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by dsign 6mo ago
"Do not attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence" and all of that, but... Alzheimer's (like a gazillion other diseases) is a product of senescence, and senescence is a subject that faces strong ideological h
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by dsign 6mo ago
This is some convoluted BS built on the premise that wars need to make sense, economically or otherwise. No, wars do not need to make sense. If a person, a dictator or a president, unilaterally starts a war that forfeits the lives of both t
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by dsign 6mo ago
How deep does this library reach into the the OS? I’m searching for something I can use from microcontroller code, where there isn’t full POSIX or Win32 support.
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by dsign 6mo ago
I wouldn't make much of it; the economy looks a bit iffy right now due to the surge in energy prices and difficulties sourcing inputs. This affects mainly industrial enterprises, shipping and transport but those are no small sectors an
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by dsign 6mo ago
I was thinking about the upcoming regulation about replaceable batteries in the EU, and couldn't help but think that if I were Apple's CEO this would be a great time to make an orderly exit. Make no mistake, I'm not a fan of
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by dsign 6mo ago
When is this coming to a machine sold by some company to consumers? I really want to make my PCBs at home.
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by dsign 6mo ago
This bill essentially creates a legal basis for the U.S. to forbid its companies from servicing semiconductor tool makers if those tool makers do not fit themselves with a proper yokel in 150 days[^1]. In practical terms, this bill is the e
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by dsign 6mo ago
Isn't "Babylonian captivity" coming from old history? [^1]. Though it's a most delightful read, I don't give much credence to the Bible as historical testimony . However, Francesca Stavrakopoulou, a historian from O
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by dsign 6mo ago
> At the same time, ML models are idiots. I occasionally pick up a frontier model like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, and ask it to help with a task I think it might be good at. I have never gotten what I would call a “success”: every task
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by dsign 6mo ago
I feel somebody better qualified should write a comprehensive review of how these models can be used in biology. In the meantime, here are my two cents: - the models help to retrieve information faster, but one must be careful with hallucin
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by dsign 6mo ago
The blocky spreadsheets of yesteryear could run in a few kilobytes of RAM. Today, that's microcontroller territory. From there, I can contrive a few answers: - A spreadsheet that runs in a RISC-V+Core-V device is less susceptible to s
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by dsign 6mo ago
Indeed. I for one enjoyed this piece. Yes, it had errors and lots of odd grammatical choices, but the reading remained affordably challenging and the prose had a newness to it.
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by dsign 6mo ago
> Seems like I am engaged in the ice trade and they are about to invent the refrigerator. The way I like to look at it is that I'm engaged in the ice trade and they are about to invent everything else that will end mine and every
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by dsign 6mo ago
When it comes to cancer, there is an awful lot of legacy thinking and "way things are done" taking lives. Starting with the so called "standard of care", which makes patient lose precious treatment windows while they wai
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by dsign 7mo ago
You can’t say that. Trump is very inconsistent and a consummated liar, so plenty of people didn’t believe on his promises to deliver fascism. And plenty of people did believe on his promise to end wars. /s Whether your little black hea
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by dsign 7mo ago
Yes. The problem is the level of the conversations: "AI is good for this. It's not good. It gaslights." It doesn't come out of that. If we were talking about the actual layers in the models and how they interconnect, at
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by dsign 7mo ago
The solution for "Windows" is to use the current US derangement to convince the EU, China and even the Russians that, as a matter of national security, it's in their best interest to come to the negotiation table and create a
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by dsign 7mo ago
Yes and no. Putting Sam Altman, OpenAI and even LLMs in general aside for a moment, one doesn't need to look too hard to uncover the failure modes of human minds when it comes to research. Here are some from my personal experience: - m
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by dsign 7mo ago
Genes of the wild cabbage: "yah man, we will turn this leafy body into whatever you like. That you are going to eat it? We don't mind a bit, as long as you make more copies of us; that's all that matters."
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by dsign 7mo ago
Slight tangent, I found this chart for the prices of RAM: https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/ It's not looking good, I don't think supply is catching with demand yet. Though the other day
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by dsign 7mo ago
> The company would compensate them well: full wages for the whole time, even when sleeping, and a paid week off after. Only a week??? I mean, we are all going to be replaced with AI any day now, but were it not the case, I'm fully
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by dsign 7mo ago
Yes, but you can't replicate a bottle of unscented shampoo ad-infinitum for basically zero additional cost. With books, print-on-demand and digital particularly, you can. Then it all becomes a huge one-off cost with a huge profit poten
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by dsign 7mo ago
Yes, conductive ink has too high resistance; at least the one that works on a basis of carbon; a "trace" can easily have kilo-Ohms, and the metal ink interface makes things worse. I remember reading some "Sputnik" magazi
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by dsign 7mo ago
Cool! But the wires! I'm not a fan of breadboards, they tend to be unreliable even for trivial circuits. We need something more affordable and practical for home PCBs[^1]. Why is it that nobody has invented a tin 3D printer, or at leas
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by dsign 7mo ago
> It's incredible how quickly we've devolved into full-blown sci-fi dystopia. It's pretty bad, but at least the AI industry is still run by humans. Wait a decade or two, when the AI lobby is run by AIs, and the repressive
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by dsign 7mo ago
I've wondered for a long time if we would have been able to make do without protected mode (or hardware protection in general) if user code was verified/compiled at load, e.g. the way the JVM or .NET do it...Could the shift on tra
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by dsign 8mo ago
Alas, historically speaking, most governments have been tyrannies. In recent decades, some of them have been less so, or slightly more representative or transparent. I think in Switzerland they go to referendums often. Beyond that, once you
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by dsign 8mo ago
This is like microcontrollers, but for AI? Awesome! I want one for my electric guitar; and please add an AI TTS module...
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by dsign 8mo ago
Indeed. In fact, I would go further and say than, more than saving money, one should make preparations for a dignified passing should one's time come early. Living happy, dying before a gruesome disease completely erases that treasure.
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by dsign 8mo ago
That's not a solution, but a stopgap measure for the fact we can't do better. A stopgap measure I would prefer for myself though; not arguing the fact that it's the least bad option. But there's is something I don't

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