matthewfcarlson
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Firmware engineer and Hackaday writer.
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- matthewfcarlson parentI understand the grandparents viewpoint. Why add constraints to an open ended toy? On the other hand, you could argue that the instructions and included pieces are constraints. Should Lego just sell random grab bags of pieces?
- I would also love a button to pause so I can poke around the keyboard to see what it sounds like.
- Nothing makes me quite as irrationally angry as a 30 second ad on a one minute video
- Salty but not mean is how I put it
- As part of undergrad we had to implement space invaders on a Zync FPGA so you got to choose which bits you did in hardware and what was in software. It was a blast seeing what people came up with as you could do “extras” that gave you bonus points. Someone built a simple microphone frequency analysis block so you could go left, right, and fire by playing notes on a recorder.
- To be clear, the work the asahi folks are doing is incredible. I’m ashamed to say sometimes their documentation is better than the internal stuff.
I’ve heard it’s mostly because there wasn’t an m3 Mac mini which is a much easier target for CI since it isn’t a portable. Also, there have been a ton of hardware changes internally between M2 and M3. M4 is a similar leap. More coprocessors, more security features, etc.
For example, PPL was replaced by SPTM and all the exclave magic.
https://randomaugustine.medium.com/on-apple-exclaves-d683a2c...
As always, opinions are my own
- Idk- cheaper inference seems to be a huge industry secret and providing the best inference tech that only works with nvidia seems like a good plan. Makes nvidia the absolute king of compute against AWS/AMD/Intel seems like a no brainer.
- I’m pretty sure anywhere there’s a lot of people (the northeast of the US for example) you’re going to find a lot of smart people.
- Agreed retail is a good customer for this tech. But even after getting fiber personally, it gets cut a lot by landscaping crews. Most of the time it’s a residential line that takes a day to fix. But a few times it’s been a main line and it takes 3-4 days. Maybe I’m unusual but that’s been my experience
- I keep an old Starlink in a closet for this exact reason
- ^ this. I'm in the same boat. I got tired of having to do windows things on my windows pc.
- I went to bazzite with a 4070ti super, is it worth going to a 9070xt? I've had graphical issues but a reboot always fixes it. The main menu UI is dog slow though (easily a half second of lag).
- Just dumped windows for bazzite with an Nvidia gpu + a 12700k. So far, great. There's definitely some artifacts but a reboot has always fixed it. I mainly installed it to see if I could go full steam machine.
- Who/what is DHH?
- I’m always a huge fan of asymmetrical projects where people connect with their phones to collectively modify a shared state.
- This is incredible, time to make a 3d printable version of this
- I didn’t think pre-commit was that slow but I’ll admit I am intrigued. UV has been a godsend so why not?
- I don’t think Google is a great example to hold up here. They throw so much random crap at a wall hoping for another golden goose. Then kill anything that isn’t after a few years. If you can’t tell, I’m still salty about Google domains.
Many of the things you listed need time to bake and Google never cooks anything more than a quick sear in the pan.
- If I had a chunk of uranium but it was covered in an algae that absorbed all radiation out of the chunk, isn’t it much faster? As the effects of the uranium is largely mitigated.
- I tried to build something like this during covid and got into the weeds around syncing a vuex store across server/client based on pinia (https://pinia.vuejs.org). Vue3 separated the reactivity model from the framework so when the server made a change, it forwarded the event automatically to clients. Since the game state was a series of mutations, it made it easy to replay on a client along with net code style rollback in the case of conflicts.
All told, congrats shipping something!
- I am fascinated by the people who just send a request to mark zuckerburg for money in Venmo. I guess shoot your shot, it costs you nothing. But still
- This is absolutely brilliant
- I don’t disagree but in the about they explain it’s just a Debian install that boots into the tilde editor.
- This was one of the most interesting things I read today- good job Skander!
- I get your point, but I personally would be grumpy if I lost power for two hours twice a month. I realize that is rich considering this article is about people who are lucky to get any amount of power reliably
- Everyone knows that teeth are luxury bones in the US. The market just isn't there for fancy treatments. The ultra-wealthy just get their teeth replaced with perfect veneers anyway.
- Are they good options for cloud-freeish thermostats? I have two units (one for upstairs and one for downstairs). We have two nests but they’re so frustrating. I’ve lobotomized the “smart behavior” as much as a I can. I want a thermostat that connects to the home assistant I already have
- You’re off by a few orders of magnitude. I’ll grant you, what is the bootloader becomes a very complex question. Even if you scope it to just “what is the code physically etched into the chip as the mask ROM” (secureROM) you’re talking hundreds of thousands. If you’re talking about all the code that runs before the kernel starts executing you’re talking hundreds of millions.
- Just the fact that there are millions of citizens means you have to trust the process. When I go vote and stamp my votes, you need to trust my county’s counters. I find it strange we focus so much on tampering with an individual vote (machine says you voted for X instead of Y) rather than tampering with aggregation
- My best McConaughey voice: “this little server is gonna cost us 51 years”