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Clear [game library manager] – 550kb desktop app built using Tauri
Hey there, over the past few months I've been chipping away at this project and here it finally is!

https://clear.adithya.zip/

It's a library manager for all your video games and you can automatically import them from steam or manually add them yourself. It'll also help you find the image assets for the game itself. All you need to do is tell it where the executable or shortcut for the game is and you're done!

It removes the hassle of remembering the launcher in which your game is available (for example the ubisoft or epic games launcher) and then waiting ages for them to launch. Also for those who usually just store the shortcuts to all their games on the desktop, this is definitely a much more aesthetic way to do so.

You can organize all your games into different folders however you like and everything can be dragged and dropped around.

Now coming to the tech part,

The app is also extremely lightweight weighing in at around 550kb for the portable and it also loads up blazingly fast, all thanks to Tauri, an electron alternative built in rust. It does make use of UPX in order to compress the final executable that Tauri produces, and there was a whole bunch of work and effort put into making sure that the dependency list was minimal, but the final product goes to show that with the right tech and libraries, desktop applications made with Javascript don't need to be bloated messes and can actually be quite delightful to use and make.

The application is open source and is licensed under UNLICENSE, thus dedicating the project to the public domain. Here's its github repo: https://github.com/adithyasource/clear
The javascript part is built using solidjs!

It also supports multiple languages but right now, only english and french are completely translated. You can help out with translating the app into other languages using the github repo!

If you do decide to use it, thank you so much! Please do let me know if it helps you out and if you have any feedback for it!
Looks like activity in that subreddit has died down quite a bit from the mid-2020 highs:

https://subredditstats.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/#:~:text=c...
It's not clear to me what "Credence" is; TFA doesn't say, and I haven't heard it mentioned in the press or the recent TV coverage. It seems to be a backend system that is supposed to mirror the state of Horizon branch systems, but is (sometimes?) an hour out of date.

Any info about Credence?
The code in C that suppose to be written like this is usually never written
first like that, its like pretending writing minified js by hand from scratch.
Usually the code is contracted and "minified" from large program to
fit entire program into 1-3 screens, the person who manually "minified" it to
that state will know its expansion but other people will dismiss it as obfuscated C,
its an old technique to fit lots of code into 80x25 type terminal.
Not surprising since J is optimized for code density per screen.
Old iPhones or Samsung phones (aka without some specific 5G radios) aren't going to be able to use this either.
I think the point is that one group of people is imagining a change and saying, “That change will be intolerable!” And then another group is actually experiencing the change and saying, “Hey, it’s actually pretty good.” You won’t know how you really feel about it until you try it yourself, and speculating about the second group won’t net you any benefit.
for anyone interested in reading the article behind the paywall:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sca_esv=595707...
Totally agree that for some reason, the most common thread among CCS charging companies is their inability to make it easy to use their chargers. I have a lot of complaints about Tesla, but the charging experience they've developed is not one of them.

Unfortunately, I have a suspicion that once NACS becomes the standard, all the current CCS companies will simply port their terrible user experience over to NACS rather than having the current experience be standard.
I liked mine a lot, but I got it in extra fine which was a real mistake. It's like scratching which makes inky marks, not writing. I should have gone with a fine or even medium nib.

I now use a Pilot Custom 823 which is always going to be less sturdy than the Vanishing Point and my guess is it's always living on borrowed time. I'll replace it with a fine/medium VP when I eventually break it somehow.
100%. My S.O. wants my next car to be an electric, but I'm hesitant because my current car (an 05 Civic LX) has been running non-stop like a champ since the day I started driving it 17 years ago. I've been going to the same mechanic in all that time, and repair costs have always been low thanks in part to the OEM market, but also to the self-repairability of older Hondas. I dread the day I have to get a new car only to find out I can't self-repair the car as much as I do now.
Give it time.

train : plane :: land line : cell phone :: terrestrial : satellite

The transition won't be instant and there will still be a place for terrestrial cell service for a long time, but the future favors flexibility and ubiquity.

The big challenge/opportunity will come when a non-US player arrives, like Thuraya after Iridium and the NSA can't slurp down all telephony.
I want more details on what exactly is going to happen for this mission.

What exactly is going to sit in the atmosphere of Venus? What does it look like? When does it launch?
Please remove that space from your acronym.
Cool. Do you plan to monetize it somehow?
I've never driven a cheap sports car, so I might agree with you. However, my subjective take is, between otherwise similar non-sports cars, the EV is more fun to drive. For a few reasons, I can't realistically have a purely fun car at the moment.
Are we still trying to find some direct physical correlation betwee the symptoms of "long covid" and the virus infection itself?

