inferiorhuman

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by inferiorhuman 9mo ago
Studying gibberish doesn't teach you anything. If you were cargo culting shit before AI you weren't learning anything then either.
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by inferiorhuman 9mo ago
To my continual personal frustration. That's not the fault of Opus 4.5 because like all AI nonsense it's still not worth the cost . The privacy given up by having to authenticate with services like Github that used to be
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by inferiorhuman 9mo ago
they’re pretty good at getting info that is very up to date by using tools to access the web Yeah that's a charitable way to phrase "perform distributed denial of service attacks". Browsing github as a human with th
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
I'm curious what MCU you landed on, but also a suggestion. If you could move the pictures to a different repo (or branch at least) that would make much easier to download. Even now a shallow clone takes ≈20 MB.
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
HPIB/GPIB itself should be reasonably fast, I think NI had some later revisions that were even faster. If I had to guess there will be two big hardware bottlenecks with the open source dongles: almost all of the 8-bit and cheaper ARM
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
Neither Cloudflare nor their competitors were aywhere near as prevalent before the AI bots. Farnell and Renesas outright blocked me, DigiKey makes me sit through their bullshit at nearly every request, issue trackers have the slowdown widg
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
Yet it wasn't until AI grifters started aggressively scraping everything that sites started turning to CloudFlare (and the like) en masse.
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
Without a market CloudFlare wouldn't be able to ruin the internet. You can thank all of the incessant AI bots for that. I can't even browse GitHub anymore without logging in.
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
Keep in mind that crates.io, the main crate registry, uses GitHub as its only authentication method. They may have moved away from git but they're still locked into a rather piss poor vendor.
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
As someone who wants to care not at all about the implementation details: last week I tried to sign up and use Matrix. I just want it to die. It's got all the downsides of both centralized and distributed chat systems. Matrix.org d
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
The last time PG&E had a stock buy back was in 2006. Right and that's money that could've been spent on maintenance. Their dividend yield was 0.8% in 2025, the average for utilities was 3% to 5%. Alaska's APT
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
They're not . Rural electricity can be had in the United States for far less than PG&E's charging. Look at Hawaii, Alasaka, TVA, etc., etc. PG&E is expensive because they have to pay for negligence, homicide, stock buy
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
Willie Brown hasn't been in the Assembly for decades and the governor directly controls the CPUC.
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
Follow the money. Who appoints people to regulate electricity in California? The governor. Who mentored California's current governor? Willie Brown. Who does Willie Brown work/lobby for? PG&E.
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
The same substation went up about a decade ago, I'd be pretty cautious about calling problems with PG&E infrastructure "one off". California's rates were rationalized, in part, because California is taking steps to
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
Dunno, I think it's quite reasonable to class electricity as a natural monopoly. What's less reasonable is regulatory capture. Landline telephones were insanely reliable in their heyday because they were required to be so. PG&a
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
Ah that's fair. One of the reasons I went with the Wyze units is that they were well supported and installation was pretty easy.
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
I think Thingino is great. But there are definitely still dragons lurking. I reported a bug last year and mostly forgot about it. Got a response a few months ago to check out a fix related to unexpected memory access. I generally try not
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
I got a couple of Wyze cameras and loaded Thignino via SD card. No fuss no muss.
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
They’re still very compelling as a user. Nah.
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
… what do you mean, an internet where everything wasn't hidden behind anti-bot captchas?
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
Sure. With the suggestion of locating them on the sites of old factories: how does data center water usage compare to the factories?
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
Well the file picker can be limited to the current directory and its descendants, and the global search picker is by default. Beyond that, dunno.
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
I had tried many times to switch to vim/emacs and the initial barrier to get a workable system always kept me from pushing forward. For me Helix gets enough right out of the box I find myself reaching for it far more than I e
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
Or don't want. I don't want an AI infected editor.
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
Civilian vs military. The military can get altitude information from primary radar.
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
Yes, ADS-B is significantly more precise than civilian primary radar returns. That's why the FAA is trying to move away from radar. The JetBlue near miss was about 150 miles from Curacao ATC which is beyond what most ASR systems co
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
In Cortex M33 land $15 will get you an entire NXP (or STM) dev board. An MCX-A156 will set you back about $5 which is about on par with an STM32H5. You can go cheaper than that in the MCX-A lineup if you need to. For what I'm workin
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
To be fair they're shipping Qualcomm+STM silicon now.
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by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
I can’t be more clear: specificity around predicting the future is close to impossible. And I can't be more clear: a single entity bought more than 70% of the wafer production for the next year. That's across all types of

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