bengl3rt

Location: NorCal

Remote: Strongly preferred

Willing to relocate: Happy to occasionally visit an office somewhere in the world

Technologies: Native code, on embedded systems, especially Apple platforms (C/Obj-C/Swift). Latency-sensitive systems that exercise local inference (CoreML/MPS), including LLMs, and imaging (CoreVideo/Metal). Less recently, device drivers (Windows & Linux) and firmware (PIC/MIPS).

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bengl3rt/

Email: my first name dot my last name at gmail dot com

I only read the paper (and the code in the paper) but not the complete source code, so maybe this would become clearer if I had, but...

Does Rust fundamentally guarantee that if you make a struct, its fields will lay out in memory in the order that you defined them? Can it be used to interact with APIs (really ABIs) who expect a C struct (or pointer to one)?

I think my main frustration with stuff like Go and Swift in this case is that their structs are not binary-compatible with C structs in this way because they rearrange things to be better aligned/packed/whatever.

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Location: NorCal

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: Under very specific circumstances

Technologies:

Native code, especially on Apple platforms (C/Obj-C/Swift).

Embedded inference (CoreML/MPS), including LLMs, and imaging (CoreVideo/Metal).

Less recently, device drivers (Windows & Linux) and embedded firmware (PIC/MIPS).

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bengl3rt/

Email: my first name dot my last name at gmail dot com

Papers, Please is on Steam :)

rstp-simple-server is fantastic, I use it for all kinds of stuff and appreciate how easy it is to deploy. More software should eschew having a million dependencies and focus on doing one thing WELL :)

Have you succeeded at using quicat to do what this is doing?

"Before Fariq can attempt to get back into the cockpit, Zaharie reaches up and flips the pressurization switch, cutting off bleed air to the cabin. The airplane rapidly begins to depressurize."

I really want to believe that a single switch doesn't control whether people in the back of the plane can breather or not...

On MBTA police scanner I hear hipsanic, possibly wearing a cowboy hat, with blood on him

Some friends of mine have actually made a business out of this over at http://testloft.com

From what I understand the phone won't stop ringing so clearly there is strong demand for something like this out there.

Off topic, but...

Luxury car rental company? Please tell me more (like do you have a website??)

I ask because I know of a couple of luxury car rental companies, but there is one ore more things about each of them that make them exceedingly unpleasant to deal with. I would be interested to try doing business with a luxury car rental company that is run by people who also read HN - seems to be a good signal for not-totally-fucked-up business practices.

Can they now?

http://www.apple.com/displays/ still says that only MBP and iMac can do it.

I have lived there in the past. Now prefer the much-maligned suburbs (specifically, Mountain View).

Uber and Lyft and self-driving cars will shortly solve drinking and driving and then my final complaint about the suburbs will be gone.

San Francisco is charming, yet now grossly-expensive.

Except it's not charming at all... it's much colder than the rest of California (it honestly feels like a different planet), MUNI absolutely sucks compared to any transit system in the civilized world (NYC/Europe/parts of Asia), and the homeless problem is the worst I've seen in any major urban center.

San Francisco has a long way to go before I'd consider it a world-class city.

This is of great interest to me because I've always wanted to run this...

http://cycling74.com/whatismax/

On one of these:

http://www.museresearch.com/products/receptor-vip.php

Designing live performance environments in Max is awesome, but laptops just are not designed for the rigors of the road. They are delicate creatures that stand in awkwardly, at best, for musical instruments. Max running on the Receptor would be incredible, and hopefully not too challenging considering the environment is largely self-contained with very few external dependencies.

Will do! I used to be pretty active in the sound scene (mostly live/acoustic recording) in the Bay but have been away for a couple years. I'm looking forward to returning and getting back into it. :)

A better question is, why don't some of the reasons that it's so great to work for Heroku symbiotically trickle up to the behemoth parent company?

Do you have any advice for someone looking to get involved (as an actor and/or a sound guy) with the Bay Area indie film scene? I was on a local mailing list for a couple years called "Low/No Budget films" or something but it seems to have fizzled.

I'm really glad this is open source. I intend to make use of it in any new apps I start, and contribute back any bug fixes or improvements.

As it happens, I was going to build something like that for an app I'm due to start tomorrow, but now I don't have to.

I assume the NA model was the same way? Or just the turbo?

Sometimes the app is not a strict tree of view controllers, but rather a graph containing some cycles. It is here that the whole metaphor of the navigation controller and the visual tools that Xcode gives you to automate it kind of break down and you end up writing lots of hairy custom code to manage your transitions.

Sometimes things are presented modally here but get navigated to normally over there - and once again you're mixing metaphors, implementing some navigation in the storyboard and some of it in code.

I thought the same thing would be true with Auto Layout, but luckily that one seems to have been a bit more "baked" when it shipped, insofar as I've not had any trouble implementing complex views with it WITHOUT ever writing any code.

Don't worry, I'm sure Safari will have one (licensed from the Swiss Railway, of course) in short order.

Why are men using the women's restroom? Doesn't that make the women (assuming any work there) uncomfortable?

Unfortunately, people are sensitive about this subject, often fiercely defensive or even in denial about their own chronic lateness...

Still I wish them the best of success and I hope this changes lives in a big way like I know it has the potential to do.

This makes a lot of sense. The more people use public transit (because it becomes much less painless thanks to apps like Embark), the more you reduce congestion on the road, the more fun it is to drive your BMW.

Congratulations to the team!

Value is linked to price. Tesla is doing the public a disservice by encouraging the notion that the Model S starts at $49k, when it really starts closer to $70 in order to approach a conventional car in utility.

Do you get $70k worth of car when you spend $70k on a Model S? Absolutely. You get something that can hold a candle to if not surpass the $70k BMW M5 in every way. But the curve isn't linear - the $49k barebones Model S is nowhere near as useful as the BMW 528 you'd get for the same money.

Honestly, that puts it solidly into "more than I can ever imagine paying for a car" territory. It's also too big - I can't imagine street parking a behemoth like that in San Francisco.

I quite like the Acura TSX - small, luxurious, $30k. I'd happily pay $40 for Tesla's equivalent.

The $49k base price is totally misleading. To get the "supercharger" access that makes road trips possible, you're out another $12k at least ($10k 60kWh battery plus $2k "supercharger" fee). Nav is $4k. Putting the rapid charger into your home (if you have one and don't park in an apartment complex/on the street) is another four figures.

All this to match the performance and luxury of the Acura TL I could get for $40k.

Is it really the best car in the world if it's impractical or out of reach for most people?

EDIT: Yes, I know all car manufacturers use a deceptively low base price and then nail you on "options" like air conditioning. Frankly I've often wished there was a law, or at least a gentleman's agreement in the auto industry, mandating that something can be an "option" for a maximum ten years before it's considered part of the basic accoutrements in a modern car and gets rolled in to all units shipped. Also, Tesla prides themselves outwardly on not being like the rest of the auto industry, but inherits its worst practice and magnifies it tenfold - base price $49 but for something usable you're pushing $70.

Welcome back to being allowed to comment on Apple things publicly! Feels good, doesn't it?

Cool! That's what I was looking for.

Yes, it's a bit buried. I missed the dropdown on the right. Speaking of Twilio, their docs are very good for stuff like this. They use a big obvious segmented control for switching between XML and JSON, for example.