> Anh em ơiiii, vực nào sâu thăm thẳm?
—“Brothers, what abyss is deep?”
Vực nào sâu bằng cái ly này!
—“What abyss is deeper than this glass?”
Hò zô ta nào!
—“Haul it up!”
Kéo cái ly này lên!
—“Lift this glass high!”
It’s a pity that the writer didn’t elaborate on the origin of this “chant.” It’s a parody of a chant that’s originally for pulling cannons up the abyss of Dien Bien Phu. The battle alone killed at least 15,000 Vietnamese but brought decisive victory for the Vietnamese in its struggle to gain freedom from the French in 1954.
Alternative way to see it: The author had either a $50 solution, or a $50 solution that comes with a discounted hotair rework station for $150…
I learned it from Superfastmatt. He needed a piece of plastic that retails for $1500 for his van, so he said: “either I have a $1500 solution or I have a $1500 solution but I get a free fancy 3D printer in the end…” that stuck with me.
A couple of years ago, I lived in an apartment and made a doorbell repurposed from an Amazon Dash button. Basically I have a daemon that sends a message each time a button press is detected to my homebrew mqtt server.
Then I have a bash script that runs on the raspberry pi board that has a speaker installed, something of this sort to play the doorbell chime:
while [ true ]; do
mosquitto_sub --exit-after-first-message /my-topic
play_wav my-file.wav
done
One day, when I was out and about, I got a call from my neighbor saying the doorbell was making noise non-stop and bothering him. Turns out the mqtt server crashed, the mosquitto_sub command exits right away... We had a good laugh about it as we are both software engineers.
The Chumby with its wiki and open hardware/software philosophy was so ahead of its time and so influential to me. I started my whole career with hacking the Chumby’s user space [1]. The Chumby inspired and took me from an IT worker in a regional public school, to being a professional software engineer, making software shipped to millions of very important machines.
The lesson that I learned from the journey was that working with hardware can be fun and— if you want your career to be long-lasting— better be fun. The Chumby was one of the first devices that showed me that and bunnie was the one who showed me that. I still follow that principle to this day. No day in my life has making firmware or fucking around with hardware devices not something I enjoyed.
If your input is Russian mixed with English, it might still be actually faster to do a first pass to process all the ASCII English range first with the aforementioned techniques, then do Russian later in the second pass: imagine you’ll have way less if branches to do.
For banks that insist on doing SMS-based 2FA, I use a less well-known Google Voice number that only I know and don't give to my normal contacts. That number does nothing other than to receive 2FA codes, doesn't forward its messages and calls to any other numbers.
My reasoning is that it would not be trivial to guess the phone number from my account/name, and to guess my name from phone number (unless someone hacks into the bank's db, in which I'm in troubles anyways). Furthermore if someone was able to figure out that link, it would not be trivial to do SIM swap on Google Voice, it would not be trivial to attack the Google Voice app. Two or three stars have to line up for someone to sim-swap that GV number.
But some stupid bank go further to ban GV numbers. In which case I just don't bank with them.
Lol, they botched the first example - that it translates “Our goal is to create a more connected world” to Vietnamese: It has a glancing typo at the end of the sentence “hơn” instead of “hơ.” Also it really messed up the pronounciation: It read “Chúng tôi” as “Chúng ta” - they are totally different words phonetically. The pronunciation also sounds like it’s made by someone who is mentally sick. So they botched in both translation and pronunciation.
That’s so embarrassing - especially for something to show how good their stuff is (although I think it’s probably not the ai’s fault) - just shows how sloppy their people are.
I know they have plenty of Vietnamese engineers there. Did the PR dept just throw this final version of the video out without reviewing with them?
A quick glance to the history of the article, I see it was edited by multiple usernames and IP address at different times. How did you come to the conclusion that it was self authored?
Now you have to have a database of a million phones from Shenzhen that you need to keep track of whether it has your bands. Who's gonna pay for their QA and know what phone manufacturers are doing what with their phones?
Zorijushi rice cooker. It can cook rice perfectly and can hold cooked rice for days.
Facebook portal. Yeah Facebook privacy and all that but that's a good product that allows me to call people without having to mess with the phone. The audio and video is super clear. I use it despite it's from Facebook.
Work sharp knife sharpener. It's superior to sharpening the my knives with the stone.
Apple airtags. I often forget where I put my keychain so this is really well executed. Apple airpods. They just work and they are nice enough.
Hakko soldering station. I don't know if the recent Chinese usbc ones are better but the hakko one I have work well enough for everything I want to do.
FYI: If anyone looking for a label printer, get a Rollo and a Pi.
I sell stuff on Ebay from time to time, and one of my pet peeves is not having labels professionally printed and having to tape them. After researching stuff I decided to skip the Dymo stuff and went with Rollo. The Rollo only prints over USB, so I connected it to the Pi0w. It's so godsend nice, I can just shove it into the closet and print from any computer in the network. There is no software to install, it can print from literally any app.
Wifi QR codes? Print it and stick it on anything. Instructions to use an appliance or recipes? Print it. Freaking love it.
One more thing about the Rollo label printer is that they have some sort of deal with USPS so it's always cheaper to print the label from their "shipping manager" web interface. I haven't even shipped 30 packages from the time I got it two years ago and the printer already made the money I paid for it back.
I agree with you for the most part. This problem definitely doesn't require ML to achieve.
However, if doing it with a classical approach (matching sprites) takes a person half a day, and doing it with the new fangled proprietary ml takes a person 20 minutes, I do see that doing it with the new fangled ml approach does have some merits. People want to get stuff done.
I'm a barely passable programmer, so not exactly a shining benchmark, so maybe my view is distorted. I don't think I can do duck detection flawlessly with classical programming in half a day and it would be a total pain in the ass to do it that way, to be completely honest with you.
It’s a pity that the writer didn’t elaborate on the origin of this “chant.” It’s a parody of a chant that’s originally for pulling cannons up the abyss of Dien Bien Phu. The battle alone killed at least 15,000 Vietnamese but brought decisive victory for the Vietnamese in its struggle to gain freedom from the French in 1954.