Have you considered using GStreamer pipelines for this? And taking it one step further, if you want to use OBS generally, there's a plugin for OBS that allows you to integrate pipelines too. The common case for the…
Except it's really designed to composite video from a bunch of different places and broadcast the result, whether they are windows, screens, cameras, etc. And a rather lot of people don't want every screen to be…
This could probably be automated using either an OBS plugin (if you really want deep integration and not running another program) or a standalone program (written in whatever language you want) that listens for display…
I (briefly) worked as a test engineer on a similar kind of contract. To meet the UX requirements for the system we were building, it had to be reliably operable in sea state 7+. The customer wanted touch screen…
The center is mostly offline, thinks both extremes are very small portions of the population, and doesn't post on social media. So they seem small but really there are a lot of people like this who aren't shouting into…
People really did that regularly. It does seem to be economically related, for a lot of reasons. One aspect is that a single income really was enough to not feel extravagant to have a home, a family, and afford to go to…
I agree, which is why I used numbers from 2025 in my assessment, it's too soon to know if inflated 2026 numbers are a new normal or a one time bump. I think calling enterprise 5x larger than consumer based on 2024-2025…
Once you remove laptops from the picture, the consumer market is small in dollars compared to enterprise and has been for awhile. This didn't used to be the case, but here we are. Best estimates from last year are on…
The equivalent bike repair to software would be if the bike shop had to fabricate a new part for each repair, down to inventing the metallurgy itself. Would you trust your life to it immediately after that? Or would you…
The way to prevent pileups is not to assume that everything will work correctly, including every system on every car. It's to assume that every single thing that could break, will break, and design enough resiliency in…
Many bus routes are designed with stopping/break points, including limiting route lengths so that operators aren't stuck in these conditions. Yes, at 5pm in a major city, a bus driver might pull up next to a convenience…
Great, so when a deer jumps into the middle of the highway the size of the ensuing pileup is twenty times larger. I don't particularly think we should use technology to push efficiency to the point where a mechanical…
At a systems level, transportation is something we have to be very, very careful about, because if you get it wrong, you start excluding entire groups of people from being a functional part of your society just because…
The way this is typically handled is through compartmentalization, where no one working has enough of a global view to be able to claim that the behaviour is problematic. There's a lot that's problematic that we suspect…
There's no requirement that the mesh be IP-based or function as a layer-3 router... Even if it were IP-bsaed, it would be extremely straightforward for one box to send a UDP message to another, and receive and…
Imagine you walk up to a shelf and all the prices reconfigure based on a model of the most you would be willing to spend for each item, including putting fake "normal" prices so that the "sale" price you are shown is…
Baked model hardware is not the next step in the chain here, in the next 2-3 years we might hopefully see some HBF (high bandwidth flash) hardware to try and get at same memory bandwidth today at a somewhat lower price…
Keep in mind that what previous work has done on a single chip with weights baked in was on a 8b parameter model. Sol is likely something in the 5T parameter range, perhaps higher. Serving the whole thing at BF16 is on…
The five year project likely represents a bunch of engineers that are stuck in meetings and coordination for 75% of their time, then you staff the project with more people (because you need four times as many) then they…
This is starting to be done for very high value plants (think chip fabs, large datacenters, that kind of thing. When the infrastructure is a $10b expense it's worth it). Small plants in the middle of nowhere, especially…
I've seen similar things in this decade. Lots of stuff still running where the last change in design was 20+ years ago, the current team knows how to keep the lights on and replace parts, and calls a vendor if something…
We currently use a small US contract manufacturer that works pretty much as you say. The turn times are terrible (7+ weeks, not 7 days), and this is a major issue, but there are exactly two reasons we continue to use…
The improvements were for things governments (fuel/pollution efficiency) and insurers (safety) wanted, not necessarily you. A new 2010 Toyota likely wouldn't even be legal to sell today in many jurisdictions, and this…
Run on server, chroot into target environment, configure compiler flags for eventual target, done. It's really just an afternoon of setup and then the problem is solved.
