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by mft_ 2y ago
With respect, I think you're missing the point. No-one doubts that one can print objects which are strong, but it depends on being able to orient the layer lines such that the directions of relative strength and weakness are appropr
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by mft_ 2y ago
There's no practical difference between $10m with no interest, versus $10m where any interest which puts the total holding over $10m is confiscated. I think people such a situation would put their money into low-risk, easy-access inve
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by mft_ 2y ago
"...slightly"
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by mft_ 2y ago
Temperature range = hardiness zone, I think? Also... soil pH, maybe?
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by mft_ 2y ago
As someone that has struggled trying to find plants to suit a particular garden in the past, I love your site! (And I just spotted the pet safe tab - even better!) Edit: could you include temperature suitability? Including plants that can
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by mft_ 2y ago
How does this concept explain (for example) an LLM’s ability to provide a precis of an article? Or to compare two blocks of text and highlight differences? Or to take an existing block of code and find and correct an error?
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by mft_ 2y ago
Eh, while I have no special insight into why Starbucks might have had a poor quarter, none of this (in TFA) is new. As a moderate 'coffee person', Starbucks has always been somewhere between convenience and last resort. It has al
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by mft_ 2y ago
Well, Pareto is about optimisation, not either/or. I want a model that’s smart enough, while also being locally-executable. I don’t know whether/when we’ll get there, and whether it will be improvements in models, or underlying mo
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by mft_ 2y ago
You seem to be suggesting that homelessness is simply an expression of people's wish to sleep al fresco ?
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by mft_ 2y ago
Almost certainly not below cost. And the US isn't paying for the R&D (that sounds like a regurgitated line from somewhere?) so much as paying for the pharma company's profits, due to the US's totally screwed-up healthcare
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by mft_ 2y ago
I like your thinking, but there's a middle ground before full automation: when humans are incentivized, one way or another, to provide the biased reviews. This might be via straight-forward employment of people in lower-cost places (e
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by mft_ 2y ago
Thank you kindly for the link (FYI, I've come across WLED in some demonstrations on YouTube) but I'm not sure how it improves things in my use-case? I have two 8266s sitting waiting 24/7/365 for PIR triggers to then li
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by mft_ 2y ago
I've been through this thought-process many times. 1. Google isn't working well any more. 2. Therefore bring humans back into the system of flagging good and bad pages. 3. But the internet is too big - so we have to distribute the
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by mft_ 2y ago
I have three strings of ws2812b LEDs on my kitchen controlled by two ESP8266s with PIR sensors, providing various under-cupboard lighting. It sounds over-engineered and was quite a lot of work to set up, but I chose to 'roll my own&#x
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by mft_ 3y ago
I’ve got three from AliExpress that were all €2-3 (I pushed the boat out for a USB-C model most recently) and they’re all working perfectly so far.
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by mft_ 3y ago
I’m torn between not prying, and wondering how you get a family to $120/m, when you can get a basic personal Google account (which comes with access to all of the usual apps) for free?
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by mft_ 3y ago
I'm not misunderstanding anything, I just disagree with you. You're totally right that it's a relatively poor metric, but assuming we agree it's unlikely that the energy companies actively 'gamed' the metric (e
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by mft_ 3y ago
> And unable to answer well the question “shouldn’t my phone do this?” Exactly this. So much of the functionality of the Humane gadget, and this, overlap directly with a mobile phone. In Humane's case, due to the removal of a scree
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by mft_ 3y ago
Talk about letting perfect be the enemy of good...
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by mft_ 3y ago
Insulting is a emotional judgement, and j=such judgements may be specific to certain communities who are especially disadvantaged, or maybe receive such 'advice' very regularly? --- To take the emotions out, I had witnessed an int
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by mft_ 3y ago
I agree with you, although his first point is a subset of this, I think. In reality, it's something like "they don't understand the problem space" , which includes not just not understanding the problem itself, but also
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by mft_ 3y ago
Friends don't tell friends to learn FreeCAD. I'm a decently able self-taught CAD user now, of the level where I can reasonably quickly pick up a new piece of software. And yet... I've lost count of the number of times I&#x27
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by mft_ 3y ago
> the Cybertruck is a terrible platform that had serious Chassis design issues Thanks; I'd be interested in learning more about this, if you have links to share?
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by mft_ 3y ago
I think you're right that it's a smokescreen, but not for Wall Street. I think he's found what Bayer is: a deeply conservative slow monolith of an organisation, with lots of under-performing, busy-working, but long-serving em
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by mft_ 3y ago
I've seen rumours here and there (albeit nothing particularly reliable) that the Cybertruck might be a platform used to learn about this design/manufacturing approach. It's hard because it's hard, but the Cybertruck is
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by mft_ 3y ago
You're right that such things already exist; I think it would offer two incremental improvements: * for wood, faster and/or thicker cutting, vs. existing CNC laser cutters * for sheet metal, neater/cleaner cutting (i.e. cle
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by mft_ 3y ago
CNC would be an obvious implementation. At the moment, there are expensive-but-affordable home CNC laser cutters, typically for a small number of thousand EUR/USD. The more powerful ones can do a very neat job cutting (up to a few m
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by mft_ 3y ago
I steered a friend towards Paperless (and away from an LLM solution) as a way of searching/accessing GBs of architectural PDFs recently - so far, it’s apparently working well for them. https://github.com/paperless-ngx&#
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by mft_ 3y ago
Well, a few thoughts. 1) There's a huge difference between a temporary 'crunch' (as in the examples you gave) and a prevailing company culture; organising a company such that the (unwritten?) expectation is of '007'
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by mft_ 3y ago
I assume that's a mistake and it means "twelve hours a day, seven days a week"? Either way, I have nothing but bad wishes for their new endeavors if that's the case - this is obviously not an acceptable way to treat peop

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