dewbrite (u/dewbrite)

dewbrite commented on Nikon reveals a lens that captures wide and telephoto images simultaneously digitalcameraworld.com/ca... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

dewbrite · a year ago

Not sure what the policies are on banning sites, but can this website please be banned?

I'm on mobile, this website has deceptive hitboxes so "dismiss" on the notifications prompt will almost hit the advert on the bottom. Once I finally managed to read the article and hit the bottom of the page, it had a popup which hijacked navigation so I couldn't easily return to HN.

Will record this behavior if asked.

That said... There's not much to say about this? Is it using "meta" lenses printed on silicon? Wish the article would have had any information whatsoever. I suppose we'll learn more at CES. :P

dewbrite commented on Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out? · Posted by u/askHN2024

zo1 · a year ago

I once had my nationality "leak" just by the specific addition I chose when ordering a specific hamburger-like dish at a food-stall. Something akin to choosing to put mustard on a hot-dog kind of situation. The person looked at me, knew, got confused as I had a perfectly neutral and non-native accent, and then just had to ask to confirm their suspicion.

dewbrite · a year ago

Mayo with fries would be a German likeness. Very odd in the States.

dewbrite commented on Making a game for my friend's retro console nickgirardo.com/posts/avh... · Posted by u/nick_g

dewbrite · a year ago

I also made a game for the gametank! In rust B)

Optimization is tough, especially figuring out what to do between blitter operations. I'm kinda sad there's no pallet tricks either, but, it's a system worth playing around in :)

dewbrite commented on Show HN: Glasskube – Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager, alternative to Helm github.com/glasskube/glas... · Posted by u/pmig

verdverm · 2 years ago

Have you looked at CUE? (https://cuelang.org/docs/concept/the-logic-of-cue/)

CUE is also pragmatic in that it has integrations with yaml, json, jsonschema, openapi, protobuf

dewbrite · 2 years ago

I've tried out Pkl which is similar in spirit, and I think it's a real solution for k8s manifests. The only thing holding it back is industry adoption imo. It's leagues better than Helm, and mostly better than Kustomize.

See also: KCL, which is very similar and might _actually_ be "the winner". Time will tell.

dewbrite commented on Homegrown Rendering with Rust (2021) medium.com/embarkstudios/... · Posted by u/AlawamiAZ

Thegn · 2 years ago

My gut says Nintendo, because Microsoft doesn't give a shit what you use as long as you write for them, and Sony doesn't feel like they'd be that petty.

dewbrite · 2 years ago

But Microsoft _does_ have a widely known C++ compiler. I doubt Sony does. Does Nintendo?

dewbrite commented on Number 16 (spider) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Num... · Posted by u/histories

dhosek · 2 years ago

I kind of wonder whether certain cultural artifacts might be genetically inspired. My son, when he was young, without any prompting wanted to be an architect (like his great-grandfather whom he had never met, nor even heard anything about before this) and was obsessed with guitars (like me, although at that point, my own guitar had been in the basement for years and he had never seen me play it). This is not to say that these particular behaviors are explicitly encoded in genetics (both guitars and architecture as a discipline are much younger than evolutionary time), but rather that some intrinsic predisposition towards them exists (so, perhaps had we lived in fifteenth-century Persia, we would be oud-obsessed, to choose one posseible alternate reality).

dewbrite · 2 years ago

Anecdotally, I had a grandfather I never met who had built his own house on a nice plot of land out in the sticks, and that's something I'm obsessed with doing in the future. My father also worked in tech, but didn't really pass knowledge to me.

Though, both of these things are almost stereotypical [1]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/vnmmuo/whe...

dewbrite commented on Scarlett Johansson Said No, but OpenAI's Virtual Assistant Sounds Just Like Her nytimes.com/2024/05/20/te... · Posted by u/axiomdata316

mmmBacon · 2 years ago

In case you’re wondering what Sky sounded like, here’s a recording of Sky being asked questions about Scarlett Johansson.

https://youtu.be/1zoLfQ75QvU?si=6iBLrwTFR4nbqIIw

While it doesn’t sound exactly like her, if I heard this without knowing it was AI I’d have thought it was Scarlett Johansson.

dewbrite · 2 years ago

Pretty sure that's the Juniper voice. See the live demo for the new sky voice that is allegedly problematic. Fwiw the client is glitchy when changes voices, so it may have displayed as sky.

dewbrite commented on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice twitter.com/BobbyAllyn/st... · Posted by u/mjcl

wasteduniverse · 2 years ago

Ask to use Alice's likeness in my product, get declined. Ask again. Debut product, users say "this sounds a lot like Alice". The day my product releases, I make a public statement referencing a movie Alice starred in. When Alice asks how I made my product, I delete all access to the product.

How else am I supposed to interpret this?

dewbrite · 2 years ago

"better safe than sorry"

- any legal team, ever, in the history of the universe

dewbrite commented on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice twitter.com/BobbyAllyn/st... · Posted by u/mjcl

acomjean · 2 years ago

Or Bette Midler singing for ford. She turned them down. They used a sound alike, she sued and won

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

dewbrite · 2 years ago

They used a sound-alike and had her sing one of her songs. I believe that's a different precedent, in that it's leveraging her fame.

Imo Sky's voice is distinct enough from Scarlett, and it wasn't implied to _be_ her.

Sam's "Her" tweet could be interpreted as such, but defending the tweet as the concept of "Her", rather than the voice itself, is.

dewbrite commented on HCL: Toolkit for Structured Configuration Languages github.com/hashicorp/hcl... · Posted by u/thunderbong

leetrout · 2 years ago

Have you given Apple's language, Pkl, a try?

https://github.com/apple/pkl

dewbrite · 2 years ago

I've been using Pkl since it came out and I like it a lot, and the editing experience is fantastic with intellij.

I don't think inheritance is a flaw at all here. It makes a lot of sense to build configuration up from base definitions, especially when you account for its merge syntax.

I've been using it for k8s manifests a la customize. The biggest pain point for me is the lack of flat member syntax when updating deeply nested fields.

Something that's caught my eye is KCL, which seems similar, but maybe a bit more mature?