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marktolson··on M5, the largest single-masted sailing yacht in the world
There isn't a lot of detail in the article regarding the rigging / sailing setup but technically it should be possible to sail this single handed unlike a multi mast / ketch vessel. There should be little difference in term of sailing handling compared to a 40 foot sloop.
marktolson··on A framework to securely use LLMs in companies – Part 1: Overview of Risks
Can you elaborate on the problem? I've successfully used LLMs to format unstructured data to json based on a predefined schema in a number of different scenarios yet somehow missed whatever issue you're describing in your comment.
marktolson··on Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple
Same path, but for the last 10 years i've been a CTO. Right now i'd kill for fewer meetings and more focus time. Starting to take its toll.
marktolson··on Show HN: Customizable, embeddable Chat GPT based on your own documents
SaaS has been around for a while now.
marktolson··on Show HN: Plus – Self-updating screenshots
Perhaps they can make it so that the element's XPath / node id is stored and used for capture rather than X + Y coordinates. Still prone to failure I know, but ultimately more reliable.
marktolson··on New video of Tesla crash demonstrates the problem of semi-automated driving
My friend was using adaptive cruise control while towing a caravan. A car merged in front of him, his car applied heavy braking to maintain the desired distance (not necessarily to avoid a crash) but didn't compensate for the weight of the caravan. Almost lost traction, lead to heavy swerving. He's vowed to never use it again.
marktolson··on Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music
I play the piano (badly). There are many other people who can play much better than I. There are simple computer programs which can play better. It doesn't stop me from enjoying it or playing it. Computers have been beating people at Chess for years yet you still see people everywhere enjoying the game. At some point computers will be better than humans at absolutely everything but it shouldn't stop you as a human from enjoying anything.
marktolson··on Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music
It's not too hard these days with open source BPM detection and stem separation libraries: https://github.com/deezer/spleeter
marktolson··on Ask HN: What Is the Hype with Docker?
When docker is used to develop and deploy on linux, it's amazing. Running any kind of container on Windows (let alone Windows containers) will absolutely lead to headaches at some point.
marktolson··on How to use a watch as a compass
I hope this is a joke.
marktolson··on Plasma Bigscreen
I'm still rocking my 12 year old plasma TV, the thing won't die!
marktolson··on The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken
I highly doubt AI is being used here to match up the Open Camera footage with the instagram pic. Identifing humans as an object within a frame is trivial. Identifying individuals requires a considerable amount of custom training which is more than what is available from an instagram pic and a few video frames. I'm not saying it can't be done, it's just not that easy. I'd bet $100 bucks that most, if not all, of these matches were accomplished using good old stalking (matching post times to manually reviewing video data). Would be happily proven wrong but without any source code provided I stand firm with my opinion.
marktolson··on Diffusion Bee: Stable Diffusion GUI App for M1 Mac
16MB? No. 16GB? Sure.
marktolson··on D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams
You can fully modify styles in mermaid using CSS and style attributes. You can also load it as a JS library, attach events to chart components, programmatically render charts plus way more.
marktolson··on Exploring 12M of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion
Bitcoin / Blockchain doesn't have any intrinsic value other than to those who believe in it. Self driving cars (Level 4-5) are not available to the public and is still in development. This stuff is real, produces some incredible results, available to the public and advancing at a rapid rate.
marktolson··on Ladle Rat Rotten Hut (1940)
I think it also depends on the accent you read this in. The Australian accent makes this very difficult to decipher. The audio sounds much closer to the original.
marktolson··on DigitalOcean Was Down
Well I guess it would vary depending on the criticality of your services but I've always been skeptical of running production workloads based on a number of reviews I have read in the past. For testing and development they have been great for the price.
marktolson··on DigitalOcean Was Down
Experiencing this as well. Hopefully people don't run production workloads on DO.
marktolson··on Why I left Google: work-life balance
Same here. However it did point me in the direction of the ex-interns awesome project which I use often for technical interviews: https://riju.codes/
marktolson··on Ask HN: Share your personal site
https://runnit.io - a backend as a service for building simple sites and serverless functions.
marktolson··on Netflix will falter
They have a lot more than a handful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Netflix_original_progr...
marktolson··on Hire for the Ability to Get Shit Done (2011)
There are those who forge the path and those who finish the paving. Both types are required as it's exceptionally rare to find people who can consistently do both.
marktolson··on JsonLogic
I have successfully implemented this exact project in the past. The project allowed for runtime logic modification however tracking states was built into the platform to make debugging simple. As with every other library or framework, JsonLogic is a great tool if you implement it responsibly.
marktolson··on Narco Submarine Found in Spain
Which I get, but why not choose a displacement hull that's designed to ride through the water as opposed to the over it? Even fewer problems to solve. They could use a smaller, quieter engine with no stern drive I/O leg needed (more reliable, less moving parts etc). My only theory is that these boats may be designed to plane (once the ballast has been dumped) to get away from threats at higher speeds.
marktolson··on Narco Submarine Found in Spain
I'm no boat designer but this seems like such an inefficient hull design. This is supposed to ride low which makes it a displacement hull but the transom / stern would create a huge low pressure area behind the boat hence a very high drag coefficient. Is there something I am missing here?
marktolson··on Cloudflare Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 Financial Results
I can't speak for everyone but for every site I've created I run it through Cloudflare. Even if it's just for DNS. It takes care of so many things that would otherwise require config/setup, costs or maintenance at the click of a button.
marktolson··on Show HN: SharedOTP – Shared two-factor authentication mechanism
Tagline has a spelling error in it (you => your). Good luck with your venture.
marktolson··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
A minimalistic web app host that supports serverless functions. Just create an account and you have an entire sub domain to work freely in. No projects, no deployments, no git, no cli, just create files, folders / routes and functions and away you go, all from the browser.
marktolson··on Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt
Go to billing > cost analysis > filter by resource break down. Azure billing analysis is pretty amazing.
marktolson··on Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies
Well done, looks amazing. Uploading videos (webm) doesn't seem to be working right now. Interested to know what kind of infrastructure you're running on.
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