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901.
by girvo 2y ago
I wish. When our bundles are being deployed globally and regularly opened on out of date phones and desktops, it can't be avoided yet.
902.
by girvo 2y ago
You really do need a magnifying glass for some of those details, as the (asymmetrical) holes that ID which way some part must go become dots at the scale they print some of the manuals. You're absolutely right though: all the info is
903.
by girvo 2y ago
Not at all. Drug dealers have never "given the first hit for free": drugs are expensive, and they're (to a first approximation) lots of fun, they don't need addiction to be sold.
904.
by girvo 2y ago
> If Google had a better chip, or even a chip that was close, they would sell it to anyone and everyone. While I do not actually think Google's chips are better or close to being better, I don't think this actually holds? If
905.
by girvo 2y ago
Amusingly, they explicitly call it this in the article itself: > Once we have identified the refusal direction, we can "ablate" it, effectively removing the model's ability to represent this feature
906.
by girvo 2y ago
> To write on the topic in this environment it would be advisable to be clear on what they are saying, what they have an issue with, and what the appropriate remedy would be. They literally did all of that, though?
907.
by girvo 2y ago
You’re applying pretty black and white moral values to a post that, at least to me, didn’t read that way at all. One can like Sam Altman as a person while wishing he was more transparent in some of his business dealings.
908.
by girvo 2y ago
> But I think secretly C programmers don't want memory safety Having just come out of embedded firmware land: it's not secret, a few members of my team were pretty open about either not caring about or not wanting memory safety
909.
by girvo 2y ago
> eInk hasn't advanced much since its advent Yes, it has. Even purely from the consumer facing side: the latest panels are far better in grayscale depth, sharpness and refresh rate (and their controller still kind of suck). Not to m
910.
by girvo 2y ago
Apples apps for all of those; work is Google Docs because I don't get a choice
911.
by girvo 2y ago
Fastmail for me, but yeah same. I did that a long time ago -- the only thing I use still is search and youtube. The latter of which has no real replacement sadly
912.
by girvo 3y ago
> Unbelievable stuff And silly, as the law (esp. international) usually cares more about de facto control in situations like this. Crazy argument to raise, but I guess if you can't argue they aren't nonces...
913.
by girvo 3y ago
Having re-watched that movie recently, he's not wrong -- that's a deeply odd book for an apparent 8 year old girl to be holding. And with the amount of aliens that look like humans across the movies...
914.
by girvo 3y ago
FreeRTOS gives much more than just concurrency!
915.
by girvo 3y ago
I got a giggle out of it!
916.
by girvo 3y ago
Nim is “just C” at the end of the day, so by leveraging the —-compileOnly flag you can use Nim anywhere you can use C Now that arc/orc are the default memory management strategy, it’s even possible to keep some of the niceties from the
917.
by girvo 3y ago
I use Nim at work for embedded firmware development right now, and we evaluated Zig but it was a year and a half ago when we started the project, Zig just wasn’t as far along as it is now. I’m currently in the process of writing a nice HAL&
918.
by girvo 3y ago
Retrieval augmented generation. > Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a technique where the capabilities of a large language model (LLM) are augmented by retrieving information from other systems and inserting them into the LLM’s con
919.
by girvo 3y ago
journalctl alone makes it so good IMO
920.
by girvo 3y ago
I was finally impressed with systemd when I recently had to port our single-process multi threaded TCP/UDP server (listening on a heap of ports) at work to a multiple binary/process, single threaded asynchronous IO system. PartOf=
921.
by girvo 3y ago
Depends how the kids are raised I guess. My brothers and I never tortured and killed any of the skinks we’d catch as kids
922.
by girvo 3y ago
As someone who works with cell modems from basically all major and a couple minor manufacturers (mostly NB-IoT and 2G but not just) — they’re all bug ridden crap lol
923.
by girvo 3y ago
Fascinating. I wonder what the cultural difference is that caused us to go in different directions on that?
924.
by girvo 3y ago
> there are stop signs in all 4 directions This is a complete aside, but woah, is this common in SF? They simply aren't used here where I am (roundabouts are used instead) Like they're uncommon enough that theres a news article
925.
by girvo 3y ago
Explains why I went into programming after doing a BSc in Chemistry. Just a different kind of API!
926.
by girvo 3y ago
> That's probably pretty brutal summary of most of past two decades I guess? Longer. This has been the main playbook even going back to the '00s!
927.
by girvo 3y ago
> Something is clearly better than nothing. To you and I, this is patently obvious. This is not true however for VCs. In a lot of them, they'd prefer you fail entirely rather than limp along making 1x, 1.5x their investment. Zeroing
928.
by girvo 3y ago
There's Pokémon or Big Data: http://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/ And the (original, I think), Pokémon or Tech Term: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfsG7AEFLvlW68a
929.
by girvo 3y ago
> But in that case why not just use a "reader device" then. Which there are much cheaper options in the same form factor! The InkPalm 5 is 1/3rd the cost. Neat little gadget too.
930.
by girvo 3y ago
> kernel-debugger (kdb + USB debug cable) is enough to work-around anything in Ring 0? At least for Vanguard specifically, nope you'll get pinged if you try that naively; mainly because Vanguard looks for funky USB devices (among ot

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