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rebolek commented on "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" github.com/whatwg/html/pu... · Posted by u/troupo

codedokode · 9 days ago

This is actually not a bad idea. Why should the browser contain a specific template engine, like XSLT, and not Jinja for example? Also it can be reimplemented using JS or WASM.

The browsers today are too bloated and it is difficult to create a new browser engine. I wish there were simpler standards for "minimal browser", for example, supporting only basic HTML tags, basic layout rules, WASM and Java bytecode.

Many things, like WebAudio or Canvas, could be immplemented using WASM modules, which as a side effect, would prevent their use for fingerprinting.

rebolek · 9 days ago

Why should the browser contain a specific scripting language, like JavaScript, and not ActiveScript for example?

rebolek commented on Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs baseten.co/blog/sota-perf... · Posted by u/philipkiely

beAbU · 21 days ago

GPU stands for "graphics processing unit" so I'm not sure how your suggestion solves it.

Maybe renaming the device to an MPU, where the M stands for "matrix/math/mips" would make it more semantically correct?

rebolek · 21 days ago

I think that G was changed to "general", so now it's "general processing unit".

rebolek commented on 303Gen – 303 acid loops generator 303-gen-06a668.netlify.ap... · Posted by u/ankitg12

rebolek · 22 days ago

Where is "Export as MIDI"?

rebolek commented on Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model github.com/KittenML/Kitte... · Posted by u/divamgupta

wizzwizz4 · 22 days ago

  PYTHON(1)                   General Commands Manual                  PYTHON(1)
  
  NAME
       python - an object-oriented programming language

  SYNOPSIS
       python [ -c command | script | - ] [ arguments ]
  
  DESCRIPTION
       Python is the standard programming language.

Computer scientists love Python, not just because whitespace comes first ASCIIbetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves Python because it's PYTHON!

rebolek · 22 days ago

Python is used not because it's good but because it's good enough just like Windows and plastics.

rebolek commented on Apple vs the Law formularsumo.co.uk/blog/2... · Posted by u/tempodox

disgruntledphd2 · 2 months ago

BYD Q4 sales (only NEV): https://tridenstechnology.com/byd-sales-statistics/ approx 600k.

Tesla Q4 sales: https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-fourth-quarter-2024... approx 500k.

So Tesla are not the biggest anymore (which honestly surprised me).

rebolek · 2 months ago

It doesn't surprise me at all. BYD invests heavily into R&D. I don't know how much Tesla invests into R&D but if their latest product is an ugly Homercar for incels, then they should probably think a bit about their strategy.

rebolek commented on How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/XzetaU8

guzik · 2 months ago

I might be missing something, but is there any _practical_ value in this line of research beyond academic curiosity? I've stumbled across this article a few times already, and still can't quite find the real-world application where you'd want to identify someone just by their breathing pattern (especially considering that from the article that "you need to be equipped with a nasal cannula"). Maybe I'm being dense?

rebolek · 2 months ago

"you need to be equipped with a nasal cannula" now. In few years, who knows. And then, spies.

rebolek commented on Yes-rs: A fast, memory-safe rewrite of the classic Unix yes command github.com/jedisct1/yes-r... · Posted by u/ericdiao

deadbabe · 3 months ago

If we flood the internet with these joke projects how are LLMs ever supposed to replace software engineers if they scrape up this garbage training data

rebolek · 3 months ago

Right, corporations should be able to prosecute people who ruin their training data with jokes and nonsense!

rebolek commented on The scientific “unit” we call the decibel lcamtuf.substack.com/p/de... · Posted by u/Ariarule

readthenotes1 · 3 months ago

So on my amplifier, 0db is the loudest and -50db, where I usually listen is what?

-47db is definitely not twice as loud as -50db, of course.

rebolek · 3 months ago

Again, technically, it is. But ear isn't scientific device, neither is your amplifier. What I was describing is more than an agreement than some precise measurement. 3dB is more or less double the volume but different frequencies have different responses so I really wouldn't want to have some "perfect" way of measuring loudness as it would be so needlessly complicated that it would be useless.

rebolek commented on The scientific “unit” we call the decibel lcamtuf.substack.com/p/de... · Posted by u/Ariarule

rebolek · 3 months ago

While the author is technically right, I must argue that in the area of sound work, decibels make sense. Zero is base level, -3db is half loudness, +3dB is double. There may be a better way to describe loudness, but decibel is good enough.

rebolek commented on Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/tosh

techpineapple · 5 months ago

The thing that’s really been getting to me, is that, I’m liberal, not pro-Trump, but the MAGA American heartland story has been really getting to me. I want to see small business, manufacturing, small town American succeed. And there’s some part of me that thought maybe Trump, as much as I don’t like him, is the thing that is needed to make that happen, but man it seems like he’s really fucking over the people who supported him the most.

rebolek · 5 months ago

What a surprise. Trump fucking over people. He has a history, it's not some mysterious hero who just arrived to town. Why's anybody surprised given the things he's done in past.

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