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New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "Grayskull: A tiny computer vision library in C for embedded systems, etc."

goeiedaggoeie — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 10:00:12 +0000

https://github.com/spsingh37/Classical-computer-vision

spend some time to understand how CV worked before deep learning transformed it in 2012->2014. lots of those techniques are still useful

New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "Chaining FFmpeg with a Browser Agent"

goeiedaggoeie — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:50:23 +0000

Still has a way to go, but very exciting.

New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025"

goeiedaggoeie — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:49:20 +0000

darn pirates should run the content through a super resolution model!

New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025"

goeiedaggoeie — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:47:59 +0000

Netflix also has a huge incentive to not use h265 and h264, licensing cost.

New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely"

goeiedaggoeie — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 17:52:18 +0000

entropy comes for us all

New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work"

goeiedaggoeie — Mon, 26 May 2025 12:20:12 +0000

Surely there is a scale limit to how big the application can be using this approach.

New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "Inheritance was invented as a performance hack (2021)"

goeiedaggoeie — Thu, 08 May 2025 10:53:00 +0000

>> People created AbstractFactoryFactoryBuilders not because they wanted to,

I don't think this is accurate. people created factories like this because they were limited by interface bounds in the languages they were coding in and had to swap out behaviour at run or compile time for testing or configuration purposes.

New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "RustAssistant: Using LLMs to Fix Compilation Errors in Rust Code"

goeiedaggoeie — Fri, 02 May 2025 10:29:48 +0000

I find that these area all pretty bad with more advanced code still, especially once FFI comes into play. Small chunks ok, but even when working with specification (think some ISO standard from video) and working on something simple (eg a small gstreamer rust plugin), it is still not quite there. C(++) same story.

All round however, 10 years ago I would have taken this assistance!

New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient"

goeiedaggoeie — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:54:09 +0000

our city has no bio waste. we make all our own dried fruit, eat mostly fresh from market (so little to no plastic for our veggies), but an immense amount of organic waste.

New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient"

goeiedaggoeie — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:07:34 +0000

it allows us to get all our organic and bio plastic waste for a big family with pets, including most bones once we have cooked stock from it, in a compost heap in the city.

we tried composting before and the volume of organic waste we produced was too much and we had to dispose a lot of our waste in general trash (our location has no organic waste disposal that runs in our neighborhood) meant animals ripped our curb side bags open.

I am not a degrowther to save the planet either, so a company putting compostable products in place of plastic ones seems like good economic activity.

New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient"

goeiedaggoeie — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 23:58:21 +0000

Space is the main reason. We live in the city and the amount of organic waste we (family of 4 + numerous pets) produce is staggering. additionally meat attracts animals. This I run an overnight cycle and I can add it to my compost heap and let it degrade more and no issues with rodents and other animals who dig through food waste. after using this device, in the future I would always grind/break up my organic waste as fine as possible just to save space.

New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "Building an AI that watches rugby"

goeiedaggoeie — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 19:23:00 +0000

if you using CV to track the player, the ball etc from a broadcast it is fine, the scoreboard however not so straight forward. fwiw, doing CV from broadcast for accurate scoring of sports is neigh near impossible due to edges, but human in the loop systems exist. there are also numerous in venue CV systems which auto collect game and player information.

New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient"

goeiedaggoeie — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 19:12:35 +0000

great post. I posted in this thread above about using a Lomi to convert our organic waste into organic fertilizer (along with a worm farm), a and cultivating nitrogin fixing bacteria with our outdoor fish pond and a flood and drain system. Soil is great to grow in, if you treat it well.

New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient"

goeiedaggoeie — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 19:09:35 +0000

We use a Lomi to convert our organic waste into compost I can add to my worm farm

and then from the worm farm, mix with outdoor soil and grow in that. A automated a flood and drain system with our fish and cultivate nitrogen fixing bacteria with that, and water the plants with this water every couple of days.

Using these two approaches I have not had to buy any nutrients in years and our soil is doing well.

https://lomi.com/?srsltid=AfmBOor2uvg1DJ2J1E6rXh-8L3iAqzeSD0...

New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "Building an AI that watches rugby"

goeiedaggoeie — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 17:40:36 +0000

I think you misunderstand that case "compiled its scores and statistics by employing people to listen or watch the games, then enter the scores on the computer which transmits the scores to STATS' on-line service, to be sent out to anyone using a SportsTrax pager.[1]"

Notice how they watched the game and got the statistics like that. The restrictions are about using the scoreboard and the data displays and reselling/commercialising that data. It is however legal to watch the game and compile and distribute your own stats due to the game entering public domain.

Due to this many betting companies and data collection companies have to pay people to watch the game vs just scraping the scoreboard (which is the context from which I learnt about this). ironically at venue OCR is a common way to get scoreboard data.

New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "Building an AI that watches rugby"

goeiedaggoeie — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:29:24 +0000

Reading the scoreboard from a TV screen and selling that data is restricted in many jurisdictions. This work is pretty naive I think.

New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing"

goeiedaggoeie — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 11:08:40 +0000

Things like camera intrinsics and extrinsics are not fixed. 1000 bytes seems small to me given the amount of processing in modern cameras to create a raw image. I could easily imagine storing more information like focus point, other potential focus points with weights as part of the image for easier user on device editing.

New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere"

goeiedaggoeie — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:30:15 +0000

As an Akamai user I already serve all my DASH traffic (video) over http3. Akamai itself return to origin only supports http 1.1 LL-HLS forces me use HTTP2.

The problem here is Akamai really in only supporting HTTP1.1 to the origin. Cloudfare I think only supports HTTP2 to origin. Does Fastly yet support QUIC to origin? Does Cloudfront, I could only find information about it supporting QUIC the last mile.

Maybe more CDN support will drive web server support.

New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?"

goeiedaggoeie — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:15:17 +0000

I write a fair bit of rust/c for my day job. Do you find zig easier than the ffi interface in Rust?

New comment by goeiedaggoeie in "Reflect Orbital: Sunlight after dark using a constellation of spatial reflectors"

goeiedaggoeie — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:56:53 +0000

hahahaha. this is such a joke.