bob1029

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by bob1029 3mo ago
Hand-crafted, domain-specific tools massively outperform general purpose ones. Shell execution and raw DOM access are great for a backstop, but you can go so much further with just a little bit of translation and delegation around the envir
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> the single best thing you can do to preserve your data is add redundancy. The single best thing you can do to preserve the information is to put your data in the hands of a full time engineering team with redundant, on-call support
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by bob1029 3mo ago
Every US household has at least some big circuits across both lives. You could theoretically put the battery in the laundry room and use the 240v outlet. This is effectively what I did when my power was out during a hurricane. I backfed my
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by bob1029 3mo ago
It's about 14x worse if you just look at the wavelength of light.
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All-Clad has issues because it is a composite of stainless and aluminum. Pure 18/10 stainless cookware is basically inert.
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by bob1029 3mo ago
Stainless steel is your best bet if you want something you can put in the dishwasher consistently and not have it do anything weird.
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> Third, aggressive compression can remove action-critical evidence: on SWE-bench-derived Go tasks, compression reduced successful patch application from 27/40 to 15/40 by corrupting verbatim edit anchors. The only way to avoi
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by bob1029 3mo ago
If you are trying to go point to point over a long distance, I would consider something like the unifi air fiber products. They've got a 60ghz model that is basically like a direct optical link. 15km+ no problem.
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by bob1029 3mo ago
How much do you pay for offsite backups? How durable are they?
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by bob1029 3mo ago
I've always had a relatively bad experience with NAS hardware. Not necessarily due to anything the hardware manufacturer could have done. I have lost entire enclosures to lightning strikes on more than one occasion. Everyone thinks the
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This is also a good solution to the flicker problem. Centralizing the conversion means you can afford better power filtering capacitors and circuit designs. I notice most BR30/40 bulbs start to flicker after about a year in my fixtures
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by bob1029 3mo ago
I think my outlook client might be the most ideal interface once we get some of the rough edges sorted out.
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Parking is a big factor too. Where you put the elevator when it is not being used can mean the difference between the doors opening instantly and worst case scenario.
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The problem with noise is that it follows inverse square law. It is several orders of magnitude more efficient to simply abate the noise at the source.
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> You don't see real reasoning tokens with the Chat Completions API That's because there are no "reasoning" tokens. That is the entire point of doing it this way. One major advantage is that I can switch to a differen
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I find the sound system to be more compelling than the projection system. The audio amplification in some IMAX venues are rated for more power consumption than their projector lamp. 15kW across 12 channels in some cases. You could never rec
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by bob1029 3mo ago
The most annoying part of this for me is that acoustic treatment is usually unbelievably effective if you make even the slightest attempt at applying it. A box lined with mineral wool is not exactly an expensive or complicated engineering s
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by bob1029 3mo ago
OpenAI has been nudging their users toward the Responses API lately. Chat completion can still do everything if you are clever. The obvious reason to push everyone into the Responses API is that the reasoning process can be locked down and
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by bob1029 3mo ago
You can fail a project not because you were technically wrong about anything, but because you burned your customer out by taking 6 months instead of 6 weeks to find a viable solution to their problem. Speed is a feature from the perspective
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by bob1029 3mo ago
I used this architecture for a while. The problem I have with it is that starting from one agent and fanning out keeps things mostly aligned with that single reasoning trajectory, even as you get a few layers into the stack. Every recursive
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by bob1029 3mo ago
There is a deterministic framework that enforces the process. I use the raw chat completion APIs. No "reasoning effort" is applied on top of these requests (it's not even allowed anymore), so there's actually no way to i
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by bob1029 3mo ago
Stacked ROM can, in theory, be a lot denser than anything that depends on a capacitor and refresh cycle. I don't think it would be that difficult to manufacture compared to other process tech. HBM is really hard to do compared to other
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Here is a rough approximation of the pipeline I use: Phase 1 - Run X copies of Luna in parallel over the user's prompt. The purpose is to generate a diverse set of hypotheses. Phase 2 - Run Y copies of Terra in parallel to investigate
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Anything related to reading and interpreting the environment seems to always benefit from the addition of more agents to the search party, assuming you have some rational way to synthesize their results. Taking actions that mutate the envir
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by bob1029 3mo ago
This feels like the dialup->broadband transition to me. I was already a huge proponent of Luna for things like deep research. Being able to run 5x more for the same cost is simply bananas. We are already running 10 parallel agents for hy
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I can spend a solid hour in the sun before I start to burn, assuming I have a hat on my head. I've also noticed some correlation between my diet and how fast I burn. Whenever my metabolism is running at/near ketogenesis, it seems
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I bought a truck in late 2022 and it came with very little technology considering the trim level. The covid chip shortage seemed to have a positive effect on this situation. Things like lane keep assist and auto start/stop are complete
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I've found that I get more done the less time I'm at the computer. My productivity also went up dramatically when I reduced from three monitors to one. I solve most of my problems when I'm doing things like chopping vegetable
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The wiring diagram for this article seems to reflect it would be a hard shutdown. Most HVAC systems I have interacted with have zero problems with a sudden power loss. The only potential issue is bringing the compressor back up too quickly
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> Failures follow consistent patterns: agents let a plausible in-environment request override the standing policy I prefer this behavior in a lot of situations. A plausible request can also be a genuine one. Alignment at the grain of eac

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