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by joshvm 10mo ago
It seems like a mixture of heuristics, explicit filtering and user reports. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/slopstop.html That's specifically for AI generated content, but there are other indicators like
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by joshvm 10mo ago
This is Black Friday pricing at least, if you're willing to shuck. Seagate drives are still sub-$10/TB which... a single 24-26TB is enough for all my photos (ever), media and some dataset backup for work. I'm planning to ba
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by joshvm 11mo ago
You don't need oral exams, you just need in-person. So a written test in the classroom, under exam conditions, would suffice. In this particular resolution example, it would be quicker to ask the student some probing questions versus h
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by joshvm 11mo ago
The UK comparison for home cooking vs fast food breakfast should be really be Wetherspoon. Spoons makes a solid stodgy full English breakfast and bottomless coffee for 5-7 quid depending on the size. Classic hangover food, and you can start
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by joshvm 11mo ago
On film availability. It's relatively easy to slit film to width, with little jigs that are machined or 3D printed. This is popular for Minox "spy" cameras since new 8x11 reels are $20+ and you can refill an old plastic cartr
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by joshvm 11mo ago
RGB should be fine, especially if you use a genuine ultra-high CRI source. A few companies make them, I think Waveform is one of the more well-known. If you really want to spend money, the optics suppliers like ThorLabs sell broadband LED s
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by joshvm 11mo ago
Filmomat looks fun. Many money. Love the hipster flex with the Weber HG-1 in background of the demonstration video. I do own an Intrepid enlarger (sort of experimental?), and I used to live near Ars Imago in Zurich who sell a "lab in a
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by joshvm 11mo ago
When models start to forage around in the weeds, it's a good idea to restart the session and add more information to the prompt for what it should ignore or assume. For example in ML projects, Claude gets very worried that datasets are
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by joshvm 11mo ago
It seems to be for offices where you'd have a lease agreement. But even my accountant's letter was refused as not proof enough. I believe you can have HMRC send something, but they're not exactly quick and Wise wanted somethi
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by joshvm 11mo ago
Though not any telco bill, it has to be a landline. Otherwise you could spin up a mobile contract and it would be easy. If you're a single person company/consultant they'll accept a personal bank statement (having just gone t
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by joshvm 1y ago
Below freezing is a concern that everyone has in Northern Europe, particularly Scandinavia which has very high per-capita adoption. The units might be harder to find in the US, but they definitely exist. If you can afford it, and have the l
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by joshvm 1y ago
Yeah there is support for API notarization, so in principle you could have an audit trail that some automated build process got a specific notary result that's "stapled" to the app. I'm not familiar enough to say how tru
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by joshvm 1y ago
> Also even if it is open source, who really verifies the binary is built from the source published? Apple notarization is usually the way for non Store downloads. Non-notarized apps present a warning and require overriding security sett
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by joshvm 1y ago
The idea is to identify if there is a particularly easy/hard exam and the average score of the cohort is significantly different to how they perform in other classes. "Doing poorly" is quite hard to define when none of the te
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by joshvm 1y ago
One really important factor is the grading curve, if used. At my university, I think the goal was to give the average student 60%, or a mid 2.1) with some formula for test score adjustment to compensate for particularly tough papers. The id
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by joshvm 1y ago
I would assume that a large portion of gemini token usage includes Google search summaries, though that can be heavily cached.
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by joshvm 1y ago
It's less about a direct comparison to people and more what a similar scenario would be in a normal development team (and why we don't put one person solely in charge of review). This is an advantage of async systems like Jules&#x
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by joshvm 1y ago
My suspicion is that it's because the feedback loop is so fast. Imagine if you were tasked with supervising 2 co-workers who gave you 50-100 line diffs to review every minute. The uncanny valley is that the code is rarely good enough t
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by joshvm 1y ago
Yes, I've use them for ESPHome and other small jobs like lighting controllers, but not for production. They're cheaper than most Arduino or hobbyist breakout boards like Feather. I can't comment on battle-tested, but I'v
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by joshvm 1y ago
Built-in no, but the Pi Pico W is decent and inexpensive if the form factor isn't an issue. The RP2040/RP2350 are nice chips to work with and documentation is good. I can live with an external module, and it's certified too.
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by joshvm 1y ago
Seagate Expansion drives are in this price range and can be shucked. They're not enterprise drives meant for constant operation, the big ones are Barracudas or maybe Exos, but for homelab NAS they're very popular.
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by joshvm 1y ago
I've visited New Zealand a few times en route to Antarctica. The only time I've ever needed to take out cash was for the Christchurch bus service. I was in MIQ on the way in, but they gave us free reign on the way out because Anta
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by joshvm 1y ago
"don't have to screw in every drive" is relative, but at least tool-less drive carriers are a thing now. A lot of older toploaders from vendors like Dell are not tool-free. If you bought vendor drives and one fails, you RMA i
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by joshvm 1y ago
I think pre-commit is essential. I enforce conventional commits (+ a hook which limits commit length to 50 chars) and for Python, ruff with many options enabled. Perhaps the most important one is to enforce complexity limits. That will catc
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by joshvm 1y ago
The way these systems are controlled (in my terrestial experience) is to have the system be capable of cooling below the desired set point. Then you can PID the temperature using a heater or a thermal bridge/heat switch that will cause
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by joshvm 1y ago
The highest sensitivity cameras tend to use cryocooling rather than TECS. But you're correct that a lot of mid to high end astro cameras are Peltier cooled, and many hobbyist imagers. Satellites are a mix, you have to get rid of the he
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by joshvm 1y ago
I'm sure computer science has improved in high school over the last (gulp) 20 years, but when I did variations of IT and programming lessons before university, it was bad . This was peak "you must Microsoft Office"-era. I&#x
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by joshvm 1y ago
Well also that you can buy graham cracker crumbs, for making things like pie crusts. My friend gave me a weird look when we went shopping and I picked up whole crackers. And then the revelation that graham refers to a type of flour and is n
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by joshvm 1y ago
Look out for sparks as well. There was a period when everything had sparks. It seems to have calmed down a bit but you still see it on action posters. Orange and teal is fascinating. Once you know it's a thing, you can't unsee it.
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by joshvm 1y ago
Yes, my mistake - it's been a while! Definitely a local thing, and always with German pronunciation. There were a several words/phrases like that which got loaned into English. Doubly confusing because it wasn't always clear

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