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What I don’t understand is why don’t all VR devices just add a non-tracking mode for low latency desktop monitor replacement.

They have better optics than xreal and emulating a 1080p on a higher res display will allow less edge blurring allow for a larger virtual monitor
"existed" not "exist"
Re-reading https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810 (linked elsewhere in this thread as well), right the thing that should have been solved first as the introduction of a TCP and UDP replacement suite that could handle mobility, since then switching IP versions at layer 3 would be much easier. But 30 years ago mobility wasn't as critical as 20 years ago and the IETF didn't foresee it. Also, introducing new transport protocols is quite difficult due to middleboxes -- at least that was the experience with SCTP, but a TCP that solves mobility would probably lead to middleboxes getting fixed quickly.
That seems doubtful but possible since fares of public transit tend to run at a loss. Most public transit just offloaded the cost on poor who must drive to less accessible and less wealthy unserviced areas as collected tax expenditures from their checks.
Compute overhead of H.264 encoder is non-negligible for a VM host where I want all my CPU cycles to go to user VMs. Datacenter-class Intel CPUs (Xeon) don't include H.264 encoders in hardware. QuickSync circuitry is generally limited to consumer-grade CPUs. Not to mention MPEG licensing issues.

AV1 eliminates MPEG licensing issues, but encoding in hardware is even more limited. Also, AV1 is great for encode-once use cases (e.g. YouTube) since it's heavily geared towards reducing bandwidth requirements vs. encode speed. It's workable for real-time streaming in the lowest settings, but H.264 is still better overall.
Oh yes the music is amazing. ‘Rain’ is a particularly lovely original composition. The soundtracks are on Spotify etc and well worth a listen
EU pushes ahead with Big Tech antitrust enforcement
But it still is! None of the technology that made these games possible has disappeared; quite the opposite, as you already mention (with Pico-8 etc.)
I think a more objective analysis would admit that it does require this, albeit sometimes not every Monday. And the article makes exactly this concession toward the end, to which I suspect GP’s comment was a glib reference.

The objective counterpoint to this glib interpretation IS NOT that, in FP, one never has to rearchitect the logic narrowing a program’s state space. Instead, an objective counterpoint might be more along the lines of this:

Yes, sometimes business rules evolve in a way that diverges from business logic. Yes, in a codebase that narrows its state space according to the prior business rules, that evolution may require revision to how state space is narrowed. But once that’s done, it is done. It doesn’t require adjusting dozens of special cases incidental to the previous business rules’ implementation: it only requires adjusting the special cases inherent to the business rules.

That’s objective. And it’s also objective to say that whether it’s compelling will depend on the business’s tolerance for that objectivity (or in lucky cases: its embrace of same).
This doesn't really make sense for tribes living on remote small islands who displays the same pattern of violence.
Frankly it's no worse than "mebibyte".
Archive link: https://archive.is/dpHIP
This seems like it'd be way more useful for tivoization than for legitimate security. Root should always be able to load and execute arbitrary code anywhere in the system.
Reading your comment about comparing the throughput to Redis, it seems to me that you haven't read the benchmark article really. In there, we're in fact comparing the "throughput" and not the latency. allow me to quote some of the throughput numbers from the article mentioned above:

Single Operation Performance

Redis Single Operations

SET: 273,672.69 requests per second (p50=0.095 ms)

GET: 278,164.12 requests per second (p50=0.095 ms)

HPKV Single Operations

INSERT: 1,082,578.12 operations per second

GET: 1,728,939.43 operations per second

DELETE: 935,846.09 operations per second

Batch Operation Performance

Redis Batch Operations

SET: 2,439,024.50 requests per second (p50=0.263 ms)

GET: 2,932,551.50 requests per second (p50=0.223 ms)

HPKV Batch Operations

INSERT: 6,125,538.03 operations per second

GET: 8,273,300.27 operations per second

DELETE: 5,705,816.00 operations per second

The latency of 600ns as I mentioned is a local vectored interface call and not over the network. the is not how we compared the system with Redis. the above numbers are using our RIOC API over the network, in which HPKV behaves like a server similar to a Redis server.

The numbers above are compared with Redis in-memory and HPKV is still 2-6x faster. even if you assume HPKV as just an in-memory KV store with no persistence.
All it takes is for these neighborhoods to get locked and loaded and this shit will stop. Everyone thinks that guns are bad, but in an era where the cops won't do shit, if everyone was conservative (or fuck even democrat) gun toting maniacs like me, no one would break in.

