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dewbrite··on Nikon reveals a lens that captures wide and telephoto images simultaneously
Not sure what the policies are on banning sites, but can this website please be banned?

I'm on mobile, this website has deceptive hitboxes so "dismiss" on the notifications prompt will almost hit the advert on the bottom. Once I finally managed to read the article and hit the bottom of the page, it had a popup which hijacked navigation so I couldn't easily return to HN.

Will record this behavior if asked.

That said... There's not much to say about this? Is it using "meta" lenses printed on silicon? Wish the article would have had any information whatsoever. I suppose we'll learn more at CES. :P

dewbrite··on Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?
Mayo with fries would be a German likeness. Very odd in the States.
dewbrite··on Making a game for my friend's retro console
I also made a game for the gametank! In rust B)

Optimization is tough, especially figuring out what to do between blitter operations. I'm kinda sad there's no pallet tricks either, but, it's a system worth playing around in :)

dewbrite··on Show HN: Glasskube – Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager, alternative to Helm
I've tried out Pkl which is similar in spirit, and I think it's a real solution for k8s manifests. The only thing holding it back is industry adoption imo. It's leagues better than Helm, and mostly better than Kustomize.

See also: KCL, which is very similar and might _actually_ be "the winner". Time will tell.

dewbrite··on Homegrown Rendering with Rust (2021)
But Microsoft _does_ have a widely known C++ compiler. I doubt Sony does. Does Nintendo?
dewbrite··on Number 16 (spider)
Anecdotally, I had a grandfather I never met who had built his own house on a nice plot of land out in the sticks, and that's something I'm obsessed with doing in the future. My father also worked in tech, but didn't really pass knowledge to me.

Though, both of these things are almost stereotypical [1]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/vnmmuo/whe...

dewbrite··on Scarlett Johansson Said No, but OpenAI's Virtual Assistant Sounds Just Like Her
Pretty sure that's the Juniper voice. See the live demo for the new sky voice that is allegedly problematic. Fwiw the client is glitchy when changes voices, so it may have displayed as sky.
dewbrite··on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
"better safe than sorry"

- any legal team, ever, in the history of the universe

dewbrite··on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
They used a sound-alike and had her sing one of her songs. I believe that's a different precedent, in that it's leveraging her fame.

Imo Sky's voice is distinct enough from Scarlett, and it wasn't implied to _be_ her.

Sam's "Her" tweet could be interpreted as such, but defending the tweet as the concept of "Her", rather than the voice itself, is.

dewbrite··on HCL: Toolkit for Structured Configuration Languages
I've been using Pkl since it came out and I like it a lot, and the editing experience is fantastic with intellij.

I don't think inheritance is a flaw at all here. It makes a lot of sense to build configuration up from base definitions, especially when you account for its merge syntax.

I've been using it for k8s manifests a la customize. The biggest pain point for me is the lack of flat member syntax when updating deeply nested fields.

Something that's caught my eye is KCL, which seems similar, but maybe a bit more mature?

dewbrite··on Self-hosting on a Raspberry Pi cluster
Cool stuff! I built a similar cluster of Orange Pi 5s with NVMe drives. For IP masking I'm paying for a $3.50 VPS to have nginx forward raw packets.

Fwiw Cloudflare Proxy and, to a lesser extent Tunnels, are de facto MITM attacks. I don't exactly trust large unprofitable corporations to do the right thing when they decrypt all of my and my users' traffic.

Not that CF is a malicious entity, but, the potential for them to be used as one is a looming threat. Then again, so is any VPS you host on :^)

dewbrite··on Genetically engineering koji mold to create a meat alternative
Gene editing fungi to create quasi-meats. I could see this being an economical(?) food of the future if they manage to get long tight fibers and lipids going.
dewbrite··on Dada, an experimental new programming language
I strongly disagree that smart pointers are "off the paved road". I don't even care to make specific arguments against that notion, it's just a terrible take.
dewbrite··on Kagi and Wolfram
> To ensure result quality, we automatically downrank pages with advertising and tracking, which are often associated with low-quality or machine-generated content.

That is one of the most compelling things I've ever heard about a search engine.

How well does kagi work for niche "reddit queries" like "best waterproof midi synthesizers reddit"?

dewbrite··on Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
I would believe it - I just don't think I've seen it. All it would take is better PWM controllers right?

