? What does that mean exactly? I assume the LLM was not left alone with its task for 3 months without human supervision.
14. 44.▲
    by Gazoche 1y ago

    And, conversely, some don't care about the technology but want to ride the bubble and exit right before it pops.
15. 45.▲
    by Gazoche 1y ago

    No, but once VPNs have become the only escape hatch available, this will be used a justification to ban them.
16. 46.▲
    by Gazoche 1y ago

    Having been a customer to a half-dozen different banks in almost as many countries, I can assure you that this is very common. You'd be surprised how often the user interface stonewalls you with a "please call support" for ev
17. 47.▲
    by Gazoche 1y ago

    Or (4), because a sales team convinced them there was some magic wand they could buy that would triple their productivity.
18. 48.▲
    by Gazoche 1y ago

    The tools and processes we have here, I would not wish them on any other company, especially a smaller one.
19. 49.▲
    by Gazoche 1y ago

    Yeah that's also true, to a degree. Clearly, there are interesting challenges that I would have never been faced with had I stayed at a startup. But I also found that once you reach a certain level of expertise at $BIGCORP there are f
20. 50.▲
    by Gazoche 1y ago

    I'm in a similar situation, having left a startup a year ago to work at $BIGCORP, naively thinking it would benefit my résumé. This is all painfully accurate. The other thing about working for $BIGCORP is that it molds your skills to
21. 51.▲
    by Gazoche 1y ago

    I had not heard of it, but sounds pretty interesting.
22. 52.▲
    by Gazoche 1y ago

    I watched that talk a long time ago, but maybe on some level! Though I don't think the idea is particularly novel.
23. 53.▲
    by Gazoche 1y ago

    Please don't take it as a reproach! Not your fault at all, and at least it forced me into creative problem-solving ;)
24. 54.▲
    by Gazoche 1y ago

    I think I was a bit spooked by the examples ( https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/tree/main/examp... ), and the need to implement platform dependencies in C code (which would have complicated the
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    by Gazoche 1y ago

    Thanks again for making Wasmi :) > It might interest you that newer versions of Wasmi (v0.45+) extended the resumable function call feature to make it possible to yield upon running out of fuel: That is really interesting! I remember loo
26. 56.▲
    by Gazoche 1y ago

    Thank you! And thanks for making Wasmi, it's a really impressive project and it's the reason why I decided to go this whole WASM sandbox route (because I could embed it easily) :)
27. 57.▲
    by Gazoche 1y ago

    Thanks! I tried to get wasmtime working but it was too much of a pain to compile in no_std mode, so I settled for wasmi instead.
28. 58.▲
    Show HN: Munal OS: a graphical experimental OS with WASM sandboxing(github.com)

    313 points by Gazoche 1y ago|118 comments
29. 59.▲
    by Gazoche 1y ago

    For the love of everything, CHATGPT IS NOT A PRIMARY SOURCE. Always assume every fact it spits out is made up.
30. 60.▲
    by Gazoche 1y ago

    I remember buying the bundle and thinking "I'll just play that lightweight 2D platformer while waiting for the bigger, more interesting games in the bundle to download"...and then spending the entire evening on it.