I have Windows 11 on my Asus laptop - I've never seen an ad (except on some web pages my adblocker doesn't catch) - where are all these Win 11 users seeing all these ads?
Well, I dunno. On my lock screen I get local weather, local events and such, which I don't mind and are not really adverts. I never see anything else. Nothing in start menu or taskbar.
This is Windows 11 home. I wonder if people complaining about ads have some 3rd party adware installed, or are just parroting what they have heard about the evils of Microsoft?
Aw I have fond memories of this lil guy. I remember my dad noticing me playing with it, and sometimes letting me draw a new pattern for him to use on his work computer as a reward for good behavior (or probably just to distract me while he got work done)
Wait sorry back up a bit here. I can buy a laptop that has a daughter FPGA in it? Does it have GPIO??? Are we seriously building hardware worth buying again in 2024? Do you have a link?
It's not a FPGA. It's an NPU IP block from the Xilinx side of the company. It was presumably originally developed to be run on a Xilinx FPGA, but that doesn't mean AMD did the stupid thing and actually fabbed a FPGA fabric instead of properly synthesizing the design for their laptop ASIC. Xilinx involvement does not automatically mean it's an FPGA.
It would be surprising and strange if AMD didn't reuse the software framework they've already built for doing AI when that IP block is instantiated on an FPGA fabric rather than hardened in an ASIC.
because XRT has a plugin architecture: XRT<-shim plugin<-kernel driver. The shims register themselves with XRT. The XDNA driver repo houses both the shim and the kernel driver.
Yes, the one on the ryzen 7000 chips like the 7840u isn't massive, but that's the last gen model. The one they've just released with the HX370 chip is estimated at 50 TOPS, which is better than Qualcomm's ARM flagship that this post is about. It's a fivefold improvement in a single generation, it's pretty exciting.
Lol during grad school my advisor would frequently cut me off and try to jump to a conclusion, while I was explaining something technical often enough he was wrong. So I did really buy him one (off eBay or something). He wasn't pleased.
If you want GPIOs, you don't need (or want) an FPGA.
I don't know the details of your use case, but I work with low level hardware driven by GPIOs and after a bit of investigation, concluded that having direect GPIO access in a modern PC was not necessary or desirable compared to the alternatives.
It makes more sense to me to just use the BeagleboneBlack in concert with the FPGA. Unless you have highly specific compute or data movement needs that can't be satisfied over a USB serial link. If you have those needs, and you need a laptop, I guess an FPGA makes sense but that's a teeny market.
wat, we have plenty of aerospace companies, Boeing is the only one making consumer air travel jets right now, but they're far from the only aerospace company in the US
The claim is that llama is "lobotomized" because it was trained with safety in mind. You can't untrain that by finetuning. For what it's worth the non-instruct llama generally seems better at reasoning than instruct llama which i think is a point in support of OP.
I tried to use buttplug years ago but I found it to be difficult to work with and introduce too much latency into play. My partner and I have replaced it with 37 lines of javascript that give us more realtime control of our toys (albeit only Lovense, by just spamming .writeValueWithoutResponse()).
I'm curious what your background is that you approached the problem in the way that you did? I appreciate that you're covering all the edge cases for a lot of different toys, but it also really feels like you use 1000 lines of code where 10 will do.
These devices can connect over bluetooth le, usb (both raw and HID), serial, or one of several network protocols. We support windows, mac, linux, android, iOS, and WASM/web, each having their own HW APIs (or in the case of the mac/iOS crossover, specializations within the API). On several of these platforms there are also massive variations in bluetooth radios, which can cause a huge array of issues.
Each device may have variable actuators, or may also have sensors to take input. They may also require their own keepalives or other specializations specific to their protocol or brand to manage connections.
We then have to generalize commands to make life easier on developers. They send us those generalized commands, from whatever language they like since we abstract into an IPC system and provide a language-agnostic protocol spec, from whatever interconnect they want to use because our connector system is also violently flexible, and we have to convert them into the correct protocol and ship that over the correct bus.
So, since you're curious about why your solution for one device from one brand running through a web browser differs from my library, there you go. It's just a matter of different goals.
Now, if you can do all that in 10 lines, fantastic, I look forward to your library as competition in the future. :3
While I'm glad you've found a solution that works for your case, I can't tell you why you were seeing latency in our library that wasn't also in the browser. I'm well aware of the JS-to-IPC-to-hardware chain in the browser (I'm the ex-device interfaces lead on firefox, worked with some of the chrome engineers on the development of the hardware focused WebAPIs too) and it's even more complicated than ours.
Also, if you're curious about web focused solutions to these issues, this is the perfect time to bring up a friend of our project, XToys: https://xtoys.app.
It's a fully web based (though closed source) toy control application that supports about as many devices as I do, plus a bunch of others that I don't, and has Blockly scripting and WebRTC for remote sessions.
Mostly bad take. The long term solution is to remove the incentives for criminal behavior and enact laws that prevent power concentration, authoritarianism is not stable. That being said I can see the value in an authoritarian clamp down as a way to rapidly improve the situation in a country as far gone as El Salvador, I remain extremely skeptical about the long term efficacy. Australia is not in a situation analogous to El Salvador by any stretch of the imagination.
