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dietr1ch commented on Andrew Ng says bottleneck in AI startups isn't coding – it's product management   businessinsider.com/andre... · Posted by u/cl42
crazygringo · an hour ago
> How many times...

Literally all the time? Every single month?

I am struggling to understand your perspective. In my existence, the bottleneck is always the coding.

The development team has a backlog that could keep them busy for years. Meanwhile, everyone else -- QA, localization, whatever -- operates at whatever pace the code gets delivered.

Never in my entire life have I been in the situation where the engineering manager said, "well folks, localization is backed up so we've got no more code we need to write. Go home and check in next week to see if we have any work?"

The only exception I can think of might be videogames where the bottleneck is the art and then maybe the testing loop. But gaming isn't representative of software development generally at all.

dietr1ch · an hour ago
Your "coding team" there isn't actually coding most of the time. Sitting down to type isn't the bottleneck, but the work that needs to happen so you can sit down and type what needs to be typed.
dietr1ch commented on Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos   zdnet.com/article/meta-mi... · Posted by u/mdhb
reactordev · a day ago
Oh but they do, however, what’s the alternative? PinePhone? LibreRola? At least I know Apple cares about encryption and keeps the keys to the kingdom behind paywalled doors.

The amount of malware installed on Android just from visiting a website is crazy.

dietr1ch · a day ago
> The amount of malware installed on Android just from visiting a website is crazy.

What do you mean by this? Is it because of the embedded browsers that pop up before Chrome/Firefox? I thought that was your own browser in some special session (that hopefully doesn't retain state).

dietr1ch commented on Breaking the creepy AI in police cameras   youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9Mw... · Posted by u/afh1
ungreased0675 · 4 days ago
I’ve looked into manufacturing IR opaque but visible light transparent plate covers. It’s possible, retail would be around $45. Wasn’t sure if I’d make my money back on the production run, or if there would be legal issues, so I didn’t continue the project.
dietr1ch · a day ago
I've thought of sporting bright IR LEDs that just mess up with lighting conditions without covering the plate. I'm not sure how well that could work in practice though
dietr1ch commented on Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?    · Posted by u/mbix77
gmueckl · 10 days ago
I had to deal with the DS-160 multiple times over the year. I don't think you give justice to how bad this website really is. I have started to notice that these "timeouts" are very random. At the worst times, the session "times out" immediately after login.

These random logouts happens more frequently during certain times of the day and seems to follow a semi-predictable pattern. It is almost certainly tied to system load in some way.

Also, the site's HTML and JavaScript are bloated beyond hope for what should be a fairly simple set of web forms. And itnhas been thisnway since at least 2018 with exactly zero improvements.

dietr1ch · 4 days ago
It's so bad that I used to have a DS-160.txt file with most of my responses so I could speed run a copy-paste session before something went wrong. The 5yr travel section was awful to fill.
dietr1ch commented on Why Semantic Layers Matter (and how to build one with DuckDB)   motherduck.com/blog/seman... · Posted by u/secondrow
halfcat · 11 days ago
The flip side is, you often don’t know what needs to be reusable until you’ve had some iterations. Wrong abstractions can be way worse, and also gain their own momentum.
dietr1ch · 11 days ago
The problem is that often these quick or maybe not reusable are written in such a haste that there's no breadcrumbs left to do the right thing whenever you are done getting that urgent thing out (most likely never because "everything is urgent" :( )
dietr1ch commented on FreeBSD Scheduling on Hybrid CPUs   wiki.freebsd.org/Schedule... · Posted by u/fntlnz
nine_k · 19 days ago
Funny enough, Unix already has user-settable priorities, aka "nice level". ACPI gives us an idea how plentiful the power is.

So, when powered by AC power, schedule everything on P cores when possible, schedule processes that eat a lot of CPU on P cores, same for any process with a negative nice value.

When powered by a battery, schedule anything with non-negative nice value on E cores, keep one P core up for real-time tasks, and for nice-below-zero tasks.

These are two extremes, but I suppose that the idea is understandable.

dietr1ch · 17 days ago
I think that here is where things are lacking. There's not enough information that can be conveyed to the OS with just a number, and the number seems fixed and not tied to user input (active application, user just clicked, action blocking presentation).

It'd be cool if tasks told you about their workload in terms of latency throughput, and cadence required (hello skipping audio when you compile hard).

dietr1ch commented on Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 released   lists.debian.org/debian-h... · Posted by u/jrepinc
tombert · 18 days ago
Yeah, that's what I've always thought was interesting about microkernels; the ability to have a lot more stuff in user space always seemed like the obvious "correct" direction to me.

I played with RedoxOS a bit in a virtual machine a few years ago [1], and it seemed cool, so maybe that can be the logical successor to something like Hurd.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedoxOS

dietr1ch · 18 days ago
Oh, I thought that was going to die shortly after Jeremy moved to System76, but it didn't,

- https://www.redox-os.org/news/

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dietr1ch commented on How AI is upending the software development industry   reuters.com/lifestyle/boo... · Posted by u/wglb
bl0rg · 21 days ago
In a few years, will we need seniors?
dietr1ch · 21 days ago
There's an old and famous quote around computers not having morals, and thus computers requiring people on top of them that can steward systems and be hold accountable.

Besides morals, you'll always need people in the interface between the computers and the world. Maybe they won't write too much code, but they'll need to specify and verify behaviours anyway.

dietr1ch commented on Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop   quickshell.org/... · Posted by u/abhinavk
LoganDark · 21 days ago
The video is 125fps (according to ffprobe) and appears smooth on my 120Hz display, so maybe you're the one dropping frames.
dietr1ch · 21 days ago
Yeah, it's outstandingly smooth for a web video.

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