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by beachy 8mo ago
I've just now done exactly this. Model something (not an apple) not because I want to print it, but because I need to import it into CAD to check clearances etc. around it. I can abolsutely imagine modelling different sized apples if I
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by beachy 8mo ago
Agree! I've been computering for 50 years and for me the significant milestones have been: - rdbms - PC - Internet and email - SaaS - Mobile - social media - LLMs I doubt that LLMs will be anything like as significant to our futures as
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by beachy 8mo ago
The example - the cable not extending far enough from the post to make a connection - was explained in the article as something he failed to specify properly. Not a failure of the manufacturing partner. For this not to be a problem a worker
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by beachy 8mo ago
Is that counterintuitive? If I had a model trained on 10 different programming languages, including my target language, I would expect it to do better than a model trained only on my target language, simply because it has access to so much
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by beachy 9mo ago
Thanks for the link, that is very impressive.
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by beachy 9mo ago
If I understand what you are doing this sounds like a great idea. For example a part like the ADS7953 ADC comes with layout recommendations, including the design of the ground plane underneath the chip and the placement of the decoupling ca
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by beachy 9mo ago
I find both chatgpt and Gemini to be very good at writing c++ for Arduino/esp32. Certainly better than me unassisted. Compile errors are very rare, and usually they are just missing declarations. Right now I would say chatgpt is ahead
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by beachy 9mo ago
Yes, feels like perching via some insulated "feet" and only using energy for stabilisation (as opposed to flight) would allow the drone to get very cloe (and suck much more power) from the line.
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by beachy 9mo ago
You really created an account to post this?
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by beachy 9mo ago
Removing CO2 from the air is a pipe dream for several obvious reasons. Firstly, it will always be more difficult and energy-intensive to extract CO2 than to just stop putting it into the atmosphere in the first place. Yet the world is nowhe
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by beachy 10mo ago
As a non-American, but one who worked in US companies for decades, I feel Americans are influenced by economic gigantism. The American experience is of triumphing with audacious, go big or go home schemes that others wouldn't or couldn
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by beachy 10mo ago
A keyfob is more analogous though - i.e. a computing device used to control a vehicle.
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by beachy 10mo ago
NZ as well - though of course we are a colony
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by beachy 10mo ago
Or do, so that weaknesses can be identified and fixed.
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by beachy 10mo ago
A golf launch monitor that lets you practice and play sim golf inside. Doesn't require an actual golf ball and lets you use your own clubs. Using an esp32, high speed ADC and 4 bass guitar pickups to detect and reverse engineer the clu
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by beachy 10mo ago
My brother's house in Perth, Australia has an antique air conditioning system in the roof space that works in exactly this principle. 4 blankets that wick up water and have air drawn through them and into the house by a fan. It's
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by beachy 10mo ago
Jaws is the only movie (within reason I guess) that I don't let my 13 year old watch. We live by the sea with one of the world's best marine reserves right off shore. There are plenty of fish including sharks living right off the
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by beachy 10mo ago
Do you have kids? It's much easier to say to a child "you can't have a social media account, it's the law because experts have determined it's not healthy at your age" than "your mother and I think that so
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by beachy 10mo ago
> So you want to make it legally viable for religious parents to sue social spaces that allow for their children to question the religion of their parents? Why not. In a court of law, and facts, such lawsuits would only serve to highligh
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by beachy 10mo ago
That's an interesting and enlightening way to look at it. For me it was the death of IBM's preeminence in IT. When I started there a job at IBM was prestigious,a job for life. More than once I was told that we had a lengthy backlo
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by beachy 10mo ago
The subsequent Vietnam war reinforced this even more. The only path that America had to win in Vietnam was to destroy it, including the population they were allegedly there to protect. Hence they lost.
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by beachy 10mo ago
I joined IBM over 40 years ago, like my pappy before me. My main takeaway from IBM's longevity is just how astonishingly long big companys' death rattles can be, not how great IBM are at running software businesses.
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by beachy 10mo ago
It's just the same dynamic as old servers. They still work fine but power costs make them uneconomical compared to latest tech.
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by beachy 11mo ago
Inheritance == harmful is quite an extreme position.
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by beachy 11mo ago
What if it's some junior given a job beyond their abilities, and struggling manfully using whatever tools they have to hand. Is it worth publicly trashing their name? What does their name really add to this article?
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by beachy 11mo ago
You're not wrong. It's fashionable to dunk on OOP (because most examples - like employee being a subtype of person - are stupid) and ORM (because yes you need to hand write queries of any real complexity). But there's a reaso
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by beachy 11mo ago
Some people have trouble doing meaningless intellectual pursuits like crosswords, sudoku etc. Working on Colorforth might be the greatest meaning in his life.
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by beachy 11mo ago
What would be the best use of his last few years? Sitting in an easy chair by the pool? Using your last few years to exercise your brain and ward off cognitive decline might be the best way to ensure those last few years are fulfilling and
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by beachy 11mo ago
Google is also conflicted though. The more they emulate ChatGPT's clean UI, the more they are failing to push ads in people's faces, which is what generates that $100B for them. Their business model fails if their users don't
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by beachy 11mo ago
It would be interesting to know if the finished board would work at all, given there must be some non-zero failure rate for each via.

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