remix2000

Born on December 17, 2017•149 Karma

on June 6, 2023

MeZO assumes a smooth parameter space, so you probably won't be able to do it with INT4/8 quantization, probably needs fp8 or smoother.

2Gkashmiri•

on Nov 10, 2022

•on: Stretch iPhone to its limit: 2GiB Stable Diffusion...

Uh..... Android is there? I mean android version?

michaelt•

on Oct 24, 2022

•on: WebAuthN and Fido for Linux

> Windows Hello, Android's FIDO2 support, Apple's TouchID and FaceID, are all examples of platform authenticators. There is no reason why the Linux desktop community could not enjoy similar benefits

Don't those platforms all rely on strict sandboxing and code signing, so that funny-dancing-monkey.exe can't rename itself to google-chrome.exe then perform a passwordless sign-on to google.com ?

I always thought this stuff was slow to arrive on Linux because it demands things that are incompatible with the free-software ethos.

DiabloD3•

on Oct 4, 2022

•on: EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of ...

Lightning was a design put forth by a company that wasn't Apple during the USB IF's design stage of USB-C. It was rejected because the pins were on the outside, not the inside, and would allow easy damage of both the cable and the connector. It was rejected purely on completely sane technical and mechanical reasons.

Apple shipped it anyways, and all Lightning cables have failed or will fail for exactly the reasons it was rejected. Apple chose the cable because of how easily it fails.

Lightning was never good, and Apple has a long history of fucking customers, period.

zemvpferreira•

on Sept 29, 2022

•on: On Mr. Beast and being alone in a circle for 100 d...

As a content creator Mr Beast only acts as a conduit for what we, the audience, are willing to pay for. It's not he who is the monster but us.

smolder•

on Sept 24, 2022

•on: Volvo is using Rust for its in-vehicle software

Just use a 90s EFI vehicle with a full modern aftermarket ECU system from Haltec or Motec or whomever, and you can have a better car than was ever sold OEM.

moonchild•

on Sept 15, 2022

•on: Escaping strings faster with AVX-512

'Tail handling' in general is an annoying aspect of simd. Masks are great, but no panacea--in particular, if you unroll, then you cannot take care of the tail with a single masked instruction. There are various solutions to this. I favour overlapping accesses, where that's feasible (following a great deal of evangelism from mateusz guzik); a colleague uses a variant of duff's device; you can also just generate multiple masks.

I would expect the linked code is just intended as a quick poc, so it does not bother to be optimal.

graton•

on June 24, 2021

•on: Bash PS1 Generator

Somewhat related to PS1 is PS4 in bash.

Make your trace output more useful/verbose in your scripts:

  set -x
  export PS4='+ ${BASH_SOURCE:-}:${FUNCNAME[0]:-}:L${LINENO:-}:   '

This will print the filename, function name, line number, and line content during execution.

porterde•

on April 26, 2021

•on: Digital Needle: Ripping vinyl records with a scann...

Also capture the audio sample from the same record alongside the video. Repeat with lots of records. Train a model to predict the audio from the video. Voila! Play records with just the camera “stylus”...

userbinator•

on March 14, 2021

•on: Piracy, Overcoming Gravity, and the Digital Editio...

Imaginary property is imaginary.

raspyberr•

on March 14, 2021

•on: Piracy, Overcoming Gravity, and the Digital Editio...

The effort of making a physical object and a digital object can be reasoned to be quite similar. Yet the digital object has the potential to be worth literally billions because it's easily and infintely replicateable. Physical objects made once, available to one person means the price is dictated by economy/market. Digital objects made once, available to everyone everywhere should mean it's price is practically zero if you want to treat it like a physical object. And surprise surprise many businesses do want to treat digital objects like physical objects. They often artificially limit the "supply" side. Digital things don't work like physical things. Sitting around in a world where 100% of people (who have access to the internet) can have a digital creation for practical use and entertainment is like being on the brink of a utopia. Yet we're all trying to argue about a fundamental aspect of a digital object as being "unethical". Intellectual property should only give one right - the right to claim authorship. We need to come up with a better way to give those that make digital objects money that isn't artificial limiting or unethical advertisements.

lloeki•

on Feb 5, 2021

•on: Homebrew 3.0

> I hate to say it, but if this was a race (?), Homebrew won. Thankfully we all still have the choice to use MacPorts if we want, but there's no point in being mean about Homebrew at this point either.

Definitely, plus there's also Nix and pkgsrc now, it's not like there's no alternative. And that's one race I lost trying to take the matter in my own hands with ArchMac[0] out of frustration with the limitations I faced with MacPorts and Fink, then Homebrew, so I pulled the plug[1] and trim the bills.

If anyone wants to take over just reach out.

[0]: https://www.archmac.org/

[1]: https://lna7n.org/2020/01/06/pulling-the-plug-on-archmac.htm...

lost_my_pwd•

on Jan 4, 2021

•on: Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

Give AppPolice a try: https://github.com/AppPolice/AppPolice

LukeShu•

on Dec 6, 2020

•on: How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Mercha...

Not just letters! "^X" indicates "X, but with the control-bit flipped", where the control-bit is the left-most of ASCII's 7 bits.

    1001000 ASCII 'H'
    1000000 "ctrl bit"
    0001000 ASCII backspace

But like I said, it's not just letters, if you use `cat -v` to show all non-printable characters in this notation, you'll also see things like "^@" for the 0x00 null byte and "^[" for the ESC. All of the terminal color-code control sequences start with ESC, so if you pipe colorized output to `cat -v`, you'll see a lot of "^[".

bayindirh•

on Dec 28, 2018

•on: Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Powe...

I don't understand this type of audiophiles. I also have a fairly high end, vintage audio system at home, but I'd never do anything like that in the name of audio quality. There's a quote I love about these people:

    A normal person uses the audio system to listen music, while an audiophile uses music to listen to his audio system.

zw123456•

on Dec 29, 2018

•on: Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Powe...

Tubes, cables now this. It seems more like religion or superstition than technology IMHO.

If you want to take it to the limit, hire someone to come into your home and perform live for you, then you can eliminate all the sources of distortion.

Not only would you be hearing the ultimate perfect sound, you would be providing employment for artists.

Seems like a win - win to me :)

rsiqueira•

on Nov 9, 2020

•on: A fun website that simulates fluid

There is an incredible short version of this fluid simulation effect (light and movement) here: https://www.dwitter.net/d/18112 (just 140 characters of javascript code)

simongr3dal•

on Sept 18, 2020

•on: CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framew...

Off-topic: I’ve seen a few posts about CAD programs recently, and it reminded me of a product that I want but haven’t found yet.

I often need to draw 2D vector graphics for digital or print. Since I suck a bezier curves (and they feel imprecise anyway) and manually arranging and combining geometric shapes can be tedious I want an interface for drawing that mimics the sketch function of SolidWorks or Fusion360 and the like with the constraint system and so on.