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danielEM

406 karma · joined September 21, 2020

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Interests: AR/VR, Climate Tech, Cycling, Digital Nomad, Entrepreneurship, Fintech, Freelancing, Hacking, Hardware, IoT, Open Source, Programming, Remote Work, Robotics, Science, Space Tech, Startups, Technology, Travel

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danielEM··on Learn Yjs Interactively
> The trick is a technique called fractional indexing, in which indices are fractions rather than integers.

How many times you can use fractional indexing before it stops working?

danielEM··on Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance
We need some disruptive movement here, it can't be like that forever. I'm 44 now and waiting for many, many years already for open sourcing everything that is needed to get android phones running native linux as main and only OS with support of all devices on board. I want single device for my daily desktop, VR and phone tasks. I don't need 3 separate computers for these. And I want to HAVE MY FREEDOM with MY DEVICE. And lastly - would give my middle finger to everyone trying to charge extra for this freedom, it is not a slavery with option to buy yourself off.
danielEM··on The "Quiet Quitting" Myth Is Toxic for Tech
Well, if these really exist, 2 commits a month and 300k USD a year, please let me know, I'm gonna do 4 (at least) ;-)
danielEM··on Getting Started with FPGAs
I was wondering - if I was to use 2 high resolution (4Mpix each) screens (lvds or mipi), create "Li-fi" like transceiver 20+ Mbps and have ability to decode at 60+ FPS video streams - is there a single simple SoC that could handle this? Or still need FPGA?
danielEM··on Llama-OCR: Document to Markdown
I think it is perfectly fine to describe it in Watts per character as you can easily determine how many characters per second you can process.
danielEM··on C Gibberish to English
Agree, these are subjective, at the same time, when I think of it again, from technical standpoint such a comment or CR would be very low quality comment/CR.
danielEM··on C Gibberish to English
"an unreliable but still useful indication that there may be something wrong in the design of the code"

Well, but you just proved the point - it can be described in non offensive manner. And more over, judging something based on gut feeling ("indication") may be actually even worse, as you may offend someone who did actually a good job.

Sorry if "nit picking", recently was reading a lot about burn outs in the industry, and this is a thing that did catch my attention...

danielEM··on C Gibberish to English
Why do people continue to use this term "code smell", instead of "hard to read code" or something similar, more equivalent??? First seem almost offensive to an author.
danielEM··on SVDQuant: 4-Bit Quantization Powers 12B Flux on a 16GB 4090 GPU with 3x Speedup
Indeed. I think "AI gold rush" sucks anyone with any skills in this area into it with relatively good pay, so there are no, or almost no people outside of big tech and startups to counterbalance direction where it moves. And as a side note, big tech is and always was putting their agenda first in developing any tech or standards and that usually makes milking on investments as long as possible, not necessary moving things forward.
danielEM··on (Re)Patenting issue – brick layers [video]
This seem like another level of trolling or ignorance - for one - patenting again something that was already patented and expired. I'm personally also amused that patents can be issued for something so simple and almost obvious.
danielEM··on AMD GPU Inference
It has been like 8 months since I got Ryzen 8700G with NPU just for the purpose of inferencing NN, and so far only acceleration I'm getting is through vulkan on iGPU, not NPU (I'm using Linux only). On the bright side, with 64GB of RAM had no isues with trying models over 32GB. Kudos to llama.cpp for supporting vulkan backend!
danielEM··on Ask HN: What software written in assembly language really impresses you?
http://www.menuetos.net/
danielEM··on Small3dlib: Suckless PD 3D software rasterizer
Looks like that guy got lost a little in his life, I'm asking myself if he can be helped somehow? And if so then how?
danielEM··on Constantine: Nim lang high-performance, zero-dependency cryptography stack
I would give Nim a try only if there was a way to avoid indentation, curly braces rulez! ;-)
danielEM··on How to design and manufacture your own chip [video]
Thanks for sharing these info!

