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by mixedbit 1y ago
Back of the envelope calculation: Nvidia market cap is 4.5T$, their profit margin is 52%. This means Nvidia would need to sell 1067$ worth of equipment per human being on Earth for investors that buy Nvidia stock today to break even on the
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by mixedbit 1y ago
My experience is that LLM too often finds solutions that work, but are way more complex than necessary. It is easiest to recognize and remove such complexity when the code is originally created, because at this time the author should have t
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by mixedbit 1y ago
Comments are the only functionality of a blog that require write access to a backend, without comments a blog can be a simple collection of static files. Any write access to a backend exposes the blog to potential vulnerabilities, requires
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by mixedbit 1y ago
If you used an analog audio output of the cheap CD player then the "digital is digital and it shouldn't matter that it was cheap" argument may not hold. The low quality of sound could be due to low quality of Digital to Analo
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by mixedbit 1y ago
Unfortunately, for products with batteries in non-standard form factors, we rarely have a choice of a manufacturer. For example, with home robot vacuums, we can only hope that brands will use top quality cells, but the information what cell
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by mixedbit 1y ago
I love "The Design Of Everyday Things", the book doesn't talk much about computer UI, yet the 7 design principles it introduces allow to make much more informed design decisions, where design is not just the matter of taste a
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by mixedbit 1y ago
Is π really a number or is it a computation? For example, fibbonaci(∞) is not a number, and π looks to be conceptually similar. Unlike fibonacci(∞), π has a limit, and we can approximate it with better and better precision, but in both case
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by mixedbit 1y ago
The UX problem with emulating windows within web pages is that if you do it convincingly enough (like this website does), the users will unconsciously use windows shortcuts, like alt+F4 to close the window, which closes the whole browser.
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by mixedbit 1y ago
The government already made the call, that's why due to child privacy or other protection laws, terms of service of social media platforms require age 13 or up. My complain is that companies pretend they are unable to enforce it.
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by mixedbit 1y ago
If social media is harmful to children, each child deserves to be protected, no matter what is their parents' opinion. This is obvious for other harmful things, we don't argue that it is up to parents to decide if their child shou
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by mixedbit 1y ago
I hate that Meta and Google - companies that are among the leaders in AI and invest billions in cutting-edge machine learning R&D - pretend they are unable to detect that children are accessing their platforms in violation of age restr
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by mixedbit 1y ago
Musk's argument also ignores intelligence of humans. The worst case upper bound for reaching human level driving performance without LIDAR is for AI to reach human level intelligence. Perhaps it is not required, but until we see self-d
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by mixedbit 1y ago
If I understand things correctly, this is Linux namespaces limitation, so tools like Docker or Podman will not be able to support such mapping without support from Linux. But I'm afraid the requirement for UIDs to be mapped 1:1 is fun
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by mixedbit 1y ago
I'm afraid that open source software supply chain attacks could be much more prevalent than what we are currently aware of. There is a significant market for zero-day exploits, with organizations like the NSA having teams dedicated to
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by mixedbit 1y ago
48MB of this is JavaScript, which is abomination.
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by mixedbit 1y ago
Thanks for the insight. This very well matches my experience from the top comment of this thread. I added discovery related functionality to JSON based API in an attempt to follow REST and didn't see any benefits from the extra work an
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by mixedbit 1y ago
From the article: 'The phrase “not being driven by hypertext” in Roy Fielding’s criticism refers to the absence of Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOAS) in many APIs that claim to be RESTful. HATEOAS is a fundamental
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by mixedbit 1y ago
What I don't get from this and some other comments in this thread, is that the argument seems to be that REST is practical, every web page is actually a REST app, it has one entry point, all the actions are discoverable by the user fro
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by mixedbit 1y ago
Most web apps today use APIs that return JSON and are called by JavaScript. Can you use REST for such services or does REST require a switch to HTML representation rendered by the server where each interaction returns new HTML page? How su
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> Web browsers do exactly this! Browser provide generic execution environment, but the client code (JavaScript/HTML/CSS) is not generic. Calendar application and messaging application entry points provide application specific c
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by mixedbit 1y ago
You describe how web pages work, web pages are intended for human interactions, APIs are intended for machine interaction. How a generic Python or JavaScript client can discover these APIs? Such clients will request JSON representation of a
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There are many ideas in the REST paper that are super useful, but the goal of making a generic client working with any API is difficult if not impossible to achieve. Was the client of the service that you worked on fully generic and applica
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> Let me ask you this: if I gave you an object X in your favourite OO language, could you use your languages reflection capabilities to discover all properties of every object transitively reachable from X, and every method that could be
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by mixedbit 1y ago
When I was working on my first HTTP-based API 13 years ago, based on many comments about true REST, I decided to first study what REST should really be. I've read Fielding's paper cover to cover, I've read RESTful Web Servic
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by mixedbit 1y ago
For me the Heroku status page shows 'No known issues', while the Heroku Dashboard and all my Heroku hosted apps do not work.
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by mixedbit 1y ago
Deep learning is also very successfully used for denoising of global illumination rendered images [1]. In this approach, traditional raytracing algorithm quickly computes rough global illumination of the scene, and neural network is used to
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by mixedbit 2y ago
centipede
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by mixedbit 2y ago
But for consumer products, like Nike shoes, it is easy not to buy and there are many alternatives.
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The incoming Q1 earning reports will show if these actions are mainstream enough to make a visible dent in companies quarterly earnings. For now, the already reported Tesla sales numbers in Europe are substantially down, but Tesla is the st
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by mixedbit 2y ago
If I use Signal or Discord to send someone a link to anything hosted on a server controlled by me, provided that the user opens the link, I will get an exact IP address of the user. IP address is much more useful in de-anonymizing the user

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