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by robviren 3y ago
I bought some old refurbished laptops from Dell that my kids play with. Their cost was so low I just let them try their best with a screw driver in the back to open it up. We upgraded ram and relaxed the batty. I threw Linux Mint on there s
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by robviren 3y ago
I always think of DNA a lot like programming over the course of millions of years. A strung together series of hackish, barely functioning, uncommented code with no documentation whatsoever. Any reason for why a snippet of code ended up bei
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by robviren 3y ago
We used it in nuclear power so I can say the procedures someone wrote at least believe they can prevent bolt rotation. We also used a lot of loctite.
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by robviren 3y ago
I love being a novice at things though. I am fairly bad at a large variety of things, but I let myself explore those, or at least try and fail. When my son kept coming home with holes in his pants I bought a basic sewing kit, leveraged some
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by robviren 3y ago
I completely agree, but it sure does help to listen to everybody. I always joke that I am a complaint sponge that just absorbs every little nit pick and bother anyone has with a product. Listening is the cheapest and easiest thing I can do
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by robviren 3y ago
I struggle with the same thing. I have tried several times to get seen thinking it would be an easy process and have ended up missing them or procrastinating scheduling. I don't want to change who I am while at the same time I don&#x27
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by robviren 3y ago
Depends on the application, but I have found the openhermes tune of Mistral to be insanely good for the size. https://huggingface.co/teknium/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B
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by robviren 3y ago
Encourage anyone interested in communicating to watch this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY&pp=ygUQaG93IHRvIHN... He has a pretty funny response to someone asking him to review slides. He immediately says ther
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by robviren 3y ago
I'll take a human any day. The amount of times I've had a person say "Oh. I see the system always does this." And suddenly my previously intractable problem disappeared is staggering. Granted experienced people are hard
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by robviren 3y ago
It has been such a blast to play this with some friends. It's been like DND sessions without the stress of remembering things or DMing too hard. It's actually been difficult to get them back to the table because of just how well p
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by robviren 3y ago
Not so much news as a fun delve into older tech and code. This channel explores code in retro (god I'm old) games which reveals fascinating things about why things ended up the way they did with certain bugs. Fun to see developers have
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by robviren 3y ago
What is history, but a fable agreed upon?
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by robviren 3y ago
My early attempts at uncensoring the models sort of stumbled into this as well. I told the models to produce output heavily using the transposed letter effect. I would also have it remove random letters in words longer than 4 letters. The e
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by robviren 3y ago
Does that handle the enclosure the board goes into at all? I haven't been in the game for awhile and am curious. We always had different behavior with our enclosure and of course when the sometimes poorly designed enclosure caused stra
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by robviren 3y ago
My dad and I ended up doing a local battle bots in the early 2000s based on a lot of this and that pretty much inspired me to help join a founding FRC team in 2007. I swear that type of event started like a Cambrian explosion of robotic eve
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by robviren 3y ago
Bless you hardware people in your dealings with high voltage wizardry. I have worked with hardware engineers in both high wattage POE++ and high voltage pace maker applications and feel like dealing with these effects are the nearest thing
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by robviren 3y ago
I am fascinated by old tech like this. It really makes computing seem "real" to me. That you had someone weaving ROM to capture the program just shows it's a bunch of 1s and 0s. Stuff like rope core memory and mercury delay l
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by robviren 3y ago
He did great with Catan JR. So we are for sure on the board game train. Also made my own version of a TTRPG using Pokemon cards and D6s. He's been big into Pokemon. We played through some Pokemon Red which is great for basic math, stra
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Ask HN: More Co-op games I can carry my 5 year old through?
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by robviren 3y ago
CAR-T and PTCy (posttransplant cyclophosphamide) treatments for cancer have huge potentials for treatment options and positive outcomes for patients. Unsure if is qualifies as "tech" but hey, it sure required a lot of it.
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by robviren 3y ago
Writing as a method of processing my feelings on the tension between using my time for cheap entertainment to enjoy life and my desire to balance out dopamine hits resulting in the erosion of things I enjoy. I am channeling these things int
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by robviren 3y ago
Currently a PM at the NMDP OneForum event talking to all the people driving this research. It is incredible being in a room of researchers, doctors, and providers of these types of therapy. I'll say a lot of the ordering systems could
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by robviren 3y ago
I am certain it was clear to the author and those with perhaps a more fine tuned ability to control themselves. I have been the person who reads things like this and used it as an excuse to extract cheap joy from bad habits. It's incre
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by robviren 3y ago
I always struggle with balancing the advice given in pieces like this. The author suggested that they "eat their cake today" suggesting that putting off pleasure is a useless denial. Death could come for us at any moment, but I ca
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by robviren 3y ago
I find this incredibly hard to do. Mainly because what I have found interesting in my parents collection of media probably would have been thrown out. I found one of the more interesting videos to be of my grandfather just recording a rando
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by robviren 3y ago
Depends on the size of the org. Large orgs have a large middle for a reason. When executives need to make choices they talk to the middle and they tend to suggest cuts to anything except their job. It astounds me that actual productive peop
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by robviren 3y ago
All I need is "How It's Made" on a loop and I will be out in three minuets flat. That mans voice, pacing, and the semi bland but interesting content is somehow a recipie for shutting me down. Love the idea and the URL. Gold
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by robviren 3y ago
Being correct and believing you have a valuable product is only one small part of convincing people to do the monumental task of opening their wallets and paying you. Your ability to communicate, empathize with your customer, and sell the v
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My personal take as a PM is to find narrow opportunities for the tech where it makes most sense and poses the least risk. One project we are looking at it to tune a model against our website with URL links to make a more natural search func
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by robviren 3y ago
I love stuff like this so much. You take something as seemingly complex as time or weight and it ends up boiling down to like a handful of people diligently crunching numbers or a hunk of exactly 1 KG of platinum sitting in the basement of

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