sebastos

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by sebastos 2y ago
Exciting to hear, thanks for the information! You guys rock!
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by sebastos 2y ago
I’m really interested in buying into Rerun over Foxglove; I like that it’s committed to stay open source and the lack of requirement for an account, but it also seems like the underlying data model is very strong. But MCAP + Foxglove’s kill
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by sebastos 2y ago
I'll admit I can't weigh on whether there's a plausible strategy for implementing backwards frame step in VLC without violating any of their sacred invariants. Maybe the existence of other players with that feature implies th
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by sebastos 2y ago
Disagree! VLC is what it is today because the authors understood video standards enough to make the _right_ abstractions that could generalize to ~every video format ever. That is no easy task. Video container standards are utterly perverse
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by sebastos 2y ago
An interesting side benefit of switching to electric vehicles is that cities and streets will become quieter.
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by sebastos 2y ago
Well… “use it as money for the entire world” is about as large scale of a use case as you’ll ever find. The issue wasn’t that there was no use-case, it’s that none of the crypto technologies were good enough to actually fulfill that use cas
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by sebastos 2y ago
Yeah - I think what I'm getting at though is that you want to guard against situations where somebody accidentally doesn't set one of the fields, and yet 0 is a valid value to set on that field. You could accidentally forget to fi
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by sebastos 2y ago
message LatLon { double lat = 1; // Geodetic latitude, decimal degrees double lon = 2; // Geodetic longitude, decimal degrees } "Hmm, lat = 0, I guess they didn't fill out the message. I'll t
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by sebastos 2y ago
Ah, ok! Yeah I think we've been working with an older version of protobuf for a while where that wasn't an option.
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by sebastos 2y ago
Huh, yeah I see. I guess I work more on the robotics side where messages often contain physical or geometric quantities, and that colors my thinking a bit. So "distance to that thing = 0" is a very possible situation, and yet you
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by sebastos 2y ago
Just out of curiosity, what domain were you working in where "0.0" and "no opinion" were _always_ the same thing? The lack of optionals has infuriated me for years and I just can't form a mental model of how anybody
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by sebastos 2y ago
The choice to make 'unset' indistinguishable from 'default value' is such an absurdly boneheaded decision, and it boggles my mind that real software engineers allowed proto3 to go out that way. I don't get what part
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by sebastos 2y ago
The idea that there are emergent, systematic issues that are damaging our culture is always very compelling. The first 100 articles of that style had me so utterly convinced. It's taken 10-THOUSAND of those articles for me to start que
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by sebastos 2y ago
Fully agree, although it’s interesting to consider the perspective that the entire LLM hype cycle is largely built around the question “what if we punted on actual thinking and instead just tried to memorize everything and then provide a hu
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by sebastos 2y ago
Why is that damn client so finicky in the first place? Even on X it's always been unreliable. What the heck did they do that makes it so delicate?
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by sebastos 2y ago
Strongly agree that this one is both very fun to think about and rings true. I sometimes imagine imagine it as parallel to the advancement of the world of computers, which has sort of been like watching the development an entire civilizatio
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by sebastos 2y ago
I was going to write something similar: if I had been in creative control back in 1993, I definitely would have fallen for the trap of thinking that I was making things better by forcing the artwork to have a homogeneous, consistent feel to
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by sebastos 2y ago
For those interested, this appears to be a really high quality library that provides a 3D PGA C++ API: https://github.com/jeremyong/klein I've always wanted to find an excuse to rebuild some projects at work arou
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by sebastos 3y ago
You should know: Eckert and Mauchly had already conceived the idea of the stored program long before "Johnny" arrived on the scene, but they made the pragmatic decision to finish the ENIAC under their original design. The stored p
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by sebastos 3y ago
What you're missing is that up until relatively recently, folks were still holding out hope that Reddit could remain a place that was enjoyable to interact with regularly. It's only the last 5 years that it has completely degraded
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by sebastos 3y ago
I don't get where the stopping point is. When does using your resources to gain more resources start to become immoral? You concede that the nameless workers ought to be capturing some economic power, which acknowledges that it's
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by sebastos 3y ago
If you critically examine the source that provided you this number and follow the rabbit hole, you will probably learn that it is wildly pessimistic AND not telling you what you think it’s telling you. E.g. these estimates often include est
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by sebastos 3y ago
Most Americans on hackernews have never been outside of the US? That strikes me as a near impossibility. Evidence?
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by sebastos 3y ago
>More interesting would be if they said (off-the-cuff) "Our sole top-level goal is to deliver the world's most advanced, safe, and responsible AI. We actually really, really mean it. To that end, adtech is now a subgoal in supp
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by sebastos 3y ago
Well, I'm no CEO of Google or anything, but if the company is so broad, then shouldn't he be giving an audacious but concrete goal to each of his segments separately? It's just supposed to be scoped for the year 2024, after a
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by sebastos 3y ago
It's kind of astounding just how absolutely useless top-level communications are in publicly traded companies. My company is far smaller and less important than Google, but I can still recognize the exact same brand of vacuous crap bei
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by sebastos 3y ago
Yeah, that god damn cpptools intellisense scanner seems to grab one core and peg it for 10’s of minutes after deigning to break an include. I don’t get what it’s doing in there that it can’t at least get spread out over more cores; as-is, i
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by sebastos 3y ago
The same can be said for many - maybe even most topics in engineering higher education. 99% of the stuff you'd learn in an advanced controls course ain't running anywhere, but it's a body of knowledge we want to maintain and
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by sebastos 3y ago
Actually, these active flow control concepts can shape the flow so much that it's possible to create ridiculous L/D, and even create negative drag in certain regimes. So it's possible to be paying for a compressor and have it
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by sebastos 3y ago
Authenticity online USED to come somewhat naturally by virtue of just... starting communities. The reason was that the web was small, and discovery process was more random - that is, less systematic. As a consequence, you almost couldn&#x27

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