brookst

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by brookst 4d ago
Well, with EXTREME cautions (read the readme): https://github.com/brookstalley/bankmachine
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by brookst 4d ago
Put a sticker over it. Sure, the PCB says 2GB, the sticker says 8GB, it was sold as 8GB, how many buyers are going to dig in and really understand what's going on?
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by brookst 5d ago
I never let agents make purchases unsupervised. But that wasn't the point; the point is that the convenience of getting a complete list including multiple-vendors when pricing makes sense is way better than going to amazon and searchin
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by brookst 5d ago
In the past few days: - Dusted off a 3d printer that wasn't being used enough, largely because of the tax of setting up profiles for materials and each print. That was fun once, I'm too busy now. Was able to get claude to use MCP
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by brookst 5d ago
I don't think it does make sense. I think Amazon is way overestimating brand loyalty, and underestimating how much of their success comes from being a one-stop shop for everything. I'm using Claude for everything from finances to
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by brookst 6d ago
I'm pretty unhappy with this, but are ChatGPT or Facebook really "the commons"?
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by brookst 6d ago
To reduce net risk for both parties, at the expense of also reducing chances of windfalls. To the farmer, futures mean no risk of having to sell when prices are low. To the buyer, futures mean no risk of having to buy when prices are high.
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by brookst 6d ago
Did you reply to the wrong comment? I said nothing of the sort. Your hung up on money, everyone is trying to explain that the exact same money is better when it is predictable versus erratic.
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by brookst 6d ago
The problem with “profit driven” is that it reduces motives to a lowest common denominator. Short term profit? Long term profit? Brand value that can be leveraged later? Costco, specifically, I have a good story about. Jim Sinegal spoke at
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by brookst 6d ago
Yes. Emergent behaviors. This is why a healthy, society-aligned regulatory regime is impoetant, to set incentives. If you make more money being decent than you would being abusive, companies will adapt. They are more like corals than they a
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by brookst 6d ago
Yes of course. I’ve paid for car insurance for 30+ years and have never made a single claim. So far, for me, it’s a bad risk. I’ll keep paying though.
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by brookst 6d ago
The thing you’re missing: Would you rather have net profits of 20, -10, 15, -5, -10, 25, -5 year over year, or profits of 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5?
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by brookst 6d ago
Oh you’re talking supply volatility, where most of us are talking price volatility.
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by brookst 6d ago
I’m looking at realtime mechanical processes, like shaping extrusion beads from a clay 3d printer. Clay is heterogenous and pressure takes time, so hand tuning is never just right. But put an fpga with vision processing? Seems promising, wi
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by brookst 6d ago
Thanks for sharing experience and links. Think I’m going to have to do this.
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by brookst 7d ago
I will resist the urge to inquire about the difference between reducing and absorbing.
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by brookst 7d ago
Yeah. Just spent an hour planning a closed-loop vision-based extrusion modulation system for 3d printing, with extensive telemetry and offline processing to iterate on the realtime system. Great, like I need another side project.
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by brookst 7d ago
Yes, but the quote about art has nothing to do with that. The quote says that many artists borrow, meaning everyone still knows who did the original work and the artist is just riffing on it. But great artists transform the work so complete
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by brookst 7d ago
Isn’t that an extremely convoluted path to a goal? If the goal is getting chip companies to user non-ZDR AI to steal their stuff, why not just have an account exec offer them a massive discount? Creating PR hype so employees of chip compani
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by brookst 7d ago
Makes me wonder about AI and FPGAs. If the cost and effort to (re)program them goes to zero, maybe interesting new applications?
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by brookst 7d ago
But isn’t the point that futures trading reduces volatility from things like weather?
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by brookst 7d ago
[citation needed]
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by brookst 7d ago
If your theory were true, wouldn’t smaller soda makers be substantially less expensive? There are plenty of them. Why aren’t they cleaning up? Besides, competition / collusion is a false dichotomy. Would you say carmakers don’t compete
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by brookst 7d ago
This has to be a joke right? People who are paying $X today to receive service Y today are suing for the irreparable harm of thinking they may not be able to pay $A tomorrow to receive service B tomorrow? Maybe I should sue McDonalds becaus
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by brookst 7d ago
Every time the HN crowd rediscovers that companies make business strategy choices rather than immutable principled philosophical decisions, the angst and dismay are really something. When Android launched, making it open source (ish) was th
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by brookst 7d ago
> So like, there are kids in Africa getting new for of substandard bad education instead of old for of cheap education. Congrats. Yikes. I don't think you understand Africa at all. The question isn't "a crappy calculus tut
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by brookst 7d ago
On this side of the pond, wow were the college kids excited when they discovered they could reframe piracy as a political and countercultural statement, despite things being available paid. At the time I pirated a lot of stuff. If we'r
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by brookst 7d ago
I'm happy. You may think my art sucks, but five years ago I didn't have the resources to create it, whether or not it sucks.
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by brookst 8d ago
For white hats, how has the cost of a thorough security review changed since, say, five years ago?
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by brookst 8d ago
I'd love to see data, but my intuition is that the average developer has access to dramatically better security reviews and far lower cost than ever. There's more software being written than ever so maybe raw numbers of RCE's

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