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Comment · 11 days ago
https://github.com/infumap/imwebsearch . web-search routes each query to the free quota of one of a number of providers. enough for causal chatting. also has a chunking web-fetch tool that can use a browser relay extension to allow manual handling of captchas.
Comment · 10 months ago
Saw this last year and liked it so much I added something very similar to it to Infumap (https://github.com/infumap/infumap). You can drag items of arbitrary type onto dates. When more than one item is associated with a date, a numbered button appears; clicking it lets you cycle through them. Items can be pages or links to pages, which when clicked show the page as a popup. Calendar pages in the parent page display as a list of all items scheduled for the next seven days.
Comment · 11 months ago
I'm not a hearing aid wearer, but I came across https://www.envoymedical.com/ during investment research activities. They seem to have the leading candidate for a fully implantable device. FDA Breakthrough Device designation. I'm interested in the reaction of any hearing aid wearers to what they are developing.
Comment · 1 year ago
I was not expecting to loose karma for this comment!
I have a couple of years familiarity with SolidJS and thought the two key insights that came to mind from building a large project in it would have positive value.
Apparently not!
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm using SolidJS for Infumap (https://github.com/infumap/infumap), which is getting pretty big.
Two main comments that come to mind:
Because the state -> DOM mapping is non-trivial for my application, I ended up writing my own virtual DOM diffing code, a primary facet of React. I appreciate the ease of being able to circumvent this where it's not necessary and performance considerations dominate, though I admit i've not felt the need to do it anywhere yet.
The AI training data set for React is much larger. The models seem to do fine with SolidJS, though I suspect there is meaningful benefit to using React from this point of view.
Overall, I'm happy with where I'm at and I prefer the SolidJS way of thinking, though if I were to do it all over again, I'd probably just go with React for the above two reasons.
Comment · 1 year ago
No, they pass it through successively intensive process conditions, each of which selects for a different plastic type. No need to wash, their process is water based and some contamination from organic material actually helps in saturating the output product.
Comment · 1 year ago
Results will vary a lot with all the parameters (of which there are many). They don’t disclose all the detail but I know they have done thousands of tests across the parameters space. I know they believe they can process sludge produced from other processes.. The industry generally is very opaque, I think for competitive reasons and also because it’s so complex/nuanced.
Comment · 1 year ago
Aduro’s tech works with hard to recycle, dirty, mixed plastic. Search for Eric Appelman interview on YouTube for more info. Some of the retail investor coverage is cringeworthy, but my take is the tech is likely as good as described (disclosure: I’m an investor).
Comment · 3 years ago
Worth noting that Kafka is getting queues: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-932%3A...
Comment · 4 years ago
Michael Pettis did a great interview recently that covers why growth in China is likely to stall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE5VczIFGZA
Comment · 5 years ago
Disturbing observation: 5 years ago, the trends that seemed most important to me were all technical - I really paid no attention to politics. Today, they are mostly geo-political.
Comment · 5 years ago
it is the WebGPU API (targeting both the web and native)
Comment · 5 years ago
In the context of a company, the higher up you get (on a technical track), the more you need to operate across different projects, technologies etc. - being able to jump into new things is mandatory/expected. But having deep knowledge in something important to the org gives you a foundation on which to succeed. I would say that specialising perhaps allows you to stand out more efficiently as a lower level IC.
Comment · 5 years ago
You can tune Kafka down fairly well if you know what you're doing, but it's not optimised for that OOTB. Or just use Confluent Cloud, which is fully managed and scales down as low as you want (costs cents per Gb). Disclosure: work for Confluent.
Comment · 5 years ago
FWIW, I didn't mean to suggest this was coordinated.
I take the point that my comment here is of low value. I do believe related issues will perhaps turn out to be the most important of my lifetime though, and it's unusually tricky to know how they should be tackled in the public arena. Apologies for me failing to do so appropriately here.