drob518

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781.
by drob518 11mo ago
Sure. Who is to say where the bottleneck is, but if an application is going to use all those same libraries and runtimes, it’s not an unrealistic test. Obviously, with all benchmarking, the most accurate benchmark is your own application, b
782.
by drob518 11mo ago
Yea, I’m boggled. At this point Siri should be able to parse and understand a wide variety of forms of the same command, but it still seems to fail. This should be doable even without LLMs.
783.
by drob518 11mo ago
Kinda wish they’d bring back the “where should I hide a body?” Easter egg. Even if it wasn’t very capable, Siri could make me laugh.
784.
by drob518 11mo ago
It’s extremely hit or miss for me. Sometimes it works and I’m amazed. Other times it fails to play my main playlist that I’ve played 1000 times before.
785.
by drob518 11mo ago
I agree that not falling for the hype and rushing in may have just saved them. Apple is typically not a first mover. They often hang back, rethink the problem, and deliver something really nice. But not in this case. They had Siri first and
786.
by drob518 11mo ago
Agreed. I often have to verbally battle with Siri to do the most basic interaction. Siri recognizes all my words but misinterprets my intent and does something I didn’t want.
787.
by drob518 11mo ago
Yep. It was theirs to lose… and they lost it.
788.
by drob518 11mo ago
I’m always shocked when engineers smitten with the microservices bug try to insist that converting a simple, reliable, in-process function call to a network hop plus serialization plus retry and back off and circuit breaker logic is going t
789.
by drob518 11mo ago
iPad worked great for viewing these. Zoom in as you put the iPad a few inches in front of your face and stare straight ahead. Let your brain merge the two images into a 3d composite in the center of your vision. I found taking my glasses of
790.
by drob518 11mo ago
I think we’re starting to find that the “if you get sunlight you will develop skin cancer” mantra is way overblown, if not outright wrong. Being out in the sun is good for humans. In fact, we need it. But modern life largely conspires to pr
791.
by drob518 11mo ago
Ah, thank you. I’ll admit to never having played it.
792.
by drob518 11mo ago
Exactly. It’s the plastic middle layer that screws you.
793.
by drob518 11mo ago
A small charge of C4 works wonders. Just be sure to lay your head over in the passenger seat before detonation.
794.
by drob518 11mo ago
True. But I fail to see the relevance.
795.
by drob518 11mo ago
Simple. Just make sure you test your glass breaker on your car side window before you drive off the road or bridge into a deep lake.
796.
by drob518 11mo ago
?!?!?
797.
by drob518 11mo ago
This is a good play for Intel. It lets them play both sides of the market.
798.
by drob518 11mo ago
If you were born at midnight, it would be “epoch.”
799.
by drob518 11mo ago
> But formal validation can still work some of the time with the right people, on the right scale and kind of project, with the right amount of resources/time expended. The problem is, it’s unclear exactly what those situations are
800.
by drob518 11mo ago
Agreed. Further, this has been true even ignoring formal verification. Who has been in the situation of making the choice to ship known-buggy code to make a release date or satisfy a customer demand for other functionality? All of us, I sus
801.
by drob518 11mo ago
Agreed. A tool may allow the programmer to do something (with varying degrees of difficulty), but it’s always the programmer’s choice. Tools are inert by themselves. Only humans make choices.
802.
by drob518 11mo ago
Nicely done.
803.
by drob518 11mo ago
Very cool seeing the old techniques described. The classic special effects teams had to be so creative. These days it’s all green screens and digital effects.
804.
by drob518 11mo ago
Having been involved in a “no code” product, I’ll just say that it’s a really crappy way to write programs. You’re better off creating a DSL of some sort and asking people to type. Demanding that people click the mouse three times to open a
805.
by drob518 11mo ago
You must have an absurd birthday.
806.
by drob518 11mo ago
Cool, those things are going to ease adoption.
807.
by drob518 11mo ago
The burrito benchmark is poised to become an industry standard.
808.
by drob518 11mo ago
Fair enough.
809.
by drob518 11mo ago
First: cool project. Second: Is the Pi in an enclosure? You’ll get even more consistency if it is (vs a bare PCB). Even if it’s thin and metal it’ll insulate the system from things like your home heater or AC cycling.
810.
by drob518 11mo ago
So, there are a whole bunch of interesting ideas here, but… It’s a huge, all-or-nothing proposition. You have to adopt the language, the source control, and figure out the hosting of it, all at once. If you don’t like one thing in the whole

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