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by spdustin 2y ago
Oops, my reply [0] wasn't a reply. But there you go. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40337601
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by spdustin 2y ago
The energetic particles trapped in Earth's magnetosphere produce what's called a ring current . That ring current affects Earth's geomagnetic shield because its polarity is inverted to the geomagnetic field created by the
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by spdustin 2y ago
It's built-in to ESPHome now, actually!
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by spdustin 2y ago
I wouldn’t want the load current flowing through anything it shouldn’t. Maybe I’m too cautious, but it’s a binary rule that I’ve always followed when the load current is enough to cause harm to anything, or release the magic smoke inside th
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by spdustin 2y ago
An ESP32/ESP8266 with ESPHome's built-in Thermostat controller [0] and a relay (or solid state switch) board with optoisolation. There are a few other options that are pre-made, like this [1], or that offer guidelines for DIYing i
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by spdustin 2y ago
I often use the so-called "lobotomized owl selector" (* + *) in the reset I use for my own internal tools. More specifically: * { margin: 0; padding: 0; } * + * { margin-top: 1em; }
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by spdustin 2y ago
Awesome, thank you!
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by spdustin 2y ago
Now I just want DECTalk ported to MacOS. The original Stephen Hawking voice. I have an Emic2 board I use (through UART so my ESP32 can send commands to it) and I use Home Assistant to send notifications to it. My family are science nerds li
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by spdustin 2y ago
A bunch of these seem to be offline/shut down.
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by spdustin 2y ago
I've always felt that a "smart" person isn't smart because they know everything, but because they know how to find the answers . Smart users of LLMs will use the output as an opportunity to learn how to think about thei
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by spdustin 2y ago
Tortugas hasta el final , in fact.
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by spdustin 2y ago
With respect, exactly how much of this post was written with a large language model?
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by spdustin 2y ago
I've thought about it, but the target market for my project isn't a high growth one; it's US middle school teachers (years 6-8, typically). Public schools aren't exactly flush with cash—individual teachers even less so—a
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by spdustin 2y ago
Twenty Thousand Hertz had a great episode on this! https://overcast.fm/+MLcai50Js
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by spdustin 3y ago
I respectfully urge any commenters to consider that a good portion of us HN readers are in this 50%, despite living outside of the valley.
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by spdustin 3y ago
It can happen with hollow spheres. Seismic waves, however, do not travel through hollow spheres in the same way, and we have a number of seismometers on the Moon that have measured the impacts of recent spacecraft. As well, we've used
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by spdustin 3y ago
The "strange hole near Mexico City" example in the Github repo's README is another volcano.
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by spdustin 3y ago
If you can social engineer the name of their bank, banks are quite responsive when sent a judgment and a writ of attachment (which courts are usually quick to give when they've entered your judgment).
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by spdustin 3y ago
Had Claude Sonnet write the bones of this song about an AI convincing you it's got your back. Edited for segmentation in Suno, and it turned out pretty well, though it didn't quite hit the style I was looking for. https:/&#x
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by spdustin 3y ago
I would've expected so. Rule-based systems in NLP can express parts of speech, coreferences, modifiers…it's almost too easy to do something like "Extract all subject-verb-object clauses where the object is connected to the su
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by spdustin 3y ago
Sorry for the derail, but I really hate that published papers with audio/video clips often don't work at all on iPadOS or iOS. I do most of my leisure reading on my iPad Pro, purposefully separating that leisure time from when I
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by spdustin 3y ago
Thanks for posting it. Also bookmarked.
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by spdustin 3y ago
Holy shit, that's an amazing demo. Some of the voice responses get a bit clipped in amplitude, and there's some oddity around how it speaks over em-dashes in its output, but damn... this is impressive.
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by spdustin 3y ago
This caught my attention, and now I want to dive into NixOS more. Can anyone suggest a solid set of starting resources for someone with a (probably overly complex) home lab and experience with macOS and Ubuntu/Debian?
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by spdustin 3y ago
Sounds like Midway (MDW). Even with noise abatement procedures, planes take off and land “hot and heavy” which is louder than usual nearest to the airport.
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by spdustin 3y ago
I’ve also never heard of a shrapnel-based injury. Only door falls or torsion bars breaking arms. I’ve actually replaced these in two houses, and yes, they’re dangerous, but honestly a little common sense and a straightforward (printed, with
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by spdustin 3y ago
The Books app is for audiobooks, FYI.
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by spdustin 3y ago
I recently requested a quote while insurance shopping, and progressive seems to have already associated driving telematics history with one of my vehicles (a 2015 Chevy product).
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by spdustin 3y ago
MQTT is in the pipeline? That’s gonna be a huge deal for those of us working on IoT projects that also use REST for service data. I’ll be watching this for sure.
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by spdustin 3y ago
This is really well done. It shows not only a good handle on agentic approaches to using LLMs to get valuable output, but that you've placed a lot of emphasis on the listener experience. The music cues narrative form are instantly reco

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