leoedin

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by leoedin 5d ago
I was wondering how much financial value they put in one truck. Presumably the value density of this stuff is incredibly high (although not really to anyone else, so security probably isn't a huge issue). At what point do you split the
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by leoedin 8d ago
Thermostatic mixers make sense for continuous flow applications - showers, filling a large bathtub for example. But I don't think they make sense for a kitchen tap - where you might be filling a small basin. The goal is that the water
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by leoedin 9d ago
Yeah, this isn't "here is a complete solution", it's "here is an interesting package for optimisation, applied in a specific way that you probably haven't heard of". I found it quite interesting. The guy i
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by leoedin 9d ago
No it's not. It's an interesting article on how to use scikit-decide to optimise a problem. Nothing more. Rolling your own crypto is considered bad practice because there are countless battle proven open source alternatives. Where
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by leoedin 12d ago
I don't bother buying Nike's because every time I see a pair I like online, it turns out they're "collectibles" and sold out instantly. Yeah, I can go and buy a pair of black Nikes in any shop today. But even though
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by leoedin 15d ago
> One of the best political moves in a company is to have a lot of people under you. This is why I’m sceptical of “AI will kill corporate jobs”. A big company has no profit sharing for successful departments. Everyone is trying to get bu
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by leoedin 19d ago
Many people are terrible at writing. LLMs write better than them. However, many more people are "OK" at writing. But what their writing conveys is personality. Every comment here is written by someone who may not have grammaticall
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by leoedin 25d ago
I worked for a startup in 2019 which was really pushing the "Spotify model" of team structure. Apparently it's all about self-organising teams and having no leadership. The fact the technology output of the Spotify model - th
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by leoedin 25d ago
I gave up on antigravity when they retroactively changed the limits. I learnt that I'd exceeded the new, lower limits when I sat down to use it one evening - despite not having touched it for a few days. I don't mind limits, but s
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by leoedin 1mo ago
I'm in a similar boat. I don't think "knuckle down and learn something" has ever worked for me. It's more like "set things up so the learning aligns with my interests" and then... woosh! I'm off and d
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by leoedin 1mo ago
> Accepting to run random code sent by someone you don't know should be a red flag for them. Getting asked to run random code sent by someone you don't know should be a red flag for you. This is a different problem. If a candid
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by leoedin 1mo ago
I'm talking about hiring a software engineer for a software development job. I have not met a good software engineer who wasn't also some level of geek. I'm thinking of all the great colleagues I've had over the years, a
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by leoedin 1mo ago
Are those the people you want to hire for software development jobs though? Honestly I would see that as a huge red flag. In western countries a used laptop costs almost nothing.
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by leoedin 1mo ago
I've got fibre to my house. I could pay more for 1Gbps, but I'm currently on 500Mbps and it's good enough. Unless I worked in video editing or did AI training at home or something I don't think I'll upgrade. There&#
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by leoedin 1mo ago
None of this really matters - it's a BBC article written for British audiences in British English. The goal is to communicate with the audience. I think the only clear term for British people would be "Katsu Curry Sauce", or
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by leoedin 1mo ago
The old "I won't raise my kids like my parents raised me" problem, which inevitably seems to lead to raising kids with a different set of grievances and unresolved issues. I realised it was a lost cause when I realised that l
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by leoedin 1mo ago
Yeah, sometimes I think people lose track of why they support environmental movements. I've had people question my choice to have kids along these lines before. I just don't understand it - surely we only care about all this stu
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by leoedin 1mo ago
> As for how you end up with just those two, I think the answer is divorce: Does that solve the problem? Now you're trying to prioritise kids and career while also being a single parent for half the week.
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by leoedin 1mo ago
I don't think there's a neat categorisation. If I cook at home, starting with just vegetables and cuts of meat, at some point the food I'm making stops being "whole foods" and starts being "processed foods&quot
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by leoedin 1mo ago
You can buy STM32s from LCSC (Chinese equivalent of Digikey). They're probably not fake - LCSC is a fairly established trusted manufacturer. China makes a huge majority of the world's electronics, and a big chunk of those will hav
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by leoedin 1mo ago
But we don't overwhelmingly reward lying, cheating and stealing. Depending on the social status and wealth of the person doing it, we either punish it or tolerate it. Most people who lie, cheat or steal will be punished for it. To get
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by leoedin 2mo ago
Yeah, it does seem crazy. My newest laptop is 5 years old, and almost every other computing device I have is older. This does seem to be caused by a badly set up Linux system though. The clock loses sync and the system can’t recover.
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by leoedin 2mo ago
My experience with long running sessions is that they lose track of what's going on. The signal to noise ratio is often very poor - some models are particularly verbose and spew a lot of crap. The output of an LLM session is either mod
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by leoedin 2mo ago
The quality of my bash scripts is 100x what they used to be. Proper help messages, flag parsing, functions, internal variables, using sed all the time (I could never wrap my head around that). Of course, the main issue is that they’re compl
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by leoedin 2mo ago
> My route-finding here is more than a little naïve, instant acceleration to each road's speed limit, full-speed turns, no traffic, lights always with you, etc. but there is a place within 60 minutes of all locations, pre-selected i
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by leoedin 2mo ago
I think there's 2 separate things at play. Most products don't require testing by a notified body. That means anyone can do the testing - or even you could do it at home. The CE mark is self-assessed - you don't have to get a
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by leoedin 2mo ago
The population of London isn't much more today than it was in 1930. And the population density is more or less the same too. I think it's unlikely that people's bodies are the cause of heating. Greater London for example woul
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by leoedin 2mo ago
I often wonder if they just made us do more washing, use more cups, travel further in the same time and get more expectations from our boss though. I've got 2 kids. I'm always doing laundry and loading the dishwasher. How much of
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by leoedin 2mo ago
In the EU (and UK with UKCA), CE certification is down to whoever makes the product available on the market. There's no get out for pre-certified modules. If you put a pre-certified module in a box and sell it, you have to be responsib
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by leoedin 2mo ago
It's kind of hilarious isn't it? "I don't even write code, yet here is my technical assessment of how a tricky software problem should work".

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