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New comment by thomspoon in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

thomspoon — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 02:58:05 +0000

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

New comment by thomspoon in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

thomspoon — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 02:53:37 +0000

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 infancy, or PEP restrictions.

For example:

    1. uv sync should update by default (like poetry)
    2. uv lock revision and dependency resolver keep changing and it makes it hard to figure out if changes to our uv.lock are real or due to separate versions of uv among developers
    3. uv pre-release dependency rules should be able to be disabled with either a sys_marker or specific case like pinning a version

Some other pain points but I can’t remember them all at the top of my head..

New comment by thomspoon in "The Swift SDK for Android"

thomspoon — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:44:57 +0000

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

New comment by thomspoon in "AR Computers to Terminate Eyestrain and Myopia"

thomspoon — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 01:26:03 +0000

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

New comment by thomspoon in "[dead]"

thomspoon — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:33:00 +0000

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

New comment by thomspoon in "US will ban cancer-linked Red Dye No. 3 in cereal and other foods"

thomspoon — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:09:31 +0000

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 in the ultra processed Quaker oats, but that’s an old recipe. Here’s what they sell at target:

https://www.target.com/p/quaker-fruit-38-cream-instant-oatme...

STRAWBERRIES & CREAM INGREDIENTS: Whole grain oats, sugar, dried strawberries, salt, dried cream, natural flavor, nonfat dry milk, sea salt, dried vegetable juice concentrate (color), tocopherols (to preserve freshness).

There’s not always a one-to-one comparison, and I agree shady companies in the US have free rein over what crap they add to our foods, but this has already been debunked.

New comment by thomspoon in "Tesla Sales Are Tanking in Europe"

thomspoon — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:19:41 +0000

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

New comment by thomspoon in "NY Post: Fact Checking Is Now Censorship"

thomspoon — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:00:17 +0000

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

New comment by thomspoon in "Musk Distorts Data: Tesla Still Years from Full Self-Driving"

thomspoon — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:52:33 +0000

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

New comment by thomspoon in "Snapchat isn't liable for connecting 12-year-old to convicted sex offenders"

thomspoon — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 02:10:00 +0000

I work there… no it’s not…

New comment by thomspoon in "Ask HN: What ever happened to the GOOD Super Bowl TV commercials?"

thomspoon — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 20:00:13 +0000

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

New comment by thomspoon in "Brilliant Frame – open-source AR glasses"

thomspoon — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:10:29 +0000

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

New comment by thomspoon in "Automakers Have Big Hopes for EVs; Buyers Aren't Cooperating"

thomspoon — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 16:42:53 +0000

All of which are discontinued as of this year…

New comment by thomspoon in "Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A"

thomspoon — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 02:24:19 +0000

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 AR/VR, autonomous driving (separate via V2V but related), and other functions that need low latency. Cell phones are just a bonus.

Also, a lot of telecoms are kind of ignoring 4g/lte deadspots in favor of just putting new NSA 5G cells it seems. I’m excited, but I’m also biased because I work in the industry.

New comment by thomspoon in "SiFive Core IP 20G1"

thomspoon — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 23:55:47 +0000

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 frustrated when there was no documentation.

New comment by thomspoon in "SiFive Core IP 20G1"

thomspoon — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:27:44 +0000

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 about the future of RISC-V in aerospace.

New comment by thomspoon in "Show HN: Detecting lines without deep learnng"

thomspoon — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 02:34:38 +0000

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

New comment by thomspoon in "New inline assembly syntax available in Rust nightly"

thomspoon — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 16:07:29 +0000

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 reimplement their example code or driver code in assembly! You can look at the ISA to see what assembly instructions are supported, or the disassembly of a running program (probably with no optimizations so you can see what they are doing)

New comment by thomspoon in "Show HN: C0D3 – A free, interactive site to learn coding"

thomspoon — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 19:30:35 +0000

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, are systems engineers as well as software developers.

Software engineering is a relatively new field and segregates from computer science in the sense that software engineers typically are involved in interface design (electronic and software), architecture, documentation, and various other aspects of typical engineering. I feel like I’m being an ass but I find the use of the term “Software Engineer” in this case is erroneous. In the same way you wouldn’t consider someone who tinkers with an arduino an electrical engineer, I don’t think we can consider someone who knows full-Stack web development a software engineer.

New comment by thomspoon in "Show HN: C0D3 – A free, interactive site to learn coding"

thomspoon — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 18:02:58 +0000

Software engineering is more than just software development. Writing requirements, drafting documentation, testing, verification, maintenance.

I hate to be hypercritical, but five weeks of javascript doesn’t make you a software engineer.