This is for people who have already bought a nest and got burnt by the deprecation of their online services. Of course they could get another thermostat but then that'd just be more stuff for the landfills.
I don't get the hate, it looks like they reverse-engineered the nest thermostat and wrote a firmware for it? That's super cool and the fact that an open source project doesn't have a privacy policy yet doesn't really matter at this point
Obviously you probably thought about it but what about rendering the subtitles on top of the video stream? Was there a reason it was not possible (e.g DRMs?)
Very strange logic. If we follow your example, going to the dealership and taking a car for a test drive is a rug pull because eventually the car dealer will ask you to pay for the car?
If you read up on this story, you'd find out it's not run off the mill corruption. Sarkozy actually conspired with a foreign state – in particular with someone who directed a terror attack that killed 50 french citizens (!) – to fund his campaign.
I mean, it's not like you can get away with running with zero SREs if you're running in the cloud. The personnel costs for on-prem hosting are vastly exaggerated, especially if you contract out the actual annoying work to a colo.
A lot of it is because platforms need a wedge against AWS/Azure.
Take edge computing for example – most apps are CRUD apps that talk to a single database, but vendors keep pushing for running things on edge servers talking to databases with eventual consistency because hey, at least AWS doesn't offer that! (or it would cost you 10k/month to run that on AWS)
Generally, I think the Karpathy tutorials are a good starting point but they're very mathy (despite people telling you you only need high school math to understand llms, a lot of the abstractions and concepts he uses are a bit foreign to programmers).
I found out rebuilding inference of a known model taught me a lot more than passively sitting through the videos and maybe retyping his code. You should try it with something simple, like a model from a few years back!
> What's the use case for Zig? You're in that 1% of projects in which you need something beyond what a garbage collector can deliver and, what, you're in the 1% of the 1% in which Rust's language design hurts the vibe or something?
You want a modern language that has package management, bounds checks and pointer checks out of the box. Zig is a language you can pick up quickly whereas rust takes years to master. It's a good replacement to C++ if you're building a game engine for example.
> Either a language lets you prove the absence of certain classes of bug or it doesn't. It's not like C, Zig, and Rust form a continuum of safety. Two of these are different from the third in a qualitative sense.
Again repeating my critique from the previous comment – yes Zig brings in additional safety compared to C. Dismissing all of that out of hand does not convince anyone to use rust.
Please — rust advocates need to realize that you're not winning anyone to rust with this kind of outlandish comments.
Zig is not an extreme sports experience. It has much better memory guarantees than C. It's clearly not as good as rust if that's your main concern but rust people need to also think long and hard about why rust has trouble competing with languages like Go, Zig and C++ nowadays.
> The privileged few among us (I am not one of them) don't struggle with avoiding these addictions.
Counterpoint, the richest man in the world is clearly addicted to being on twitter and posts at all hours of the day. More generally I don't see why the richest wouldn't be addicted to social media like the rest of us – after all they have a lot more free time and disposable income