I got sent to immigration secondary while crossing the border in Amsterdam earlier this week because they were worried I was taking videos of their “military object” with my meta glasses. They told me to take them off while i’m at the airport.
This is so silly — they only record when you press a button, not continuously, and they can only record for like 3 mins max and there’s a light that indicates to everyone around you when they are recording.
Meanwhile there’s a bunch of people in line with their phones out, which do not indicate when the camera is on. But somehow that’s different.
It’s a bummer because they’re great for taking family photos/videos. Also great as an Airpods replacement. A little flimsy but the tech is 90% there.
I wish Apple made them instead of Meta — I think they’d do a better job of bringing them to the market while maintaining public trust.
Is getting something like M3 Ultra with 512GB ram and doing oss models going to be cheaper for the next year or two compared to paying for claude / codex?
funny i was recently picking between a glossy and nano texture screen and came to the opposite conclusion — the glossy screen’s image was so much more crisp, and i didn’t really see much difference in terms of reflection
I have terabytes of iphone photos/videos accumulated over the years. Apple Photos app is trash when it comes to handling large libraries so I’ve been splitting them by year which is fine for archiving but horrible for actually browsing photos.
Immich has been absolutely awesome for this — I can finally look at all my pictures from any year from anywhere in the world. I’m very happy and hope the creators find a way to sustainably finance the project.
The upload feature in the mobile app is not a 1 to 1 replacement of apple photos import so i still do that via apple photos, but that’s something I can live with.
Many jobs aim to solve problems so well that there’s nothing left to fix — doctors curing illnesses, firefighters preventing fires, police reducing crime, pest control eliminating infestations, or electricians making lasting repairs. And that’s totally fine — people still have jobs, and when it works, it’s actually great for everyone.
Hi all, wanted to share what we've been working on at Pyroscope.
This is a ChatGPT based Flamegraph explainer. Analyzing flamegraphs can be challenging and we often get questions from users about the best techniques for finding insights from flamegraphs.
We thought maybe we could teach an LLM do this task and turns out it ChatGPT does it pretty well.
You can check out a blog post [0] for a longer explanation for how it all works, or you can upload your own profiles and get insights quickly by going to flamegraph.com [1]
I did consider it, and I think you're exactly right RE the direction I would go into (colored wire, larger pieces, etc). But then I had a bunch of other things happen in life and so I had to put it all on pause.
The world of art (and especially commercial / corporate art) is very foreign to me, but I bet exploring it would be a fun challenge, so I am planning to do that in a few years.
hehe, if anyone's interested, I built a similar machine around 2018-2020 [1], although I never automated the nail pick-and-place part of the process. I also used epoxy instead of plaster.
My favorite little anecdote that I like to tell is that the first thing people often see when they add Pyroscope to their apps is that it takes way less CPU than other signals like tracing or logging. It's pretty common to see logging taking 5-10% of overall CPU utilization.
The other 90% is usually spent doing serialization / deserialization (half-joking).
I work on Pyroscope, which is a continuous profiling platform and so I see a lot of profiles from various organizations.
If you want to save the world some CPU cycles I would look into optimizing deserialization. And it’s not just JSON, binary formats like protobuf are not much better.
It comes down to the overhead associated with allocation and tracking (GC) of many many small objects which is unfortunately very common in modern systems.
Great article and all but there's no way I'm going to remember any of it. I think I'm going to stick to "click different blending modes until it sort of looks right".
This is so silly — they only record when you press a button, not continuously, and they can only record for like 3 mins max and there’s a light that indicates to everyone around you when they are recording.
Meanwhile there’s a bunch of people in line with their phones out, which do not indicate when the camera is on. But somehow that’s different.
It’s a bummer because they’re great for taking family photos/videos. Also great as an Airpods replacement. A little flimsy but the tech is 90% there.
I wish Apple made them instead of Meta — I think they’d do a better job of bringing them to the market while maintaining public trust.