catlifeonmars (u/catlifeonmars)

catlifeonmars commented on Show HN: Rust macro utility for batching expensive async operations github.com/hackermondev/b... · Posted by u/hackermondev

hackermondev · 5 days ago

Need to be specified at build time, but you can set a dynamic window length based on the current buffer length. https://github.com/hackermondev/batched?tab=readme-ov-file#b...

catlifeonmars · a day ago

Ah gotcha. So one use case that immediately comes to mind with batching is retries with batch bisection. While you wouldn’t need it to be arbitrarily dynamic, it would be useful to support some sort of retry aware divide-by-two mechanism

catlifeonmars commented on Ergonomic errors in Rust: write fast, debug with ease, handle precisely gmcgoldr.github.io/2025/0... · Posted by u/garrinm

TheCleric · 2 days ago

This just feels like recreating exceptions, but with more complicated syntax.

catlifeonmars · a day ago

Sometimes it’s nice to have one control flow mechanism rather than too. One could argue that traditional exceptions are more complicated with a their alternative control flow and syntax.

catlifeonmars commented on Show HN: Rust macro utility for batching expensive async operations github.com/hackermondev/b... · Posted by u/hackermondev

catlifeonmars · 8 days ago

Are window sizes dynamic, or do they need to be specified at build time?

catlifeonmars commented on LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers threedle.github.io/ll3m/... · Posted by u/simonpure

echelon · 8 days ago

0.0001% of the population can sculpt 3D and leverage complex 3D toolchains. The rest of us (80% or whatever - the market will be big) don't want to touch those systems. We don't have the time, patience, or energy for it, yet we'd love to have custom 3D games and content quickly and easily. For all sorts of use cases.

But that misses the fact that this is only the beginning. These models will soon generate entire worlds. They will eventually surpass human modeller capabilities and they'll deliver stunning results in 1/100,000th the time. From an idea, photo, or video. And easy to mold, like clay. With just a few words, a click, or a tap.

Blender's days are long in the tooth.

I'm short on Blender, Houdini, Unreal Engine, Godot, and the like. That entire industry is going to be reinvented from scratch and look nothing like what exists today.

That said, companies like CSM, Tripo, and Meshy are probably not the right solutions. They feel like steam-powered horses.

Something like Genie, but not from Google.

catlifeonmars · 8 days ago

> These models will soon generate entire worlds. They will eventually surpass human modeller capabilities and they'll deliver stunning results in 1/100,000th the time. From an idea, photo, or video. And easy to mold, like clay. With just a few words, a click, or a tap.

This is a pretty sweeping and unqualified claim. Are you sure you’re not just trying to sell snake oil?

catlifeonmars commented on MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System worksonmymachine.ai/p/mcp... · Posted by u/azhenley

jjani · 15 days ago

Love how the MCPs mimic the company they represent in that sense.

catlifeonmars · 15 days ago

Conway’s law in action?

catlifeonmars commented on I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace instavm.io/blog/building-... · Posted by u/mkagenius

iezepov · 16 days ago

Good point! Maybe indexing is a bad term here, and it's more like feature extraction (and since embeddings are high dimensional we extract a lot of features). From that point of view it makes sense that "the index" takes more space than the original data.

catlifeonmars · 16 days ago

Why would the embeddings be higher dimensionally than the data? I imagine the embeddings would contain relatively higher entropy (and thus lower redundancy) than many types of source data.

catlifeonmars commented on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives blog.cloudflare.com/perpl... · Posted by u/rrampage

JimDabell · 21 days ago

> if I set a thousand users on to a website to each download a single page and then feed the information they retrieve from that one page into my AI model, then are those thousand users not performing the same function as a crawler, even though they are (technically) not one?

No.

robots.txt is designed to stop recursive fetching. It is not designed to stop AI companies from getting your content. Devising scenarios in which AI companies get your content without recursively fetching it is irrelevant to robots.txt because robots.txt is about recursively fetching.

If you try to use robots.txt to stop AI companies from accessing your content, then you will be disappointed because robots.txt is not designed to do that. It’s using the wrong tool for the job.

catlifeonmars · 21 days ago

I don’t disagree with you about robots.txt… however, what _is_ the right tool for the job?

catlifeonmars commented on Modern Node.js Patterns kashw1n.com/blog/nodejs-2... · Posted by u/eustoria

rendall · 22 days ago

That's a category error. Fetch is just refers to making a request. POST is the method or the HTTP verb used when making the request. If you're really keen, you could roll your own

  const post = (url) => fetch(url, {method:"POST"})

catlifeonmars · 22 days ago

I read this as OP commenting on the double meaning of the category. In English, “fetch” is a synonym of “GET”, so it’s silly that “fetch” as a category is independent of the HTTP method

catlifeonmars commented on Modern Node.js Patterns kashw1n.com/blog/nodejs-2... · Posted by u/eustoria

pbreit · 22 days ago

It has always astonished me that platforms did not have first class, native "http client" support. Pretty much every project in the past 20 years has needed such a thing.

Also, "fetch" is lousy naming considering most API calls are POST.

catlifeonmars · 22 days ago

“Most” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I use plenty of APIs that are GET

catlifeonmars commented on Do not download the app, use the website idiallo.com/blog/dont-dow... · Posted by u/foxfired

Beijinger · a month ago

Nothing beats a hardware token.

I would also use Yubikey for banking, but I am scared as f. what happens if I lose it while traveling abroad.

catlifeonmars · a month ago

I think it should be standard to allow registering multiple tokens, which would be equivalent to a backup for your purposes.