SequoiaHope

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by SequoiaHope 5d ago
Can you elaborate on the mechanism of this degradation? If resources are not available I would expect a request to fail with a message about resources not available. Do they tweak back end model capabilities to maintain service in a degrade
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by SequoiaHope 9d ago
I actually just think every person should have their basic survival provided for efficiently by society. My argument is that most people only veg out because they are tired of a hectic work life, but if given the chance to coast for a long
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by SequoiaHope 11d ago
I got the Garmin Lily 2 Active. It’s an attractive simple watch. For sleep and activity tracking without GPS it’s great. It also has GPS but I use my phone for tracking biking. The big thing is that after configuring it with the Garmin app
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by SequoiaHope 12d ago
I was careful in my wording - the benefit is the freedom. Many people will appreciate that, simply by being able to install what you want. That goes well beyond the benefits to Linux users, but as a Linux user I really appreciate it.
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by SequoiaHope 12d ago
For me a lot of the value comes from the freedom you get with frame. Valve says “it’s your PC, install what you want” and it runs an open source OS. It’s the first truly Linux friendly headset (it runs arch btw) and I don’t have to send my
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by SequoiaHope 16d ago
Hard to imagine Apple would not remove damaged devices from the floor.
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by SequoiaHope 20d ago
In this case it’s not AI that helps its full service board fab and assembly shops like JLCPCB. It’s so cheap to order fully assembled boards there I don’t bother assembling mine at home anymore. Bonus is you don’t need to mess with tiny com
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by SequoiaHope 20d ago
At the robotics lab I work with it’s not uncommon for a piece of electronics to require a multi thousand dollar voltmeter, because they need to measure precisely extremely small voltages. We have a bunch of these in our lab for example: ht
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by SequoiaHope 20d ago
Yes! They’re good at reading data sheets and finding things to add, locating LCSC parts, and making sure they’re connected in the schematic. They don’t always make a pretty schematic but they can be convinced to make the look a bit better t
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by SequoiaHope 21d ago
Ya it can
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by SequoiaHope 21d ago
I have it convert Altium files to Kicad and then it uses the Kicad api to control things. If you give it encouragement it should be able to convert back to Altium by parsing the format and building a tool. Supposedly I have this built thoug
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by SequoiaHope 22d ago
Yes I think generative board design will become better packaged, trained, and validated, and that it will be common place for electrical engineers to rely more on these tools. Major vendors like Altium will add tools like this and their use
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by SequoiaHope 22d ago
Ya that makes sense. I will say tho that for things like mechanical CAD, text is extremely limiting. But yeah the learning curve is real and you can’t learn it all. I’ve started trying a bit of LLM assisted mechanical design, but I am basic
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by SequoiaHope 22d ago
Electrical engineering will involve humans making specifications for a while the same way we do vibe software engineering today. Board design and layout will change but electrical engineering is about more than that. For tools, I think the
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by SequoiaHope 22d ago
The designs are in Kicad format, and the Kicad APIs are useful for Claude to work with. I would say that right now this involves a lot of knowledge about PCB design to do well, or for more detailed designs. However you might research how to
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by SequoiaHope 22d ago
I have 15+ years of PCB design experience. Mostly hobby stuff but a fair amount of processional work. Kilowatt range brushless motor controllers, basic RF stuff, lots of microcontroller stuff. I had Fable design an LED earring. Rechargeable
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by SequoiaHope 23d ago
I mean the laundromat runs the machines pretty much 24 hours a day but a washing machine is not AGI. Directly - something can be useful without being AGI.
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by SequoiaHope 2mo ago
Presuming that paying fair wages drives up service price. Uber and Lyft may increase prices a bit, but there are other factors that affect customers willingness to pay which don’t change with increases in driver compensation. The companies
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by SequoiaHope 2mo ago
Well running from QSPI flash (even the internal memory versions use SPI internally) so any inference would be very slow streaming from that compared to RAM. The featured article says: “With a peak session RAM around 28MB, Needle runs on new
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by SequoiaHope 2mo ago
Thank you for sharing. MCC is nice when it works. I’ve also found that running the original Halo in Xemu emulator makes for an extremely lightweight, fast, and performant experience. It’s remarkable how heavy weight MCC is compared to the o
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by SequoiaHope 2mo ago
To me the surprising thing is how much sugar people are willing to drink, but I think the same thing when my friend drinks Coca Cola.
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by SequoiaHope 2mo ago
Oh wow the concept of Vitamins, which I learned about from the Reprap Project, must have come from that 1980 NASA study! https://reprap.org/wiki/Category:Vitamin
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by SequoiaHope 3mo ago
I had to look it up. Apparently maize did not get to Egypt till around the year 1600 but in British English the word “corn” refers to any local grain. Eg these “Corn laws” refer to wheat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by SequoiaHope 3mo ago
Plenty of people are doing novel hard work with AI in open source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48867961
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by SequoiaHope 3mo ago
Basically. Moreover though it’s cloud based so you can’t run it with a poor connection or no connection. They could change their mind at any time about free accounts and lock users out. Free accounts can’t make private files. And I don’t kn
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by SequoiaHope 3mo ago
Here ya go https://github.com/sequoia-hope/waffle-iron/tree/main
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by SequoiaHope 3mo ago
Thanks! I had a lot of false starts too. I asked fable in my repo about your question and it said there are two schools of thought on tolerance tracking. My kernel uses exact predicates which fable says eliminates the need to track toleranc
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by SequoiaHope 3mo ago
Aww thank you so much! It has felt really good to work on as I have started to see something real come together.
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by SequoiaHope 3mo ago
Six months. Basically when Claude code started to hit that inflection point I chose a project that seemed potentially impossible but was also something I care deeply about. (I have a lot of history with open source and CAD and I even made a
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by SequoiaHope 3mo ago
The app consists of a wasm (web assembly) binary and JavaScript. The wasm runs locally on your machine in your browser and communicates with the JavaScript frontend. There is no backend server to handle any part of the program. The URL just

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