Yeah, I tried to sign up for instagram, but at the fourth captcha I gave up and left. How does instagram have any users with such a hostile sign-up barrier?
Fun fact. There is this threads twitter clone from meta. How do I login?
I "log in with Instagram", where "I log in with Facebook". Guess how well data recovery works when there is literally no password set. I'm surprised these systems work at all.
I still found it insane to display passwords that easily. Sometimes I give brief access to my PC to friends, family, acquaintances, or even colleagues, and they shouldn't be able to see my passwords with a simple button. It's like leaving your bike out unlocked, because someone with the right tools can break the locks anyway.
> It's like leaving your bike out unlocked, because someone with the right tools can break the locks anyway.
Not to strain the analogy, but it's more like not locking your bike when it's in your locked apartment (the apartment being your computer). The thought being that if someone puts the time and effort into breaking into your apartment, a bike lock isn't going to do anything to stop them.
I think it makes perfect sense. I want to see my passwords without having to re-enter my system password every time.
Operating systems have had guest accounts for decades for the "handing your PC to friends/family/etc." use case. Even Android phones have temporary guest accounts (though many manufacturers disable that because it interferes with their own secondary user-based hacks).
Guest accounts are a nice theory that do not match the lived practice of scenarios such as "Yeah sure, go to the PC to add some songs to the playlist".
Nice! As a heads up, don't be tempted to replace the battery via a third party if the Samsung battery ever stops meeting expectations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834810
For geometry, fixed-precision integers are better. But for computation and usability, floats are great. Scaling a 10 meter model in floats to 13% of the size is a trivial multiplication by 0.13f. With integers, this can get tricky. Can't first divide by 100 then multiply by 13 because you'd lose precision. Also can't multiply by 13 and then divide by 100 because you might overflow. Unless maybe venders would add hardware that computes that more accurately like they currently do for float, but honestly, float is good enough and the the potential benefits do not outweigh the disadvantages.
Float is also fantastic for depth values precisely because they have more precision towards the origin, basically quasi-logarithmic precision. Having double the precision at half the distance is A+. At least if you're writing software rasterizers and do linear depth. The story with depth buffer precision in GPU pipelines with normalized depth and and hyperbolic distribution is...sad.
Problem is, NVIDIA has so many quality of life features for developers. It's not easy getting especially smaller scale developers and academia to use other vendors that are 1) much more difficult to use while 2) also being slower and not as rich in features.
Personally I opted in to being NVIDIA-vendor-locked a couple of years ago because I just couldn't stand the insanely bonkers and pointless complexity of APIs like Vulkan. I used OpenGL before which supported all vendors, but because newer features weren't added to OpenGL I eventually had to make the switch.
I tried both Vulkan and CUDA, and after not getting shit done in Vulkan for a week I tried CUDA, and got the same stuff done in less than a day that I could not do in a whole week in Vulkan. At that moment I thought, screw it, I'm going to go NV-only now.
I did my thesis porting my supervisor's project from NeXTSTEP into Windows, was an OpenGL fanboy up to the whole Long Peaks disaster.
Additionally Vulkan has proven to be yet another extension mess (to the point now are actions try to steer it back on track), Khronos is like the C++ of API design, while expecting vendors to come up with the tools.
However, as great as CUDA, Metal and DirectX are to play around with, we might be stuck with Khronos APIs, if geopolitcs keep going as bad or worse, as they have been thus far.
Vulkan has abysmal UX though. At one point I had to chose between Vulkan and Cuda for future projects, and I ended up with Cuda because a feasibilty study I couldn't get to work in Vulkan for an entire week, easily worked in Cuda in less than a day.
Man, I love Kagi. Two years ago I would never have thought I'd ever pay for a search engine, but the option to block garbage domains like userbenchmark or sites with purely AI generated content is just too good.
If you go to duckduckgo.com/settings you can generate a URL with all of your saved settings. Loading it will configure all the settings it includes in your browser's local data. Blocked sites are included, I just checked.
It always takes me awhile to remember where this setting is buried in their menu. In case it helps someone else: https://kagi.com/settings/user_ranked . Besides blocking, they have ranking adjustment options on this page as well.
Security through obscurity is like a bike lock. It can be cracked with the right tools and effort, but massively improves security compared to leaving it out unlocked.
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