Such symptoms occuring are unsurprising given the psychological effect of the pandemic at its height, its societal and economical effects.

Adding to this getting infected and all the fanfare, along with fear mongering we've been subject to via the media and mandates, long covid could alone so easily be caused by the side effects on mental health.

I won't dare claiming most disease have psychological root causes, not a medical professional.
Earlier even than that, INMARSAT goes back to the 1970s.
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Thermo Fisher Says It Has Halted Sales of DNA Technology in Tibet
Depends somewhat on the model and when it was manufactured. After Whirlpool bought Kitchenaid from Hobart, they built a new plant to manufacture them in, though with Hobart's original tooling. Later, they introduced new models that substituted some plastic parts, and they had horrible QA problems. KA made some effort to fix these things, but their reputation took a big hit.
I stopped spending mental cycles trying to parse these standards after taking myself on a ride with a completely DIY SAML service provider implementation.

Today, we use OIDC & SAML to authenticate all of the things. But, I cannot explain how any of it works in terms of detailed protocol, certificate chains, etc.

We actually have no in-house configuration along this axis because we only use products, such as web function runners, that live inside the IdP's platform. These can be trivially opted-in for MFA authentication with a single dropdown election if you are using Azure.

If your mission is to build your own IdP platform and/or SP client libraries, then it totally makes sense to dive into this rabbit hole. Otherwise, make it someone else's problem. An occasional headline in the news about a token not expiring in time, etc, is not worth chasing unless you intend to compete directly with these providers and build your own identity platform. If Microsoft can get it wrong sometimes, so will you.
First we can use Laser, which was my initial BLAS experiment in 2019. At the time in particular, OpenBLAS didn't properly use the AVX512 VPUs. (See thread in BLIS https://github.com/flame/blis/issues/352 ), It has made progress since then, still, on my current laptop perf is in the same range

Reproduction:

- Assuming x86 and preferably Linux.

- Install Nim

- Install a C compiler with OpenMP support (not the default MacOS Clang)

- Install git

The repo submodules MKLDNN (now Intel oneDNN) to bench vs Intel JIT Compiler

```

git clone https://github.com/mratsim/laser

cd laser

git submodule update --init --recursive

nim cpp -r --outdir:build -d:danger -d:openmp benchmarks/gemm/gemm_bench_float32.nim

```

This should output something like this

```

Laser production implementation

Collected 10 samples in 0.230 seconds

Average time: 22.684 ms

Stddev time: 0.596 ms

Min time: 21.769 ms

Max time: 23.603 ms

Perf: 624.037 GFLOP/s

OpenBLAS benchmark

Collected 10 samples in 0.216 seconds

Average time: 21.340 ms

Stddev time: 3.334 ms

Min time: 19.346 ms

Max time: 27.502 ms

Perf: 663.359 GFLOP/s

MKL-DNN JIT AVX512 benchmark

Collected 10 samples in 0.201 seconds

Average time: 19.775 ms

Stddev time: 8.262 ms

Min time: 15.625 ms

Max time: 43.237 ms

Perf: 715.855 GFLOP/s
```

Note: the Theoretical peak limit is hardcoded and used my previous machine i9-9980XE.

It maybe that your BLAS library is not named libopenblas.so, you can change that here: https://github.com/mratsim/laser/blob/master/benchmarks/thir...

Implementation is in this folder: https://github.com/mratsim/laser/tree/master/laser/primitive...

in particular, tiling, cache and register optimization: https://github.com/mratsim/laser/blob/master/laser/primitive...

AVX512 code generator: https://github.com/mratsim/laser/blob/master/laser/primitive...

And generic Scalar/SSE/AVX/AVX2/AVX512 microkernel generator (this is Nim macros to generate code at compile-time): https://github.com/mratsim/laser/blob/master/laser/primitive...

