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by nickpinkston 9mo ago
I really hope the addiction engineers at Frito-Lay, etc. don't figure out a good workaround for these wonder drugs. There's a billion-dollar prize if you figure this out, and the food industry is already openly discussing it. htt
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by nickpinkston 10mo ago
I wonder if any of this is a conscious act of resistance vs. just incompetence. And yes, I've heard of Hanlon's Razor haha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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by nickpinkston 10mo ago
And we didn't have to add an amphiphilic to make them mix
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by nickpinkston 11mo ago
Hell yea! I've wanted this for a while. Please add a way on your site for us to keep tabs on you (email list, Twitter, etc.).
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by nickpinkston 11mo ago
If only Trump could get the daylight savings and the metrics system updates done too.
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by nickpinkston 11mo ago
Lee is so cool and humble. In my mid 20s, I ran the SF Hardware Meetup, and Lee came and just told me something like: "Oh yea, I've been into hardware for a long time.", and only later did I realize who he was haha. Like othe
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Yea, I agree. Arguably LLMs are both (1) far easier to switch between models than it is today to switch from AWS / GCP / Azure systems, and (2) will be rapidly decreasing switching costs for your legacy systems to port to new ones
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Feels like, while there are people (like me) who are childfree by choice, nearly everyone I meet wants kids (RIP my dating life...), and it seems more economics / pessimism that prevents people from having kids. Perhaps because regardl
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Yea, I was hopeful seeing that, but was also pretty skeptical that they really had done it, as that demo was easy to fake, and I saw no 3rd party verification.
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Subvocal mics seem like such a killer app for an AI input device - just think and listen to your AI respond through your Airpods. I've haven't seen anything that looks truly "working" yet other than some hand wavey demos
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Yea totally - like those Black Mirror-esque (and South Park?) videos of people having AI talk to their partner about deep relationship stuff. We just built a mechanical parts AI search engine [1], and a lot of what it does it just get the b
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
I'm optimistic that it's easier to find/solve vulnerabilities via auto pen-testing / patching, and other security measures, than it will be to find/exploit vulnerabilities after - ie defense is easier in an auto-se
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Though it's possible that generating the STEP first is easier to do, and that the plan could be backporting the feature tree using another method / model would then enable editing. Yes, it would seem post hoc feature tree requires
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Yea, I loooove that history too. It's interesting how, unlike Sumerian cuneiform or Egyptian hieroglyphs that were complex systems that came from dedicated scribes of the court, Phoenicia's alphabet was the kind of pragmatic syste
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Upvote just for good historical reference! Murex were the shells whose excretions were used to make the Tyrian purple of the Mediterranean. Tyrian referring to Tyre, one of the major Phoenician city-states. It was so iconic that the "P
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
I initially thought this was about boring holes on a lathe where you want constant tension on the boring bar. I'll see myself out...
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Source for "origami CAD" Pepakura: https://pepakura.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura_designer/
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Well most of the highest purity quartz for IC manufacturing (crucibles) comes from the Spruce Mine funny enough. https://www.construction-physics.com/p/does-all-semiconducto...
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Also for those who aren't familiar, there's also "hand scraping" for flatness which is more common and used for things like refreshing the "ways" (ie precision linear bearings) on a lathe or other precision mac
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Yea, that's what I figured, but I also wonder how well anyone is driving in the slush and if the LIDAR / cameras are that disrupted by snow / ice / salt.
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Is this the first time Waymo is doing winter / snow testing at scale? I think some of the Pittsburgh-based self-driving firms may have tried this, but unaware how far they got.
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
This looks great and well designed. If you want a bigger parts library, let us know at Volition: https://govolition.com/ nick@govolition.com
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Yea, this "lack of seriousness" really gets under my skin, and I really hope there's a broad cultural backlash to it soon, as this being the permanent culture seems toxic and exhausting. That said, this is about the messaging
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Well said, and I really like the idea of shamelessness being in relation to earnestness and cynicism. A lot of times the earnest promotion of an authentic belief can still come off as shameless, but the audience often still finds that mostl
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Have you seen Metamodernism? There's an art scene and political movement: Art (mostly): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamodernism Movement: https://metamoderna.org/metamodernism/
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
I kind of agree with Nadia's analysis of what's happening, but it's a fucking cursed reality. Here's hoping for a New New Sincerity to bring us back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_sincerity
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Re: "succumb to the tendency to rest on their laurels the moment they start making money" I don't find that true of any of the companies I mentioned at least. They all were/are going hard on development, but the tech pro
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Having spent my whole career in the manufacturing tech world after starting in the maker world (I started HackPgh), I love Open Hardware, but find it not a great fit beyond boards (Arduino, RPi, etc.). I think the core issue is one of how e
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
Almost a "Trump crossing the Potomac" (Caesar / Rubicon) moment, where the Army enters the Pomerium [1] of democracy. Let's hope it doesn't have the same effect (ie the eventual fall of the republic) [1] No military
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by nickpinkston 1y ago
It is interesting that, even before real AGI/ASI gets here, that "the system wants what it wants", like capitalism + computing/internet creates the conditions for an infinite amplification loop. I am amazed, hopeful, and

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