Bonus points for getting a laser mounted gun which is probably illegal here in CA :) That scares the living shit out of people when it's centered on their chest.
The Eurostar train from London to Paris takes only 2.5 hours. Much faster than driving.
Cite things from ID based specs. You’re facing a skill issue. The reason most people don’t see it as such is because an LLM doesn’t just “fail to run” here. If this was code you wrote in a compiled language, would you post and say the language infuriates you because it won’t compile your syntax errors? As this kind of dev style becomes prevalent and output expectation adjust, work performance review won’t care that you’re mad. So my advice is:

1. Treat it like regular software dev where you define tasks with ID prefixes for everything, acceptance criteria, exceptions. Ask LLM to reference them in code right before impl code

2. “Debug” by asking the LLM to self reflect on its decision making process that caused the issue - this can give you useful heuristics o use later to further reduce the issues you mentioned.

“It” happening is a result of your lack of time investment into systematically addressing this.

_You_ should have learned this by now. Complain less, learn more.
A whole article, and not one sentence saying exactly what they actually had to do at a technical level.
> Sometimes they have concerns that actually could be fixed from management.

curious. what are some examples of this and why do they take threat of leaving before management fixes it.
You make some good points, but it's important to keep in mind that as a manager, when you are task allocating and reprioritizing employee work, you need to keep your team's individual challenges in mind. The same way that a developer might need to manage server resources, or consider the impact of a new feature on future maintenance, a manager needs to solve the problem, except the resources available to solve the problem happen to be human.

If a teammate has a sick parent, everyone on the team may choose to empathize. For the manager, every challenge that comes up, the parent sickness is one of your constraints to be dealt with. You need to compartmentalize sufficiently that you can think about this without stopping your work to solve the problem, but not so much that you treat the worker as a non-human resource. It can get a little tough.
My Google Maps experience has gone downhill over the past two years. It has gotten bad enough that I started using Apple Maps. I was blown away by the difference, not just from how far they have come along since launch, but that how the navigation gives directions in a way that matters to me while I am driving.

I don't know why Siri has had a bad user experience, but if there is one company that can do a better job at AI-as-a-product than OpenAI or Google, I think it would be Apple.
> Yeah, but the fear I have is that if they put somebody like you in charge they'd prioritize visual consistency over functionality and things would just get dropped.

But the thing is functionality is already being impacted! I had an experience the other day where I was trying to manually configure an IP address for an ethernet interface to configure a piece of hardware, one of those situations where it lacks DHCP but I knew what the IP scheme was and so I just had to configure an address, gateway and subnet in order to be able to talk to this damned thing, which I was eventually able to do. But, crucially as I'm trying to do this, Windows pushes me towards a Modern/Metro UI version, which, fine, whatever, but when I entered my information it would then show a series of "in progress" dots across the bottom of the screen, presumably because it was attempting to verify it had internet access on this interface, which it obviously didn't and wouldn't, but it did have internet access via the WLAN card. This contradiction seemed to confuse the shit out of the Settings app, as it presented no error and eventually seemed to just... shrug and do the thing I'd asked.

Except it didn't work, and I spent an hour troubleshooting why I couldn't yet communicate to the thing, only to eventually out of exasperation go to the control panel to see if the old UI version of this (right click interface, properties, ipv4, properties) only to find out it NEVER SET THE ADDRESS I SPECIFIED AT ALL! Presumably because it couldn't verify it now had internet with those settings, or maybe because the UI was just broken, I don't know.

(Also interestingly CMD thought it had the address configured, but no subnet or gateway, and the old UI had none of it and it was still configured as DHCP)

And like, this is just bad software design, bordering on incompetent software design, for several reasons:

* We have an in-progress "I'm doing something" indicated from the OS, and I'm assuming it was in fact doing something, but it was not indicated at all what was being done, or why, or the result of what was done or what went wrong, which is simply horrendous.

* It was, I'm guessing, attempting to verify connectivity, but that was not explained to me, nor was it presented as an option as it is in the old UI (there's a checkbox that says "validate this when I'm done" and you can leave it off, which I did which then worked as I thought it would)

* Somehow, these three functions to show an interface's state (CMD, old UI, new UI) are all producing different outputs to one another about the same interface, which is just BONKERS in terms of software designed to manage a system, and implies severe fragmentation in the core of the OS.

So, just so I'm understood, I don't think Windows 11 is embarrassing because it has different UI conventions present simultaneously. I think it's embarrassing because of what that fragmentation means for lower, more important parts of the OS. It's a less important thing that points at a more important thing.
Ye, I've been travelling on it since the first week it opened. But if you were redirected and had to fend for yourself you would need to book ahead on a tunnel or boat, hire a car to drive from France to Coquelles - find somewhere to drop the car, hire another car in the UK. All assuming you land in Paris in the morning early enough to do all this.
As the family tech guy, I felt it when the screen started going bonkers as Muffin ran through the various wifi areas.