I'll come back later with details on how to use my custom HPC threadpool Weave instead of OpenMP (https://github.com/mratsim/weave/tree/master/benchmarks/matm...). As a side bonus it also has parallel nqueens implemented.
Lockfiles are an attack vector for introducing malware in software supply chain
Lockfile Poisoning is an attack technique using which a developer with malicious intent can introduce malware in a project’s source code in a way which is almost invisible to code reviewers. This is an especially challenging and risky problem for open source projects where a contributor can sneak in malware by exploiting the cognitive load involved in reviewing changes in auto-generated lockfiles such as package-lock.json which many a times are hidden by default by Github and Gitlab.
I think drivers should be compulsory to open source 5 years after the hardware is no longer sold, it’d be so good for consumers and make hardware last a lot longer.

I’d include things like digital cameras and printers in this revolution. In a lot of cases it might be better using older hardware as new features would be added by the community forever!
When I was in school in the UK, we were only allowed to write with fountain pens. My guess is that learning to handwrite properly is easier with them; I certainly write much more legibly with one today (now I'm 40).

There is value in jotting down notes legibly :)
Resting heart rate of 70bpm is the average, so not a good measure.
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Time doesn't really have anything to do with it. You are fighting the basic laws of physics. For example 4G/5G home internet has been around for many years. Has it made your Comcast bill any cheaper?
And my point is that the subjective "doneness" of bread does still exist, even if an absolute one doesn't. And that subjective "doneness" is achieved using simple and repairable mechanical parts, rather than black-box electronics that need to be replaced if they have failures, and work on functions of related metrics, rather than on direct metrics of the subject, itself.

If you want to use a $10 toaster, more power to you! If you want to imply that this toaster can't possibly measure and achieve "doneness" of toast, I disagree. It does so in a subjective way, based on a variable input controlled by the subjective preferences of the user, but what it measures is how closely to that subjective "doneness" it is. Nothing impractical or dishonest about that description at all.
> Also interesting is that the total number of registered vehicles in the US declined by over 25 million between 2012 and 2019. There is hope!

Really? Awesome! The future is bright indeed. EVs are objectively better than ICE-cars, they don't nearly trash up the city as much as ICE-cars (less noisy, less stinky, no gas stations, nothing trashes up a neighborhood than a gas station), but a lot feel like they have made strides in being safer for pedestrians, cyclists, ...

Hard to square with the overall increased aggressive vibe in overall traffic, more antisocial driving, larger cars, meaner looking cars, ...
How fast can one realistically expect to be able to build decent quality system-level rust code, provided the person is already familiar with C-style programming languages and has 0 rust experience ?
Understanding Component Design: Writing Components That Work in Any Framework
Once fully deployed, I wonder if this will have much impact on wilderness rescues? If you can get a text message out, you can send your GPS coordinates out too, and even if it's not perfectly accurate, it will get the rescuers to within range to hear/see you.

Or, to view it from the opposite end of humanity, you could send a text message with gps coordinates and a time, and a high altitude loitering drone will put a mortar round or simple smart bomb at that spot.
I also have experienced much lower maintenance numbers with ICEs than what are being quoted. I think it's a combination of the models I pick (only those manufactured in Japan) and the fact that I buy new and drive for 8-10 years so I'm the single owner.
People get irrational over this kind of products where all control of the outcome has been ceded to the product designer. I don't. To me, this is the kind of product that disrespects the user by not even giving the user any (literally) knobs and controls to customize things. Especially on something as personal as food.

I'm at least glad that the author describes the failings of the toaster and says it only works "most of the time".
Yes, I have and for cursive, which is relevant when not picking up a pen, it is not that hard since you don't have to worry about precision of where exactly you place down the pen.
There was a period of time in the middle there where they switched to non-metal gear thingy in there which would occasionally strip out and break with improper use. That was evidently intentional, to save the motor from breaking, but it does wear out faster.

You can still get metal gear ones, but they're a little pricier.

Besides that they seem the same to me
As a current job seeker, this certainly _feels_ right. But how true is it in actuality? Is anyone able to confirm or deny this practice (at least anecdotally) for companies they've been at?
Each satellite costs about half a million (on the low end) to manufacture and launch. They are projected to last about 5 years each. A 5g macrocell (The big ones on huge masts) cost about $150k and lasts about 20 years. The microcells cost about $10k including installation and work great in high density areas. So they last about 4x as long as a StarLink satellite reducing operating expenses even further.

This means, for the cost of a single satellite, you can run about 13 macrocells. In addition, the infrastructure for those cells can last much longer and maintenance is much cheaper.

The only place that satellites makes sense is in remote areas where people aren't clustered as closely. Satellite is great at covering vast swaths of land with fewer subscriptions. So an area that would require 13 or more macrocells or an absurd amount of fiber optics to service a couple hundred people is perfect for StarLink.

