unsigner · HackerTrans

19 ngày trướcdiscuss

This sounds like "government issue Revolut". Which would be... low-key nice? Not a nefarious scheme, not a revolutionary future of money, just something to replace a certain part of your financial life without tying it to a commercial entity. Which might be appealing to the anti-capitalism segment of Europeans.

unsigner

7 tháng trướcdiscuss

Of course they care about oil spills - this is why all the oil tankers in the last weeks were attacked when empty.

unsigner

7 tháng trướcdiscuss

Peacetime technology from people who ignore the shooting war next door. Do you really want to build your energy system on huge soft targets? This looks much more vulnerable than solar arrays or battery installations to small-to-medium warheads (i.e anything from $500 FPV drones with an RPG round to $100k middle strike drones with 100 kg of payload).

unsigner

7 tháng trướcdiscuss

Freely available and openly editable maps might be one of the things that we take for granted, but are simply an abberation of a brief period of peace and civility; now we'll return to the default hobbesian state of affairs.

See also: beautiful, detailed aerial photos of oil refineries posted by amateur drone photographers to public sites. Submarine cables and oil tankers, carrying the world economy on their shoulders without any protection out there at sea.

unsigner

8 tháng trướcdiscuss

An Apple Watch with a cellular connection, paired with Airpods, fulfills some of the role of a small iPhone - you can make calls, listen to music, and even do some light texting if Siri likes your accent.

unsigner

9 tháng trướcdiscuss

The ICE has tanks - can you provide a link? Words have meaning. Maybe some armored cars, but tanks?

unsigner

9 tháng trướcdiscuss

Congrats on the release. I was wondering what the zstd team is up to lately.

You mentioned something about grid structured data being in the plans - can you give more details?

Have you done experiments with compressing BCn GPU texture formats? They have a peculiar branched structure, with multiple sub formats packed tightly in bitfields of 64- or 128-bit blocks; due to the requirement of fixed ratio and random access by the GPU they still leave some potential compression on the table.

unsigner

2 năm trướcdiscuss

checking whether coordinates fall inside a national park is an exercise in computational geometry, surveying (the earth is not flat, what are coordinates on a sphere), databases, access to government data.

detecting birds is an exercise in gathering properly labeled training sets, neural networks and their topologies, matrix multiplication performance and/or orchestration of rented GPUs.

both of which cover interesting tasks, worthy things to learn, and are by no means easy.

"easy" is the bird recognition where you do an API call to a totem pole of third party services.

unsigner

2 năm trướcdiscuss

"easier tasks" is arguable and arguably wrong

"task about which you will find more easy-looking tutorials hiding the complexity under a blanket of 3rd party code and services" is better

unsigner

5 năm trướcdiscuss

But this is the sensible thing to do, talent leaving or not. A universe where Blizzard shifts to mobile because of business reasons is indistinguishable from a universe where Blizzard shifts to mobile because "everyone left", so your hypothesis isn't falsifiable.

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