leoedin

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by leoedin 6mo ago
As far as I'm aware most autocratic forms of government have to clamp down on dissent with some level of force, be it violence or imprisonment or seizing assets. It means people are afraid to criticise power. Western democracies don&#x
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by leoedin 6mo ago
Have you seen footage of how quickly an unbelted person moves around a car when it crashes? If there's someone in the passenger compartment without a seatbelt they can cause serious damage to everyone else - especially children.
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by leoedin 6mo ago
I don't get this take. Once a modern corporation starts making money, all the people in it diligently work to expand their influence by starting new projects and hiring as many people as possible. That seems to be human nature. Why wil
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by leoedin 6mo ago
I've found AI tools to be pretty awful for low level work. So much of it requires making small changes to poorly documented registers. AI is very good at confidently hallucinating what register value you should use, and often is wrong.
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by leoedin 6mo ago
Yeah, it's crazy to think an opaque chatbot will be preferable to a well designed UI for most users. People don't like badly designed UIs, but I'm pretty sure most people under 40 prefer a well designed UI to a customer servi
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by leoedin 6mo ago
I got excited about that, until I actually tried to download a model and run it locally and ask it questions. A current gen local LLM which is small enough to live on disk and fit in my laptop's RAM is very prone to hallucination of fa
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by leoedin 6mo ago
What you're describing is 2 or 3 sensors - effectively 2 or 3 pixels. Enough to discriminate when an aircraft launches a flare, but not really "imaging" in the modern sense. Early heat seeking missiles would use a single IR s
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by leoedin 6mo ago
Reading between the AI induced hype of the article, I think the crucial development is that the missile is effectively using an infrared camera and image recognition rather than just "point at hot stuff" which is how earlier heat
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by leoedin 6mo ago
I realised after a few near misses that my voice is by far the lowest latency signal method I have. If a situation suddenly seems dangerous I'll yell. Perhaps not very polite, but far more polite than hitting someone who stepped out in
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by leoedin 6mo ago
There’s far more tourists in Nepal who are trekking than mountaineering. And those tourists are going to be much more price sensitive. It’s not just wealthy Americans, but people from all over the world - India, China, middle income countri
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by leoedin 7mo ago
If the author didn't abuse the fax, why would anyone notice the process was broken. It's only by abusing the existing process that change will be triggered. You see this all the time in cybersecurity. Nobody cares until there&#x27
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by leoedin 7mo ago
I’m the same age as my wife. More or less the same height and weight too. Neither of us have a history of weight training. I’m much stronger than her. I’ve got 2x the lung capacity she does. If you’re going to divide competition by one trai
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by leoedin 7mo ago
> But it's not what you want if you want to get the most GW connected as fast as possible. I agree with rooftop residential solar. The cost per kW is high, each site is fiddly and requires far more labour and paperwork than the extr
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by leoedin 7mo ago
I've had far more success following along video tutorials than written ones. Most written tutorials (as you've pointed out) miss far too much detail. Watching someone do it and copying along teaches all the menu navigation stuff i
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by leoedin 7mo ago
You see this in city-focused subreddits. But the reality is the name is power. New users type in their city and join the original one. The hostile mods suppress mention of the new one. It never manages to get critical mass.
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by leoedin 7mo ago
This matches my experience too. The models write code that would never pass a review normally. Mega functions, "copy and pasted" code with small changes, deep nested conditionals and loops. All the stuff we've spent a lot of
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by leoedin 7mo ago
I think the form factor is basically the same (maybe slightly thicker) as a Macbook Air. It's basically an Air with lower performance in most dimensions.
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by leoedin 7mo ago
I'm always happy to read something Bunnie's done. He's a one man electronics machine - pretty much all his past projects are really interesting. I love how he managed to sneak his processor design onto someone else's chi
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by leoedin 8mo ago
The AI-ism that annoys me the most is the unnecessary hubris. Just sampling a small portion of the linked article: "Here’s the fascinating part:", "And one delightful discovery: " Personally I find the AI-isms take away
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by leoedin 8mo ago
Nobody is building ebikes that are physically speed limited by the motor windings. The top speed of a motor depends on load, and it's impossible to predict the exact load of a motor in a bike with a rider. Even if you could, the amoun
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by leoedin 8mo ago
> I'm pretty sure your frame wasn't designed to carry this 22 pound battery or anything like it Presumably bike frames are designed to carry larger riders? 22 pounds is well within the normal range of "adult". Apparen
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by leoedin 8mo ago
The font the arduino editor uses renders l and 1 exactly the same. Utter madness in a beginner programming context.
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by leoedin 8mo ago
I can't even imagine how many joules would be used per function call! As an experiment, it's kind of cool. I'm kind of at a loss to what useful software you'd build with it though. Surely once you've run the AI func
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by leoedin 8mo ago
As long as there's a country willing to build and sell ESP32s, I think it would be fairly easy to get hold of them. How does a customs agent distinguish between an ESP32 and another microcontroller? These things are in every gadget. Is
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by leoedin 8mo ago
There are some use cases where exact time is very important. Warming milk for a baby for instance - it’s pretty low volume and the difference between 30s and 40s is huge. I used to favour the 2 knob microwave, but since having to do that a
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by leoedin 8mo ago
Even if this first generation is not useful, the learning and architecture decisions in this generation will be. You really can't think of any value to having a chip which can run LLMs at high speed and locally for 1/10 of the ene
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by leoedin 8mo ago
It's really not "good" for many people. It's the sort of high-persuasion marketing speak that used to be limited to the blogs of glossy but shallow startups. Now it's been sucked up by LLMs and it's everywhere.
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by leoedin 8mo ago
I think we are. There's definitely been an uptick in "show HN" type posts with quite impressively complex apps that one person developed in a few weeks. From my own experience, the problem is that AI slows down a lot as the s
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by leoedin 8mo ago
This is perhaps true from the "language model" point of view, but surely from the "knowledge" point of view an LLM is prioritising a few "correct" data sources? I wonder about this a lot when I ask LLMs niche t
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by leoedin 8mo ago
This is a good article. Not because it's got some crazy insights or radical suggestions - but because it's pragmatic and sensible advice for any project. It definitely resonates with my experience - the biggest risk is just losing

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