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by nik282000 5mo ago
They are an adversarial player in the market, actively trying to lock users into an ecosystem that is incompatible with other printers. Like Adobe's 'creative' software and Onshape, they are working as hard as possible to mak
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by nik282000 5mo ago
> the accumulated gap between a system’s evolving structure and a team’s shared understanding of how and why that system works and can be changed over time That just sounds like everyone is going to be management. Blindly setting goals a
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by nik282000 5mo ago
Hey! This is Bill Beaty's website! 100% worth every minute spent there!
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by nik282000 6mo ago
If you play any Valve games with commentary he prefaces them with an invitation to email him directly with comments or questions. He's said that he doesn't have time to answer every one but he tries to read them all. For a multi-y
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by nik282000 6mo ago
If management could tell the difference between a good product and some fragile slop they wouldn't be in management, they would have a productive job.
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by nik282000 6mo ago
I am seeing this a lot. The people I work with who find "AI" makes every part of their life easier were just bad at everything to begin with. The people who find "AI" making specific tasks easier have specialized skills
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by nik282000 6mo ago
Huh, I thought if you held the outlet of the still at 79c until you stopped getting distillate then you could be reasonably sure that you took out most of the the majority of the methanol.
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by nik282000 6mo ago
Store the tank upside down so it doesn't leak out of the valve ;)
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by nik282000 7mo ago
That's why I suggested that a week of dev time woule be reasonable for automating the task. I work in a multinational nightmare corp, we still have a mission critical Win95 machine.
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by nik282000 7mo ago
TD bank, in Canada, has had their cert expire several times in the past 10 years. It blows me away that a bank can't afford to do for themselves what Certbot and Lets Encrypt does for me, for free. Like, pay a guy a whole week to autom
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by nik282000 7mo ago
No smoking on the battlefield.
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by nik282000 7mo ago
Right now, today, the US government and it's three letter agencies are being run by a club of human trafficking peodophiles and rapists. Not individual, isolated, crimes. An organized group of very twisted people, having 'immigran
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by nik282000 7mo ago
Which is funny because they are the most AI replaceable humans in the building. Their entire function is to follow the corporate decision tree to the letter and make sure that all communication upwards gets filtered through their outlook ac
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by nik282000 8mo ago
GNOME is easy. Press the super key, type the first 1 to 4 characters of your application's name, press enter. I haven't been in the GNOME settings for years.
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by nik282000 8mo ago
Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, and Fedora have had a bug free desktop experience for years. If you stick to the default repositories and use last year's hardware everything just works.
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by nik282000 8mo ago
> intelligence Whether it's a giant corporate model or something you run locally, there is no intelligence there. It's still just a lying engine. It will tell you the string of tokens most likely to come after your prompt based
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by nik282000 8mo ago
Took 12hrs, but I got my PocketChip updated to Debian Bookworm recently.
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by nik282000 8mo ago
If you have to manually validate everything then what did you save by using an LLM? DIY and know it will work the first time.
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by nik282000 8mo ago
Factory reset an old phone and leave it in airplane mode. If it get "lost" or "stolen" you aren't out much, and it doesn't contain any personal information. If "law enforcement" gets their hands on it
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by nik282000 8mo ago
LLMs are not intelligent machines, they are lying engines that predict the next most likely thing to do or say. If publishing your credit card details, home address and blood type meshes with the last thing it ingested, it'll do it.
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by nik282000 8mo ago
At $70-100 for a "triple A" title, every pixel and line of code had better be personally massaged by developer. There are plenty of one-man-band operations out there making phenomenal games, for less, without needing to generate a
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by nik282000 8mo ago
Clever, I've done something similar for an Arduino project where each char bitmap includes the pixel width and a vertical offset bit for letters like g or j that hang down below the other letters. Each char bitmap was 5x5px and stored
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by nik282000 8mo ago
It's a money pit. You get x-many joules of energy from combining each carbon atom with two oxygen atoms, then you have to capture that energy and turn it into useful work, but that is a lossy process. So even if your gaoline-from-air m
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by nik282000 8mo ago
Except the energy used to power the machine an manufacture the consumables is MORE than the energy you get from burning the gasoline it produces. If you have all that energy to waste initially just drive an electric car and skip this Rube G
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by nik282000 8mo ago
This reminds me of https://origamiboulder.com/ which is still online after 24 years!
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by nik282000 8mo ago
Exposure time is less important than exposure type. Phones and tablets encourage mindless consumption and discourage creativity and interaction by the limiting apps and input methods. <old man> I spent every available minute on a desk
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by nik282000 8mo ago
And yet this is still the dominant workstation and home desktop OS. Between bricking machines and handing encryption keys over to government agencies Microsoft continues to erode its own reputation.
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by nik282000 8mo ago
Oh my god, actual dimensions on a drawing, part numbers, AND service instructions!?! I work on industrial equipment with 1/10th the documentation presented here. Cool find, op!
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by nik282000 9mo ago
I have never seen a piece of new equipment that ever gets to an All Green state, before, during or after commissioning. I frequently recommend that we do not allow the commissioning team to leave until they can get it to that state but it h
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by nik282000 9mo ago
I work at a plant with a site wide SCADA/HMI (Siemens WinCC) system, every alarm is displayed on every HMI regardless of its proximity to the machine or even its ability to address the issue. And any given minute a hundred or more alar

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