LeifCarrotson

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by LeifCarrotson 4mo ago
Those genetic requirements come into play at elite levels, but you need to start young, when those differences are less obvious. You need to look at what sports an eight-year-old is playing in the backyard, what sports his Dad is excited ab
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by LeifCarrotson 4mo ago
I don't even know what "make software vulnerable to a specific agency" would look like. Would the training data include a bunch of cryptography primitive training samples that preferred Dual_EC_DRBG with a particular set of P
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by LeifCarrotson 4mo ago
Are you 20? I got 35 unc which is a few points less than my IRL age. I'm curious at what (if any) age the mean score skews to greater than age in years. I expect there are multiple brackets, the very young won't check off many at
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
Reminds me of the opening to "Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson. In that book, a wet bulb event (high humidity and high temp) in India pushes infrastructure past the breaking point, the grid goes down, AC systems st
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
Content creating is not maintenance. And hosting of a static site is dirt cheap, caching works flawlessly. It could've been a two-million-dollar website if he'd tried to roll his own CMS and Javascript framework, for zero benefit
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
Many G-code dialects contain subprogram calls, loops, and conditionals that seem like they'd permit a physical quine. The standard RepRap firmware breaks the rules by taking input: https://reprap.org/wiki/G-code#M9
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
They come from lower parts of the patient's scalp. The typical "receding hairline" pattern is caused because the follicles on the forehead and top of the head become sensitive to with age to DHT, the but the hair follicles on
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
Not "just", it's (presumably) 8 dedicated pins that form an RMII interface. This is not the same 8 pins as you'll find in your 4-pair Ethernet cable, it's a separate protocol which can be connected to an Ethernet PH
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
Yeah, but even when it was a new quote, it was inaccurate: People have always wanted to follow their own desires, always wanted to be told what they want to hear, and always disliked listening to harsh truths. Even in 64CE.
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
Much like planting a tree, the ideal time to use your own domain for email was many years ago, but the next best time to do it is today. Do it! minraws.com (if that means anything to you) is available, you could be firstname@minraws.com as
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
Television courtrooms are half of it, the other is social media. Tiktok and Youtube and Facebook will show you videos all day long with notable events that were pulled from security cameras, or uploaded by bystanders with cell phones, or fo
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
I've got a couple older cars (2010, 2003), but the only new one I'm excited about - the only actually new car I've ever considered buying - is the Slate truck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_G4OfXTlvs It h
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
I don't think that current LLMs really need an abstain option, they'll give an answer regardless of whether they're confident or not. I hope that future LLMs will, and will know when to use it. I understand why you prompted t
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
It's usually an email chain that they're CC'ed on, or for which they're the point of contact: Sales, project management, or (worst) a VP getting pinged by a customer who wants to jump to the front of the line: "Our
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
The problem is that most of the people in my circle who are returning AI answers to emails and chat messages do not understand enough about the topic to know whether a question is interesting or not, which parts of the response are interest
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
It's neurotoxic, a respiratory irritant, and an eye irritant. No, if it's injected in your bloodstream it won't immediately kill you, but if you inhale a few milligrams of vapor you'll wish you could cough up a lung. Als
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
What was most surprising about all this to me was this line: > So modern DRAM manufacturing is an extraordinarily complex and expensive process. Building a single state-of-the-art DRAM fabrication facility, a “fab,” will cost you about
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
I worked at a plastic furniture manufacturer in Indiana for a few projects. They got paid to accept bales of recycled "HDPE" that they could mix at between 10 and 30% into their virgin materials. They get paid to accept it! Negati
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
Oh, that kind of metal and EDM. I clicked into this thread expecting hobbyist/hacker machining with steel and brass and aluminum, and was surprised to see someone getting into electrical discharge machining. Those hair-fine wires, mill
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
Potentially winning a drawn-out lawsuit against that sheriff, investigator, and county would have been a big improvement for the rights of his neighbors and friends, but I'd wager that with even half of those settlement winnings that h
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
> In just 20 minutes, I tricked ChatGPT and Google into telling the public that I am a world-champion competitive hot-dog eater. The joke was dumb. The problem is serious. The problem is worse than astroturfing a Wikipedia page, because
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
I'm running Qwen 3.6 via https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 and it's pretty great. I'll update to the 3.7 equivalent when that's ready. It's not nearly worth it to me to get an inc
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
RunRepeat is THE place to go for actual measurements and objective data about running shoes. I'm currently recovering from blisters due to racing a 25k two weeks after my debut marathon in Vaporfly 3 shoes. Poor planning, but it wasn&#
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
It's a bit disappointing, then, that the page's action on clicking the "solution" button is just to set the pieces to: const solution = { a8: "b1", b8: "q1", f7: "q2"
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
The capacitors in your PSU's rectifier have to float through 8.333ms interruptions every. single. cycle. 20 milliseconds is barely distinguishable from a single 60 Hz sine wave period. 10 milliseconds just over half a cycle.
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by LeifCarrotson 5mo ago
> On my home Voron, You're not the target market for Bambu customers. This is like complaining that on your dirt track racer it's a trivial process to swap the rear end spur and change final drive ratios. Someone who has their
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by LeifCarrotson 6mo ago
That's effectively what all the 99% or 1% prediction markets are: a bet that an asteroid will destroy the planet or that the Rapture will occur or that we'll all upload our consciousnesses into computronium or whatever is not actu
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by LeifCarrotson 6mo ago
The problem is that consumers want to buy a phone with 24 hours of runtime and an EV with 200 miles of range, and they want the phone to be thin and light and the car to be fast and light, and manufacturers want to achieve those capacities
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by LeifCarrotson 6mo ago
I want removeable batteries in my phone, largely because it means I don't have to buy them a lot! I ran my LG G5 with replaceable batteries from 2016 through 2021, at which point there were no affordable replaceable-battery phones left
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by LeifCarrotson 6mo ago
As the father of a 9-year-old I have to warn you: the sleep deprivation does not end at 6 months.

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