katzinsky

Vision transformers are good enough that you can use them alone even on cursive handwriting. I've had amazing results with Microsoft's models and have my own little piece of wrapper software I use to transcribe blog posts I write in my notebook.

I've had very poor results using LLaVa for OCR. It's slow and usually can't transcribe more than a few words. I think this is because it's just using CLIP to encode the image into a singular embedding vector for the LLM.

The latest architecture is supposed to improve this but there are better architectures if all you want is OCR.

Yeah I'm pretty sure even cubsat launch prices have dropped by an order of magnitude. It will be affordable by amateurs within a decade at this rate.

People certainly bring that up when they talk about TOR.

Gemma2 has gotten good enough that it's competitive with copilot and is completely self hostable. Companies are starting to publish full size base models too. I think the time to bring your AI service in house is here.

It's likely the point of the war was really to clear out Ukraine, not defend the borders. The leader isn't Ukrainian himself and that has effectively been what he did.

Unless you live in a city a bunker really isn't necessary. Just tape trash bags over any blown out windows so rain/dust doesn't get in and don't go outside for a couple weeks.

I use XMPP and then Cheogram for people who don't want to figure it out.

That way for people who don't care everything just works and for people who do they get a rich experience with E2EE. Unlike eg iOS/imessage I don't force them to use a different OS for this and I can talk to everyone from my laptop. Everything is 100% self hostable.

I don't know why you would use Matrix. Self hosting is awful, the clients are a huge mess, and it was bootstraped by the Israel based company that runs US telephone surveillance (it's kind of insane that's done in another country.)

I live on solar power and would definitely pay a premium for fewer solar panels that produce the same amount of power. There's a tropical storm coming through and I just had to pull them all down. I'm going to have to put them all back on Saturday.

Plus having the space back would be nice.

Regardless of the content, unless it's a death threat, I don't think going after old ladies is a great way to calm people down.

Aldi is usually still cheaper per unit IME.

No one wants to build things, it's all administration masquerading as development. Back before I gave up on life in general I used to program in my free time because I really wasn't doing much of it at work.

It's frustrating.

No. Britain was our homeland but the same thing has been done there, so as I said we can't just leave.

There's still a lot my Palm 3xe can do that an iPhone can't. Smartphones feel like a regression in most ways except improvements in a handful of hardware peripherals.

No I think the underlying assets/labor will get cheaper (IE there will be deflation, especially locally in Florida.)

But you don't have to on Linux.

Like there's just so much crap you have to do to make these non-free OSes pleasant or private and it's always blowing up. Linux mostly "just works" OOTB.

The Elinks code is in some Eastern European language.

Here's what I would do.

Hire some people to start building it, publish the code under a copyleft license such as the GPL and start hiring consultants to contribute to it. This will give you control over the critical "must haves" while making it possible to eventually spin a lot of the maintenance off to third party companies.

Software that's developed this way has a long history of being very high quality as there's much more cohesion and communication of theory when the developers and costumers work for the same company while at the same time the GPL will protect the project from potential takeovers via internal politics.

I don't know. I used to say this but then you look at places where it's been done like Canada and the PNW and the results are pretty disappointing.

I think the answer to drug use is to make life worth being sober for rather than monkeying around with the law.

People keep forgetting Wish still exists and many Open Source GUI apps are scriptable with guile.

And the reality is that Linux desktop environments are skins. The widget toolkit is almost always a separate project. This is becoming even more pronounced with eg Wayland where the compositor just hands the client a surface to render its UI on and knows absolutely nothing about widgets or fonts (not that people have been seriously using those features of X11 for a while anyway.)

And honestly this is preferable. It looks hideous but it's much more pleasant to use. CWM doesn't have many features but the few it does have (such as the regex window title search) I so dearly miss on much nicer looking UIs (like OSX on my work computer.)

NPM is particularly nasty because they've solved the issue of transitive dependencies having mismatched versions. This removes one of the biggest immediate pain points caused by having very large dependency graphs so you only feel the pain later on. Because of that you get this emergent behavior of unusually large dependency graphs in a lot of NPM packages.

Semiconductor fabrication is nasty. It's way worse than most plastic production. Even the board substrate itself is probably the most toxic kind of plastic out there (other than maybe styrene feed stock) before its cured and being a composite it decomposes the slowest. It's much much worse than most household waste.

There are bigger things that produce way more waste though. Lots of vehicles (especially boats) have huge fiberglass composite components for example.

Yes, data and statistics aren't a substitute for careful thought. You shouldn't throw them out but you definitely can't outsource your thinking to them either.

That's part of why online forums can be nice: a well moderated one can be great at pointing out blind spots in your thinking.

I suppose this isn't the first time a company that started out as a hobbiest board manufacturer produced really amazing micro controllers but man is it insane how far they've knocked the ball out of the park.

>If you are not happy about that you can get it DRM free from the website

It's surprising this and GOG is always such an unpopular option. Most of these stores really dig their claws into the game and force you to launch it through their own shells with all kinds of nagging and network traffic.

I've become convinced most consumers really just aren't capable of "shopping" for software.

When I used to work as a freelancer MonoDevelop was awesome since it meant I could work from a decent OS instead of Windows. Thanks so much for your work.

I've been buying stock in Florida insurance companies. It's clear to me the state government is going to relax regulation on insurance companies to avoid the situation in Californa and the state run insurance is already obviously insolvent. The competition has cleared out and the rising insurance rates will mean a downward correction in house prices and labor which will create a larger profit margin.

The main issue at this point is wealthy people/PE buying up all the homes self insuring.

That's surprisingly low considering it was probably trained on many of the papers it's supposed to be replicating.

That's really begging the question. I don't believe they would as they have consistently over engineered solutions in the past.

I'm not sure "Google engineers use it" is a very good counter argument. They have a very high tolerance for complexity and like most large corporations what actually gets built and used tends to be driven more by internal politics than technical merit.