MisterTea

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by MisterTea 3mo ago
Take a break from this stuff. Go outside. I got burnt out from focusing on tech projects too much. I took a break. It's nice.
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
At first I thought this was an Ada package for parsing URL's but no, it's a c++ URL parser confusingly named Ada.
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
Too much tech. I think the focus should be non-tech aides to curb tech use. Otherwise you risk yak-shaving and you're back to fiddling with tech.
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
I like the idea of s-expressions over the wire. Have you thought about replacing the JSON with s-expressions for snapshots?
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
The computer + the internet is the worlds greatest fidget spinner. How many times have you wanted to "quickly" check Wikipedia, e.g. reading up on a random town then find yourself down a 2 hour deep wikihole reading about plants,
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
FYI: old.reddit.com is no longer accessible without a reddit account.
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
> If I had access [to AI] back then, I'd probably just spend more time on the beach. If AI were marketed like this it would not be appealing to employers. So of course AI marketing is wrapped in hustle culture. Gotta keep the worker
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
Perhaps they meant United Artists, an evil syndicate hell bent on world domination and film distribution.
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
FYI: Accessing old reddit now requires a reddit account.
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
accessing old reddit now requires you to be signed in.
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
It would be helpful if there was a backstory or some sort of explanation as to what the hell is going on.
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
That would be the "mothvertisement" banner at the top. It's random and changes on each load.
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
I was recently researching building large LiFePo4 battery banks and realized just about every BMS I looked at featured a BT connection. That was disappointing as I assume there is little to no security for pairing ans communication. Anyone
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
Why would anyone build a webpage which changes background color as you scroll from cool blue to an uncomfortable contrast of pinkish red that made me stop reading the page.
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
I wish Valve would take a cue from id and release the source code to Source and/or at least GoldSrc under an open license. Though I have a hard time imagining them opening up code to more lucrative games like Team Fortress Classic or C
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
This always comes to mind: https://axelriet.medium.com/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trilli... I just helped setup a new O365 account and joined Win 11 machines to Entra (Cloud Active directory) for a company. Total mess. The c
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
Ever hear the phrase "Balls out" when referring to pushing something to the max? Comes form the balls of the centrifugal engine governor. At maximum speed the balls extended all the way outward giving us the term "Running bal
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
> It's interesting that it cares about formatting choices like bullet points. Since AI I have noticed a lot of sudden bulleted lists appearing in pretty benign forum posts. That along with "You are right" "You are cor
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
> (I'm taking off nights and weekends for the first time in a decade, solely because of the speed up of LLMs). What did the LLM's speed up that was taking that time away from you?
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
> For example, right now Yandex tends to be much more lenient to piracy, since it's basically legal in Russia Likely because most of the pirated content is western and therefor both inconsequential and a way to thumb their noses at
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
I thought DODGE already conducted a thorough fraud investigation.
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
Ah, that sounds like something really weird then. Haven't seen 0-10V sawtooth signals for encoder output though Ive seen 0-10V for laser infarometers and other distance sensors.
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
I do retrofits and I'll just assume the equipment he was using didn't have an analog encoder option or was ignorant of such equipment (likely using some cheap hobby level CNC thing.) I've worked with a few motion control syst
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
To be fair it would slide all over in the bed.
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
But they have a clean, covered bed and sparking clean trailer hitch that's never seen a trailer tongue - just in case.
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
> but risking being left in the dust productivity-wise? What's the risk here? Left behind by who or what? > Or taking an “agent first” approach and trying to learn and improve more only on the side, as more of an afterthought? Th
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
It's spoken fast with a nasal tone.
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
> AI immediately gives me the same answer. "The search engine found the answer too" is not an interesting response.
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
> The stochastic parrot claim is long gone. That's just marketing.
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by MisterTea 3mo ago
Esquire Diner in Ozone Park NYC. They're struggling so I hope they stay open and the quality remains. So far, so good.

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