aargh_aargh (u/aargh_aargh)

aargh_aargh commented on Rust GCC backend: Why and how blog.guillaume-gomez.fr/a... · Posted by u/ahlCVA

To use an illustrative (but inevitably flawed) metaphor: Using libgccjit for this is a bit like networking two computers via the MIDI protocol.

The MIDI protocol is pretty good for what it is designed for, and you can make it work for actual real networking, but the connections will be clunky, unergonomic, and will be missing useful features that you really want in a networking protocol.

aargh_aargh · a day ago

Or, the obligatory RFC 1149 (IP over Avian Carriers).

aargh_aargh commented on Twelve Days of Shell 12days.cmdchallenge.com... · Posted by u/zoidb

aargh_aargh · 9 days ago

The good: Nice exercises for beginners. Tab-completion, accepts readline characters like ctrl-u.

The bad: You don't see the (wrong) output if you don't get it right the first time, making it hard to work iteratively and having to guess what the question actually intended.

E.g. 'Seven files that start with "Santa"' actually wants file names that start with Santa, after some questions that had you use "grep" to search file contents. Where I actually struggled with what's expected is Day 11.

The ugly: Actually a very nice design.

aargh_aargh commented on Fara-7B: An efficient agentic model for computer use github.com/microsoft/fara... · Posted by u/maxloh

btbuildem · 21 days ago

If I'm reading this correctly, it's limited to browser use, not general computer use (eg, you won't be able to orchestrate KiCAD workflows with it). Not disparaging, just noticing the limitation.

I've been playing with the Qwen3-VL-30B model using Playwright to automate some common things I do in browsers, and the LLM does "reasonably well", in that it accelerates finding the right ways to wrangle a page with Playwright, but then you want to capture that in code anyway for repeated use.

I wonder how this compares -- supposedly purpose made for the task, but also significantly smaller.

aargh_aargh · 20 days ago

This is in my area of interest. Can you recommend any related tools/resources? Did you publish any code?

aargh_aargh commented on Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI · Posted by u/Weves

visarga · 22 days ago

That sidebar of past chats is where they go to be lost forever. Nobody came up with a UI that has decent search experience. It's like reddit internal search engine, but a bit worse.

aargh_aargh · 22 days ago

Exactly. The best they came up with is a generated subject-like summary. So many options to explore here. Categorization by topic, by date, by customer account, clustering by topic, search with various ranking options, conversation(s) tree view, histogram per date/topic/account, integration with email, with an issue tracker, various states per chat/thread e.g. resolved/ongoing/non-viable, a knowledge bank to quickly save stuff you learned (code snippets, commands, facts), integration with Notion or a wiki etc etc. Just off the top of my head.

I was told there would be rapid prototyping with AI. Haven't seen any of the above.

aargh_aargh commented on Android developer verification: Early access starts android-developers.google... · Posted by u/erohead

nirui · a month ago

Excuse me, what exactly is "sideloading"? If I wanted to run third-party code on a system through the means that's supported by the system, then it should be called "running", it's a part of normal operation.

The word "sideload" made it sound like you're smuggle something you shouldn't onto the system. Subtle word tricks like this could sneak poisons into your mind, be watchful.

aargh_aargh · a month ago

newspeak FTW!

aargh_aargh commented on Ask HN: Effective way to deal with mosquitoes? · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

alunchbox · a month ago

Whatever happened to that Microsoft project that would use a lazer to destroy the wings off female mosquitos?

aargh_aargh · a month ago

No idea but let me guess. Consumer safety?

aargh_aargh commented on Omnilingual ASR: Advancing automatic speech recognition for 1600 languages ai.meta.com/blog/omniling... · Posted by u/jean-

mcswell · a month ago

First, let me say that this is impressive. And then let me pose some questions:

As a linguist, I would like to know more about the kinds of languages this works well with, or does not work well with. For example, half the world's languages are tone languages, and the way tones work varies greatly among these. Some just have high and low tones, while others are considerably more complicated; Thai has high, mid, low, rising and falling. Also, tone is relative, e.g. a man's high tone might be a woman's low tone. And some African languages have tones whose absolute frequencies vary across an utterance. So transcribing tone is a quite different problem from transcribing phonemes--and yet for many tone languages, the tone is crucial.

There are also rare(r) phonemes, like the clicks in many languages of southern Africa. Of course maybe they've already trained on some of these languages.

The HuggingFace demo says "Supported Languages[:] For this public demo, we've restricted transcription to low-resource languages with error rates below 10%." That's unclear: 10% word error rate, or character/ phoneme error rate? The meta.com page refers to character error rate (CER); a 10% character error rate can imply a much higher word error rate (WER), since most words contain several characters/ phonemes. That said, there are ways to get around that, like using a dictionary to select among different paths through possible character sequences so you only get known words, and adding to that a morphological parser for languages that have lots of affixes (meaning not all the word forms will be in the dictionary--think walk, walks, walked, walking--only the first will be in most dictionaries.)

Enquiring minds want to know!

aargh_aargh · a month ago

I'm not an expert but the rule of thumb is to expect something like this:

https://xkcd.com/1838/

aargh_aargh commented on WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration winboat.app/... · Posted by u/nateb2022

d3Xt3r · 2 months ago

It's a full VM running via Docker. The Windows apps are presented via RDP's RemoteApps protocol via FreeRDP.

There's also WinApps, which is the same thing but without the docker container, and it supports a remote VM as well: https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps

aargh_aargh · 2 months ago

What's Docker for, then?

aargh_aargh commented on Native ACME support comes to Nginx letsencrypt.org/2025/09/1... · Posted by u/Velocifyer

preisschild · 3 months ago

What does this offer to you vs using a tool such as certbot/cert-manager, and then just referencing the path in nginx?

aargh_aargh · 3 months ago

One less program to install, configure, upgrade, watch vulnerabilities in, monitor.