The decision was mine, you only had the illusion of choice....
Designs need to be well thought out. If you get it right, it is easy to scale, optimize and add features. I didn't quite understand this when I read some of FreeBSD's design philosophy and code, but after seeing some Linux subsystems, it makes sense. Not sure about only downsides of only designing performant systems. Maybe it's hard to integrate later on?
Haven't been able to get much work done since the past ~2y. Mostly tired all the time so put away things for later. I open 10 interesting articles from HN or Lobsters or work in the morning every day. After wasting some CPU cycles, Firefox is probably put to sleep by the scheduler. Then it is night time, and I close all of the tabs without reading anything. Bookmarks will probably subsume my…
There's more to it than some girl Grind it, get better Make some friends Party a little Write some code Have as much fun as you can Fall in love actually Live in peace Upper bounded Find talent limit Ceiling low Work on something there that's fun That's all there is to do Theory intuition probably unachievable Boundary theory practical might be attainable Practical attainable Happiness inverse…
Understanding the raw concept of backprop is relatively easy. However, implementing some of the functions in vectorized numpy code was very challenging. These are some of my notes to break the problems into subcategories and addressing them accordingly. Tip 1. Instead of writing fully vectorized code from the get-go, consider breaking the function into its smallest "atomic" pieces. For doing so, I…
Firefox recently started spamming me with update box dialogues. As it happened that unfortunate day, I misclicked on "Update" instead of closing the dialogue box. Everything broke for me. Videos, full screen, etc. I wanted to roll back but downloading older releases and booting them resulted in infinite loops. These instructions are for OSX: Install your version of choice from the Firefox FTP…
I use a Mac to cross-compile for amd64. Mac: MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=XXX tools/build/make.py NO_CLEAN=1 -j11 buildkernel TARGET=amd64 TARGET_ARCH=amd64 DISTDIR=XXX/dist MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=XXX tools/build/make.py NO_CLEAN=1 -j11 distributekernel TARGET=amd64 TARGET_ARCH=amd64 DISTDIR=XXX/dist MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=XXX tools/build/make.py NO_CLEAN=1 -j11 packagekernel TARGET=amd64 TARGET_ARCH=amd64…
Recent driver upgrade to >=5.0.18.240 in Windows made the camera turn on briefly then output a blank stream. Issue happens to be with sgl_mnn_dll.dll , which is responsible for face and landmark detection. To fix, replace this file in C:\WINDOWS\system32\ with an older version. The latest version that worked for me was 5.0.18.200 . Find other versions on Microsoft Update Catalog with search query…
I am displeased with your ever-growing fake persona. I have seen you with those closest to you. You don't laugh. You don't smile. Fuck you.
I have been struggling to find the meaning of life. Mostly mine, but I wonder yours is. Life appears pre-scheduled for the people around me: wake up, work, watch TV for a bit, doomscroll, repeat. Occasionally vacation. There's no spontaneity, no fun. Maybe some fake sense of achievement here and there, but nothing to be proud of. I don't want that. However, when I sit to think about what I do…
Down we go.