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Senior Deep Learning Engineer @ Nvidia

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buildbot··on Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt
I believe the author is talking about the OCP (2.0) network card itself, that these adapters internally. The OCP nics are quite cheap compared to pcie - here’s 100GBE for 100! https://ebay.us/m/HMQAph
buildbot··on Declassifying JUMPSEAT: an American pioneer in space
“The fact that JUMPSEAT formed the foundation to follow on HEO systems”

Well that’s an interesting blurb from the declassification memo -https://www.nro.gov/Portals/135/Documents/foia/JUMPSEAT%20Re...

buildbot··on Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]
262 pages!!! Pretty interesting to see how the different SoCs have evolved security wise over time.
buildbot··on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
Thanks, good to know!
buildbot··on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
Is https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-spectator-usa/ Wrong here?

(I really don’t know, but it does seem that this info at least is coming from multiple places?)

buildbot··on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
I haven’t heard anything about this but the claim appears to be mostly true - https://spectator.com/article/has-xi-jinping-fought-off-anot...

The spectator is allegedly a reliable media source, I am not personally familiar.

buildbot··on LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra
If you are sensitive you can get really, really annoying blips of flicker even above 1khz - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1477153512436367

They also flicker really badly if your power is not perfect, like you have a decent sized training rig on a different circut.

Incandescents are basically little light inductors and I would imagine the luminosity curve would be sinusoidal vs whatever hell a LED driver chip puts out.

buildbot··on Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds
I suppose that counts/was caused by a fracture but almost a half meter of gap in the track is nuts. Like describing a limb that’s totally removed as a bone fracture.

Though conceivably the break was very small and a train impacting the slightly lifted rail just caused a good chunk of it to explode.

buildbot··on FAA institutes nationwide drone no-fly zones around ICE operations
Doesn’t anything under 250g basically slip under the radar (not literally radar). Seems like most drones they care about might end up not being trackable anyway.
buildbot··on Doom has been ported to an earbud
Plus there’s actually less waste, I would imagine, by using a generic, very efficiently mass produced, but way overkill part. vs. a one off or very specific, rare but perfectly matched part.
buildbot··on Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
Anyone using this in Washington is breaking the law, IMO - https://dol.wa.gov/vehicles-and-boats/vehicles/vehicle-regis...
buildbot··on Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
FYI for others, if you are in Washington, you are breaking the law: https://dol.wa.gov/vehicles-and-boats/vehicles/vehicle-regis...
buildbot··on Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
Yes I texted a lawyer.

Again, I do not have a Tesla. I have never had a Tesla. I do not plan to own one.

Here’s a 240M dollar judgment against tesla- https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/08/04...

You think that’ll go better if you hit and maim me with your comma controlled car?

buildbot··on Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
Okay, is every change validated by a safety agency? No. I asked a lawyer this question and the answer was “on every level yes you could sue them”.

Edit - Further back and forth and depending on the circumstances, comma could be criminally liable.

I don’t have a tesla or a car.

buildbot··on Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
Yep, getting this too.
buildbot··on Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
FYI if I get hit by someone and I find out they are using comma, everyone’s is getting a lawsuit.

Is there a hard safety check for an insane steering angle? Full brake or throttle? ECC error? What happens!? That’s what a safety standard checks and certifies for.

Incredibly dangerous, irresponsible, and illegal to be using this around other people. At least Tesla vaguely pretends to work with regulators. The cute download your own firmware so they aren’t shipping an illegal device? Encouraging hands off, inattentive driving? Let’s see how civil court sees that.

buildbot··on Internet Archive's Storage
Seattle public library is also an archive as well as a provider of many beautiful and free third spaces. The downtown library is very cool. I bet there’s stuff in the stacks there that is not digitized anywhere.
buildbot··on Captive Wi-Fi
See! To people complaining about this being on the front page - https://xkcd.com/1053/
buildbot··on LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review
I did this for a bit with a Q900R, a 65in 8k TV - a upside or downside depending on the time of year and climate is that it uses a lot of power and generates a good amount of heat.

Here’s a review of the series - https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/q900-q900r-8k-qled

One interesting thing is that it’s been firmware updated to support hdmi 2.1 on all hdmi ports now.

buildbot··on Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)
It’s perfect for the iPad, it adds just a little friction to the pen and makes it much more paper like in feel too.
buildbot··on Level S4 solar radiation event
Last major storm I saw a significant number of single bit errors on my main server - never happened again, still using the same ram. So +1 anecdote
buildbot··on Cyberattack in Venezuela demonstrated precision of U.S. capabilities
It would be funny in this case if it was really just an open SCADA for their entire power grid that they clicked “off”, then “on”.
buildbot··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
Mine while not recently updated, is https://blog.maxg.io
buildbot··on SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
Consensually, typically.
buildbot··on SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
I believe they are claiming doxing based on connecting an email to a social media account.
buildbot··on The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
For some reason this rings a bell - is there an article/blog/post/message in a bottle about Lynn Conway at that conference (and how it’s not really conference; lol?).
buildbot··on The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
Seriously the way it slowly goes from totally coherent, to slightly coherent, to flat earth, is as another commenter said; “absolute cinema”.
buildbot··on When hardware goes end-of-life, companies need to open-source the software
Honestly between the ability to flash firmware, interface specs, and maybe PCB schematics that should be enough to use an old device for a motivated individual.

My personal pet example of this is old cameras, lenses, and digital backs. Plenty of great hardware out there that currently requires very extensive reverse engineering to use that would be made a lot easier with firmware & schematics.

buildbot··on Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2
Wow these frames of forests are absolutely stunning - It’s like Princesses Monoke vibes met Disney rendering technology. I wish I knew about all the techniques mentioned in this article, it’s super cool how basically everything is backed up by really low level physical simulations.
buildbot··on Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs
Using VisionOCR stuff on MacOS spins my M4 ANE up from 0 to 1W according to poweranalyzer
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