@Rob_Russell

I write some code. I play with cameras and electronics. I'm a Googler working on Street View but opinions here are just mine. Also @Rob_Russell@mastodon.cloud

 Mountain View, CA
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Joined October 2008
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This shift has been going on for a long time. I wonder if it's ever been any different.
Galit Ariel@galitariel21 Oct 2022
I think it's (unfortunately) the fact that truly passionate tech practitioners are demoralized by the industry's shift towards exploitative practices & buzzy-buzz-buzzwords, versus a true exploration and value-based innovation.
Is there an AIO liquid cooler for my PC that will let me put my coffee cup on the radiator?
If the bash patterns for Shell Parameter expansion (gnu.org/software/bash/manual…) were available with Command Substution (gnu.org/software/bash/manual…) then idk if I'd ever need cut or awk.
Wild story but just completely straightforward execution. RF rules are just different from the security model we want to imagine on top of the internet.
Greg Linares (Laughing Mantis)
@Laughing_Mantis10 Oct 2022
This will be a thread discussing a real world breach involving a drone delivered exploit system that occurred this summer Some details I am not able to discuss, however for the blue teams & red teams out there I hope this provides a good measure of capability. 🧵🚁 🎮🖥️🦠
What is the correct name for a cable with a USB A connector on both ends? It doesn't seem right to call it a USB A to A cable since *A USB cable, by definition, has a plug on each end—one A (or C) and one B (or C)* (cribbed from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_ha…

USB hardware - Wikipedia

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Oh here it is. It's called "Proprietary, hazardous"
Crop of table titled "Plugs, each end" showing the row and column "USB A" with the value "Proprietary, hazardous" in red.

ALT Crop of table titled "Plugs, each end" showing the row and column "USB A" with the value "Proprietary, hazardous" in red.

This makes so much sense. It's reminiscent of pointer representation of a multidimensional array in C. Or the stride of a texture in graphics memory. I've never spent enough time in depth before to understand the shape and reshaping in these Python libraries
François Fleuret
@francoisfleuret30 Sep 2022
A recent exchange on Twitter made me realize that many may be using tensors without knowing how they are represented in memory, and how it makes some operations super fast. This is standard stuff common to many tensor libraries, including our beloved @numpy_team and @PyTorch.
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Good advice for future green card or citizenship applications. The land border crossings are hard to track down for green card applications too. Even with the I-94 website it helps a lot to keep some second record for yourself.
Chelsea Klukas@chelscore28 Sep 2022
Pro tip for anyone considering applying for US citizenship in the next 5 years: keep REALLY accurate travel records! You're required to provide the entrance/exit dates & country for every trip outside the USA. This was a lot of info gathering for me, esp for land borders!
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SSH encryption feels redundant with wireguard encryption. I recognize that they're different layers but it seems like telnet over a wireguard encrypted connection could be a reasonable thing.
The need to tweak never ends. Just realized only half of a Windows machine's RAM is available in WSL by default docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win…

Advanced settings configuration in WSL

A guide to the wsl.conf and .wslconfig files used for configuring settings when running multiple Linux distributions on Windows Subsystem for Linux.

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Short version: I created a file named .wslconfig in my Windows home directory containing [wsl2] memory=48GB and ran wsl --shutdown. Things restarted and now I have 48GB available instead of 32GB. Longer explanation and caveats joe.blog.freemansoft.com/202…
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Paused reading this interesting thread because I need to save the term "malicious compliance" to my vocabulary. A few steps worse than "just doing it by the book"
Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
@doctorow10 Sep 2022
Replying to @doctorow
This is pure malicious compliance, a monopolist's version of work-to-rule whereby they follow the letter of the law in a way that is clearly designed to frustrate the spirit of the law. 25/
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PSA: You're scanning everything WRONG! Follow these three tips when capturing video or photos for #photogrammetry. That's right, this works for @PhotoCatch3D, @scanamaze, @Polycam3D or any photogrammetry software. Of course there are many other factors, but these are a must! #3D – at Salem, OR
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I wondered if DALL-E would do anything interesting if I just fed it some lyrics. None of the images really triggered the same emotions for me as the pictures in my mind but here's a sampling of what I got...
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Now these images are a terrible injustice and I'm sorry for showing them to you if you've ever listened to Fiddler's Green: [balloons all filled with rain as children's eyes turn sleepy mean. And falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain for a boy in fiddler's green]
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Maybe my standards have been lowered or maybe there's a hint of the picture painted by this lyric from the Live Between Us recording of The Luxury: [a man down on his luck so he takes to the streets shaking a banana at people trying to convince them that it's making a sound]
This is _exactly_ why I pay to play with DALL-E and GPT-3 in the state they're in today instead of waiting for the rough edges to be sanded down.
Chris Albon
@chrisalbon8 Sep 2022
2022: “WOW you can write a prompt and an AI will draw it!” 2028: “You want to write a prompt? First you need to hire 10-15 promptOps Engineers to build out your PromptFlow pipelines which sends promptjobs to your PromptLake from the PromptQueue using the EventPrompt stream”
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