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petabyt

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petabyt··on Ask HN: What's your personal hardware EOL policy?
It wasnt that long ago I was using a 16 year old IBM Thinkpad. Wrote a lot of good code on it. It could barely run MATE/Debian.
petabyt··on Ask HN: How do you organize work as a solo developer?
I use obsidian with the boards plugin, it's basically Google docs + Trello.
petabyt··on Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses
So many memories just flooded my brain of using § for Minecraft Pocket edition...
petabyt··on We should train AI in space [pdf]
Keeping cool in a vacuum would be easy, just stick a bunch of fans on it to blow the heat away :D
petabyt··on Deploying Rust in existing firmware codebases
But you would have to manually pass cstrings into it? Is there a way to make a wrapper to pass rust strings into it? Now that I think about it that may have been my issue.
petabyt··on Deploying Rust in existing firmware codebases
The most painful thing about this is strings. To convert to/from cstrings, you have to use the stdlib FFI function, which will allocate memory. This was a nice surprise in the form of a bunch of undefined GNU ABI references when linking to C. I was writing bare metal firmware. I hadn't imported libgcc or even libc yet. Having to convert every string and use unsafe blocks everywhere is a pain. And last time I tried it wasn't even possible to interface with a varargs function. Im not a big Zig fan but it looks so much better from a FFI perspective. I haven't tried it but it looks like everything just works.
petabyt··on What do people do with thier pictures? (modern life, media and backing up)
If it isn't on a SD card, then it's backed up on an old hard drive. I have a SATA to USB adapter I use to transfer data. For my phone photos I probably only have a few hundred from the past 6 years. I delete most of them. Most of my pictures are taken on 'real' cameras.
petabyt··on Ask HN: Who's building an AI-free product?
I don't really want to bring much attention to this right now, but: https://github.com/petabyt/fudge Fudge is an alternative to Fujifilms camera pairing app.
petabyt··on Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?
A few hours ago I pushed an update for my app that sadly increased the size from 70kb to 233kb. So it's nice to see im not the only one struggling with bloaty apps.
petabyt··on Ask HN: Why Is Stack Overflow Fading Away?
This. It's like they need a justification for why you want to do something in order to give you any help.
petabyt··on Ask HN: What Happened to Web3/Crypto?
Crypto people now are waiting for the next bull cycle/halving/bull run/pump and dump so they can sell all their coins and retire in a nice house in the Caribbeans.
petabyt··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
One of my things is a C-based alternative to react native. https://github.com/petabyt/libui-touch Completely unfinished and incapable.
petabyt··on Show HN: AI Tool Is Now Supporting React, Angular, CSS, Svelte, Vue
Code doesn't really have the same 'human touch' the way art does. We've spent the past 20 years making libraries, higher level languages, UI frameworks, etc to make development faster. If there's any 'human touch' it's a lot higher level than just the lines of code. Art has mostly been the same for a very long time. Especially painting/drawing. For most people it's a passion and creative outlet. From what I've seen (some) AI investors say so far, they want to replace that creativity.
petabyt··on Which software jobs will AI take first?
Web devs? I don't know what that would look like, maybe it would be a AI enhanced Weebly/Wix/CMS/no code platforms? Then again those platforms are fairly capable and didn't make much of any web devs obsolete in the past few years so I don't know what to think.
petabyt··on [dead]
Was this intro on this post written by AI?
petabyt··on Ask HN: Do you struggle taking good pics?
Yes. I'll go out and do a hour long session then only a few days later realize: "shoot, I forgot to put the camera into RAW mode"
petabyt··on Google Pixel 9 Pro
Interesting that holding down the power button will now launch AI... On my pixel 6 that currently opens up the emergency/power menu.
petabyt··on Study shows that tacking the “AI” label on products may drive people away
Big investors get a boner when they think about AI. So founders get FOMO and shove it into everything.
petabyt··on Cosmic: A New Desktop Environment
Looks like all the UIs are made with iced, a new UI library. My question, is this missing all the accessibility features found in uikits like Gtk and Qt? Does each app respect my system theme?
petabyt··on Ask HN: Will AI make us unemployed?
I mean how am I supposed to give it a 10k-50k page TRM? I would much rather read the TRM and understand things myself than have it spit out a questionable answer that I still have to double-check to make sure it hasn't hallucinated.
petabyt··on Ask HN: Will AI make us unemployed?
I do embedded development, I've tried a ton of models and all of them end up hallucinating and wasting my time with the very obscure and undocumented things I work with every day. Maybe if you're in webdev land, AI will replace you, I don't know I have as much hope in AI as I had in website builders and no-code platforms
petabyt··on Ask HN: How to finish last 30% of a side project?
Some say it's impossible to 'finish' a project ;) Generally I like to decrease expectations and requirements for MVP, then release. After that, I stop working on it. It feels like abandonment, but it's not if it's finished.
petabyt··on Samsung's abandoned NX cameras can be brought online with a $20 LTE stick
* a pretty common thing
petabyt··on Samsung's abandoned NX cameras can be brought online with a $20 LTE stick
Fujifilm offers this functionality on newer cameras, intended to be used with Fujifilm PC AutoSave and Fujifilm Acquire desktop apps.
petabyt··on Samsung's abandoned NX cameras can be brought online with a $20 LTE stick
Yep, that's a pretty with a lot of IoT products in general.
petabyt··on Samsung's abandoned NX cameras can be brought online with a $20 LTE stick
The Fuji cameras I'm working on include similar functionality. Basically the camera can connect to any AP, then it will find a client. From there the client can do liveview/automatic photo importing/change settings.
petabyt··on Ask HN: How to build software to last 20 years? 50 years? 100 years?
Write stuff in C. The language will never die. We could have a zombie apocalypse and people will still be writing C.
petabyt··on Ask HN: What open source business models have worked?
Donations, Open Core, dual-license, paid binaries, to name a few. Important to note that models aren't a 'one size fits all', what works here may be a disaster there.
petabyt··on Ask HN: what are examples of successful "open-source alternatives"?
GCC, clang, Rust, most compilers these days. Nobody really uses a closed-source compiler now unless you are stuck with Microsoft.
petabyt··on Welcome to Ladybird
The AI generated MacBook threw me off a little.
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