Who actually pays for what and how is so mangled that if you want to reallocate someone to another project (or even just pay them out of a different pool of funds!) often the easiest approach is to rehire them through a…
Have you considered using GStreamer pipelines for this? And taking it one step further, if you want to use OBS generally, there's a plugin for OBS that allows you to integrate pipelines too. The common case for the…
Except it's really designed to composite video from a bunch of different places and broadcast the result, whether they are windows, screens, cameras, etc. And a rather lot of people don't want every screen to be…
This could probably be automated using either an OBS plugin (if you really want deep integration and not running another program) or a standalone program (written in whatever language you want) that listens for display…
I (briefly) worked as a test engineer on a similar kind of contract. To meet the UX requirements for the system we were building, it had to be reliably operable in sea state 7+. The customer wanted touch screen…
The center is mostly offline, thinks both extremes are very small portions of the population, and doesn't post on social media. So they seem small but really there are a lot of people like this who aren't shouting into…
People really did that regularly. It does seem to be economically related, for a lot of reasons. One aspect is that a single income really was enough to not feel extravagant to have a home, a family, and afford to go to…
I agree, which is why I used numbers from 2025 in my assessment, it's too soon to know if inflated 2026 numbers are a new normal or a one time bump. I think calling enterprise 5x larger than consumer based on 2024-2025…
Once you remove laptops from the picture, the consumer market is small in dollars compared to enterprise and has been for awhile. This didn't used to be the case, but here we are. Best estimates from last year are on…
The equivalent bike repair to software would be if the bike shop had to fabricate a new part for each repair, down to inventing the metallurgy itself. Would you trust your life to it immediately after that? Or would you…
The way to prevent pileups is not to assume that everything will work correctly, including every system on every car. It's to assume that every single thing that could break, will break, and design enough resiliency in…
Many bus routes are designed with stopping/break points, including limiting route lengths so that operators aren't stuck in these conditions. Yes, at 5pm in a major city, a bus driver might pull up next to a convenience…
Great, so when a deer jumps into the middle of the highway the size of the ensuing pileup is twenty times larger. I don't particularly think we should use technology to push efficiency to the point where a mechanical…
At a systems level, transportation is something we have to be very, very careful about, because if you get it wrong, you start excluding entire groups of people from being a functional part of your society just because…
The way this is typically handled is through compartmentalization, where no one working has enough of a global view to be able to claim that the behaviour is problematic. There's a lot that's problematic that we suspect…
There's no requirement that the mesh be IP-based or function as a layer-3 router... Even if it were IP-bsaed, it would be extremely straightforward for one box to send a UDP message to another, and receive and…
Imagine you walk up to a shelf and all the prices reconfigure based on a model of the most you would be willing to spend for each item, including putting fake "normal" prices so that the "sale" price you are shown is…
Baked model hardware is not the next step in the chain here, in the next 2-3 years we might hopefully see some HBF (high bandwidth flash) hardware to try and get at same memory bandwidth today at a somewhat lower price…
Keep in mind that what previous work has done on a single chip with weights baked in was on a 8b parameter model. Sol is likely something in the 5T parameter range, perhaps higher. Serving the whole thing at BF16 is on…
The five year project likely represents a bunch of engineers that are stuck in meetings and coordination for 75% of their time, then you staff the project with more people (because you need four times as many) then they…
This is starting to be done for very high value plants (think chip fabs, large datacenters, that kind of thing. When the infrastructure is a $10b expense it's worth it). Small plants in the middle of nowhere, especially…
I've seen similar things in this decade. Lots of stuff still running where the last change in design was 20+ years ago, the current team knows how to keep the lights on and replace parts, and calls a vendor if something…
We currently use a small US contract manufacturer that works pretty much as you say. The turn times are terrible (7+ weeks, not 7 days), and this is a major issue, but there are exactly two reasons we continue to use…
The improvements were for things governments (fuel/pollution efficiency) and insurers (safety) wanted, not necessarily you. A new 2010 Toyota likely wouldn't even be legal to sell today in many jurisdictions, and this…
Run on server, chroot into target environment, configure compiler flags for eventual target, done. It's really just an afternoon of setup and then the problem is solved.
Who actually pays for what and how is so mangled that if you want to reallocate someone to another project (or even just pay them out of a different pool of funds!) often the easiest approach is to rehire them through a…