One more question - what do you do for hobby? :-)

danielEM··on How to design and manufacture your own chip [video]
Do you do analog chips, or digital ones? What chips did you design? How much it pays? Can it be profitable to design and tape out your own chip?

What cheap FPGA would you recommend to drive two 2k screens, implement Gbps LiFi transceiver and some basic video decoder??? ;-)

danielEM··on Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar
Is it legal? I mean, can you just make it and go to the street and play with it?
danielEM··on Show HN: Aussie startup. Debian Trixie phone. Taiwan contract
Something doesn't work

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danielEM··on dotLang – A minimal but powerful programming language based on C, Go and Haskell
It is interesting language, but unfortunately when I see LLVM in all these new languages, I pass on. I chase for programming languages with C compilation target that will work well with https://sdcc.sourceforge.net/
danielEM··on Ask HN: Is amdgpu Linux driver already stable for Ryzen 8700G?
Unfortunately using RADV vulkan, but didn't try one from AMD

GPU id = 0 (AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV GFX1103_R1))

danielEM··on First 3D-printed functional human brain tissue grows like the real thing
So, now setting a goal - let's replace with it LLMs ;)
danielEM··on LineageOS is currently installed on 1.5M Android devices
I admire how much bloat free it is. Have it on my both phones. But to me it is what I have if I can't have what I want to have. And I want to have straight forward linux on my phone. No termux hacks and other imitations, etc. Period.
danielEM··on A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable [video] (2023)
You didn't get my pun :) I do understand that this is 40Gbps cable :)
danielEM··on A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable [video] (2023)
Bunch of guys justifying price of overpriced cable and comparing it with regular usb cable as it was apple to apple (see the pun here? ;-) ) claiming that they are advertising something else :-)

Putting aside everything above - making an every day use cable cost 130USD is not an example of good engineering, it is example of very bad engineering.

danielEM··on How different languages laugh online
Missing ones from Poland: hehehe hihihi buhahaha huehuehue
danielEM··on Poland's journalists caught up in battle for airwaves
Polish here. We have nowadays similar political situation to US. 2 major fractions on political scene. And also the support for both is oscillating at very similar level. So both of them when in power use every legal means to overpower the other because even tiny bits of votes matter to win next elections. TVP is just a national TV broadcaster with government being major (or only) stakeholder. So new gov, means "new owners", means "new order" at that company. Was exactly same with previous gov.
danielEM··on Vcc – The Vulkan Clang Compiler
Well, that is amazing news!!!
danielEM··on Xreal's new AR glasses are aimed at the Apple Vision Pro
I guess you missed a point, these glasses are pretty useless, so no need to carry them around. :-) But if you insist, not gonna stop you from buying this product. Just don't tell me later no one warned you! :-)
danielEM··on Xreal's new AR glasses are aimed at the Apple Vision Pro
Owning previous generation may advice you - don't buy it. And unsubscribe to anyone who recommends it for anything else then watching 1 hour movie.

My arguments against:

1. Lightweight - yes, but no. Comparing overall weight to like VR headsets - yes, it is freakin light. The significant difference however is that weight of VR headset is way way better distributed and this s*t sits right on 2 small spots on your nose. It is simply painful after 40min to an hour of use

2. 1080p - movies only, edges of screen blurred, I really don't recommend it for any sort of work (the reason I bought these glasses in a first place). When you move your head text gets blurry and sometimes unreadable

3. There is no "one size for all" in this area. Wearing these glasses is inconvenient and painful to my ears as well. And read a lot of comments about that in the internet, so not alone here

4. There is no IPD regulation which to me causes further issues with observing image close to the edges

5. 699$ - I'm gonna start to laugh hard / cry - not worth it, 43inch 4K screen cost 200$, wow effect not worth the money, not worth for working.

danielEM··on AMD's 22-year-old GPUs still getting driver updates thanks to the FOSS community
Sorry for little off top - do you have tested by any chance 7940HS against stable diffusion? How does it perform?
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