I wonder what the coding agent story will be for bespoke hardware. For instance I'd like to test somethings out on a specific gpu which isnt available on github. Can I configure my own runners and hope for the beat? What about bespoke microcontroller?
Welcome to academia... you have these "famous" profs who tend to be scumbags. Most of them don't even bother reading papers thoroughly. I'm under one, he forces me to put his name to the paper but hasn't a clue what I've written. Unfortunately, it's not safe for me to whistle-blow while I'm in this university. On the brightside I have a coadvisor who's amazing (and fully aware of the situation).
Whelps! Ive been building something really similar. Mines nowhere as complete as Buckaroo I really think embedded apps in notebooks can be very useful.
I wish we could time limit notifications, like it'd be nice to allow notifications to an app for a fixed time period (say a barber queueing app) but I dont want to see ads served by them outside of that time period.
While I agree cryptocurrencies don't stand a chance, my experience with qr systems has been a mixed bag. The country I live in has a fairly good qr code payment system. But there was one day when the largest bank went down and that was chaos (cash very much has a role to play). We also supposedly have linkage with India's UPI. Unfortunately, it was impossible for me to actually use that linkage thanks to the way upi works (I think only some subset of banks are supported).
In the case of Brazil, besides QR codes, you can also make payments using the user unique key, which can be its phone number, social security number, email or a random generated key.
QR codes are problematic. First of all, you can’t really verify it with your naked eye. It can take you to a fake site that looks just like the original. Using phone numbers is vastly superior.
> It can take you to a fake site that looks just like the original.
At least with PIX, you scan the QR code directly on your online banking app, so there's no risk of going to a "fake site" (and the app also displays the information extracted fron the QR code, it's not a blind payment).
The PIX QR codes are URLs without the preceding https://
Scanning a PIX QR code with your camera will just result in text, not a payable URL. You have to scan it in your online banking app for it to be processed as something.
Your banking app will load the details about the payment and you'll see the recipient details before performing the payment.
Even with regular barcode payments, these barcodes are registered with the bank before it's a valid barcode. A lookup is done, if it exists the recipient details are displayed, often the amount, and verifications that it has not expired. (Do not receive after date X)
Brazil has a pretty decent banking system, though the worst online-banking experience I've ever had. (Slowly improving)
His last post was in 2022. Singapore's national service is 2 years, he'd be out by now. Seems like he probably ran into issues. Also he mentions his university: you can't start university till you've finished your military service.
As a fellow 90s kid... I feel the same. I remember when Sony Ericson launched their first camera phone and how we used to go through PC upgrades like crazy. My dad would go to the bookstore to buy magazines with new linux distros included for free. Now I have laptop thats 4 years old and Im not excited to buy my next (heck I dont even need to buy my next... I can run LLama.cpp just fine on my current).
I do think the barrier to entry in tech has significantly increased. There was a wave of internet companies like Uber, (and their global equivalents) that benefited massively from providing local internet services. In the 2000s and 2010s the tech companies benefited massively from global poverty alleviation efforts to get users in remote regions on line. The push to get people online meant that millions of people in poor countries had access to social media and ads but not basic needs like toilets. As the tech companies saturated the emerging markets, covid began to hit. The stark inequalities began to be rubbed in. The big tech companies also dont really have any real material asset to fight over anymore. Their markets have been largely captured. As a big tech firm the game is now to maintain your lead. The industry is now run by MBAs, not hackers anymore.
I love the deck. Its shown us how opensource can be used for a commercial product (and how consumer products dont have to be locked down). I use it in desktop mode every now and then (work in robotics so it makes one hell of an awesome robot controller). I really wish more manufacturers followed suite rather than bundle the crapware that is windows.
Would it reduce the share of exports that US sells? If they decide to buy directly from China over the US given the higher price of everything in the US (keep in mind the raw components dont all appear out of nowhere).
I think there are ways of wording what you said without hurting front-end devs.
LLMs can be excellent tools while coding to deal with the parts you don't want to sink your own time into.
For instance, I do research into multi-robot systems for a living. One of the most amazing uses of LLMs I've found is that I can ask LLMs to generate visualizations for debugging planners I'm writing. If I were to visualize these things myself Id spend hours trying to learn the details and quirks of the visualization library, and quite frankly it isn't very relevant for my personal goal of writing a multi-agent planner.
I presume for you your focus is backend development. Its convenient to have something that can quickly spit out UIs. The reason you use a LLM is precisely because front-end development is hard.
