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by cameronh90 9mo ago
Yet despite the appliance-ification of cars, they are, on the whole, much safer and quite a bit more reliable than they were decades years ago, despite being forced to work a lot harder for emissions compliance. It's true that you can&
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by cameronh90 9mo ago
> Or was that geolocation material, too… Yeah I think we've figured out what inspired him to build the tool. :/
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by cameronh90 9mo ago
Maths isn't a sensor technology. Wheels slip, air pressure fluctuates, rotary counters misread, errors accumulate, so better raw data could get you a more precise estimate of your current position. Various position technologies are alr
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by cameronh90 9mo ago
Ignoring that those numbers aren't directly comparable, it did make me wonder, if I had to give up either "AI" or chocolate tomorrow, which would I pick? Even as an enormous chocolate lover (in all three senses) who eats choc
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by cameronh90 9mo ago
Rather, the problem more often I see with junior devs is pulling in a dozen dependencies when writing a single function would have done the job. Indeed, part of becoming a senior developer is learning why you should avoid left-pad but accep
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by cameronh90 9mo ago
And in Germany - it seems - nothing works and nothing is possible?
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by cameronh90 10mo ago
That's true in general, but people do use these hobbyist boards as an alternative to a manufacturer dev board when prototyping an actual product. It's reasonably common in the home automation space. A fair few low volume (but stil
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by cameronh90 10mo ago
There are some early tyre and brake dust collection systems which might help, but that won't do much for the road dust. I've been wondering whether, theoretically, if self driving cars become widely usable and deployed in cities,
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by cameronh90 10mo ago
Given how predictable this response was, how sure are you that you're any better?
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by cameronh90 10mo ago
The OLPC project clearly didn’t achieve its aims, but how would they have known that without trying? More recently, the impact of smart phones on the developing world has been transformational, suggesting some of the ideas behind OLPC may h
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by cameronh90 10mo ago
I don't have any unique insight on it, but I think herpesviruses are probably worse than we realise. They hide from the immune system inside nerves or other immune cells, and seem to have a lot of weird associations with other issues o
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by cameronh90 11mo ago
I think I hear as many people calling it ChatGBT or ChatGTP as ChatGPT.
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by cameronh90 11mo ago
At least for my enjoyment of the Gossip Goblin videos, the world and aesthetics are pretty critical to it. I wouldn't find it at all compelling if it was just someone in their kitchen playing it themselves. I do like those videos with
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by cameronh90 11mo ago
I have never had to rote learn anything mental since at least mid childhood. I can't remember before then. If it's something I need to do regularly, I eventually learn it through natural repetition while working towards the high l
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by cameronh90 11mo ago
I've intentionally changed my writing style to be less AI-like due to people thinking I'm just pasting my emails from ChatGPT. Perhaps it's an artifact of LLMs being trained on terabytes of autistic internet commenters like m
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by cameronh90 11mo ago
I personally quite enjoy the Gossip Goblin cyberpunk cycle of humanity videos (can find them on reddit/tiktok/yt/elsewhere). Most of the creativity is clearly from the human driving the AI, but I suspect it would have been bo
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by cameronh90 1y ago
Not a surprise when the tech is improving so quickly still. Why would I pay a significant fraction of the original price for a 2020 EV if a same tier 2025 EV has better batteries and drivetrain that'll probably have a longer lifetime,
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by cameronh90 1y ago
Doing stuff on-prem or in a data centre _is_ hard though. It's easy to look at a one-off deployment of a single server and remark on how much cheaper it is than RDS, and that's fine if that's all you need. But it completely s
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by cameronh90 1y ago
I live in inner London so maybe it's a regional thing, but developments here usually include consultations from more organisations than I knew existed. Here's a recent one from near me: https://anewcentreforlewisham.com
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by cameronh90 1y ago
Years isn't that long. The aim is net zero by 2050, lifespan of a fridge-freezer is about 10 years. Even assuming designing a system and putting it in place took 5 years, that's still enough time to have most appliances on it by 2
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by cameronh90 1y ago
I do similar, but without the batteries. I just have Home Assistant turn on everything: dehumidifiers, heaters, lights, set the freezer thermostat to -25c. So far I've earnt about 10p, but the real saving comes from having a little bit
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by cameronh90 1y ago
Also each of those layers have a bunch of sub-layers. Look at any large planning application and you'll find hundreds of pages of consultations with various stakeholders who have no incentive to support it. The NHS, police, fire servic
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by cameronh90 1y ago
Around Heathrow at least, there seem to be a few paths where Airbus and Boeing both fly, but seem to be reporting slightly different offsets within that path. I wonder if that's a systemic difference in how they report their GPS positi
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by cameronh90 1y ago
It's pretty common for traditional organised volunteer services to have "on call" aspects. Think of like volunteer firefighters, The Samaritans, St John Ambulance, the UK lifeguards and lifeboats (RNLI). Such organisations do
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by cameronh90 1y ago
Like I said, I haven't heard of this project until now, so I don't know the wider context, but it may be that some of the people who are reacting negatively to it have been burnt in the past by the many other projects that have go
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by cameronh90 1y ago
The problem is the rug-pull itself, not that the rug isn't there. I don't have an opinion on Datastar, as I'd never heard of it until this article, but over the past year or two there have been a _lot_ of open source projects
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by cameronh90 1y ago
I don't know how this would be perceived in the US, but in UK/Europe this wouldn't be seen as or regulated as a "consumer level gadget". It's a main-voltage electrical system. I'm not even sure it would be
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by cameronh90 1y ago
It wasn't meant to be a direct analogy, just a simple example of how you get similar situations in general with electronic components, or really any kind of non-standalone component in most industries. Another example is fuses: a fuse
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by cameronh90 1y ago
For a while I was maintaining software that supported both MSSQL and PGSQL, and I found that, when comparing like-for-like without DB-specific tuning, MSSQL produced better query plans on average. On a database without write contention, I&#
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by cameronh90 1y ago
I don’t know about the components they’re selling, but with electronic components, it’s on the buyer to properly read the data sheet and understand what the quoted nominal specs mean. Unless it’s safety critical, you usually don’t want a

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