Liftyee

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by Liftyee 4mo ago
I haven't used local agentic AI yet for programming projects. Hence, -187 score The filter for "commands I would run myself" and "commands I would let an agent run" are very different it seems.
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by Liftyee 4mo ago
It would be a shame to see Dropbox decline. They're the last big player to maintain a Linux sync client that just works reliably. I've tried to host Nextcloud and tried Syncthing as well, but Dropbox has always worked for when I j
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by Liftyee 5mo ago
Interesting finding, but hardly fundamental. My fluids lectures taught that there's form drag ("pressure drag" in the article) and skin friction drag. The two trade off with each other depending on Reynolds number. Keeping th
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by Liftyee 5mo ago
I suspect those people lack the practical skills needed to construct such a table, and the time/motivation to create with their own hands instead of purchasing.
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by Liftyee 5mo ago
I also suspect the modern digital news cycle and potential lawsuits have impacted the levels of risk acceptable. In China, with devastation in living memory, the population are generally willing to take more risks, and there's less of
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by Liftyee 5mo ago
It's counterintuitive, but I've heard an explanation that the alternative - they decide to dispose their cigarette into the bin full of flammable paper waste - is much worse.
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by Liftyee 5mo ago
I would like this feature to save screen space, but what happens when a window isn't maximised? The menu bar items get orphaned? Or you have differing behaviour?
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by Liftyee 5mo ago
Hard to justify for a beginner? Sure. "Can't tell the difference?" is not true, once you're dealing with small enough parts. Can I use a magnifier to solder 0.4mm pitch parts? Sure. Would I prefer a binocular microscope?
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by Liftyee 5mo ago
This sounds like an opinion written by a "clean hands" computer scientist. Electronic engineers have it easy with their soldering - mechanical engineers deal with much more stubborn oils, greases, metal swarf... Isopropyl alcohol
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by Liftyee 5mo ago
I'm curious - how often do you use the scrollbar? For me, almost never (or only as an indication of progress through a document). I'm scrolling only with wheel or arrows or PgUp etc. Perhaps though this is learned behaviour from s
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by Liftyee 5mo ago
I'm amazed that engineers can make submerged tunnels work and that leaks don't (literally) sink the whole plan.
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by Liftyee 5mo ago
I was only punished like this once as a child. I don't remember what it was for, but I only remember the punishment. So anecdotally, it doesn't seem to work.
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by Liftyee 5mo ago
I should have upgraded my GTX 1060 6GB last year. Last year I said I should have upgraded my 1060 last year. I bought it second hand 7 years ago and it is still the same price. I don't do much gaming, and it runs Immich / etc ligh
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by Liftyee 5mo ago
Neat little example of what's possible even using a restricted and standardised language. One could imagine using this as an interface layer for humans to interact with robots or industrial systems today. Of course, it would still be s
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by Liftyee 5mo ago
If ASML could do it, China will also do it. It's just a matter of development time and resources, both of which are plentiful in China.
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by Liftyee 5mo ago
Neat project. These popular "commodity" devboard designs have been remixed and copied so much that it was just missing an open-source design to slot into many existing projects. I can imagine designing a board using one of these d
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by Liftyee 5mo ago
I'm not familiar with the details of real software development, so I don't know why it's not possible to just "not give the SVG part of the code internet access" or "perform sanitization on post-decoding (url,
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by Liftyee 5mo ago
Praised by most customers, probably. As an engineer I appreciate Bike Friday's attention to detail and I own a good few "artisan" devices myself, but the reality is that most people want a mass-produced bike that is "goo
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by Liftyee 5mo ago
Out of curiosity, what do you use the higher 20gbps transfer speeds for? Video production? I use USB-C displays, but they run in DP Alt mode. I don't have many (any?) storage devices that can max out a 20gbps connection, and usually do
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by Liftyee 5mo ago
The wires count seems to be the number of conductors in the cable (i.e. the number of wires you'll find if you cut a cable in half, including ground and power). It's true that the actual data is sent over a lower number of diffpai
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by Liftyee 5mo ago
I wonder if the real problem is short-term thinking in culture and incentivised by markets. By optimising next quarter's profits over investing in long-term growth and capability, things like this happen.
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by Liftyee 6mo ago
What hardware do you use?
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by Liftyee 6mo ago
I can speak Chinese fluently but I need to improve my reading hugely. This sounds like exactly my usecase. I would actually be willing to pay for this (though less certainly for a subscription, preferably Pleco-like one-time fee - even if l
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by Liftyee 6mo ago
Looks promising, but what's the signup wall for? Also, I guess I can't try this until I get an FPV controller/game controller that I can connect to my computer?
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by Liftyee 6mo ago
The 192 other comments from interested people seem like pretty strong counter-evidence to your claim. You've also listed a few questions that seem pretty interesting to me, from a curiosity perspective.
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by Liftyee 6mo ago
Useful overview of PCBWay's capabilities. I might consider switching from JLCPCB. Design critique - I would put the mounting holes further from the board edge, for added strength. The screw heads are going to overhang a certain amount
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by Liftyee 6mo ago
I noticed when I visited Japan that the crossing chimes quieten once the barriers have fully lowered. Just another example of Japanese attention to detail and human oriented design.
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by Liftyee 6mo ago
I often wonder about stories of relatively short-lived geniuses such as Ramanujan. Is there a timeline where he recovered and continued making discoveries for decades? Is there some correlation between extreme genius in one area and subopti
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by Liftyee 6mo ago
Interesting, this is my first time consciously thinking about this trend. Perhaps the needs for read/write speed are bounded (before processor, etc. becomes the limiting factor), while more capacity is only limited by price. Or maybe i
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by Liftyee 6mo ago
Guess I'll make this a habit and find a similar auto-Reader-Mode feature in Firefox. I like my cursor just the way it is.

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