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by raddan 8mo ago
In case you did not actually nail perfect, flaky crust the first time, that's a fun parameter to try to optimize. I finally got it at some point, and when I did, I realized that all those old cookbooks that said things like "use
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by raddan 8mo ago
It really depends on what your goal is. Some people just like "play." For example, I am terrible at video games--when somebody tells me that they "beat" a game, this usually seems unfathomable to me. The last video ga
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by raddan 8mo ago
You cook a spherical pie on a pizza stone? Do tell.
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by raddan 8mo ago
A truncated cone is called a "frustrum" which always seemed fitting to me.
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by raddan 8mo ago
Wait, did I write this? Same, same, same.
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by raddan 8mo ago
> That's not going to be hot enough to be a problem for the battery even if for some reason they mounted it in contact with the bottom of the top surface, which I doubt they did. My point is that’s what safety standards are for. Do
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by raddan 8mo ago
I saw this being hyped on YouTube the other day. My main concern is that there is a large lithium ion battery in a machine that is designed to get things hot. You do not want thermal runaway to happen with a battery that large inside your k
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by raddan 8mo ago
Yeah, this is a silly argument. Go walk around the neighborhoods near MIT and you’ll see company after company that intentionally positioned themselves in proximity to the campus. Many of those companies are also MIT spinoffs.
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by raddan 8mo ago
It’s an open secret that “expensive ancillaries” like polo, crew, equestrian teams, etc, are a sneaky way to have supposedly blind admissions while making sure that the incoming class still contains just the right number of students who ca
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by raddan 8mo ago
I totally agree. Folks here seem to be under some misapprehension that elite = better education. Based on my experience earning my PhD at a public R1 and then working as faculty at a selective private institution, this is not the case. For
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by raddan 8mo ago
> There are always some people who get extremely defensive whenever I say that techno didn't click for me until I heard this kind of "techlow" music. Specifically about the part where I think that the reason is also a huma
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by raddan 8mo ago
If your company is unwilling to pay for software when writing software, what makes you think other companies or individuals will be willing to pay for yours? Can’t they just vibe code _your_ solution too?
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by raddan 8mo ago
The goal is not to make it impossible, just inconvenient. The course textbook is online, but assignments are usually printed in a packet. Students need to synthesize both sources. It’s hard to say precisely what the effect is, but I will sa
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by raddan 8mo ago
https://www.tindie.com/products/visrealm/pico9918/ There is very little documentation with this device but fortunately several YouTubers have made long videos showing every detail of the replacement. Enjoy!
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by raddan 8mo ago
Btw, there is a lovely third party replacement for the TI99/4a video chip that lets you output VGA. It’s a major life improvement if you are seriously using it. I Dremeled my case but you can route the ribbon cable to avoid it if you’d
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by raddan 8mo ago
The TI99/4A was also my first computer. I was about 5, and I didn’t really seriously try writing programs until I was about 8. Fortunately, since my father bought this for work, we had a large collection of peripherals, including the f
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by raddan 8mo ago
It's funny that you say that because my course websites for my students both: 1) make it difficult to select or copy text, 2) and even if you manage it, you discover that the actual text in the webpage source is encrypted, mainly so th
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by raddan 8mo ago
While in general engineers should define things, so that we can be clear about what we mean, there are plenty of things that are difficult to define that way. Love, happiness, satisfaction, for instance. You might argue "well those a
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by raddan 8mo ago
I still remain optimistic that the clever folks can avoid the absolute worst outcomes. However, I too am very frustrated that almost nobody gives a shit about the future. We are rapidly reaching the point where WE will live through the effe
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by raddan 8mo ago
Thanks for the tip. Sadly it appears that lobste.rs is invite only?
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by raddan 8mo ago
I am excited about a future where I am constantly reminded to like and subscribe my LLM’s output.
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by raddan 8mo ago
They did, but Uber is no longer cheap [1]. Is the parent’s point that it can’t last forever? For Uber it lasted long enough to drive most of the competition away. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun
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by raddan 8mo ago
Thank god most of the developers of security sensitive applications do not give a shit about what the market says.
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by raddan 8mo ago
Forget exes—-how about current partners! I predict with high confidence that my wife’s response to such a request would be “grow up and install WhatsApp already.”
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by raddan 8mo ago
I regularly conduct transactions at the branch of my local bank wherein they ask me for no credentials whatsoever. I also once forgot to bring my account number with me and the teller said "no worries, I'll look it up for you.&qu
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by raddan 8mo ago
The problem is that you never really know what a website operator does with your credentials. Ideally, you have both a unique email and a unique password for each site, because sadly credential stuffing [1] is a thing. [1] https:/&#x
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by raddan 8mo ago
> I don’t really understand why this is so hard to accept. I struggle with the same question. My current hypothesis is a kind of wishful thinking: people want to believe that the future is here. Combined with the fact that humans tend to
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by raddan 8mo ago
That's not really the point. If our definition of AGI does not include "being able to reliably do logic" then what are we even talking about? We don't really need computers with human abilities--we have plenty of human
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by raddan 8mo ago
There are still a few authors worth reading on Ars. Beth Mole has a loyal following for a reason-- her stories are interesting, engaging, and never fail to make me squirm with horror. Jonathan Gitlin has a tendency to drop into the forum
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by raddan 8mo ago
The switch to their newest forum software seems to discourage any kind of actual conversation. If I recall correctly, the last iteration was also unthreaded, but somehow it was easier for a back-and-forth to develop. Now it is basically j

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