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nateb2022
13,199karma·1,783submissions·January 4, 2022
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Computer/Software Engineer & Mathematician.
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- Systems and embedded engineering, with expertise in VHDL for hardware description and FPGA design
- Software development in C++, Go, Rust, TypeScript/JavaScript, and Python
- IEEE Nanotechnology Council
- IEEE Systems Council
- Analog systems
- Kernel development, focusing on Linux ABI design and optimization
- Low-level GPU driver architecture and hardware-accelerated computation
- ASIC development and methodology
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> Can the police department post police officers on every street corner and instruct them to record license plate numbers for every car they see? Would that constitute a search and if so a search o…
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> US v Jones was in the context of placing an actual recording device on an individual vehicle You are focusing exclusively on Justice Scalia's opinion. Five other Justices provided two separa…
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As Katz established, the Fourth Amendment protects people, NOT places. The assumption that "if it's visible from the windows, it's public" is a dangerous non-sequiter that comple…
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In the 1760s there was something called a writ of assistance, which allowed British officers to search any location for smuggled goods without specific suspicion. The Framers of the Constitution draft…
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> Can the police take pictures of every car they see and use that to determine your travel history? You conflate the generally unremarkable act of taking a picture of a single car in public with th…
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> Automobiles are highly regulated and driving is a privilege. There is no _right_ to drive a vehicle from point A to point B, in secret or not. If we accept your premise that the government can sp…
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> In comparison: license plates, when in public, are always visible, and very easy to discern from one-another (different state-unique numbers); so in my mind the expectation of privacy is far lowe…
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Curious if bunny.net offers any measurable DNS performance improvements over Cloudflare or vice versa.
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[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648039 (2 hours ago, 58 comments)
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I applaud this. Assuming this is to combat the rampant LLM posts and comments that irk me whenever I visit.
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Feels like a solution in search of a problem; a reinvention of https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/ opencode ( https://opencode.ai/docs/permissions/…
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On Amazon I see a "Orange Pi 6 Plus 32GB RAM 12 Core 64 Bit LPDDR5 Single Board Computer, CIX SoC 45TOPS AI NPU Mini PC Run Linux, Android, Windows, ROS2 OS with Heat Dissipation Assembly with Co…
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> Mozilla’s fast release cycle for Firefox is a minor irritation, yes. (Of course, there’s always the Extended Support Release channel, if you want to hop off the treadmill.) I am unaware of anyone…
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> Seems very unethical, no? Who uses service providers like this? The whole point of anti-bot measures is to get rid of bots - you are not wanted there. I'm familiar with companies automating …
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> With Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf? Ahh no I'm using the MLX version, it's about 5-10% faster than GGUFs in my experience.
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I get over 100 tok/s sustained on my M4 Max and M5 Max, in MacBook Pro's. LM Studio + MLX.
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> As long as you use proprietary OSes, do not ever update past what has come with the hardware(reinstall back to it if needed). That's why there are still machines using windows xp still in us…
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How's your battery health? A severely degraded battery will not be able to deliver power at the rate your system may be demanding it. I'd replace it asap.
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What sites already are using JPEG-XL en masse?
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Not 100% sure but I believe it uses gnome-keyring under the hood, I'd install that and start it with gnome-keyring-daemon --start