And that final sad flip and dive ... pocketbooks not yet BORN felt that one.
Most of your taxes (assuming you live in the US) go to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the military.

> The reason why I'm proud to be an american is because we fund stuff like this an national parks and libraries and the best postal service in the world.

That's hilarious. All those things you mention have suffered budget shortfalls and funding cuts, continuously, over the past couple decades. There's a certain political party that would rather defund and privatize everything, funneling money to their cronies in corporate America. So we get ads and other garbage.
Hi another person with 5 kids :-)
Flights just resumed...first landing: https://www.flightradar24.com/BAW71SK/39910df8
Do you have examples of what HOAs provide for the city when it is composed of single family homes?
I mean, isn't the problem you are mentioning because of the functionality that is assuming too much? In the sense of functions that are behemots of assumptions?

It's actually easier if those functions are broken down into smaller pieces so when requirements change, you don't have to rearchitect: you just recombine them differently.

And I am not speaking academically but practically: have learned the hard way to not produce the behemots but to combine functions to the desired effect in business setting(s).
> If it's my tax money, I get to say how it's spent.

No? This has never been how it works.

We all get to decide how it’s spent by voting. You don’t get to individually decide because, obviously, you’re always just gonna choose yourself. In which case - why bother taxing you?

There’s really two camps here: people who think taxation goes towards freeloaders, and people who think taxation goes towards the community.

I’m in the second camp. I believe these things are mutually beneficial. I want to live in a country with less homelessness, less drugs, less violence, less crimes, more education. That costs money, and I’m happy to give it up because I think I DO benefit, just not directly.
They've been very good at marketing, but it was often backed by good products. I still remember the feeling of getting my first MacOS X machine and what a breadth of fresh air it was. No drama or window focus stealing and a stable OS with relatively modern software that even had access to a POSIX shell! Wireless networking was simple, but you could still do advanced stuff!

But in those days apple was the underdog and HAD to do good by their users or there was no reason people would switch. Now it feels like their first thought is how they can monetize every step of the way - they're turning into Disney in that sense. There's often little money in fixing bugs anymore.
Security, harm, aggression, violence, genocide. Redefine at your pleasure.
In our case it absolutely is. There are user facing flows that require data from partner systems to complete. Waiting for the next sync cycle isn't a good UX.
Understanding the SLSA Framework
> Ideally, however, businesses exist to carry out a mission (beyond making money).

I mean, sure, but the defining difference between a business and a nonprofit is making money.

It's important for companies to provide value to society but the way we measure that is by how much they earn. Despite several hundred years of people trying to come up with better ways to do this, this is the only one that seems to work.
A common science demo in UK used to be exploding a cloud of custard powder - ostensibly powdered sugar and cornstarch.

https://youtu.be/aGBT5pwxThU?si=ay9fm_ZaYImIeNK8 is similar to how it was done.
I would really love something I can use to replace multiple montiors and just wear Goggles. Quest gets me close to there, but not quite.
1: It's clearly not been as disruptive as you're suggesting. Flights have been diverted to airports within a few hour's journey by bus or train, others have been cancelled, just like would happen with Atlanta.

2: I don't know if they've done it, but the UK can grant entry for a few days to affected passengers. This will be part of a contingency plan.

3: The airport reopened for some flights already.
Its actually not that uncommon. China is not a monolithic entity. Rules are flexible and always have work around. In some cases, rural families that have a girl as a first kid will try again for a boy. They just don't register the girl for hukou.
Bluey is like Seinfeld.

It's timeless, everyone gets a laugh (including parents) and is a "show about nothing" (just the daily lives of family dynamics).

As a parent, I really appreciate the show and no other show can compare.

(For those who haven't seen it, it's more akin to a family sitcom than a traditional kids show/cartoon)
Yes, it includes local buses. It also includes the Staten Island Railway, so it doesn't make sense to exclude an entire NYC borough from land size comparisons.
The "personality" you're interacting with is not really the result of pre-training, but deliberate post-training (RLHF, and specific system prompts).
It's instructions for the Windows RDP server to enable RemoteFX support so that the Rust client can make use of it.

Maybe I'm missing something, but for the server side it's only crates that help you build your own server, no direct integration with any system, be it Windows or otherwise.
It sounds great, but I'm still not sure what they'll have to do to make it worth an upgrade for people who already use a Steam Deck and a HMD. I already use the Steam Deck like this often, just using an HDMI cable and an adapter to connect it to a Quest 3 for a giant display, but I can also run all the Quest window management on the side without taking resources from the Deck, and if I feel like continuing on the Deck alone, I can unplug the cable and keep using it on the small screen. It's a pretty nice setup.

