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by kakwa_ 5d ago
PCB manufacturing is reasonably cheap. YMMV, but JLCPCB was ~$20 for a set of 5 boards (minimal order quantity) last time I ordered. What you lose is not monetary, it's the ability to iterate quickly. It can be mitigated with next day
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by kakwa_ 5d ago
Personally I looked at etching and said "no". But still, I would love to have a way to build PCBs at home and I'm keeping an eye on people (mostly the Opulo/LumenPnp guy) experimenting milling and more recently engraving
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by kakwa_ 5d ago
I would also recommend "Artisan Makes" and "Blondiehacks" if you want something less stylized & scripted. Plus their machinery is a bit more realistic for a hobbyist.
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by kakwa_ 5d ago
There are still some gaps, but for the most part, China is way past the "clone and copy" these days. Knowledge has been assimilated and significant R&D efforts is being put in. If I look at Bambulalab, xTool or Makera, I see g
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by kakwa_ 5d ago
Most makers I know prefer to make stuff at themselves. If anything, it permits to iterate more quickly and grants much more satisfaction in the end. But nearly all of them want to make stuff... not make the tool that makes stuff. It's
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by kakwa_ 5d ago
It heavily depends on which printer you are talking about. There is a world of difference between a 2019 Creality Ender 3 and a 2023 Bambulab A1 for not that much more money. Auto-leveling, input shapping, PEI plates, high flow hotends, bet
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by kakwa_ 9d ago
Integration and reconciliation between arbitrary data sources (from SFTP+CSV files to connecting to data warehouse like snowflakes, potentially through vpn tunnels). Data querying for creating marketing campaign audiences or generating some
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by kakwa_ 10d ago
You still have fleet wide management which can cause issues. Plus there are always a few core services like queues, authz, presentation layer. Also, mono-tenant architectures is no golden bullet either. Such architecture (often coming from
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by kakwa_ 14d ago
I would love to have hn more curated. The AI spam is part of the issue, but not only. Maybe it's rose tinted glasses, but it feel like HN posts and comments quality have dropped significantly compared to ~5 to 10 years ago. It used to
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by kakwa_ 16d ago
That's assuming people are rational with their money. Cars already are extremely wasteful assets in terms of resource, space and money if you live in a decently served urban area. It already irrational to have one 90% of the times. An
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by kakwa_ 16d ago
You very rarely fire execs these days, the main reason being you don't want them to sue the company over their loss of reputation. You want to keep-up appearances and leave some plausible deniability, even if it's generally BS.
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by kakwa_ 27d ago
Both sides of the equation need to be solved. The US is still one of the leading CO2 emitters, both per capita and in absolute terms. And for cumulative past emissions, it's not even close. The expectation is not a mere 18% decrease bu
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by kakwa_ 1mo ago
Personally, I've forked the hnrss project to create two separate feeds (ironically, quickly implemented using AI). It just a basic filter based on keywords, but it helps.
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by kakwa_ 1mo ago
My personal experience reversing things relying mostly on Claude or other LLMs is a bit hit and miss. Sometimes it worked great, but sometimes it gets stuck. When it occurs, it kind of sucks because suddenly you have to catch up and assimil
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by kakwa_ 1mo ago
Both are not comparable as the stickiness dynamics are completely different. On Twitter, it's mostly the networking effect, you want to be where peoples are, and unless a large chunk move at once, you are stuck there. On Github, it&#x2
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by kakwa_ 1mo ago
Complaining with the angle of "cold pizzas and spilled cola" fills a bit of touch when considering the human exploitation on the other side.
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by kakwa_ 1mo ago
The anti-tech has been there for a while. In my opinion, the moment tech perception flipped from "it's kind of cool" to "I don't trust it" was E. Snowden in 2013. For more than one decade now, we have progressi
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by kakwa_ 1mo ago
Well, we are talking about the CEOs, not the companies. And these CEOs have very little to do with creating and improving said companies' products. The repeated outlandish claims kind of definitely broke this illusion.
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by kakwa_ 2mo ago
The debt amount is very roughly proportional to the size of the economy. It's also a system that is unstable in non-booming economies, drifts over time and needs periodic resets (through revolution, debt cancelling or inflation for exa
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by kakwa_ 2mo ago
And at the risk of being a downer, I'm not sure Open Source LLMs is actually viable. Training a model requires two or three orders of magnitude more investment than the typical OSS/Creative Common contributor can reasonably afford
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by kakwa_ 3mo ago
Well, it has proven itself to be a very useful military asset in Ukraine. The rural & underdeveloped area and the niche applications (ex: ships and planes) will bring-in some cash. And in addition, the US Army will pretty much guaranty
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by kakwa_ 3mo ago
I feel this is way too fear mongering heavy against developing in Open Source. I published nearly everything I code on my free time, that's ~100 git repositories. Out of these, ~15 are documented and made generic enough to be used by o
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by kakwa_ 3mo ago
> was very common for individuals and teams to publish projects to open source repositories under Google-managed Github orgs. I have the feeling these projects were not deeply intertwined with Google products like this cli is. This proj
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by kakwa_ 3mo ago
I don't recall any current car manufacturer with such lineage. Honestly, at Oracle scale, doing the "let's destroy and rebuild the company mid-flight" seems like a losing proposition compared to newly formed companies or
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by kakwa_ 3mo ago
A sample size of 3 is hardly statistically significant. From what I could found, billionaires die on average at ~83 years old. ( https://strygin.substack.com/p/how-billionaires-die ) It's not far off what a decent
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by kakwa_ 3mo ago
And the troubleshooting? Given the number of moving parts, I would be terrified to have to look under the hood of what Talos deployed for me.
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Show HN: Whim-proxy, a vibe-coded tool to reverse-tunnel webhooks to your laptop(github.com)
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by kakwa_ 5mo ago
In the end, Nix is just a thin veneer on this stuff. Given how many quick & dirty sed patching or exec commands I've seen in the few nix package/modules I've read, I would not exactly bet my life on it being completely id
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by kakwa_ 5mo ago
Also, the *BSD are structured somewhat differently to a Linux distro. It's not like the Linux world where you have distinct projects like the Kernel, GNU, OpenSSL, and then it's the distributions job to assemble everything. In the
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by kakwa_ 5mo ago
Bun is effectively dead. Anthropic bought it in a somewhat dumb attempt to solve their "performance" issues (not realizing their horrible code was the issue in the first place). It probably helped them, simply because they brought

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