abakker

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by abakker 5d ago
If I was in the market for a lathe that small, I’d probably just buy a slightly larger mill and work on rotating parts vertically, TBH. If you were committed to wanting a small lathe and CNC, I’d just put linear rails on some of the larger
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by abakker 6d ago
100% They were fine for what they were, but once you use a big tool you just can’t go back. I think there is plenty of room for innovation in hobby machines, but IME, hobbiest value work envelope maybe even more than pros.
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by abakker 6d ago
There’s some other threads in this discussion bemoaning the lack of diy machine builders…and, I am really unclear how this Sherline issue is related? To me, this is a question of value for money. Sherline products were always interesting, b
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by abakker 13d ago
Where does this dust end up? Into the oceans? Because iron-rich dust entering the oceans helps create nutrition for algae which can absorb CO2
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by abakker 1mo ago
IMO it all comes down to the desire to have too my "copy" without enough to say. the people who generate it don't value their own output enough to try, which is a great way of intuiting that they have had the requirement to c
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by abakker 2mo ago
This is one of the great pleasures of cat ownership!
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by abakker 2mo ago
Yeah, that makes sense. I suppose the flip side of all of this is that neither OpenAI nor Anthropic have made a lot of money relative to their spending. Google is probably just trying to be more prudent. But, AI so far is a money spending c
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by abakker 2mo ago
you are right. I guess what I was thinking was that google's bigness was essentially a bad capital allocation strategy, since they were lazy and not motivated by absolute return, but some combination of acceptable risk, politics, perso
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by abakker 2mo ago
Wouldn't this be a demonstration of the downsides of the anticompetitiveness of monopolies?
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by abakker 2mo ago
An obligatory mention, also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEtQfqpKi1I
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by abakker 5mo ago
All the proposals I’ve seen would set the marginal tax rate on the 120 so high that his earnings would end up more like 40k from the 120k job and then he gets his 60. So, still some benefit to working, but a very progressive tax rate on hig
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by abakker 6mo ago
But, have you any code that has been vetted and verified to see if this approach works? This whole Agentic code quality claim is an assertion, but where is the literal proof?
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by abakker 7mo ago
It registered in the low 40s for me, while my watch was saying 72-75. I guess YMMV
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by abakker 7mo ago
If you add baking powder and butter, that dark breakfast recipe is very close to crepes. My crepe recipe - cook on medium heat pan: Blend on low: 4 eggs- 3/4 cup whole milk, 1/2 stick of melted butter, and 1/4cup to 1/2
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by abakker 7mo ago
And bought a house from Epstein for $10
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by abakker 8mo ago
Great to see your name here, Zack. I think the problem with low-code is that its a catch all that spans between primarily data-storage-and-use work (Airtable, quick base, Filemaker, etc), the primarily app-alternative platforms (retool, Me
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by abakker 9mo ago
People don't respect the salary premium software developers have received and expect relative to other creative, human endeavors. You lay it out perfectly in your answer, and I'll add that the entire non-tech world generally feels
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by abakker 9mo ago
That perfectly ties with my experience. Just direct prompts, with limited setup and limited context seem to work better or just as well as complex custom GPTs. There are not just diminishing, but inverting returns to complexity in GPTs
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by abakker 10mo ago
Graphically, I really like the way autodesk makes sketches in fusion 360 blue until they are fully constrained, and then they are black. My intuition here is that you could color code “degrees of freedom” and “locked” states so that it was
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by abakker 10mo ago
and, its so cheap. there are alternatives for individual components, but nothing that comes close to being this low cost. And, the ultimate value is that if you buy a niche tool (like notion) then only people with licenses can use it. Every
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by abakker 10mo ago
0% NET accretive profit - the OP was saying that the invest/return wash doesn't affect prior profitability, just revenue. Obviously, the new profitability inclusive of the new revenue will actually by lower because of the zero mar
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by abakker 10mo ago
I think he was getting at the fact that the Truth is not good news to everyone.
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by abakker 10mo ago
Welll, if you were good at drywall already, drywall patches would be faster and better. But if you are good at printing and scanning, and you enjoy that process, then it’s fine. The challenge with the example is that “success” is personal p
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by abakker 11mo ago
My only addition to this discussion is that the Dirty Labs dish soap has been legitimately better for our baby stuff and other plastic stuff that sometimes gets oily. I recommend it.
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by abakker 11mo ago
And, for a refrigerator and a lot of loads, being down for 2 days straight is way worse than a few hours a year. losing 48 hours of supply a year if broken into 2 hour chunks is not nearly as bad as losing 48 consecutive hours.
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by abakker 11mo ago
I mean, even back in the OnStar days, you could "opt out" and cancel the service and it would track you anyway. With BYD or any other car maker, I'd be worried the SIM was a placebo.
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by abakker 11mo ago
and then the code to give it context. AFAIU, there is a lot of post training "setup" in the context and variables to get the trained model to "behave as we instruct it to" Am I wrong about this?
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by abakker 11mo ago
my intuition is that over smoothish, but hilly terrain, mountain bikes fare very well, too, since you get to go downhill for free. once you end up in a talus field, I think it becomes clear that "efficiency" is gone for basically
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by abakker 11mo ago
I'll say, I recommend my Honeywell sync earmuffs for the workshop. They block more noise, have a physical volume knob and accessible buttons, and best of all, the microphone is also noise cancelling directly, meaning you can usually ha
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by abakker 11mo ago
I’ll just say that most of the core issues with heat pumps seems to resolved with monoblock designs. Specifically, by moving the refrigerant cycle outdoors, install can be cheaper, and capacity can be more variable than when you are relying

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