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thomspoon

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    Comment #48725815

    The burden of proof should be with the beholder. Must be so easy to scream AI when you don’t want to read an article.

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    Comment #48587359

    Either ollama or omlx, both are pretty dang performant. Omlx lets you run Claude code locally though as long as you bootstrap it with the right model

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    Comment #48577098

    Excellent work, I love Apple hardware integration outside of the ecosystem!

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    Comment #45767853

    Because uv is still beta software and doesn’t conform to 100% of the PEPs currently available due to that being a lot of work

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    Comment #45767827

    I thoroughly enjoy uv, having used poetry and requirements.txt prior, but it does come with its faults in a large codebase. Admittedly, I don’t know whether they re due to uv’s inf…

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    Comment #45698878

    OpenGL or Vulkan, you might be able to have some luck transpiling metal shaders to spirv-cross at a cursory look

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    Comment #43552914

    Snap is another competitor in this space that has see-through displays via waveguides.

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    Comment #43445871

    You can say anything you want, yet you say nothing of importance

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    Comment #42712671

    I agree with you until you bring foodbabe into this. She’s notorious for hand-picking things that meet the MAHA agenda. For example, the oats argument, yes there is a ton of crap i…

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    Comment #42699221

    AFAIK newer ones come with the NACS charger, older ones you have to buy the adapter

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    Comment #42697281

    This is a pretty weak argument. Especially since you write fact-checking with quotes. Not your facts, eh?

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    Comment #42697204

    You made this account just to comment on this post? I dislike Elon but that’s extra

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    Comment #39476076

    I work there… no it’s not…

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    Comment #39349623

    “A clear indicator” …he’s been dead for 13 years and Apple has 10x’d since then.

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    Comment #39315533

    This device is considered “low-effort” AR, AVP is a VR device with passthrough which really only has basic capabilities for AR.

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    Comment #37891238

    All of which are discontinued as of this year…

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    Comment #24045888

    Lower latency, easier to place cells in public places due to a broader range of frequencies, better bandwidth. The lower latency part is what’s going to enable edge computing for A…

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    Comment #24004157

    We’ve been using chisel, but SiFive’s creation tools mean you don’t have to write anything. Before we went the SiFive route, we were generating CPUs with rocket and getting frustra…

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    Comment #23988574

    I work for a defense contractor and we’ve been using these in R&D for a little over a year. They seem promising and SiFive has been working to fix every bug we find. I’m encouraged…

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    Comment #23547088

    This is just a clone of the nanocert from Udacoty regarding computer vision...

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    Comment #23467838

    Imo there’s not really a best book or resource other than buying a microcontroller and doing it yourself! Pick up a ARM Cortex-M4 development board either from TI or STM and reimpl…

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    Comment #23420757

    Let me be a little more explicit, software engineering is more than code. Software developers live, breathe, and puke software development. Software engineers, usually accredited, …

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    Comment #23419743

    Software engineering is more than just software development. Writing requirements, drafting documentation, testing, verification, maintenance. I hate to be hypercritical, but five …

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    Comment #23297693

    Isn’t that what your salary is for?

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    Comment #23295759

    Source? Those seem rather low.