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matthewfcarlson

1,957 karmajoined il y a 8 ans
Firmware engineer @ Apple and Hackaday writer. meet.hn/city/us-Round-Rock

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How flat is your name

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1 points·by matthewfcarlson·il y a 4 mois·0 comments

A Homemade Robot Nag

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matthewfcarlson
·il y a 16 heures·discuss
It’s a double edged sword. You are responsible for a thing. But you can’t just wave a wand and say “x team needs to do y for the thing I am a DRI for”. There are some resources in Apple University (an internal learning resource) about navigating it. “Influence without control” and while it’s helpful, they acknowledge it sucks sometimes.
matthewfcarlson
·hier·discuss
Good.
matthewfcarlson
·il y a 3 jours·discuss
Eh I’ve filed a few bugs a few years ago and they seem to have been ignored. I tried it for a while and it crashed my phone frequently. My gut says it’s a hack, hence the performance issues.
matthewfcarlson
·il y a 3 jours·discuss
I’m curious about this, what did you do to make it dumb?
matthewfcarlson
·il y a 3 jours·discuss
What would progression look like in a farming simulator? I tried it a few times but have had a similar feeling.
matthewfcarlson
·il y a 7 jours·discuss
I worked on a similar concept (padgames.io now defunct) that offered a state sync networking system with rollback netcode style stuff. It could handle exposing only certain information or fake info to certain clients (to prevent cheating). It integrated super nicely with vuex or react stores as it was all observable and all game actions just turned into state mutations.

I made the game I wanted, enjoyed it with family and friends, and then let COVID sweep it away. Congrats on continuing to work on it.
matthewfcarlson
·il y a 7 jours·discuss
This was actually a funny question at work over lunch. A few of us have kids and like most tech guys over 30, our steam accounts have turned into collections. So I asked, who gets your steam account when you kick it. It’s difficult to think about and seems baffling to spend thousands of dollars and hours assembling a collection only for it to poof away into nothing.
matthewfcarlson
·il y a 7 jours·discuss
One of the unstated points of this particular article is that these rules are ones that we as a society have. If we collectively decide that this isn’t something that should be allowed, we can make it so. There are some powerful interests that don’t want it so it’s not an easy path.
matthewfcarlson
·il y a 8 jours·discuss
When I lived closer to a Costco and had my membership, I used to do what I called cartless runs. Go into Costco, only buy what you can carry. Usually just the thing I needed and maybe one or two other things.
matthewfcarlson
·il y a 17 jours·discuss
It's a pretty huge cost to support an entirely different set of hardware with different kernel extensions and an entirely different build (x86 instead of arm64e). Could apple choose to do that? Absolutely. But the cost of supporting an M1 is very different than the cost of supporting Intel.
matthewfcarlson
·il y a 17 jours·discuss
That's a double edged sword. Assuming it's an 18 month contract, even when ram prices do go back to "normal" it's a year and a half until Apple has savings to pass onto to customers.
matthewfcarlson
·il y a 20 jours·discuss
I've been working on trying to outpaint an animated program for my son (Leapfrog Letter Factory if you're curious) and then upscale it. Doing so locally has been actually fairly difficult. I wonder if you could retrain or fine tune this model. They mention building an expert, I wonder if that expert could understand more about translating various characters.
matthewfcarlson
·il y a 21 jours·discuss
Is the threat model tracking across multiple apps to correlate what you're doing? In that case, a single app wouldn't show you the fudging.
matthewfcarlson
·il y a 29 jours·discuss
I keep playing around with this exact concept. While I don’t always trust entirely AI generated recipe, more traditional setups are super rigid when it comes to ingredients
matthewfcarlson
·il y a 30 jours·discuss
I just went into a circle and shot, won every time for every boat
matthewfcarlson
·il y a 30 jours·discuss
I cannot tell if this is sarcasm or genuine. I am horrified that it could be either almost as much as I am by the fact that I can't tell.
matthewfcarlson
·le mois dernier·discuss
I’ve been doing exactly this (with the shortcuts) for almost 3 years now. I don’t think it’s as powerful as I would like but it’s certainly helped. I do wish more apps worked in grayscale (calendar I’m looking at you) but that’s on my long list of grievances.
matthewfcarlson
·le mois dernier·discuss
Yes? That's what the law currently allows. If we want to make a law that says companies are required to let end users install _any_ software they want onto any device they legally own, that encompasses almost the entire consumer product ecosystem. It is becomes hard to determine what is "general purpose" and what happens if Acer says "this machine runs windows specifically and isn't general purpose?" or they say "you no longer own this machine, you are licensing the hardware from us?"
matthewfcarlson
·le mois dernier·discuss
Agreed- the idea of "winning" a hackathon seems kind of wild to me. It doesn't seem like something you should be able to win.
matthewfcarlson
·le mois dernier·discuss
It's the inverse problem. EU wants anyone to be able to install a different AI agent onto their phone with the same access as Siri. Apple says "no- we need time to figure out how that would work, we want other agents to meet the same privacy standards of PCC/on-device that Siri uses". Which EU said no.

I don't think there's a clear good guy/bad guy here.