The equation will change a lot if or when Falcon Heavy starts operating though. Then we will be able to blot out the stars with relatively inexpensive satellites. But I foresee StarLink using ground cells in denser areas anyways to reduce space traffic since you can't just cluster the satellites over a specific area. Probably they will just rent out the nodes to existing providers to expand cell coverage.
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> Clearly, alternative (B) does not ban economic growth across _all economic strata_. Unrealistic as though it might be, still.

My claim is that either it does, or B is the alternative. Neither is realistic.

> Also, you're equating "quality of life improvements" with economic income. Which is troublesome in many ways, especially if the economic income incurs major (huge) environmental problems that even jeopordizes the future of civilization as we know it. Or at the very least leads to _massive_ health and quality of life issues on a global scale. Then "income" is a worthless "quality of life" metric.

In the first place, growth need not lead to such catastrophic problems (see the Noah Smith links), in the second, that has no bearing on whether lifting a country out of poverty improves their quality of life; it clearly does.

When immigrants move to the West for a better life, what makes it better is easily be qualified: houses, vehicles, electricity, gadgets, consumption in general, and better jobs. It's not for the healthcare. Those things are made possible, or imply, higher income.

> Anyway, your original reply comes off as very arrogant and/or hypocritical.

Stop projecting. That is arrogant.

> at the same time acknowledge rich countries' rights to a lifestyle that you yourself acknowledge isn't sustainable if adopted by everyone

I did no such thing. It isn't unsustainable. Unsustainability would have to imply global population growing in perpetuity. Not only are we nowhere near lacking resources, global population growth is projected to stagnate.

What's more, between innovation and aggressive transition to renewables, we more efficiently use resources and can expect diminishing global carbon emissions in the near future.

Western fertility is already stagnant. The only reason we grow is a matter of federal policy: the immigration rate. And immigrants come because of quality of life.

> your claim that westeners are not the biggest emitters is factually incorrect

Again, I made no such claim. I claimed that the *growth* in global emissions is primarily driven from East Asia.
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> I know someone who got the vaccine and she ended up being crippled by arthritis from the vaccine

wat.
How do you know mosquitoes never change their behavior?
There was a huge leap in auto safety from 2000 to 2010 due to the increased use of high strength steel. I don't doubt that a modern car today is after than a 2007 model, but by how much? 5%? 10%? It's very hard to quantify.

Also a lot of what makes modern cars 'safer' is the inclusion of nannyTech such as stability control, automatic braking, etc. All of this is great, but if you were already a safe driver, there's little additional safety for you personally.
Thank you! And in case anyone is suspicious I promise this isn't my alt :)

Glad the gamma worked for you. I'd never really used binaural beats before but there seem to be a lot of things claiming to be binaural beats (especially on YouTube) that are actually just relaxing music? So I made them from scratch to make sure they're accurate
Thanks for sharing this.

The picture that's being painted online over the last few years has ultra-modern super-minimalist architects on one side and hyper-traditional maximum-maximalist architects on the other side.

I haven't seen many actual architects giving their take on it (they're probably out building stuff).
Promises and history and network effects. Generally you more or less buy into a system of instrumentation. Obviously you can always run wires from terminal A to B across brands, but you can work _much_ more quickly and neatly when working with the standard-for-your-shop stuff. Your shop will have oodles of terminals and buttons and relays in stock, and know exactly where to get the oddball stuff, etc. The resellers and supply houses all keep inventories. If a part does go end-of-life, you'll probably get an email if you've ever purchased that part, advising you to make final purchases for the long term if needed, etc.
It's true that being collision-resistant is a strong enough property to make collisions unlikely, but it doesn't hold that collision resistance is a requirement for such a hash function.

What is the relevance of collision resistance in this case? Why do you say it's a primary requirement of a hash function here? Why isn't uniformity with a large enough image space enough? Given that there is no adversary trying to produce collisions of generated identifiers, why does it matter that collisions are hard to deliberately create, rather than simply unlikely to occur?
iPhone with Globalstar are not satellite phones. They are phones with satellite. They are only text messengers similar to the SPOT and Iridium ones. Starlink is starting with text but planning on doing voice and slow data.

There is a big jump from going from device that have to pay for and pay subscription to working with every iPhone for free. Nobody knows if partner providers will charge extra for service or not but it should be free.
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New class of antibiotics is cause for cautious celebration