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by apitman 9mo ago
The number of companies creating RISC V implementations is pretty hopeful. There's way more competition here than x64 or ARM, and that could yield some interesting results.
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by apitman 9mo ago
My Pixel has gotten a couple major Android version bumps.
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by apitman 9mo ago
Very excited about this. IP certs solve an annoying bootstrapping problem for selfhosted/indiehosted software, where the software provides a dashboard for you to configure your domain, but you can't securely access the dashboard u
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by apitman 9mo ago
Used to happen more for me. Very rare now.
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by apitman 9mo ago
One tradeoff with MVNOs is you're generally lower priority on the network.
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by apitman 9mo ago
Looks like they fixed it today. But yeah I probably should have clarified that Google Voice has been a pretty terrible UX and quality overall for years. I really need to just bite the bullet and port my number out.
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by apitman 9mo ago
I had free Starlink wifi on a recent flight (Hawaiian) and it was an insanely better internet experience than I've ever had on a plane.
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by apitman 9mo ago
I got sniped away from Visible (Verizon MVNO) by US Mobile (multi-carrier MVNO) during a Black Friday sale. USM has an interesting thing where you can actually get a separate eSIM for each of the major carriers, and switch between them. I w
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by apitman 9mo ago
Love seeing this written in C with an organic, grass-fed Makefile. Any details on why you decided to go that route instead of using something with more hype?
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by apitman 9mo ago
Here's a few I care about: * Boots almost instantly into a usable system * I can read and understand every line of code that is running * I can understand all of the hardware it's running on We've gotten so used to computers
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by apitman 9mo ago
I agree AI is interesting here. It raises the level of abstraction in a similar way to the OS/Browser/language, but it does so by depending on a lot of data, as opposed to depending on a lot of code. The cost of abstraction is alw
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by apitman 9mo ago
If websites removed all CSS and JS, they could still provide almost all the worthwhile content that's currently available, and browsers could become user agents again.
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by apitman 9mo ago
I didn't know about livecoding; thanks for that! It's seems like the Tulip could definitely be used for something like that, though you might have to write quite a bit of your own framework code in python.
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by apitman 9mo ago
If you're staying in python or another dynamic language it could probably work. Unfortunately I don't think there are a lot of native compilers that run on esp32s, though there are some[0] [0]: https://github.com/v
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by apitman 9mo ago
What I love about this is the reduction in complexity compared to how something like this would typically be built today. If I were to build a synth a year ago I probably would have used Rust compiled to WASM and running in the browser. Thi
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The Tulip Creative Computer(github.com)
243 points by apitman 9mo ago|61 comments
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Wasefire(opensource.googleblog.com)
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by apitman 9mo ago
> After careful evaluation, we determined that Google’s technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models Sounds like Apple Foundation Models aren't exactly foundational.
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by apitman 9mo ago
My main concern with LLVM is that it adds 30+ million lines of code dependency to any language that relies on it. Part of the reason I'm not ready to go all in on Rust is that I'm not willing to externalize that much complexity in
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by apitman 9mo ago
My perspective is that RT is not the most important thing for most or all of my projects. Concurrency on the other hand is very useful to me, and one of the main reasons I would need an RTOS. So for me embassy would potentially obselete the
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by apitman 9mo ago
Rust and QUIC are bloated, but I'll take WASM and RISC-V
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by apitman 9mo ago
The claim is you can get embedded concurrency without an OS. Do you disagree? I prefer C for embedded but must admit that's pretty compelling.
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by apitman 9mo ago
Bitchat is BLE right? Are you using a custom LoRa protocol or bridging to Meshtastic or something?
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by apitman 9mo ago
I'm still a noob but it seems like there's also a distinction between bare metal embedded and RTOS, which is higher level. I think STMs are more commonly run bare metal but esp32s use a version of FreeRTOS. Also libc is bloat :P
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by apitman 9mo ago
I bought one of these on Amazon last week for $25: https://www.waveshare.com/esp32-c6-touch-lcd-1.47.htm I've been really impressed. It's basically a hackable Fitbit with no strap or battery. Full wifi, BLE, 6-axi
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by apitman 9mo ago
Just got my first esp32-c6 and really excited to start playing with it. The p4 looks like a beast and want to try that out eventually as well. Feels good to be back hacking on embedded again.
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by apitman 9mo ago
I think anecdotes like this may prove very relevant the next few years. AI might make bad code, but a project of bad code that's still way smaller than a bloated alternative, and has a UX tailored to your exact requirements could be co
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by apitman 9mo ago
What I want is a smart watch that lets me map hardware buttons and rotary knobs to arbitrary actions on my Android phone. For example I want to be able to use the knob to control the volume of whatever I'm listening to on my phone. I w
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by apitman 9mo ago
I use LLMs for code at work, but I've been a bit hesitant to dive in for side projects because I'm worried about the cost. Is it necessary to pay $200/mo to actually ship things or will $20/mo do it? Obviously I could ju
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by apitman 10mo ago
I hope you're right

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