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by bdcravens 3mo ago
> I could not remember whether the machine had gotten even slower, or whether it had always been like this and I had once thought even this was fast. In addition to the usual suspects (aging hardware, planned obsolescence, bad memories),
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
A quick check (ie, letting ChatGPT do the math) shows that if all caps on taxation was eliminated, it would help, but not solve the problem completely.
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
Or for those looking for a challenge, switches + ESP32 or Arduino + a 3d printer can take you a long way. https://www.printables.com/tag/macrokeyboard
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
Of course, but that's the thing about "informal" agreements: presumably there's no record of it. Price collusion happens way more than most realize. I was at a trade show for my employer when a competitor walked up to ou
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
With the popularity of Hermes, OpenClaw, etc, BotFather is quite a linchpin in the AI ecosystem.
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
I frequently blur the line between ad-hoc DSL and pseudocode, and just hand it off to the LLM. I want to get the thoughts out of my head as fast as possible, using whatever structure makes sense to me. Even if you know all of the code to be
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
I don't know if I'm unique in this, but I find myself asking people I know about things that I know I can easily lookup faster. At this point it's more a social ritual than actual information gathering.
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
As my diabetes has progressed, I find myself sleeping more odd hours (it can be hard to fight off the tiredness that comes after a meal), and I can be frequently woken up my extreme lows where my body is screaming for carbs.
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
I don't know that I've ever worked with any software where "trust" means "full upload to vendor"
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
So is X going to claim the user disabled something the second before everything went south? That's what the owner's other company does.
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
I assumed it was a framework from Alibaba, coming out of their Ant Group, where Ant Design also came from.
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
There's truth in this, git is probably the least of anyone's worries when it comes to understanding your code if you're pulling in any external dependencies in your codebase. For a typical web app these days, you're hund
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
> Put two machines on a desk, each about $2,000. One is a tower with an NVIDIA RTX 5090: 32GB of the fastest consumer memory ever shipped, 1,792 GB/s. The other is a mini PC the size of a paperback, an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "St
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Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo(microcenter.com)
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
They had good teachers. :-)
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
Humans have been writing unmaintainable code well before LLMs came along.
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
If you're referring to the markup charged by OpenRouter, you can use harnesses like OpenClaw/Hermes without it and go direct like you're saying. If you're talking about actually "routing", then you don't g
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
Correct. You do benefit from some headroom for things like launching browsers etc but refurbs or mini PCs (with at least 16gb; ideally 32gb of memory) from the likes of Minisforum or GMKTec work well enough if you're wanting to spend
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
I have no issue paying for subscriptions, and I pay for many. However, usage-based can quickly outpace value. For example, we do a lot of background tasks that integrate with third-parties. A small change over something we have no control o
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
Have him send you a sample piece, with his name embossed in the print. Easy to do in most slicers.
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
> One week. Three senior engineers. $10,000. What your markup on their salaries? For the level of work you're promising, it sounds like they may be at market or below.
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
This is where I think you see the distinction between two classes of LLM users: 1. Managers: those who generally know what needs to be done, and want it done faster, so they provide a lot of instructions and context (where many developers f
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
Years ago, when poor English in spam emails was a signal, I was always puzzled why spammers didn't spend the smallest amount of money to have a fluent speaker write their copy.
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
Look at all of the software that has been developed as an alternative (and often an upgrade to) software in the west. (Baidu, Wechat, etc) Many of the top AI researchers at western companies are from China, and many are returning.
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by bdcravens 3mo ago
And I still can't exhaust the limits on my Claude Max subscription, despite being more productive than I've ever been in terms of real work (ie, things that actually make money)
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
My wife was actually working at HEB when we met, so I can definitely say I've found some great options there. :-) Seriously though, I prefer many things there: recycled toilet paper/paper towels, pet food (their quality line, not
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
Presumably what they had available. Since MRI machines (and qualified technicians) are much more expensive, it's not uncommon for smaller facilities to rely on mobile MRIs which aren't on-site every day.
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
In addition to the many reasons already mentioned are the community and environmental impacts: citizens in competition for electricity and water as new data centers are built, and the feeling that governments are putting those citizens seco
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
That's what I meant by the Macbook and the printer connecting to the same AP. The Pico is the AP, and both your printer and the Macbook connect to it. (You could also use a cheap off the shelf travel router) What the Macbook can't
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
Wifi printer, where both your machine and the printer are connected to the same AP? yes If you'd rather just expose a USB printer to the network, a Pi Zero is a better fit.

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