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nevi-me commented on Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/qmr
nevi-me · 12 days ago
My 2017 model probably short circuited during a lightning strike, because it stopped working after a storm. My friend offered to sell me his 2019 but I thought there'd be new hardware. I should have bought it.

I love the Shield, compared to even the Chromecast at the time, we noticed a huge difference in colour on the TV. If NVIDIA ever produce a refresh, they'll have my money.

nevi-me commented on Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp   engineering.fb.com/2026/0... · Posted by u/ubj
nevi-me · 16 days ago
> We believe that this is the largest rollout globally of any library written in Rust.

I suppose this is true because there's more phones using WhatsApp than there are say Windows 11 PCs.

Given that WhatsApp uses libsignal, is it safe to assume that they haven't been using the Rust library directly?

nevi-me commented on Vibe coding kills open source   arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494... · Posted by u/kgwgk
Cthulhu_ · 17 days ago
> I started the project in my brain and it has many flaws and nuances which I think LLMs are struggling to respect.

The project, or your brain? I think this is what a lot of LLM coders run into - they have a lot of intrinsic knowledge that is difficult or takes a lot of time and effort to put into words and describe. Vibes, if you will, like "I can't explain it but this code looks wrong"

nevi-me · 17 days ago
I've been a skeptic, but now that I'm getting into using LLMs, I'm finding being very descriptive and laying down my thoughts, preferences, assumptions, etc, to help greatly.

I suppose a year ago we were talking about prompt engineers, so it's partly about being good at describing problems.

nevi-me commented on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android   androidauthority.com/goog... · Posted by u/_____k
direwolf20 · 19 days ago
Your employer's tax obligations should depend on where you live and where they live and where the work happens, not where your bank account is.
nevi-me · 18 days ago
It's not just tax obligations, no? Employers in many countries have an obligation to ensure that your salary reflects on the X day of the month (or whatever frequency you're paid). Banks in my country have a payroll payment system for this reason, where funds will clear on the day they're made despite the destination bank (in the same country).

If my employer has to use SWIFT to pay me, on whom does this obligation to ensure I'm paid on time fall? I've had a salary payment from a foreign employer fail to be delivered for 2 weeks a few times. We'd have to go back and forth with my bank, their bank, their payroll vendor. That's an exception because they hired me as a foreign employee. Despite paying their local employees on time, I always received my salary at least 4 days 'late', as long as their payroll system reflected that I was paid on the X day, it wasn't their problem.

nevi-me commented on Volvo EX60 Targets 400-Mile Range and Coffee-Stop Charging   thedrive.com/news/volvo-e... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
nevi-me · 18 days ago
I somehow thought the launch of the car was next week, I see it was this week.

I thought I'd wait for it but my ICE started giving me mechanical issues that weren't being resolved. With this and the BMW iX3 being around a year away from my local market, I ended up getting a PHEV X5.

The Volvo looks shorter than the XC60, looks more like a station wagon than an SUV. I'm only on my 3rd car so I don't have experience/knowledge to understand what people mean when they say Volvo is no longer what it was.

On the 'coffee shop charging', I don't really prioritise quick charges because when I make trips long enough to require pit stops, those stops are normally a chance for the kids to play and eat.

Performance-wise, I don't mind 0-100 in the 4-5 seconds range. I test drove the EX30 and accelerate sharply from a stop. My wife complained about the whiplash, so I imagine it would be dangerous to restless toddlers, as they already complain about the X5.

Lastly, V2L is welcome, the range is good (for me) for the battery sizes, but it looks like the iX3 would be a better car for the larger battery. Tangentially, BMW claimed that the iX3 would set a new benchmark in EV efficiency, yet Volvo is claiming similar ranges with a 10% smaller battery.

nevi-me commented on Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study   keck.usc.edu/news/adoptio... · Posted by u/hhs
usui · 19 days ago
No no no. Sure, there might be a future where solid state batteries become the standard for electric vehicles, but you cannot link to Donut Lab's announcement from this month. There is no credible evidence they've achieved the holy grail of batteries so far until they actually deliver these motorcycles in hand and people independently verify them.
nevi-me · 19 days ago
Time will tell on their battery, especially if the bike they're putting it on delivers. I think the overall point could be that there's active R&D in trying to find geopolitically sustainable materials, and lowering the weight of materials used.
nevi-me commented on My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated   alienchow.dev/post/fibre_... · Posted by u/alienchow
nevi-me · a month ago
I sympathise with burying cables that you think are for life, only to need to replace them later.

We ran fibre cables in the ceiling when constructing our house. I requested the electrician to shield the cables with some tubing, but he probably thought I was being extreme. We have 9 cables, 2 of them don't work, likely from being bent by mistake or something.

The wiring is intermixed with electrical and ethernet (for cameras) cables, making the process a bit tricky. At least for us we might only have to cut the ceiling boards in a few places to help guide the replacement cables.

nevi-me commented on GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust   mullvad.net/en/blog/annou... · Posted by u/km
nevi-me · 2 months ago
If anyone working on the implementation is here, was it not possible to upstream your changes to BoringTun? The blog mentions some changes but doesn't go into detail on that aspect.
nevi-me commented on The state of the kernel Rust experiment   lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/dochtman
Jean-Papoulos · 2 months ago
>Bergmann agreed with declaring the experiment over, worrying only that Rust still "doesn't work on architectures that nobody uses".

I love you Arnd. More seriously, this will become an issue when someone starts the process of integrating Rust code into a core subsystem. I wonder whether this will lead to the kernel dropping support for some architectures, or to Rust doing the necessary work. Probably a bit of both.

nevi-me · 2 months ago
I suspect more the latter than anything. It could be that by the time Rust gets used in the kernel core, one or both of the GCC implementations would be functional enough to compile the kernel.

I'm curious though, if someone has an ancient/niche architecture, what's the benefit of wanting newer kernels to the point where it'd be a concern for development?

I presume that outside of devices and drivers, there's little to no new developments in those architectures. In which case, why don't the users/maintainers of those archs use a pre-6.1 kernel (IIRC when Rust was introduced) and backport what they need?

nevi-me commented on The end of the road for Kafka-delta-ingest   brokenco.de/2025/10/30/ka... · Posted by u/alex_hirner
nevi-me · 2 months ago
It's great to see my name mentioned here, cheered me up as I'm not having a good weekend. It feels like a lifetime ago since I got to work on this and parquet-rs.

Yeah, I agree with the conclusion on Kafka here. Kafka is a very resource-heavy application that's worth replacing with leaner options.

Oxbow seems very interesting, I presume it's designed to forward data that trickles into some S3 bucket as parquet data?

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