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jpc0

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About jpc0

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Interests: AI/ML, Books, Climbing, DevOps, Hacking, Hardware, Hiking, IoT, Music, Networking, Open Source, Programming, Running, Web Development

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    Comment #49121926

    I hope to see more of this across the industry. I definitely make use of AI but in my experience I almost always could have done it better myself, the places where I threw AI at th…

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    Comment #49033003

    In what situation do you need to do that is what the previous commenter qas getting at. If you want a graphical browser just open it locally...

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    Comment #49018862

    Capex != Opex Your are measuring two very different things. And you are only considering electricity bills for the GPU. Higher TDP also means more heat which means more cooling. It…

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    Comment #48757253

    Group delay is a poor argument. Unless you also have a pretty decent monitoring system the group delay of the speakers isn't going to be consistent so the filters before them would…

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    Comment #48696283

    > A lot of capacity is coming online in the next 5 years Is this true though? I don't really have time to do the research and have no dog in the race but I'm sceptical... But then …

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    Comment #48670595

    > I just want a damn API key, I keep it a secret and revoke if necessary and don't need 10000 layers of auth bullshit tangled up in every layer of every platform Then implement tha…

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    Comment #48620045

    Home networks are almost exclusively secure by default on any reasonable hardware. The bigger issues is not remembering hostnames vs IP addresses. Unless you have explicitly change…

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    Comment #48551130

    Enable sanitizers on test suites and fuzzers. Enable warnings and WError Use clang tidy and other static analyzers Actually use a modern compiler and enable the safety features the…

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    Comment #48411071

    > What made open source great, is the fact that if you find a problem, you can patch it. It's what motivated me, anyway. What exactly is different now? > it's under development and…

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    Comment #48410983

    1. Free Redistribution 2. Source Code 3. Derived Works 4. Integrity of The Author’s Source Code 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups 6. No Discrimination Against Fields o…

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    Comment #48396098

    Exept they do actually do facial rec against the government database, to my knowledge anyways. This is a requirement for two different banks I have, very likely for the rest as wel…

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    Comment #48366381

    > The relationship was established decades ago and they accept money and direct deposit still with no KYC. Having just gone through the annual KYC checks required by my bank/s I do…

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    Comment #48296974

    > term “systems program” has always meant network middleware that shuttles around JSON and transforms it. Who are we that has always defined that term that way. For any systems pro…

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    Comment #48167399

    My favorite right now. "Make the AI do xyz" That clearly needs a custom harness to integrate with ORG tooling. "No we won't pay for token usage, make it work with the subscription …

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    Comment #48167389

    You do know it is possible for the answers to be anonymous but who submitted to be tracked?

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    Comment #48043449

    a11y is pretty pervasive and well understood in the context around what is being discussed. I18n as well, you get to look that one up to because that makes you one of today's lucky…

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    Comment #47979613

    > SSDs that can write at 4 or 5 GB/s In my experience unless you actually pay attention and get something with a dram cache it will sustain that speed for all of 5 seconds and then…

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    Comment #47851635

    From what I understand about this application ffmpeg of only used for export? That is very little of the processing of true, they mentioned the webcodec is used extensively and lik…

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    Comment #47823022

    A magnet in a coil operates both ways, this is non intuitive but perfectly sound. Not sure if it's mentioned in the article but microphones can be speakers too...

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    Comment #47468017

    > It’s also THE language you use when writing UIs I'm unsure that I agree with this, for my smaller tools with a UI I have been using rust for business logic code and then platform…

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    Comment #47454428

    I'm not entirely sure that this is true. I haven't actually looked into this but it might not be the realm of possibility. But you are generating a frame on GPU, if you can also en…

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    Comment #47434945

    Good strong (read specific) types encourage easier redactors. Changing the function signature or the type then generated cascade of compiler errors that tells you exactly what you …

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    Comment #47399452

    There is a difference between us all experiencing a shared artistic experience and us hearing about your kids while we are trying very hard to share an artistic experience. I would…

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    Comment #47312219

    I don't think fear or legal action makes it illegal. If I know it is legal to make a turn at a red light. And I know a court will uphold that I was in the right but a police office…

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    Comment #47259246

    Of all the self help books I have actually read, The 7 Habits is probably the one that had consistently been useful in actually navigating issues day to day. And I read it probably…