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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
We say "you shot someone" when you shoot someone with a gun not "you operated a gun manufactured by X which shot someone" because it's understood that it was your decision to pull the trigger not the gun manufacture
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
They're being told to by management. That says approximately nothing about the relative merits of the two products, but it certainly says something . What, exactly? Who knows... Other companies have a similar top-down "use Clau
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Dig safe ;)
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
The tooling amplifies the problem. I've become increasingly skeptical of the "open contributions" model Github and their ilk default to. I'd rather the tooling default be "look but don't touch"--fully gate
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
You have 3-phase service to your house? Lucky. I wish I could get 3-phase here but I think it would require trenching like half a mile to the main road. I get by with a phase converter on my lathe but it's significantly less efficient.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
I think you might be underestimating how big the "old(er) school workloads" market is. And, at least from Oxide's point of view, it isn't shrinking but instead growing. A certain segment of tech has been enamored with th
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
You would need 3-phase power too. At 208V and 15kW it'll draw over 70A peak :P. If you can wire that up in your living room, I raise my glass to you!
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
I appreciate their treatment of the current AI boom cycle. Just last night they had Evan Ratliff on from the Shell Game podcast[1], and it was a great episode. They're not breathlessly hyping AI and trying to make a quick buck off it,
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
They state: > ...it's not uncommon for us to be asked directly: "How do I know you won’t be bought?" Raising ~infinite runway from investors who are already known quantities signals that you can safely buy into their produ
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Not according to that scammy, clammy sammy: > “We basically have built AGI, or very close to it.”[1] [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2026/02/03/sam-alt...
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
In some places in the U.S. it is (or at least was until recently) illegal to be healthy and unemployed.
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by jcgrillo 9mo ago
Interesting. Out of curiosity, how long do you think OpenAI can survive as a company? Put another way, what would be your guesses for probability of failure on 1yr, 3yr, and 5yr horizons? EDIT: possibly a corollary--does Mia pay money for c
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by jcgrillo 9mo ago
A glaring lack of oceans to boil
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by jcgrillo 9mo ago
I'm not sure if it's still this way but when I was a kid you could buy old guns at rural flea markets or antiques shops. I've never attempted to purchase an illicit firearm, but I can't imagine it's any harder than
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by jcgrillo 9mo ago
If I wanted to make a custom one-off weapon for some reason why would I use CNC? I'd just do it like normal on manual toolmaking machines. CNC is for achieving repeatability with less tooling in a manufacturing pipeline. Nobody is mass
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by jcgrillo 9mo ago
Mine are in climate zone 6. They're only a couple years old. The coldest temperatures I've run them at so far are -21°F and they kept the house adequately unfrozen. They'll maintain a COP of 2 down to 5°F IIRC. The hot water
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by jcgrillo 9mo ago
I was told ca. 2003 or so that because features on computer chips were getting smaller at some rate, and processor speed was getting faster at some other rate, that given exponential this or that I'd have tiny artificial haemo-goblin
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by jcgrillo 9mo ago
And what happens every time a rack (or node) fails? Does someone go out and try to fix it? Do we just "deorbit" it? How many tons per second of crap would we be burning in the upper atmosphere now? What are the consequences of tha
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by jcgrillo 9mo ago
We "just" need to figure out the terraforming problem then we can all move to Mars and be interplanetary explorers. Imagine how cool it would be to have corporate leaders who had vision--environmentally friendly automobiles, cheap
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by jcgrillo 9mo ago
This, Stalking the Wiley Hacker[1], and others were the stories that got me into computers. I wish so much the experience of working in this industry hadn't so thoroughly annihilated the joy they once brought. [1] https://ar
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by jcgrillo 11mo ago
Yeah I personally never really bought into Arduino. I got their Uno back whenever it came out but never really got into their whole IDE experience. Latest projects are on esp32 using embassy which so far has been going great. Interested to
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by jcgrillo 11mo ago
Echoing the comments there... this seems like a colossally dumb move on their part. Is there any way this doesn't just end with a hard fork and some new player taking over where Arduino left off?
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by jcgrillo 11mo ago
> If you want rigorous controlled studies you'll get it in due time. I hope so, because the alternative is grim. But to be quite honest I don't expect it'll happen, based on what I've seen so far. Obviously your exper
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by jcgrillo 11mo ago
Without rigorous, controlled study I'm not ready to accept claims of velocity, efficiency, etc. I'm a professional software engineer, I have tried various AI tools in the workplace both for code review and development. I found per
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by jcgrillo 11mo ago
A decade would be very quick. The amount of specialist knowledge that went into every part of this project is crazy.. After a decade's worth of projects I doubt I'd be confident to tackle the steering and suspension design on some
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by jcgrillo 11mo ago
Step 1: Get ~$250k+ in cash for the initial build. Step 2: Start learning. If you don't know how to evaluate the work of your builder you may have a few false starts finding someone who can actually do it, which will cost you even more
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by jcgrillo 11mo ago
The problem is entitled, lazy, sociopathic bastards who think everyone else is an idiot who should be killed and replaced with a robot. They're seeing a thing which confirms these biases, and reacting predictably. Unfortunately people
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by jcgrillo 11mo ago
No. If you're trying to make a causal link between some layoffs and AI tooling you need to bring the receipts. Show that the layoffs were caused by AI tooling, don't just assume it. I don't think you can, or that anyone has
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by jcgrillo 11mo ago
I wonder is Google's AI investment a rational reaction to real competition or something else? My strong suspicion is that it's in fact delusional beliefs held by their management--something to do with "AGI"--that drives
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by jcgrillo 11mo ago
It's not really about optimism or pessimism, it's effect vs no effect. Self reported anecdotes like yours abound, but as far as I'm aware the effect isn't real. That is, it's not in fact true that if a business bu

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