As California has so clearly proven, the issue with human society is that there will allways be optimizing agents that prod the wall of enforcement of law to its extent. With humans it seems that there is ALLWAYS an incentive for crime until ever single human has a star trek replicator and a holodeck, or we put aside consent/freedom aside and have mandatory psychological conditioning for everyone.
You dont need authoritarian rule to have strong law enforcement. You just need sensible laws and good funding for police enforcement.
You can never remove all incentives for crime. There will always be some incentive to try to cheat the system or otherwise defect in societal coordination problems.
You are right that power concentration must be avoided though, as that creates much stronger incentives for corruption. More distributed power structures make bribery much more expensive and logistically difficult.
Fun fact: I took the photo she used as a cover for one of her books, she asked me if she could use it and I said I'd like to be compensated and her response was something akin to "oh I was just asking assuming you'd say yes, I'm going to do it anyway". Nobody's perfect, maybe she regrets it, and it hasn't really crossed my mind in years, but I guess it still sort of irks me to be reminded of it. Anyway if anyone needs a portrait for a book cover feel free to hit me up XD.
Just another random anecdotal experience with Chip.
I was interviewing with Claypot.ai and when I met her for my first conversation, she was on a walking treadmill and very clearly was more interested in a Slack conversation she was having.
She moved me on to the next round which I irrefutably bombed and was respectfully told that I wouldn't be moving on which was the right decision, but I'll never forget watching her walking motion while looking at Slack on her second monitor almost the entire time we were talking.
It’s possible they were taking notes on the second monitor. Many interview coaches recommend taking notes during the interview to capture the response, largely verbatim, so that candidates can be fairly compared afterwards.
I've taken notes in plenty of interviews (and make sure to call it out ahead of time) but taking notes verbatim sounds absolutely terrible for both sides. A good interview is a conversation, and it's incredibly hard to do that if you're trying to transcribe the other half.
everyone has bad days/things they regret. i'm not sure this is a relevant discussion to the content, and personal anecdotes can be very damaging to a person's reputation - i've met her in person and she is delightful, but neither of us are here to judge people so lets stick to the content?
You are very correct. Thank you for the reminder. I can't tell if I'm just missing it and can't find it but I "authorize" a deletion of my comment as off-topic if there's a way for me to do that.
The real reason for the software as a service model is that it makes it easier to extract/capture value. Many SaaS offerings would be better at providing value to customers with non-SaaS architectures, unfortunately providing value to customers is second to providing value to shareholders.
Don't pay for SaaS, don't encourage this bullshit. If foss offerings don't cover your usecase piracy is better for humanity than paying.
So don't pay the engineers that built the product and continue to maintain it?
That's fine with fixed priced software if the software is static and frozen in time, but most software is living and breathing and requires continual investment.
You can absolutely use an old WordStar license. In fact, several notable authors do.
> So don't pay the engineers that built the product and continue to maintain it?
Saas isn't the only way to pay people.
> most software is living and breathing and requires continual investment
Is it though? or is this broadly another side effect of value extraction focused engineering? I'm quite happy to buy a new version if it makes my life notably easier. CS2 is broadly a better experience than CC, etc. etc.
> > So don't pay the engineers that built the product and continue to maintain it?
Saas isn't the only way to pay people.
> Saas isn't the only way to pay people.
> It kind of is if you have a product that people expect updates for, or you have to have very high prices, or a secondary source of income.
> > most software is living and breathing and requires continual investment
Is it though? or is this broadly another side effect of value extraction focused engineering? I'm quite happy to buy a new version if it makes my life notably easier. CS2 is broadly a better experience than CC, etc. etc.
But are you happy to pay for better architecture that doesn't have shiny new features? Or support for new X (depending on the product this could be image formats, it could be architectures)? etc
To be clear I am not saying I want subscription based software, but I understand the business argument for it.
> But are you happy to pay for better architecture that doesn't have shiny new features? Or support for new X (depending on the product this could be image formats, it could be architectures)? etc
Depends on what product, and my use case.
> To be clear I am not saying I want subscription based software, but I understand the business argument for it.
Has nothing to do with more supported X or better architecture, its just about money. In fact SaaS offerings are often compromised and worse of than when they were standalone (at least in my experience with software that made transition from standard releases to subscription).
Additionally in my experience with software that went that route (standard paid releases to subscription) that just signals that the customer milking has become, and pretty much any new feature is looked at from how can we milk it standpoint.
> pretty much any new feature is looked at from how can we milk it standpoint.
That’s how more or less all features are chosen? The alternative is going out of your way to spend time/money on features you know have minimal/no interest.
Oh yeah this is absolutely fucking stupid, my dad put solar on his roof recently and if this shit goes through he may end up with a bigger monthly energy bill than pre-solar. Make that make sense to me. Where's the fucking equity when you're trying to be sustainable and efficient in your electricity use and you get punished for it. Talk about perverse incentives.
At least it'll be fun to help him build a fully off grid system.
As far as I know existing owners and even near-term ones are grandfathered into the old rules so your dad won't have to pay extra until something like 20 years from now?
