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by eropple 4y ago
Could you remind me what the "G" in "GPT" means?
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by eropple 4y ago
This is true, but when you own a platform, you don't have to have nonstandard interfaces in order to lock a user in. For example, they whack your self-hosted or other-vendor-in-AWS options with cross-AZ bandwidth charges that they exem
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by eropple 4y ago
The hardware's part of it. They use a big trackpad and they position it centrally, which a lot of manufacturers don't do. But of course a good bit of it is software, Hackintosh touchpads (when they worked) inherited most then-OS X
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by eropple 4y ago
This makes some sense when you consider that the same respect is not afforded to Devil Dogs.
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by eropple 4y ago
Yeah - I've never been a "data engineer", but I've been doing this sort of shoveling for twenty years. We called it "ETL" and felt faintly foolish blogging about it.
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by eropple 4y ago
Humans eat Twinkies on purpose.
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by eropple 4y ago
Causes first (US-constrained): economic atomization and precariousness is the first tentpole. I mention that in a sibling comment. The other is that political sorting and radicalization have rendered parts of the country unsafe for vulnerab
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by eropple 4y ago
> Also, this is a bit off topic but does anyone else feel that relationship quality on a societal level has gone down a lot? I feel that the majority of relationships and marriages say 60-70 years ago were happy and mutually fulfilling,
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by eropple 4y ago
Dunno about in SF, but I certainly realize it. And I don't care. I bought the place to live in. I don't plan to sell it for decades. I will have gotten my money's worth out of it no matter what. Which is why I absolutely advo
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by eropple 4y ago
I can't carry plywood on a bicycle. That's why I'm on the waiting list for the F150 EV.
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by eropple 4y ago
> I think having an LLM offer up a first pass approximation for any given problem definition helps. This is, strictly scoped, true. But the future is people with capital deciding that the computer output is Good Enough because it costs
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by eropple 4y ago
> polyopoly Oligopoly.
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by eropple 4y ago
Why would you want it when the F150 Lightning already exists?
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by eropple 4y ago
> Can you name some examples? As a hobbyist woodworker I've used my 3D printer to print router templates where PLA was fine enough for the task. I'm currently using PC to build friction-fit dust collection gear. PLA and PETG
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by eropple 4y ago
I've had both of mine for six and three months, respectively. They're inexpensive. But they're not cheap . That's a problem for selling $1100 bedslingers.
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by eropple 4y ago
In the last year, I've bought two separate sub-$250 3D printers that I just threw on a table after connecting four screws and a couple cables and they were dead-on out of the box. Prusa's hat has been "it just works!". T
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by eropple 4y ago
CoreXY printers absolutely do have more stable kinematics for better acceleration, but modern open printer firmware--mostly Klipper, though you can do it with Marlin in an unsatisfying way--implements resonance compensation, aka input shapi
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by eropple 4y ago
> since nearly every other mk4/mk3s clone that has been out there really really sucks except the ones from Prusa The Sovol SV06 has been selling like gangbusters for the last six months or so, and it's excellent. And it'
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by eropple 4y ago
Prusa absolutely builds good stuff, but their level of repairability just isn't different from most other printers--Bambu notably excepted, as they're a pretty closed system. They're all extremely commodity parts, from boards
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by eropple 4y ago
Cost is part of it. If you look at bed-dropper printers (the Ender 5 or the Sovol SV05), there's just more metal involved. Metal is expensive. It's also heavy, so your shipping costs go up. It's also a simpler set of kinema
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by eropple 4y ago
> - IMO multi material printing has always been a buggy gimmick (mostly multi material setups are very prone to failure). Agreed, with the asterisk that this applies more to multi-feeders (Prusa's MMU, Bambu's AMS) rather tha
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by eropple 4y ago
Voron and Ratrig are not going to "disappear tomorrow". Bambu--I'm less sanguine about them, to be fair. The Prusa XL looks tremendous and I'm very interested, but a $1100 bedslinger had better literally make you breakfa
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by eropple 4y ago
In 2023: not a ton. Maybe some better repeatability. You're likely to have fewer out-of-the-box problems; they spend a lot on quality control. If you're just interested in the hobby, the Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro is, for my money, a fa
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by eropple 4y ago
> This is going to do for art what YouTube did for video production: obliterate the grind. Now what counts is your genuine creativity, your inspiration. These two sentences are so violently at odds as to be comical. YouTube is nothing
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by eropple 4y ago
I will concede the theoretical possibility, but, uh...Marxist acceleration theory doesn't have much of a track record.
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by eropple 4y ago
I haven't been out that way in years but my understanding is that Vancouver is a SF-tier disaster though, no? Huge influx of semi-speculative money into real estate. My house, on a 30-year, 10% down, if bought today at the Zillow valua
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by eropple 4y ago
It is absolutely affordable—for a software engineer. Boston salaries aren’t SF, but you aren’t going to be hurting. Other folks? No, and that’s an entirely different problem we need to be solving. That’s why tomorrow night I’m going to a t
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by eropple 4y ago
Sorry. That was uncharitable of me. You did not make a "just use X" claim. But your suggestion does elide the significant difficulties in doing as you suggest. It's an alternative that will lead to more frustration due to the
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by eropple 4y ago
`make` has been ported long ago! The problem is that almost every Makefile wants a reasonably large subset of POSIX stuff, when it doesn't want specifically GNU stuff. (And like, I write specifically GNUmakefiles because I don't c
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by eropple 4y ago
As mentioned elsewhere, you cannot reliably use a Makefile on Windows. A Makefile also is not aware of things like Node execution paths, the way `yarn exec` is. You're then pushing more stuff down to the writer of the package.json file

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