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by pveierland 2y ago
Berger is not a "one note journalist". He literally wrote the book "Liftoff" which is great telling of the story of SpaceX, and has covered space topics in extensive detail for a long time. The article is important becau
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by pveierland 2y ago
Eric Berger has a good summary on the narrative: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/can-nasa-remain-nonpar...
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by pveierland 2y ago
Oh, absolutely. Software cannot scale without trust. No single person is capable of auditing their browser or operating system either.
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by pveierland 2y ago
One big part I've noticed when working in rust is that, because the compilation and analysis checks you're given are so much stronger than in C or C++, and because the ecosystem of crates is so easy to make use of, I'll gener
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by pveierland 2y ago
Leaving a mention of Tuono to those looking for new Rust web frameworks. It's closer to Next.js and allows fast server-side rendering of React apps: https://github.com/tuono-labs/tuono
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by pveierland 2y ago
TLDW. Will this be open weights? This commit seems to indicate so, but neither HF or GH has public data yet: https://huggingface.co/xai-org/grok-1/commit/91d3a51143e7fc2... Edit: Answer from Elon in video is
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by pveierland 2y ago
Another interesting and modern alternative is Syd written in Rust. https://gitlab.exherbo.org/sydbox/sydbox
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by pveierland 2y ago
Eh, when you're hacking away as a solo developer on something big and new I don't think this matters at all. In my current project I did about 200x commits marked "wip" before having enough structure and stability to bot
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by pveierland 2y ago
There's a beautiful feature film about the story of Makani. It's a great watch with plenty of technical details that follows the story from beginning to end. Available for free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/w
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by pveierland 2y ago
Mozilla does plenty of really useful things! Super happy with Firefox as my primary browser. Shout-out to MDN as well for being an excellent reference on all things web: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
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by pveierland 2y ago
Yeah, this worries me a bit! Never seen any issues, and I'm only using them in low-impact environments (keyboards + mice), and only charging while present.
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by pveierland 2y ago
My favorite are the ones with built-in USB-C charging - they are so handy to have around! Posting here to help more people discover them: https://www.amazon.com/MXBatt-Rechargeable-Battery-Capacity-...
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by pveierland 2y ago
Note also fpga4fun.com for some very practical examples on how to do common IO, or build a small network or graphics interface: It's a blast interacting with these kinds of things at the logic level! https://www.fpga4fun.com
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by pveierland 2y ago
Probably not. The average EU citizen living in "centuries old city centers" emits ~5.66 tCO2eq/year [1], while an analysis of cruise ship vacations for Seattle shows each passenger emitting on average ~421 kg/day [2], eq
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by pveierland 2y ago
My writing was imprecise, I meant to communicate that it makes it possible to trust the contents of a derivation, given that you know that the hash is correct, which can be verified independently in the cases where the derivation is reprodu
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by pveierland 2y ago
This post does not do Nix justice, as it only references the extensional model of Nix. In the PhD of Eelco Dolstra, the extensional model (chapter 5) describes derivations with identity based on their inputs, while the intentional model (ch
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by pveierland 2y ago
Nice CPU benchmark for year-on-year performance here: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/year-on-year.html The data shows that the average laptop CPU in 2024 has 56% better thread performance, and 123% better total performance, c
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Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists [video](youtube.com)
2 points by pveierland 2y ago|1 comments
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by pveierland 2y ago
The video from Microsoft Research is an excellent and clear introduction to quantum computing, including explanations of quantum entanglement and teleportation.
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IBM scores $45M zinger from Zynga in patent wringer(theregister.com)
2 points by pveierland 2y ago|0 comments
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by pveierland 2y ago
Looks nice! +1 for storing data in a human-readable representation on existing user profiles. No extra account needed + information has value outside meet.hn + information has value even if site goes away.
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by pveierland 2y ago
I wouldn't be able to answer for Swift as I don't know it. However Rust would seem to be a suitable replacement for all use-cases of C++ in an embedded context that I was involved with (including allocation control + static initia
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by pveierland 2y ago
Having written quite a bit of C++ firmware and just now spending a few weeks getting into Rust, I have to say the learning curve was less challenging than I thought it would be, and that I feel pretty effective after a short amount of time.
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It's Time to Support Sustainable Software(supernotes.app)
4 points by pveierland 2y ago|0 comments
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by pveierland 2y ago
Which still results in a clearly weaker defense compared to not persisting data, as the data will remain available to be acquired legally or illegally even after powering the system down.
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by pveierland 2y ago
Beyond convenience, potential advantages include: - Reduce maintenance cost and increasing uptime of car charging parks by removing cabling and plugs operated by the user. - Simplify integration of autonomous vehicles of different sizes - n
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by pveierland 2y ago
Using Llama Index for this via the `llama_index.core.base.llms.base.BaseLLM` interface. Using config files to describe the args to different models makes swapping models literally as easy as: chat_model: cls: llama_index.llms.openai
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by pveierland 3y ago
My standard start menu replacement was always to add a "run" folder with program shortcuts to the system path, then just "Win+R" to Run and e.g. "kp" to run KeyPass. Until Windows 10 this was super fast - no id
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by pveierland 3y ago
I'm not sure which metric would be the best to use - we did reach it in population growth during the 1900s. However I mostly think the calculation is an interesting exercise to calibrate our expectations for what sensible growth rates
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by pveierland 3y ago
Interestingly, 2% annual growth in amount of utilized matter becomes physically impossible to sustain for even ~1000 years. Short ballpark math: https://gist.github.com/pveierland/4aeaa5e9ab90de69787b732a9...

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