K0balt

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by K0balt 2y ago
This is one of those industries that attracts cosplayers, but they expect to be paid. It gives me fake-cop-car-guy vibes. When I was growing up I worked at a record-and-tape store. One of my co-employees was a fake-cop-car guy. It was reall
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by K0balt 2y ago
For those rare companies that are trying to create a market out of nothing for a truly innovative product where there are no competitors or self identified customers, I can sympathize with the hollow allure of firehose marketing - but not o
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by K0balt 2y ago
Ah, yes, the legendary pugilistic market fit!
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by K0balt 2y ago
I can only imagine the difficulties facing technicians and engineers black starting a nation-scale grid. I operate a microgrid facility in Hispaniola and have wonderfully cooperative users backed by a separately powered communications and c
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by K0balt 2y ago
Your front door is accessible to the public. Without a fence around your yard and a guard at the gate, bad actors could get access to your front door and exploit any number of door vulnerabilities, including a chainsaw or battering ram. Ple
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by K0balt 2y ago
It sounds like NYS is very progressive. My exposure is anecdotal, but I don’t think that level of vigilance is the norm across the expanse of the interstate system. I’m with you on freedom and how it ideally translates into responsibility..
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by K0balt 2y ago
Obviously, what im saying is a gross generalization with many counter examples. If you are an exception to that norm, I in no way meant to disparage your accomplishments. Certainly I am not speaking from an ivory tower perspective, as I mys
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by K0balt 2y ago
An example of a system that works well is usually the target of low-fidelity attempts to copy without understanding the fundamental principles that make it possible, I.e. copying the obvious form, but ignoring the cultural underpinnings. Al
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by K0balt 2y ago
My memories of ancient light meters involved a battery, but I might be conflating those memories with me plugging in a cadmium sulphide photocell to my shiny new analog multimeter. I was like 7 at the time, so who knows. OTOH I -need- a sal
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by K0balt 2y ago
The german driving culture is largely responsible for the lack of spectacular fatalities on the autobahn. In general, German culture has more respect for the “correct” way to do things, cars tend to be better maintained, and there is a much
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by K0balt 2y ago
This is how it ends.
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by K0balt 2y ago
I should have added: programming, fundamentally is not about “coding” but about accurately characterizing a process or problem, identifying the subtleties of the data relationships to create the right data structure for the problem,, and id
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by K0balt 2y ago
I thought usually those light meters used cadmium sulphide photocells? I don’t think they actually produced enough power to be useful in that way? Do they even have a photovoltaic effect? I always thought of them as photo resistive.
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by K0balt 2y ago
By and large, “learn to code” was never going to produce high value developers. Creative minds create, learn, find a way, with or without on-ramps. A dev that is brought into the craft for a career rather than for a fascination for the the
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by K0balt 2y ago
Paywall. Clickbait title. Checks out. Referring to batteries in low power devices like keyboards and calculators… so just like what’s been on the market for 3 decades?
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by K0balt 2y ago
I suspect you are right, both in the voice and in the causal nature of the new memosphere validating the valueless.
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by K0balt 2y ago
Taking offense when none was tendered is a special kind of social malfeasance that has gained popularity among the idle and boorish class of recent years. I appreciate it as a facile outward indication of low character and questionable inte
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by K0balt 2y ago
Last time I used it to work on some text is switched to some kind of roleplayish overacting. It gave me filthy waifu pillow vibes. Whatever they did to make it more “personal” gave it unresolved emotional trauma or something. Ick. OTOH OAI
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by K0balt 2y ago
So, there is something very important buried in this comment that is either incorrect or not widely known: are you saying that said shipments bypass the de minimus clause and “only” be subject to the (130% or whatever) tariffs, if they use
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by K0balt 2y ago
It is telling of the times we live that I was at first relieved to hear that soon, 30 percent of the continental United States would have be evacuated, giving humanity something worthwhile to do for a while and restoring perhaps a shred of
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by K0balt 2y ago
Something like that would BOM at about $30usd as an assembled board with a 128gb SD card. A 3d printed case maybe another $30 with key caps. If it became popular it could wholesale for $29 in injection molded batch production. I could see i
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by K0balt 2y ago
If there is enough of this era software running around, it might make sense to make an esp32 laptop with a 7” screen, running a DOS emulator. Bonus if we could do it on a riscV variant. Set it up with a few hundred educational titles, Qbasi
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by K0balt 2y ago
Unless you pay for premium!
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by K0balt 2y ago
The USA has, by any measure, a veritable monopoly of coercive force on the world stage. Their military expenditure is more than the next 15 countries combined. This means they have the capability to enforce their will globally to a signific
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by K0balt 2y ago
Fine. We will collect all the customer - server interaction to build training data for vision language action models, so we can replace waitstaff with robots, disrupting the lower middle class and college students!
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by K0balt 2y ago
Ooh,ooh, I know! We can create an app that needs location data and microphone access so that it can automatically sit there and wait for us to say “check please” and it can turn on a BLE beacon that talks to the servers phone, which, runnin
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by K0balt 2y ago
This is really promising research. Still, it is worth looking closely at how models that aren’t re-aligned with the training data with each iteration deal with spicy edge cases where ethical alignment is important. I have yet to find a mode
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by K0balt 2y ago
The only bar to using local is having the hardware and downloading the model. I find it nominally easier to use than using the openAI API since the local API isn’t picky about some of the fields (by default). Agentic flows can use local 90p
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by K0balt 2y ago
I thought it meant the change of everything to pay to play… perhaps the meaning is shifting from its original purpose and is expanding to encompass the ruining of everything by corporations in the name of greed? Idk. If seen it used a lot i
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by K0balt 2y ago
You release the game with a variable in game experience. If the player has two 4090s chugging away, she runs everything locally. If he’s got an rx480, a barebones 1b model or a subscription for the nicer AI NPCs, which can open up AI driven

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