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by nhecker 5mo ago
The ARRL has some good writing on RF exposure. Basically everything I've read comes down to treating radiated RF energy as thermal risk. So it's not magic stuff that will give you cancer or cause your cells to turn inside out or s
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by nhecker 5mo ago
"Transferring one time digitally" DRM-free audio files is possible and above-board (i.e., you pay and the artist gets paid) through services like bandcamp.com and their ilk. Of course your artist needs to have their music there fi
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by nhecker 5mo ago
Neat article. I'd love to know more about how candle-flicker LEDs are assembled, because that source of [apparent] randomness is very interesting to me. I'm not sure if it's an LFSR or true HRNG, and I'm sure there are l
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by nhecker 5mo ago
Wow, what an incredible gift (and privilege) that will be! Receiving a box with a few Klein bottles from you has still been the best thing I've ever gotten in the mail. I just earlier today used a Möbius strip to explain the bottle on
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by nhecker 5mo ago
>turn around and Except that each of the parent's chat windows has zero context that the other window's request even exists, so from each window's point of view it's as if one person walks in to a store to buy a fake
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by nhecker 5mo ago
Python script that Claude Code wrote and I tweaked for peeking at marked USB-C cables: https://github.com/nhecker/usb-e-marker Gist of random (human-written) power-related commands to peek at random power info: https:
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by nhecker 5mo ago
The terminating device(s) are the ones that do the flipping, not the cable. You can take a cable that works either way between two high-end device, and then connect it to at least one low-end device and it will fail to connect for one of th
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by nhecker 6mo ago
Why the 10 MHz radio?
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by nhecker 6mo ago
Openrouter already does this, unless I've misunderstood the premise.
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by nhecker 6mo ago
On one hand, injuries from vehicular accidents in the roadway may decline to AVs being generally safer. On the other, intentional violence due to unrest and unhappy jobless in "the streets" may limit or entirely offset those gains
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by nhecker 6mo ago
I can give a third vote to the rough comparison between a keyboard with brown switches, and a Model M. I've got both, and like both.
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by nhecker 6mo ago
I can corroborate this finding -- I think the horn switch is just a logic-level digital switch going into one or more MCUs somewhere, subjected to all manner of latency and (probably) CANBUS jitter. It's not great. Trying to send Mors
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by nhecker 6mo ago
Welp, this puts my https://gist.github.com/nhecker/8e850773ff229724ce361967cc22... to shame. I wonder about the battery SoC being reported with macpow; there are several different ways to calculate that metric and it&#
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by nhecker 6mo ago
Thanks for the [1] link, I hadn't seen that before.
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by nhecker 6mo ago
I can't find it immediately, but I've read about something even sneakier than this. A standard broadcast station was modified such that its carrier signal was modulated by a PSK signal. The intended listener would use e.g., a PSK-
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by nhecker 7mo ago
Very cool! This is fun to watch. Now I'm wondering how residential rooftop solar is accounted for... presumably there are houses in these grids which export solar electricity or offset grid power with solar production. The utility supp
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by nhecker 7mo ago
I'm starting to believe this is [a] way forward. Or maybe an approach which is on a spectrum between <everything I have is on a phone behind a fingerprint and a four digit pin> and <I don't own a smartphone>. Unfortuna
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by nhecker 7mo ago
(edit: I'm broadly in agreement with your comment & observations, so I don't at all mean to come off as argumentative for the sake of being argumentative. You just got me thinking about how that situation might have been handl
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by nhecker 7mo ago
>And your own hardware stays available for non-AI related needs, while paying for these tokens would require you to address these needs separately in some way. ^ Fair. Yep, I agree the calculus changes if you don't have _any_ local
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by nhecker 7mo ago
Ditto. My personal equipment includes a home server (128GB DDR3 ECC) and a tablet with a keyboard. It's honestly astonishing what you can do without a full-fledged laptop, if you're willing to go through some gymnastics to get the
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by nhecker 7mo ago
In a similar vein: seek efficiency. I.e., /if/ I am going to consume LLM tokens, I figure that a local LLM with 10s of billions of parameters running on commodity hardware at home will still consume far more energy per token than
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by nhecker 7mo ago
Or songbirds.
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by nhecker 7mo ago
I ran into a guy at a hardware store who ran just such a power supply attached our city's water (or was it natural gas?) infrastructure. I was incredulous, but the idea that it helped prevent corrosion did make sense.
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by nhecker 7mo ago
(edit: I see you answered a sibling comment with the same question. TL;DR: Potential output is the output pretending that curtailment did not apply. Thanks!) A UI or terminology question: when 'Potential output' says it is 'I
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by nhecker 7mo ago
Sounds like a neat space to be in. Wishing you calm skies next month. I guess you'll have all the goodies (RFI detectors, thermal imaging sensors, etc.) to collect data? I wonder to what extent detection from a distance (discovery?) an
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by nhecker 7mo ago
> "The draft from the GSA also mandates that contractors "must not intentionally encode partisan or ideological judgments into the AI systems data outputs," the FT reported." Foreshadowing?
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by nhecker 7mo ago
EDIT: probably not relevant, after re-re-reading the comment in question. Presumably littlestymaar is talking about all the LLM-generated output that's publicly available on the Internet (in various qualities but significant quantity)
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by nhecker 7mo ago
The site arena.ai does exactly this already, as far as I can tell. (In addition to the whole ranking thing.)
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by nhecker 8mo ago
Aye! I /almost/ thought to link to that in my comment, but held back. https://qntm.org/frame also came to mind.
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by nhecker 8mo ago
Agreed; "disorienting" is perhaps a poor choice of word, loaded as it is. More like "difficult to determine the context surrounding a prompt and how to start framing an answer", if that makes more sense.

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