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by mmastrac 1y ago
I agree they could have worked more closely with the team, but the chat logging is actually pretty concerning. It's not sinophobia when they're logging _everything_ you say. (in fairness pervasive logging by American companies sho
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by mmastrac 1y ago
Thanks for that feedback, will totally do that. I should probably update the sample screenshots to be a little more visually appealing, as well.
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by mmastrac 1y ago
This is awesome. I built a lightweight home status server called Stylus that would probably pair very well with this: https://github.com/mmastrac/stylus It works by automatically changing CSS classes, and it looks like
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by mmastrac 1y ago
This is a much better experience than the previous Qualcomm debug experience, which was a hand-rolled set of read/write/execute primitives exposed over USB. It was hilariously undersecured, allowing a few of us to continually get
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by mmastrac 1y ago
Literally nobody, outside of formal documents and perhaps pedants, uses that catastrophe of a name.
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by mmastrac 1y ago
> JavaScript is indeed a trademark which Oracle rightfully owns these days Err, that's not a given by any stretch. This is exactly what the suit is trying to prove. They are not a rightful holder of the trademark. They've faile
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by mmastrac 1y ago
I'll have to give this a shot for some of the Rust server work I'm doing. progscrape.com uses a lot of tricks to boot quickly specifically because of the edit-compile-run cycle being slow (mostly deferred loading of indexes, etc).
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by mmastrac 1y ago
I'd be happy if we could get terminals to agree on how wide the warning triangle emoji renders. The emoji are certainly useful for scripts, but often widths are such a crapshoot. I cannot add width detection to every bash script I writ
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by mmastrac 1y ago
I honestly thought Tesla would beat everyone to the punch here but it seems like they just stalled out what - five or so years ago? Waymo seems to be the furthest ahead in my complete outsider opinion. I feel like everyone else is a way dis
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by mmastrac 1y ago
This was the question I hated in my EE degree. The thought exercise was a favourite of the profs.
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by mmastrac 1y ago
We used to call it Visual Source Unsafe because it was corrupting repos all the time.
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by mmastrac 1y ago
Western society still has the puritan ethic baked into it. If life isn't pain and suffering and struggle, it's worthless.
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by mmastrac 1y ago
I haven't had Facebook or Instagram apps installed on anything but a burner phone for half a decade and I'm happy about that decision. Unfortunately I can't get rid of WhatsApp, but I hope it was immune to this.
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by mmastrac 1y ago
... uhh, not really. :)
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by mmastrac 1y ago
> Windows XP/7's video modesetting logic is a bit mysterious. It may try to set a incompatible mode using int10h, which will cause flickering or even black screen after transferring control to the legacy OS. I would really love
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by mmastrac 1y ago
I would guess the author is young and smart, but hasn't spent much time working with others. I've seen this in other developers with lots of potential. It usually takes a few years of mentorship to smooth the rough edges.
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by mmastrac 1y ago
Rust allows for manual struct layout with #[repr(C)] (with some limits, but rav1d uses it heavily - https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Amemorysafety%2Frav1d%20%2... ), so some of this could likely be ported over to rav1d as w
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by mmastrac 1y ago
This makes a lot of sense. Obscure Windows bugs make for unhappy developers. Unless you have a local windows setup, the platform is challenging to debug. I spent too much time while working at Deno on this sort of thing.
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by mmastrac 1y ago
The author appears to have some LLM styles in other posts on the site (bolded list headers are the dead giveaway IMO): https://magnus919.com/2025/05/what-i-learned-about-agi-at-a-...
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by mmastrac 1y ago
I should clarify that I meant "recently". The US has exported extended copyright laws and other IP protections world-wide for their own benefit.
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by mmastrac 1y ago
What seems to be lost in these discussions is how the American system rides on global respect for American IP, and that this respect for IP is part of the whole global trade system. With global trade falling apart, this respect for IP is in
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by mmastrac 1y ago
There is not much, unless you're working with AV1. rav1d is the alternative there but you've got to trade off some performance for security gains. ffmpeg is a monopoly in the space which means that you either take the exact set of
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by mmastrac 1y ago
I'm not saying that they don't do great work, but that twitter thread ( https://x.com/ffmpeg/status/1924137645988356437 ) is pretty obnoxious and reads like they are upset they didn't get funding. It&
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by mmastrac 1y ago
Reading the ffmpeg twitter account is enough to turn me off using ffmpeg. It's a shame there's no real alternative -- the devs seem very toxic. I mean sure, max performance is great if you control every part of your pipeline, but
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by mmastrac 1y ago
The associated issue for comparing two u16s is interesting. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/140167
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by mmastrac 1y ago
It's funny that iText is still around. I used this 20 years ago in a hybrid .NET/Java web app that needed a PDF renderer and it was pretty much the top choice. The rendering still looks the same!
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by mmastrac 1y ago
This appears to be an auto-submission by a bot that didn't have JS enabled when it scraped whatever page this came from. Not a fan of these inorganic accounts.
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by mmastrac 1y ago
At femtoseconds, assuming your tracking matches, you could probably sit a sugar-loaded kid in a chair without instructions and just make it work.
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by mmastrac 1y ago
As someone developing hyperopia, I wonder if this would help...
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by mmastrac 1y ago
It'll be interesting to see what happens. https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/research/articles/240704...

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