I'm wondering if it would be worth just getting whatever adapter they come up with and the next gen Steam Deck to use the same way rather than investing in Deckard, but I'm interested in seeing their case!
> If my system regularly ships bugs, then yes, it's purpose is apparently to regularly ship bugs. If my system ships rarely bugs, then yes, it's purpose is apparently to rarely ship bug

The purpose of Linux is to ship bugs: https://www.cvedetails.com/product/47/Linux-Linux-Kernel.htm...

Genius stuff here. Crazy how many people use an operating system whose literal purpose according to you is to ship bugs.
That's more than median dev salary for most European country.

https://helloastra.com/blog/article/average-software-develop...
Around here the vast majority of new construction comes in shape of "A/B unit", a single lot with two SFHs. This is organized as a HOA of 2 members.
Books? Yes.

But IMO the prize for greatest accumulation of copyrighted digital cultural artefacts goes to the original megaupload. (The vast majority of which was lost when their servers were raided and shut down.)

Maybe archive has it beat now though.

Actually, no, I think megaupload still beats it.
Henry Ford Ate Weeds
I was minorly (i.e. testing and compilation infra) involved with eggcc, which I think qualifies:

https://github.com/egraphs-good/eggcc

There will be a paper coming out soon which benchmarks compilation time along with the compiled outputs against some popular compilers. The project lead is Oliver Flatt, I'm sure if you asked him he could let you know more.

There's also Chris Fallin's aegraphs (acyclic egraphs) which I believe is turned on by default for Cranelift. I'm unsure if everyone would agree that Cranelift is an industrial compiler but seeing as Fastly makes use of it I think it would qualify. aegraphs seem to solve a lot of performance issues while also getting a decent amount of benefit from equality saturation.

At the end of the day, and mentioned by the other commenter, cyclic egraphs really are still currently fun research tools. There's a lot of really smart people working on constraining the blow-up to make use of them in "real" compilers.

At a minimum, I expect they may become interesting offline or "super optimizers" (such as Souper) that run on performance critical vector/fp code. Because you can get rid of some of the phase ordering issues of traditional optimizers, egraphs can find some novel and really fast optimizations
Then your comment about rowing across the sea is idiotic.

The airlines that redirected flights to Paris arranged buses to London.
Perhaps something along the lines of an "ANSI terminal renderer library"? I think "render" helps suggest that it's handling the display but that the library consumer still has to handle interactivity and any UI chrome. The consumer is the terminal emulator app and this component is the renderer.
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I'm very terse and instructed it to be terse as well.

You don't hear a lot of politeness in an operating room during surgery or on the battlefield either as far as I know.

I use it for work so that's the mood
Gaia: An Open-Source Project from AMD for Running Local LLMs
Hi emthrowaway123 - I tried comparing to ClickHouse by signing up for a free trial - and attempting to run the TPC-H 22-query benchmark with Scale-Factor 1TB against data stored in S3.

I repeatedly ran out of memory during benchmark query execution when attempting to use a 3-node cluster - with the biggest nodes my trial would allow.

I suspect that ClickHouse may not support "out-of-core" processing, b/c of the memory issues I experienced, but I'm not a ClickHouse expert by any means. I may have configured something incorrectly - but it was definitely not a turn-key experience to try to get up and running with a 1TB benchmark.

I had tried a few months ago, so I should likely try again sometime with a newer version of ClickHouse.
I’m really baffled as to why anybody would downvote this comment, anyone want to explain?
What's AI in your opinion? Not saying LLM are intelligent, or artificial intelligence, but what is? What would that look like?
Okay, now show something that makes me believe this isn't placebo, or believable joke.
Reddit does it
Specifically, Pseudomonas bacteria. And a few paragraphs down:

> People with healthy immune systems are usually not affected by the bacteria.
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Maybe, but I think it’s more of an idictment of game studios’ collective attitude toward VR and still-underdeveloped hardware (IMO, we’re only now starting to approach VR headsets’ “final form” with units like the Bigscreen Beyond and MeganeX).

Way, way too many game studios approached VR the same way they might a new graphics feature like raytracing or HDR. “Bolt it on and they’ll come” basically, which obviously didn’t pan out. Unsurpringly the titles that took flight were those where VR was integral to the experience and added lasting novelty — “AAA game but with VR” is just not that interesting (unless it’s a free community-developed mod, maybe).

Of course, it’s much more difficult and risky to develop VR-first games like that. With studios being more profit-driven and risk-averse than ever, that’s a recipe for vanishingly few new flagship VR games being developed. It’s a safer bet to develop yet another faceless loot box driven Fortnite/Counterstrike/etc clone or gacha game.
Perplexity wants to buy TikTok and open-source its algorithm