I wonder if the places I've been to just don't know, or just haven't upgraded yet (waiting until the originals die?), or are trying to save pennies on the dollar on repairs?

dewbrite··on Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
I spent a lot of time playing Bally Twilight Zone at the Munich Maker Lab a few years back. I still miss the tungsten bulbs which lit the ball consistently, as opposed to LEDs which tend to "blink" rapidly (at 60Hz?). It makes the ball much easier to track at high speed, and has such a nostalgic soft glow which gently fades off into nothing.

I also miss reading the manual and fixing little things every so often.

It looks like this machine has either moved on from MuMaLab, or was never listed in the first place.

It would be nice to be able to filter machines here by what kind of lights they use. I imagine most places tend to use LEDs to save on electricity. At least that's been my experience checking the barcades I've found from this site.

dewbrite··on Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders
IIRC Alan Watts believed that were are all one being, living every life in sequence, at different points in time. So you would at some point be the same chicken you slaughtered.

It's been many years, though, since I listened to him. And I was usually focused on other things. That may have been just a supposition on another point.

dewbrite··on Why are we templating YAML? (2019)
What? GitHub Actions, at the very least, isn't strictly yaml. I run arbitrary code in whatever language I want all the time. I'm pretty sure third party workflows can, too.
dewbrite··on Why are we templating YAML? (2019)
> But yeah, I think Helm will be the death of Kubernetes. Some competing computer allocator container runner thingie will have some decent language for configuration, and it will just take over overnight. Mark my words!

I want to believe this.

Everywhere I've worked we're still rawdogging tf/hcl and helm though, because change is scary.

At least I get some relief in my personal projects. :')

dewbrite··on Why are we templating YAML? (2019)
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I prototyped an SPA recently with mithril.js and CoffeeScript and I think there's really something magical about that combo.

Oddly enough I can't stand writing python or js. I do almost all of my actual programming in Rust, because I adore the type system.

dewbrite··on Reasons medieval people slept in cupboards
I can't tell from the pictures, but these almost look too small to sleep in. Would people curl up inside them? I'd like to see a human for scale
dewbrite··on The Unhinged Nature of GTA V Source Code [video]
3. Someone gone and fucked the sun up
dewbrite··on NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances
Summarizing the article: The most damning thing here is the "ChatGPT as a search engine" feature, which appears to run an agent which performs a search, visits pages, and returns the best results.

In doing this, it is bypassing the NY Times paywall, and you can read full articles from today by repeatedly asking for the next paragraph.

dewbrite··on Switch off bad TV settings
Not sure exactly what display I have, but it's a recent OLED Bravia. Motion smoothing is still awful.
dewbrite··on Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time
Stage 2 flight termination? :'(
dewbrite··on 6502 back end for LLVM (2022) [video]
Build in release, optimize for size. LLVM-MOS produces some remarkably good assembly. Rust is still missing some optimizations though, since rust-mos is a few years out of date.
dewbrite··on 6502 back end for LLVM (2022) [video]
Huge fan of LLVM-MOS. I have a friend who built a W65C02S based console (gametank.zone), and I've been able to get some Rust demos running on it :)
dewbrite··on A blog post is a long and complex search query to find people (2022)
The point isn't that people can communicate over the Internet though. That's easy to explain.

What's harder to explain is the emergent behavior that comes from that. I like to think of this as "meta gaming".

Generally when people start playing a new game, they don't care much for picking the optimal team/items/tools, they just play to have fun. As they play more, they recognize that some combinations are stronger than others. Some people will theory craft those combinations.

Over time, the general population will inherit those combinations, or perhaps build against it. That's kind of like the Internet before and the Internet now, but on a much larger and more complex scale.

dewbrite··on Ask HN: If you were to build a web app today what tech stack would you choose?
My last full stack passion project I used Axum for the backend/API, Mithril.js with Coffeescript for the frontend, then S3* and Meilisearch for data storage.
dewbrite··on 400M PCs can't run Win 11: PIRG petitions Microsoft to extend Win 10 life
Last night I attempted to install Windows 11 on a new laptop, released 2022. The installer doesn't allow you to continue without connecting to the Internet first, and Windows doesn't have the right WiFi drivers built in.

I'm lazy, so I installed Fedora instead

I know this isn't precisely related, but these anti-patterns add up. It does not feel good to be a Microsoft customer.

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