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by LASR 3y ago
Where I used to work, we had a “tech lead” who used to demand ICs to come up with story points. When the actual engineers were blank about how much something costs, they had to sit through a 90 minute meeting of group-costing. Naturally the
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by LASR 3y ago
Classic example of garbage in, garbage out. Makes me wonder what we will, in the future, discover as “garbage”. Maybe a super-AI that’s able to reason at super-human levels, evaluates what we believe right now are excellent decisions, as ga
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by LASR 3y ago
Nice analysis. But the point about stability - in other configurations of the universe, the subset of those that do evolve intelligence in some fashion is going to have different physics from our own. Stable intelligences might be another c
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by LASR 3y ago
I don’t know enough to have an opinion on the ongoing conflicts near that region. So I’ll abstain from commenting on that. But what I will say is that this corridor is extremely important for international trade across many nations. Securin
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by LASR 3y ago
> 2C of warming is worse than 1.5C, 3C is worse than 2C, 4C is worse than 3C, and so on. Are you thinking about continous instead of linear? The effects of global temperature rise are certainly non-linear, given the extremely complex dy
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by LASR 3y ago
Recently I've been fascinated at some of the long-term space missions that various space agency plan. Some of these missions span multiple decades simply because of the nature of space travel. A burning question in my mind: how does on
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by LASR 3y ago
There is a huge difference between software and non-software STEM jobs. The required education/qualifications are different. The job market is different. I graduated with a degree in Engineering Physics (non-sofware). I loved writing s
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by LASR 3y ago
I really don't think it's realisitic that we will maintain intellectual superiority in the long-term. So a more realistic hope would be: we're the horses, and the drivers are driving us to our carrots.
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by LASR 3y ago
Sorry to be critical/cynical, but isn't this just a resurfacing of the widely-discredited nuclear diamond battery? [1] This looks identical. 100µW, diamond etc. How they plan to go from 100µW to 1W is dubious at best. They'll
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by LASR 3y ago
Design firms frequently upgrade their hardware. So you can frequently find great hardware at very low prices. Also snagged a fully loaded Mac Pro trashcan for $1200 back in 2017 when they all went for the iMac Pros. I spent $50 for each mon
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by LASR 3y ago
Quick feedback if the founders are watching this: Please allow controls on your keynote video. The video production quality looks great. But I am not watching it if I don't know if it's a 30s one or a 30minute one.
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by LASR 3y ago
For those who want less tikering: Two 24 inch monitors bought from a design house auction connected to 3rd Gen Chromecasts. They automatically boot up and display a Google Photos album that contains pictures of the family and pets. These mo
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by LASR 3y ago
You know, I've recently wondered quite a bit about aging and how any of it makes sense. What has perplexed me is the notion of honest signals[1] in a world governed by natural selection and the survival of the fittest. Why wouldn'
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by LASR 3y ago
I ended up getting WiFi blind chain motors from Aliexpress. This allows me to integrate with the existing blinds that have chains. Also, if I ever need to remove them and go back to manual, it's easy. There are a ton of these on there.
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by LASR 3y ago
I have a home with several roller blinds. There are several in various states of repair. This resource looks very handy. Related: recently, I put up WiFi blind motors on all of them. With HomeKit automations, these now go up at sunrise and
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by LASR 3y ago
In the context of LLMs, graphs or their simpler cousins - trees are surprisingly good as both inputs and outputs. My team builds LLM-based features as part of our b2b SaaS product. The primary challenge is how to get fuzzy, incomplete, hete
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by LASR 3y ago
Any reasonable AI product that does this would use RAG under the hood. I hope nobody is using ChatGPT to query for information. This is how you get hallucinations.
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by LASR 3y ago
So one thing about air conditioners - these have coefficient of performance greater than 1. So they will definitely consume less power than a fan for removing a unit of heat from a home. Same with a heat pump vs electric heater. The heat pu
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by LASR 3y ago
The hardware / datacenter side of this is equally fascinating. I used to work in AWS, but on the software / services side of things. But now and then, we would crash some talks from the datacenter folks. One key relevation for me
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by LASR 3y ago
More than a decade ago, I wrote a parser for Google Sketchup object files. It was part of some computer graphics assignment. We were not supposed to write parsers, but instead manually write out a 3D model vertex by vertex and then texture
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by LASR 3y ago
So my wife and I have been talking about this recently. She is not overweight, but after we had our child, she put on some extra weight. She's keen on losing it now and going back to her pre-pregnancy weight. She's been very consi
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by LASR 3y ago
They are all Unifi APs from 2 different upgrade cycles. 3x UnFi AC Pro and 3x Unifi NanoHD. After I got the newer NanoHDs, I just kept the older AC Pros around for 2.4Ghz devices and exterior coverage. Same SSID and they are all hooked up t
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by LASR 3y ago
Solid analysis. A word of warning from personal experience: I am part of a medium-sized software company (2k employees). A few years ago, we wanted to improve dev productivity. Instead of going with new laptops, we decided to explore offloa
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by LASR 3y ago
I am always supportive of newer tech. But I am a bit surprised by the evolution of standards for both 5G and WiFi over the last few years. Compared with the adoption of hardwire ethernet standards - which have been seemingly stuck at 1&#x2F
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by LASR 3y ago
I was able to get a fully functional Windows 11 install using UTM on my M1 MBP. This really helped with some Windows-only android tools with USB passthrough. I've not tried Linux. Note: I am not associated with UTM in any way, just a s
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by LASR 3y ago
Tangentially related thought: Take my advice, don't go ultra-wide. Go with a large 4k. You get more pixels for cheaper. The only ultrawide that makes any sense is the 5k x 2k resolution one. These have more pixels than a single 4K. But
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by LASR 3y ago
The single-most important lesson I've learned building products as a founding engineer in a successfully exited startup: weighing tradeoffs and deciding which software architecture to use is the wrong place to dedicate mental energy. I
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by LASR 3y ago
At 9, I tried to make a game that combined SimCity 2000 and Transport Tycoon Deluxe - my favs at the time. I used MFC(Windows) because my parents got me a big black book about it. My game was a simple train simulator with four trains. Each
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by LASR 3y ago
Might be an unpopular opinion, especially in North America, but I think families living together is a great thing. I have a wife and child, and we all live with my parents in a largish 6-bedroom house. They are retired and I support them fi
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by LASR 3y ago
I've built a reputation for leading skunkworks projects in my org. The trick I've discovered is that maximizing self-interest eg: maximizing your recognization of efforts (and for everyone else working on the project) is the best

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