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by jmpman 1y ago
You can think of your home as a literal black box. In this case a black box radiator. If the police are unable to look at the emissions, because they could reveal illegal activity, then why can they look at energy usage, which is a proxy fo
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by jmpman 1y ago
Police used to use airplane based thermal imaging looking for homes which were abnormally warm, back before LEDs. Kyllo v. United States Went to the Supreme Court and found this as a “search”. “Where, as here, the Government uses a device t
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by jmpman 1y ago
Thanks for the link. Is it difficult to find just DC powered Air Conditioning units? What’s different? Any concerns about intermittent running? Clouds or partial shading of panels from leaves? Should such a device include a super capacitor
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by jmpman 1y ago
I gave ChatGPT a PDF of an academic paper and asked it to create an OpenSCAD program which replicated the paper’s design - knocked it out. Did it have issues? of course.
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by jmpman 1y ago
The only reason I periodically want a Windows PC is because Office is better on Windows than Mac… and gaming. Whoever decided to nerf the Mac Office version, probably helped Microsoft make a few extra billion.
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by jmpman 1y ago
I want a solar powered greenhouse in AZ, where the solar panels are used solely to run an AC unit, keeping temps down during the day - without using inverters or batteries. With some large water barrels in the greenhouse, it should maintain
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by jmpman 1y ago
“Write intent record (async) Perform operation in memory Write completion record (async) Return success to client During recovery, I only apply operations that have both intent and completion records. This ensures consistency while allowing
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by jmpman 1y ago
I liked OpenSCAD, but I couldn’t figure out how to do anything very advanced… until the LLMs became good. Now the LLMs are great at guiding me on rather complex projects. If I were going to do it again, I’d probably learn solidworks. They h
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by jmpman 1y ago
I can’t wait for this to be available at similar prices for a single family home. Add in solar and a relatively small propane powered backup generator (harbor freight) for extended outages, and for $15k I could be completely off grid. Yes t
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by jmpman 1y ago
I also wasn’t following. I primarily eat US rice. The marginally better rice from Japan I might buy if I’m going to make sushi at home, but that’s just because I’d be investing so much time and energy already, might as well spend a few buck
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by jmpman 1y ago
I found a TikTok which showed rice in a Japanese Costco. A calrose variety American grown rice (Legrande Family rice) in the Japanese Costco was 2998 yen for 5KG. Must be tariffs causing the price to be so high.
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by jmpman 1y ago
I can buy rice at Costco in the US for $25 for 50lbs, which is equivalent to 854 yen for 5KG. A bit less than 1/4 the cost of Japanese grown rice.
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by jmpman 1y ago
This is a question about the first amendment. Is the government making rules in favor of one religion over, anyone else? Bob, an atheist, is allowed to run arbitrary wires around midtown manhattan, just the same as some other group?
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by jmpman 1y ago
The biggest threat to Musk’s empire is simply to remove Chinese electric vehicle tariffs.
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One is a paid version where Tesla opts to drive safer, and if you don’t pay then Tesla is allowed to drive more dangerously? Seems like a jury would question why Tesla would allow a version that is known to be less safe.
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by jmpman 1y ago
If you’re an engineer, go volunteer for a First Robotics team, and advise high schoolers on your area of expertise.
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by jmpman 1y ago
Just got back from a European vacation. Noticed that each restaurant had an extensive allergen list on the menu. Around 15 individual allergens were called out, and labeled next to each it, with an index typically on the back page of the me
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by jmpman 1y ago
So glad you built this. I thought of this about three weeks ago, and wanted to try the concept out. Now I can just buy it.
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by jmpman 1y ago
Gelbart’s videos tickle me on every release. The man is a billionaire and spends his time tinkering and now teaching the world. He’s an inspiration. Wish I could retire with enough money to afford a basement full of high precision machinery
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by jmpman 1y ago
After battling my bougainvillea this afternoon, I’m about to resort to chemical warfare. Why is that plant popular, and why isn’t there an “Bougainvillea haters” Facebook group?
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by jmpman 1y ago
When Elon gets excited about displacing his engineers on a whim with H1Bs, why would any highly educated ambitious person want to work for Tesla?
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by jmpman 1y ago
Would it be lower power than DRAM?
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by jmpman 1y ago
I’ve started using LLMs to identify the proper regex for my use cases. I’d like to see such regex creation as an LLM benchmark.
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by jmpman 1y ago
Lots of areas left for exploration.
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by jmpman 1y ago
Mickey 17 was good for the first 60%, and then turned into typical Hollywood drivel.
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by jmpman 1y ago
On a side note, Life of Brian used to be listed on the Apple iTunes Store as rated “PG” - it’s actually “R”. Great fun when I let my 11 and 13 year old boys watch it. Luckily their mother wasn’t home. Appears Apple eventually rectified that
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by jmpman 2y ago
I figured that married people are more likely to have STDs which are correlated with dementia.
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by jmpman 2y ago
I’ve always wondered about using HDMI as a data exfiltration path. To the best of my knowledge, there are security tools monitoring for employees plugging in USB drives or connecting to Google drive, etc, but none which are watching the vid
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by jmpman 2y ago
Or when the phone detects questionable content and decides to? I was sitting on my couch, next to my son when I sent the message. We were both connected to the WiFi. Sure, I’ve had messages sent via SMS before, typically when I’m on a plane
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by jmpman 2y ago
Yesterday, my high school son was sitting on the couch. Asked him what he was doing… “social studies on the partitioning of Palestine in 1948”. More spicy a topic that I was expecting. Intrigued, I asked ChatGPT a few questions about the re

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