akdor1154

Sup Eddie, the actual motivating example is we finally nixed Pandas from Data Ingestion, now reading excel files takes 2 seconds instead of 2 minutes. However unfortunately your

> TODO: rewrite this entire service

remains.

My limited and fuzzy recollection is that while the freq response of most cheap to mid speakers is balls, the freq response of most cheap mics is quite good - sure not studio quality, but much better than the equivalent speaker.

> under MS-DOS command line parsing was left completely to a a loaded program

And in the many decades and OS rewrites since, they have long since corrected this mistake... right?

Jains would be vegan though i assume?

Questions for those who like the grid layout of virtual desktops - how does it (or should it?) interact with multi monitor setups? Feels like this would break or at least compromise the spatial metaphor.

- Each monitor has own grid?

- The VD 'spans' the pair of monitors?

- VDs only on one monitor?

- The monitors form a fixed 'window' into the grid?

- Something else?

I disagree with the theory that scrolling frame rate doesn't need to be smooth for scrolling to feel smooth.

On mobile it kinda does. Scrolling diffs on mobile just kinda feels crap.

I have been spoiled by years of engineer hours spent getting scrolling to be 60- or even 120Hz smooth to match my finger, and diffs just.. isn't.

I know this is frustrating to hear, and that this is technically compounded by mobile probably having the lowest device performance to be playing with too, but.. There you go.

See what you get for saying things with subtlety instead of hype these days... sigh.

> I chalked it up to a power trip and the indignant behavior that comes along with it, as it is especially embedded in the culture of the country that I'm based out of.

That's a very globally-conscious way to refer to the USA!

I have a consumer motion-triggered camera that is armed 24/7 and records for 30 seconds after each trigger. It has WiFi and serves playback itself, as well as of course video encoding. It's probably running Linux though i haven't verified.

It runs off a 25cm square solar panel screwed to a wall that only receives direct illumination for 5 hours a day, and is not in any way optimised beyond 'that looks roughly like it's pointing at the sun'.

Works great!

I have often wondered if Chinese is a much 'better' language for LLMs - every character is a token, boom you're done. No weird subword nonsense, no strange semantics being applied to arbitrary chunks of words.. I feel like there must be benefits to being able to have the language tokenized in what must be very close to 1:1.

That sounds really interesting, but my google-fu is not up to task here, I'm getting pages and pages of nonsense asking if Claude is conscious. Can you elaborate?

I thought the term for those were 'sane languages', and I say that as a native English speaker :)

Well yeah, if everything runs unsandboxed as root then there are no privilege escalations!

Less pithy, i seem to recall many issue with programs that relied on suid and permission dropping, which would be the 'oldschool' way of firming up the above.

You're not wrong that complexity has been introduced, and I'm not a a fan of snap either, but ultimately sandboxes (esp backwards compatible ones that don't need source level modifications) are complex.

If you want simple and secure, you're probably looking at OpenBSD and pledge.

Yeah Goodin's stuff is often slop.. Probably human slop but slop nonetheless.