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Canada cut tariffs on Chinese EVs, China to cut Canadian farm tariffs(npr.org)
12 points by bhouston 9mo ago|1 comments
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by bhouston 9mo ago
Festool also makes a number of other cool tech like the SawStop. This is a little expensive and hard to justify for a hobbyist such as myself but still cool. I wonder how effective it actually is.
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ExoActive: Exoskeleton for trades people from Festool (2024)(festoolcanada.com)
2 points by bhouston 9mo ago|1 comments
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by bhouston 9mo ago
Limited use because it only works on straight pasta. The majority of pasta is not straight (penne, rigatoni, fusilli, macaroni, etc..) and thus you still need to measure it properly in some way.
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by bhouston 9mo ago
My personal website (3D, hobbies and entrepreneurship): https://benhouston3d.com Been on the front-page of hacker news a few times in the last few years.
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by bhouston 9mo ago
I am old enough to remember the first two relaunches. I think this is the third relaunch right since it was beaten by Reddit.
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Rewiring My HVAC to Maximize My EcoBee's Control Capabilities(benhouston3d.com)
4 points by bhouston 9mo ago|0 comments
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by bhouston 10mo ago
How long until it is used against civilians who are viewed as annoying or part of an opposing ideology group or business competitors? The worrisome part is that it may be easy to conceal and thus one can do this without much of a risk of ge
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Meta cutting ~1500 VR/AR positions to focus on AI(gizmodo.com)
3 points by bhouston 10mo ago|3 comments
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by bhouston 10mo ago
For comparison: - The PS5 Slim Digital Edition is 12,700 Kč, which is 575 USD. - The PS5 Pro is 20,000 Kč, which is 958.19 USD. I think that the PS5 prices are not yet corrected for the new RAM prices as a result of the AI induced shortage.
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by bhouston 10mo ago
You are correct! I hadn't checked since I had an M1 MacBook, back then it was 6K ( https://juicedsystems.com/en-ca/blogs/news/macbook-m1-and-m2... ), but it appears that since the M2 (according to the sam
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by bhouston 10mo ago
You are correct, I should have said 2018 or there about.
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by bhouston 10mo ago
I suspect the main issue is economies of scale. There is little demand thus there are no multibillion dollar plants optimized for delivering them at scale. (The same reason why 8K TVs are not yet cheap.)
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by bhouston 10mo ago
Using cost per area metric for LCD panels when we stopped for the most part increasing resolution means you will find that the main driver of lower costs is the cost of glass. Basically, we have been, since 2018 (I incorrectly wrote 2010 he
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by bhouston 10mo ago
Hmmm makes me want to sequence by own oral biome just for kicks or my gut flora - two sides of the same system. That would be neat and I would definitely pay $100 for either if it included an analysis.
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by bhouston 10mo ago
ThreeJS has never been more popular with +3M downloads / week just prior to the holiday break: https://www.npmjs.com/package/three
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by bhouston 10mo ago
Very cool! I did similar cigarette/ink-like smoke a few times in the VFX industry. The first attempt was similar to yours using a grid: https://benhouston3d.com/siggraph/2005-2.html , but like yours it isn't t
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by bhouston 10mo ago
I've run into similar companies like this in the past in a few different niches and what they were doing are just repeating specs from Chinese OEM suppliers. They were not making their own hardware at all, just reselling it with custo
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by bhouston 10mo ago
I've run my own Home NAS on ZFS for 4 years or so. In the end I ended up with majority NVMe setup with long-term archival storage on HDDs. This made my NAS much more useful / ergonomic since I can search, move files at 10Gbps sp
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by bhouston 10mo ago
IPv6-only is the future for mobile phones, and mobile devices are the future of the internet. And it is consumer devices (and IoT devices) which are the most numerous and also the most price sensitive, and this is where IPv4 is disappearing
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by bhouston 10mo ago
It is exceedingly well documented that Israeli drones are shooting and killing children / civilians regularly: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7893vpy2gqo https://www.cnn.com/2025/12&#
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by bhouston 10mo ago
Sure, but I've written +150K lines of AI generated code myself and never seen it do a destructive command. Pretty much Cursor non-stop and my own agent before that.
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by bhouston 10mo ago
> well, good luck with that, and I hope it works out for you. It's just not my lived experience after 30+ years in the industry. Same level of experience I have btw.
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by bhouston 10mo ago
VSCode over SSH is one of the best ways to develop on various SBCs. You can run the code on the SBC while having a high powered editor experience on your main machine.
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by bhouston 10mo ago
TL/DR: I strongly encourage you to understand the fundamentals and not view all of our tools as black boxes, but once you have an understanding of the tools and the various layers of abstraction, feel free to use them to boost your pro
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Louis Gerstner, former IBM CEO who revitalized 'Big Blue,' dies at 83(reuters.com)
4 points by bhouston 10mo ago|1 comments
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by bhouston 10mo ago
As someone who knows the Navier-Stokes fairly well ( https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=--UmWDUAAAAJ&hl=en ) I have to admit I this is completely impenetrable for me. I don't understand why there is a Press
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by bhouston 10mo ago
Sad this only had 4 upvotes.
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by bhouston 10mo ago
Good job! I wonder if you could develop this as an add on to Hardcover.app - you could fetch people's books, images, and display the bookshelf. All the data seems to be there: https://hardcover.app/@BenHouston3D/b
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by bhouston 10mo ago
Nice! I could have used that.

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