Fancy!
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I'm going to use this today and pave a path to my CNC router to make it stupidly easy to generate these plates on-demand.
It was actually a pretty good experience. It mostly just worked.
Though, the trend I'm seeing a lot of is greenfield projects just migrating their MCUs to ARM.
China and the EU are taking over the leadership position that the US inexplicably resigned from. China and the EU take climate change and renewable/sustainable energy technology investment and adoption waaaaaaaay more seriously than the US did. The US has been (and continues to be) actively hostile to it, save for a few contrary blips.
The most powerful climate change denialist and impediment to progress, by far, to doing something to address climate denialist just self-immolated. There's a silver lining in there.
All those circumstances also would have made the point moot... yet they all still made the list.
Lots of type-level programming for tracking resources, hardware access, and capabilities at compile-time and trying to bring some of the underlying kernel guarantees up to the compiler because finding out about and debugging issues at runtime was just the absolute worst.
What I have assumed given then trend, but could be completely wrong about, is that the raytracing version of the world might be easier on the software & game dev side to get great visual results without the overhead of meticulous engineering, use, and composition of different lighting systems, shader effects, etc.
I'm also hoping that Intel puts out an Arc A770 class upgrade in their B-series line-up.
My workstation and my kids' playroom gaming computer both have A770's, and they've been really amazing for the price I paid, $269 and $190. My triple screen racing sim has an RX 7900 GRE ($499), and of the three the GRE has surprisingly been the least consistently stable (e.g. driver timeouts, crashes).
Granted, I came into the new Intel GPU game after they'd gone through 2 solid years of driver quality hell, but I've been really pleased with Intel's uncharacteristic focus and pace of improvement in both the hardware and especially the software. I really hope they keep it up.
It's often quite a challenge to get that class of engineer to adopt things that give them visibility and data to track things down as well. Sometimes it's just a capability/experience gap and sometimes it's just over indexing on a perception of time getting to a solution vs. the time wasted on repeated problems and yak shavings.
* More creative threat-modeling.
* More effective prevention measures.
* More vigorous mitigation & stonewalling attempts.
* More rapid remediation & rejection of the intrusion.
Especially for a threat vector that was telegraphed so openly so far in advance. The circumstances might be unprecedented, but they're not at all surprising.
Is that example supposed to be an indication that the US Govt. does take its national security and secrets seriously?
The US Govt. seems empirically much more vested in what goes on in public restrooms than it does in what goes on in global affairs and military conflicts.
"You either die trying to scale ROS to production, or you live long enough to repeatedly reinvent it?" - Johnny 5
We have a database [1] and query language [2] that's tailored to storing & querying trace/telemetry data produced by different layers and components of cyber-physical systems for systems engineers to analyze, verify, and validate what a complex system is doing. It's not quite a traditional relational problem. It's not quite a traditional time series problem. It's not quite a traditional graph problem.
Addressing the way that systems engineers think about their domain in an effective way required coming up with something different. Are there caveats and rough edges? Sure. But, they're a lot less pernicious and onerous than the alternative of trying to leverage a bunch of ill-fitting menageries of different solutions.
Redis is fit-for-purpose. So, it makes sense that its query interface would also express that.
I suspect people don't particularly hate or despise LLMs per se. They're probably reacting mostly to "tech industry" boom-bust bullsh*tter/guru culture. Especially since the cycles seem to burn increasingly hotter and brighter the less actual, practical value they provide. Which is supremely annoying when the second-order effect is having all the oxygen (e.g. capital) sucked out of the room for pretty much anything else.
It feels spacious, natural, functional, and hospitable.
The last time US residential real estate had a chance to become affordable, the entire global economy fell apart. So much so, that the government stepped in for _years_ on end to prop up the asset class.
There’s a very good argument to be made that they shouldn’t care and that their investment theses should be more stable as well as their criteria, but that’s an academic argument that doesn’t do a whole lot for the founders who have been attempting to fundraise amid those varied VC spasms.
It’s always kind of amazing what a 33 MHz 68040 was capable of whenever I fire it up and fool around.
Kind of in the same vein as the strategies around gamification, where some identified frailty of the human psyche is being leaned on for cash.
It's not quite a con because the technology is useful and certainly worth something, but it's not non-exploitive either.
This is a common phenomenon with humans, FWIW. The same sort of thing happens with traditional information sources. For example, when a media outlet reports on things we don't know much about personally, we believe them. Then they cover something where we have direct domain expertise and find all manner of misunderstandings and errors trivially, but instead of suspecting that they're likely just as wrong about a lot of other things as well, we assume it's a special case where they just got our special knowledge domain wrong.
In any case, to answer the OP... I use these new AI tools to generate content where the details don't matter and the cost of being wrong is near zero. Such as, graphics for slides, market/product/pitch blurb pablum, etc.
I use them to compensate for my limited artistic/graphic design skills and to overcome my propensity to tediously labor over copy despite that copy being basically throwaway.
Given how much of the mainstream is organized around overwrought advertising, influencering, guruing, and being terminally online... it seems like the modern punks would be the counter-culture that prioritizes being offline, being private, and being whatever the opposite of "fake it 'til you make it" would be called. Genuine and modest?