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by serviceberry 2y ago
Fair enough, but on the flip side - you either want to get into electronics or not. If not, there's no real point in spending the money, even if it's $2. If you do, then you probably don't yet have an understanding of what fe
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by serviceberry 2y ago
I think projects like that would have been a godsend 2-3 decades ago, when even a basic oscilloscope costed as much as a used car. Nowadays, very good oscilloscopes with 200 MHz bandwidth, good user interfaces, and responsive displays are
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by serviceberry 2y ago
"Microplastics found in X" has become a pretty weird sport. The phenomenon is worth studying, but it's not hugely surprising given how ubiquitous they are (another thing you find in every human, probably in higher quantities,
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by serviceberry 2y ago
Mind you, we're having this conversation on a link aggregator site owned by a company... Reddit is convenient. It's literally all your interests in one place . And for some interests, it's the best place to go. Most people d
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by serviceberry 2y ago
> Why don’t we just fork it? There's plenty of Reddit forks. Lemmy is a fork by the fediverse people that looks pretty much the same as the old Reddit. The problem isn't the software, it's attracting and retaining a commun
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by serviceberry 2y ago
> The truth is we are constantly moving further and further away from the silicon. Are we? We're constantly changing abstractions, but we don't keep adding them all that often. Operating systems and high-level programming lan
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by serviceberry 2y ago
> Compared to what though? Compared to Limeware/Kaazaa back in the day, or compared to buying records in a store? Compared to curation by other humans. Be it music labels, magazines, radio DJs, or a person sharing their playlist or
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by serviceberry 2y ago
I really don't see how. When students are first exposed to computer programming, it might make sense to start with toy / compact languages that don't have any real-world use. But assembly is not the first language you're
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by serviceberry 2y ago
For folks who haven't operated an excavator, the trade-off with these mini-excavators isn't necessarily that they're underpowered. There are two other problems. First, they are very wobbly and you're gonna be limited by
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by serviceberry 2y ago
AI has some approximation of the incentives of whoever trained it. Unless it's handed to us from above, I don't see how that would work.
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by serviceberry 2y ago
There's no setting for that, Google is intentionally not giving you that choice. You can append &udm=14 to the search URL in browser settings, but that constraints search results to the "web" subcategory, so you also lose
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by serviceberry 2y ago
Sure, but we're herd animals and also need validation, even if we're pretending not to. We go on a journey of self-discovery to Nepal so that we can talk to others how profound it was, etc. I'm not dissing hobbies, I'm j
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by serviceberry 2y ago
I'd go out on a limb and guess that the advice is meant for people who don't find them useful. I don't, for two reasons. First, for looking up facts, they're nowhere near 100% dependable. If I need to check sources, migh
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by serviceberry 2y ago
I think that's the fate of every project like that. Not to take away from it, it's still fantastic and geeky. But at some point, you have this realization that you're pouring years of your life into something that is not only
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by serviceberry 2y ago
I don't think it's an overt scam, but let's put it this way: as with auction houses, there is a disconnect between the service the company is providing and what the buyers think they're getting. And the companies have
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by serviceberry 2y ago
It's hard to generalize. Common microcontroller clock speeds range from 1 to 500 MHz. An 8-bit microcontroller running at 1 MHz will often work fine without any decoupling at all. A 32-bit microcontroller might not even boot without a
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by serviceberry 2y ago
I don't think that's a useful comparison. Humans writing history books have agendas and biases, but they're usually fairly transparent. In contrast, LLM failure modes are more or less impenetrable and very non-human. You&#x27
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by serviceberry 2y ago
This strikes me as an odd claim. You don't hang around with a friend who makes things up because they somehow enhance your learning process. You hang around with them despite the fact they're annoyingly unreliable, presumably be
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by serviceberry 2y ago
> I haven't used any 4-function calculator that behaves like this; instead, I get (without clearing): Then you haven't used very many calculators: https://tedmuller.us/Math/Calculator-1'Introduction.ht
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by serviceberry 2y ago
I actually found this to be an odd mix. Are we selecting papers that had an influence on computer science (as in, the theory of computation), or that had an impact on technology? Or are we just using CS as a catch-all for "all things c
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by serviceberry 2y ago
It also models pumps in a pretty exaggerated way. Two pumps will prevent this basin from ever filling up despite constant rainfall, to the point of creating a concave water surface: https://imgur.com/a/PrYFJtP
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by serviceberry 2y ago
> Clipped highlights in digital photography are simply impossible to eliminate in post-processing without conjuring nonexistent information. Even if you shoot raw. Huh? This used to be true twenty years ago, but modern sensors in prosume
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by serviceberry 2y ago
I don't think there's any AI-fication going on in that photo. The modified version has a more compressed tone curve to bring out more detail, along with jacked up saturation (especially evident for water). This is similar to what
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by serviceberry 2y ago
It's really OK. With modern formulations such as SAC305 and with temperature-controlled stations, there's no real difference, and no need to stick to lead. I think the resistance to the idea has two roots. First, there's a lo
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by serviceberry 2y ago
My best guess is that your soldering iron is running too hot, or that you're using the wrong kind of solder. It's generally not an issue.
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by serviceberry 2y ago
Not really. A mechanical analog clock will typically have smooth motion, so 30 seconds into a minute, the minute hand will be halfway between two values. Most quartz watches with analog displays work the same. I don't know about Big Be
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by serviceberry 2y ago
While I broadly agree with the concerns about using LLMs for "commoditized", large-scale phishing, isn't the study a bit lacking? Specifically, "click through" is a pretty poor metric for success. If I receive a uni