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You can't just get something to space and then leave it there for free. Any maintenance is way more expensive than a data center on the ground (be it via extra trips or extra R&D f…

Still need the entire browser DOM, APIs, layout, renderers, etc outside of JS.

No idea about this project, but it is very possible to compile a dynamically typed language, without large VM/runtime. See Common Lisp, Julia

> Space in NYC isn't cheap. Space in space is free. ... what? Say what you want about starship etc etc, but space in space is far from free and will be for a long time.

The UK loves to take various infrastructure and industries private and public depending on which government is in power at the moment. See also trains, water, etc

I would like to know if text is LLM generated even if I can't tell from the content itself. For me it's a matter of attention (hah) and a quality signal. The poster expects to spen…

False equivalence, text processor leaves the authors intention completely in tact and is deterministically controlled completely by the author. Not true for gen ai

Also bit twiddling is very useful in a scientific language when you want to "simulate" a lower level embedded processor, typically fixed or floating DSP or controls code. For examp…

Faster than rustc (the main rust compiler written in rust). Obvious from the context.

Bitbake (Yocto's build system) started originally as a fork of portage (gentoo package manager), but they have diverged a ton. Very similar concepts though.

> My experience is that Yocto is a bit like CMake: people hate the mess they make with it and blame the system, even though they never bothered learning to use it. I agree this is …

Are you seriously suggesting hobbyists should tapeout an ASIC instead of use an FPGA? 1. For one-off designs (quantity=1) ASICs will never beat a high end FPGA on unit price. 2. As…

How would that help? Unless you happen to check the dotfiles git diff before running _anything_. I guess this could be put in prompt or some cron job to detect diffs but I bet abso…

> Middle management is where the institutional knowledge sits on how to actually get shit done despite challenges & broken processes/systems. Really? In my experience it's the rank…

I have worked with a lot of people who had this attitude. The main predictors for it in my experience are 1. Lack of faith in the company they work for, ie they don't fully "believ…

> On your side-project it's also ok to ignore best engineering practice, reinvent the wheel because you feel like it or make decisions based on what seems most interesting even if …

I'm pretty sure he has used gradient descent in previous videos to optimize systems, maybe this time it was just easier to hand tune rather than set up an optimization feedback har…

I was curious what information I could glean from these for some popular repos. Caveat: I'm primarily an low-level embedded developer so I don't interface with large open source pr…

I don't think any realistic system will bootstrap C from shell. What is the shell implemented in if not C?

He implied replacing nano was the first step, before using it for more complex (software development) tasks. First use it just for quick one-off edits of /etc/blah.conf then gradua…

Rather than being about fast/simple/cheap, I think using SSN as a key was more about the fact that SSN is the only common identifier that almost all US citizens have.

Sure, but splitting "atomic" operations across a reboot is an interesting design choice. Surely upon reboot you would re-try the first `mv a b` before doing other things.

This is local to the device though. Nothing to do with the WAN. Would still work even on the "serverless" ipv6 network.

The Z80 instruction set lives on via the eZ80, Z180 and others which are binary compatible with the original Z80 instruction set. Unfortunately Zilog stopped making the 40 pin DIP …

Really, the best we can do with the NPU is a less battery intensive blurred background? R&D money well spent I guess...