VorpalWay

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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
This is interesting, but it seems to be a crowdfunding campaign only. I wish them the best of luck (the cause is worthy for sure), but buyer beware at this point. (I myself don't 2D print enough that an ink based printer makes sense fo
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
I have been a happy user of OsmAnd+ for over 15 years at this point, I can strongly recommend it if you need power user features. (Yes the OsmAnd+ is the paid version, but it is the old pay-once version and I have definitely got my money&#x
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
I have used OsmAnd+ for well over 15 years by now, which also uses OSM data, just like these. And I have used JOSM on my PC to fix the OSM data myself. Does Organic maps / CoMaps offer anything OsmAnd+ doesn't for someone who uses
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
Well sure, but that isn't what my original comment that you were replying downthread of said. I specifically recommended safety critical embedded. :)
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
The issue with AI isn't that it can't write embedded code (though it is noticeably worse at it), the issue is specifically with the safety certification of code the AI produced. There is a lot of paper trail to show that you follo
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
One idea to consider might be going into safety critical embedded work (e.g. brake controllers, critical systems for airplanes/trains, medical devices, some industrial systems, ...). AI hasn't penetrated much here yet. It isn&#x27
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
I did some ACPI reverse engineering on an old Toshiba laptop some years ago, with the goal of improving the Linux ACPI drivers. Learnt a lot from it, and wrote a blog post that you might find interesting: https://vorpal.se/p
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
Not if it causes contact allergies with your mouth, as soy milk does for me. Same with coconut milk. I have to stick to oat, almond or animal milk. (Goat milk tastes pretty good too by the way.) And non-homogenized full fat milk is deliciou
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
For baking: depends on the recipe. In one recipe of a sort of muffin style bread that uses egg to rise (no baking powder, yeast, etc), oat milk makes it not rise properly and you get dense bricks instead. Other recipes have been fine. YMMV.
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
I don't care about aesthetics in factory games (which is a reason I prefer Factorio to Satisfactory, there is way less focus on building pretty factories), that probably helps. I'll happily build a massive factory with very few pi
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
I haven't played the space expansion, but from old vanilla I only used trains for bringing ores to the main base. For rare low throughout recipies the flying bots (I forget the name for them) worked well, and towards the end of the gam
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
There is a lot of useful information on how things work out there, if you want to learn. YouTube videos took the place of popular science magazines largely, and perhaps it will be some different medium tomorrow. But the knowledge is there,
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
I partially disagree. I know the basic high level concept of all those. Would I be able to reproduce state of the art results on my own? Obviously not. But a core part of the engineer or scientist mindset is curiosity for the sake of curios
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
> They will have a tool that does everything and asks for nothing, and they will be as easy with it as you are with the light switch you never once thought about. Oh come on! Of course I wondered how a light switch work, and I then learn
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
When I took software focused computer engineering around 2010, we still had courses that took us all the way down to transistors and even the physics of P and N junctions and how that applies to CMOS. (And even some basic analog electronics
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
If (and that is a big if) the concept of open source doesn't apply, then the term shouldn't be coopted to mean something else though. But even if I can't build it from source locally, being able to see what went into the mo
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
You mean open weights, I guess? There are as far as I know very few open source models, the training data is seldom released. Sadly.
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
Aren't they only open weights, not true open source?
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by VorpalWay 4mo ago
For the time when OS 9 was relevant that would have been a RAM hog. My iBook (first generation) had 32 MB RAM on board (plus an upgrade slot, how refreshing). Sure, that wasn't top of the line, but it would definitely restrict your abi
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by VorpalWay 4mo ago
You might (but probably not) be able to do district heating with this, but electricity generation is not going to be efficient. Heat is a very low grade form of energy, and you need a large differential to drive a turbine efficiently. If yo
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by VorpalWay 4mo ago
I never looked into this, but why would a datacenter consume water for cooling in the first place? Sure, they use some. But just like you fill up the cooling loop in a car, once it is there it just circulates between the heat source and r
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by VorpalWay 4mo ago
Designing circuit board and 3D models (even using something like OpenSCAD) is a very spatial process today. You are dealing with coordinates one way or another. This is very unlike how FPGA and (I assume) ASIC is done. That is more like a t
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by VorpalWay 4mo ago
Today in Stockholm the UV index peaked at 6.3. And it is just a few days after the summer solstice, and the sky was largely clear today. (Yet I can feel that I got slight sunburn being out for about 15 minutes today. So you still need to be
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by VorpalWay 4mo ago
I haven't looked at apple specifically, but generally the approach taken with HBM on GPUs etc is to make multiple chiplets and connect them together very close and with very high bandwidth. The chiplets are made with different processe
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by VorpalWay 4mo ago
I'm not sure how that would legally work in EU: several countries have strict rules about ads having to be clearly distinguished from non-ads material. I know that UK has pretty strict rules about product placement in broadcasts too fo
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by VorpalWay 4mo ago
Probably not, at least for DRAM. The demand has historically been very variable, and building production capacity takes multiple years. Also, spare capacity is really expensive. Thus the memory manufacturers don't want to expand, betti
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by VorpalWay 4mo ago
When I started working on a large legacy C++ code base in the early 2010s, I learnt. It took probably close to a year until I was proficient enough that I didn't regularly need to ask where to fins things. This is a skill we used to ha
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by VorpalWay 4mo ago
There are already some companies doing specialised inference hardware, Cerebras Systems for example. Such designs are still early days and I wouldn't be surprised to see more innovation there. Though because custom silicon design takes
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by VorpalWay 4mo ago
Isn't that just what the original article that we all commented on described? I don't understand what you are trying to add to the conversation here.
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by VorpalWay 4mo ago
That makes sense. However, I also don't get IPv6 on either my broadband or my mobile. So we seem to be far behind there.

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