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New comment by dc443 in "Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us""

dc443 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:55:57 +0000

What i don't get is why people gravitate toward trying to show off how many symbols they're able to manipulate in their brain without screwing something up.

It's a computer. It does what it was instructed to do, all 50 million or so of them. To think you as a puny human have complete and utter mastery over it is pure folly every single time.

As time goes on I become more convinced that the way to make progress in computing and software is not with better languages, sure, those are very much appreciated, since language has a strong impact on how you even think about problems, but it's more about tooling and how we can add abstractions to the software to leverage the computer we already got to alleviate the eye gouging complexity of trying to manage it all by trying to predict how it will behave with our pitiful neuron sacs.

New comment by dc443 in "Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us""

dc443 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:50:43 +0000

Well he DOES have a threadripper now.

New comment by dc443 in "Why cryptography is not based on NP-complete problems"

dc443 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:26:29 +0000

slightly off topic but I would like to understand better why there is handwringing going around about cryptosystems being broken by future quantum computers. Don't we already have quantum resistant cryptosystems? Why not just switch to them across the board?

New comment by dc443 in "I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it"

dc443 — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:53:26 +0000

Thank you. I hope to see progress in these areas when I visit later. I was hoping to be able to go all in on wgpu but if there are still legitimate reasons like this one to build a native app, then so be it.

New comment by dc443 in "I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it"

dc443 — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:24:42 +0000

Do you know if these things I found offer any hope for being able to continue rendering a scene smoothly while we handle GPU memory management operations on worker threads?

https://gfx-rs.github.io/2023/11/24/arcanization.html

https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/issues/5322

New comment by dc443 in "I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it"

dc443 — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:21:44 +0000

> WGPU doesn't support multiple threads updating GPU memory without interference, which Vulkan supports.

This is really helpful for me to learn about, this is a key thing I want to be able to get right for having a good experience. I really hope WGPU can find a way to add something for this as an extension.

New comment by dc443 in "I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it"

dc443 — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:16:42 +0000

I wonder how much less ergonomic is is for getting there via Vulkan. For the ray tracing shaders.

New comment by dc443 in "Raspberry Pi 5"

dc443 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 06:34:18 +0000

Damn that is pretty impressive. I just drive my 3d printer and run the unifi controller interface with mine. Thanks for the inspiration.

New comment by dc443 in "x86 is dead, long live x86"

dc443 — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:53:01 +0000

I've been hoarding apple devices too. I have a 12 inch macbook, recently brought it up to Ventura. But the blasted thing won't hold a charge. The battery is fine over 90% health but something is causing power drain while it sleeps even when I try to hibernate it.

It's impossible to find a use case for the thing. I might have to sell it.

New comment by dc443 in "Guide to running Llama 2 locally"

dc443 — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 20:44:48 +0000

I have 2x 3090 do you know if it's feasible to use that 48GB total for running this?

New comment by dc443 in "State-of-the-art open-source chatbot, Vicuna-13B, just released model weights"

dc443 — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 17:43:33 +0000

Ouch. I got this wrong and was under the impression that GPT4 got this wrong for half an hour, and then figured out after reading it again after returning from a walk that this is one hell of a trick question. My brain automatically assumed that a man's widow is the man's dead wife, but I see that the correct way to interpret this is to realize that it means the man is the one who is dead.

It's pretty awesome to realize that from now onward my computers are going to be able to help catch more and more of the holes that clearly exist in my cognition.

New comment by dc443 in "Apple Detection of Flashing Lights"

dc443 — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 02:56:32 +0000

There should be an option to control and limit the severity of flashing that is brought about with the flash light for notifications accessibility setting. I like to use it because I don't want to make my phone obnoxiously loud, because i can't hear its vibration, and I still want to get a chance to perceive the notifications, but usually the light is too damn bright and I do worry it could trigger epilepsy in innocent passersby. Having an alternative flashing behavior like a smooth pulsation would be excellent.

New comment by dc443 in "NP-complete isn't always hard"

dc443 — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 21:14:23 +0000

Could you give some examples of how BDDs are impactful?

New comment by dc443 in "VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model"

dc443 — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 20:27:08 +0000

The commenter you're responding to is talking about Lovelace architecture based GeForce RTX 40x0 products. The Quadro line isn't even released yet on this architecture. You are talking about the specific Quadro RTX 4000 product, which is a TU104 (turing arch, 2 gens behind, with 2560 processors and 8GB memory). The commenter you're responding to is referring to something like a GeForce RTX 4090 which sports an AD102 (lovelace arch, with 16384 processors and 24GB memory).

You were merely an unfortunate casualty of Nvidia's product marketing scheme (and a commenter's slightly imprecise reference to it) here.

New comment by dc443 in "Some notes on using esbuild"

dc443 — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:54:21 +0000

For other readers, it took me a while to figure out that esm.sh is a website you can go to which explains what it is.

New comment by dc443 in "Goodbye, Clean Code (2020)"

dc443 — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:34:54 +0000

The point your parent post was making was that regardless of whether or not you actually got fired doesn't actually matter. The signal you should be paying attention to (which you are surely aware of, since you say this episode still bothers you) is that the environment was a toxic one so if they did fire you they would have been doing you a favor. At least from a silver linings point of view.

New comment by dc443 in "Economic costs of war"

dc443 — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 03:54:55 +0000

It's hard for me to believe that a modern brick school costs the same as 1.667 miles of concrete pavement, but it does not change the point he makes. It just makes concrete pavement sound really, really expensive.

New comment by dc443 in "The Google Fitbit Deal: Hazardous to competition, privacy, and our health [pdf]"

dc443 — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 18:17:58 +0000

You took the words out of my mouth. What on earth did I just read? Don't they have video recordings?

New comment by dc443 in "Show HN: Instantly search 2M recipes"

dc443 — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 02:52:14 +0000

As an avocado fan I have trouble grappling with the concept of guac made without them. Isn't that sorta like orange juice made from things that are not oranges? Feels almost oxymoronic. Good suggestion though.

Ask HN: Links that open articles in a frame with comments?

dc443 — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 19:54:33 +0000

Small pain point while browsing HN. I have to decide whether to open the comments or open the article. I almost always regret opening the article because i have to go back to hunt for the link to comments; even if the article turned out worthless I'm still often curious about the comments.

If I open comments, I have to make a second tab anyway to see any of the article, and often don't even bother doing that, thus missing out on some content. Can we have a way to see both from one click?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25326126

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