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phireal commented on Running our Docker registry on-prem with Harbor dev.37signals.com/running... · Posted by u/airblade

muhehe · 4 days ago

This looks nice. What would be good on-prem S3 companion for this? I know if minio but I think there was some recent drama about it (I don't know specifics, just a feeling)

phireal · 4 days ago

Minio used to be de facto here, but they did a bait and switch recently and removed the UI from the free version. Garage is probably closest to best in class for open source on prem.

phireal commented on Ask HN: What things are happening in ML that we can't hear over the din of LLMs? · Posted by u/aflip

mike_hearn · a year ago

NeRFS. It's a rethink of 3D graphics from the ground up, oriented around positioning glowing translucent orbs instead of textured polygons. The positioning and color of the orbs is learned by a NN given accurate multi-angle camera shots and poses, then you can render them on GPUs by ray tracing. The resulting scenes are entirely photo-realistic, as they were generated from photos, but they can also be explored.

In theory you can also animate such scenes but how to actually do that is still a research problem.

Whether this will end up being better than really well optimized polygon based systems like Nanite+photogrammetry is also an open question. The existing poly pipes are pretty damn good already.

phireal · a year ago

There's a couple of computerphile videos on this:

nerfs: https://youtu.be/wKsoGiENBHU Gaussian platting: https://youtu.be/VkIJbpdTujE

phireal commented on Show HN: A platform for remote piano lessons based on the Web MIDI API keyboardconnect.com/... · Posted by u/keycon

sss111 · 2 years ago

this is cool and all but doesn't have a full sized piano version..? And $125?! (although probably because its 1st gen)

phireal · 2 years ago

Yeah, I think for learning, the 4(?) octaves is probably sufficient.

And cost is probably due to first gen, yeah. Plus, hardware development is pricey, I think.

phireal commented on Show HN: A platform for remote piano lessons based on the Web MIDI API keyboardconnect.com/... · Posted by u/keycon

phireal · 2 years ago

There's also https://plugandplink.com/, which includes a hardware component to help the person learning (lights on the snake).

The app also includes preprepared videos and lessons (scales, arpeggios etc.) which interact with the hardware component.

My son's been using it with a tutor remotely and it's been working great! Not only that, but he can use the app and the snake to self-guide his practise during the rest of the week.

phireal commented on London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface github.com/petykowski/Lon... · Posted by u/nickswalker

mortenjorck · 2 years ago

The London Underground Regular font struck me as quite peculiar when I encountered it on a trip a few years back. The decision to lower the baseline for uppercase letters is highly nonstandard – I’m not aware of any other Latin-based digital signage system in the world that does that.

I wonder if it was the result of a study that concluded visibility was slightly increased over a consistent baseline due to the extra pixel of height for caps. Whatever the reason, it certainly gives the signs a quirky character (no pun intended).

phireal · 2 years ago

I've always assumed it's a nod to the original underground signage which had offset capital letters (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/London_U...).

phireal commented on Portable versions of development tools portabledevapps.net/... · Posted by u/edukodo

phpdistiller · 4 years ago

Is Spyder the best IDE ? Is there any other alternative ? Free and open source ?

phireal · 4 years ago

The community edition of PyCharm is pretty widely regarded. VSCode is also pretty good but I would say it's more of an impressive text editor than an IDE.

phireal commented on Problem solving with Unix commands vegardstikbakke.com/unix/... · Posted by u/v3gas

wmu · 7 years ago

This is not the same. For sequence [5,5,4,3,3,2,1,1] "sort -u" returns [1,2,3,4,5], while "sort | uniq -u" returns [2,4].

phireal · 7 years ago

Huh, I didn't know that! Thanks.

phireal commented on Problem solving with Unix commands vegardstikbakke.com/unix/... · Posted by u/v3gas

wmu · 7 years ago

Easier would be just use 'cat list_of_numbers | sort | uniq -u' to get the unique entries.

phireal · 7 years ago

Shorter still:

    sort -u < list_of_numbers

phireal commented on Fastest Speeding Tickets in Texas in 2018 thedrive.com/news/26337/e... · Posted by u/ourmandave

jypepin · 7 years ago

Some notes are interesting;

> VIOLATOR ADMITTED TO SPEED AS "BEING A RECORD"

another one

> First checked at 85 mph northbound on I-45 driving in the left hand lane. Sped off at a high rate of speed "sped off at a high rate of speed".

Is that proper english?

>DRIVER ADMITTED HE WAS RUNNING LATE TO WORK AND THOUGHT HE WAS GOING 130 MPH NOT 137 MPH

that's a 80pmh zone. Is there some cutoff at 130 that would have made the driver's situation better if below 130?!

phireal · 7 years ago

> Is that proper english?

The rate of a rate is the acceleration, so it's valid English, but probably not what was meant.

phireal commented on Gmail Services Global Outage outage.report/gmail... · Posted by u/nedsma

gtt · 7 years ago

Semi-related, but can anyone suggest good open source email client? I'm working on several computers with macos/linux and Gmail isn't slow only on my deep learning rig, so I'm looking for something to replace it.

phireal · 7 years ago

Thunderbird works well for me. Interfaces with GMail IMAP. Has a nice quick filter and all the usuals (filtering, folders, labels).

The calendar interfaces with your Google calendar too (with the Lightning and Provider for Google Calendar add-ons).

Available for Mac, Windows and Linux.

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