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by alexose 1y ago
As a huge OpenSCAD fan and everyday Cursor user, it seems obvious to me that there's a huge opportunity _if_ we can improve the baseline OpenSCAD code quality. If the model could plan ahead well, set up good functions, pull from standa
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by alexose 2y ago
Don’t give them any ideas…
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by alexose 2y ago
Pretty much, yeah. Vaulted Deep ( https://vaulteddeep.com/ ) is doing a version of this.
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by alexose 2y ago
It does make sense on paper, but I wonder how effective they will be. USDS never really controlled much (at least when I was there). It was much more about soft power, connecting disparate efforts, establishing best practices, boosting ot
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Ask HN: How to indicate a project's status on GitHub?
2 points by alexose 2y ago|4 comments
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by alexose 2y ago
Some of them are pretty serviceable at the module level. Ford has done a good job here. Of course, it won't be economical to service them unless someone starts mass-producing aftermarket modules. I'm keeping my fingers crossed t
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by alexose 2y ago
It feels like there's a whole class of information that easily shorthanded, but really hard to explain to novices. I think a lot about carpentry. From the outside, it's pretty easy: Just make the wood into the right shape and st
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by alexose 2y ago
This is great! I've always wanted to backtest forecast models, but I was stuck on where to find good historical data.
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by alexose 2y ago
It's not that CO2 isn't valuable on its own, but that other carbon-containing molecules are even more valuable (especially when factoring in transportation costs). This helps prove out the technoeconomics of carbon capture. Plus,
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by alexose 2y ago
A good work truck is one you don't mind getting scratched and dented. Hard to replicate that with any brand new vehicle, especially one with a $60k starting price. That said, I think the Lightning serves certain roles really well. Th
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by alexose 2y ago
Well, there's a lot less OpenSCAD on GitHub than Python. At first glance maybe a few orders of magnitude less. But the bigger problem is (probably) not the lack of code, but the lack of good tutorials and well-documented libraries. A
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by alexose 2y ago
I've been wondering the same thing. Unfortunately, I've found that GPT-4o is much less good at OpenSCAD than it is at Python. It feels totally untrained on the step-by-step logic you need to build things in a programatic way. Th
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by alexose 2y ago
I have a regular Bolt, and it's just the best car... so easy to drive, and efficient enough that miles are basically free. I'd never go back to an ICE car, even with all the issues around public charging.
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by alexose 2y ago
Yes. We're entering a new era of web applications, whether we want to or not. Companies used to be able to gate their data behind UIs, because the search results had more value than the raw data. Things are starting to flip. Increas
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by alexose 2y ago
I don't mean to be rude, but your sources are: The lake next to your house, and a paper that opens with > it is confirmed that the former, especially CO2, are the main causal drivers of the recent warming. Your claim that warming i
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by alexose 2y ago
> measurable linear temperature increases starting in the 1880s instead of the 1940s Could you cite your sources on this one? Every graph I can find shows the linear increases starting in about 1920 (plus or minus a bit, depending on ho
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by alexose 2y ago
> This whole industry is depressing.... I'll take it a step further and say that every industry is depressing when it comes to computers at scale. Rather than build efficient, robust, fault-tolerant, deterministic systems built fo
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by alexose 2y ago
It's not a perfect solution, since SO₂ in the lower parts of the atmosphere leads to acid rain. But, it might actually be viable if we find ourselves with a Republican-led United States. Easy to spin it as "getting government out
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by alexose 2y ago
There is almost certainly a point where the costs of massive planet-scale intervention outweigh the costs of doing nothing. I'm not sure exactly where that point lies, but I'd guess it's somewhere between Solar Radiation Man
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by alexose 2y ago
That's awesome! I can't wait to try this. Maybe I'm in the minority, but using NPM packages that have changed over to modules continue to be one of my biggest annoyances in NodeJS: npm install node-fetch const fe
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Goodbye to My London Science Museum's 'Secret Life of the Home' Gallery [video](youtube.com)
21 points by alexose 2y ago|2 comments
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by alexose 2y ago
Like many people here, I love Tim Hunkin's work. His 'Secret Life of the Home' gallery located in the London Science Museum is unfortunately closing after 29 years. If you live in London or nearby, you have until June 3rd t
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by alexose 2y ago
Science is not conducted through public debate. Full stop. There's a reason why it's peer review, and not talk show host review. During COVID, most everybody was operating from an incomplete data set. Public officials were wr
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by alexose 2y ago
Seriously, this should happen sooner than later. We're quickly entering a world where car manufacturers are trying to extract profit from subscriptions (see: BMW heated seats, Toyota remote start, Ford BlueCruise, etc). On top of that
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by alexose 2y ago
Yep! It's definitely Twister-inspired :)
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by alexose 2y ago
> At the very least, you take a muffler off your Harley, you get your Harley taken away. This is one problem that I think is eminently solvable. Virtually nobody wants these vehicles in their community. The reason the problem persists
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by alexose 2y ago
This is a really cool idea for lots of reasons, but especially because you could leave sensors buried forever. This lends itself well to long term soil monitoring-- A somewhat unsolved problem especially in no-till environments. Agricultur
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by alexose 2y ago
I built out a remote sensing platform using ESP32 + LoRa. The attempt was to hit the sweet spot between cheap, easy, and reliable: https://github.com/alexose/dorothy
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by alexose 2y ago
Are there any promising thermoelectric materials that might replace bismuth telluride? It seems like everything else is only practical on paper…
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by alexose 3y ago
No problem, just install it in a virtualized containerized pyenv virtualenv pipx poetry conda dies

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