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by teucris 1y ago
I’m seeing some debate on Deno’s decision to ensure Node compatibility, apparently as it gives up a core value prop of early Deno to try and hit the reset button. Can someone help me understand what was lost here? Is there no longer a way t
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by teucris 1y ago
Does anyone remember the “Put a bird on it!” Portlandia sketch? As if putting a cute little bird on something suddenly made it better… my personal running gag with SaaS these days is “Put AI on it!”
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by teucris 1y ago
This is the trap I fall into. I have had so many amazing colleagues and I want to do right by them. Sometimes it’s been trench camaraderie, sometimes just really great working relationships, but I almost always feel like I owe it to my fell
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by teucris 2y ago
I’m working on a live voice chat for settling rule disputes during tabletop gaming. It uses OpenAI’s realtime API to allow anyone to call in a “ref”, trained on the rules of the games, to answer questions about the rules.
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by teucris 2y ago
Thanks for the reference. I generally agree that, from a very high-altitude, it's difficult to know whether New Deal policies shortened the depression given that WWII shook up the US so much. However, there are many things introduced d
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by teucris 2y ago
The electrical and plumbing books are from a series from Home Depot called "1-2-3": "Plumbing 1-2-3" and "Wiring 1-2-3". I love them but some other posters have shared books that look even better; I plan to che
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by teucris 2y ago
You’re absolutely correct. The point was that I don’t need AI.
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by teucris 2y ago
I have four books that I got from my dad - one for construction and repairs, one for electrical, one for plumbing, and one for landscaping. They’re in simple English with excellent illustrations. Using those books, I’ve been able to fix&#x2
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by teucris 2y ago
Can you provide references? This is the first I’ve ever heard of this.
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by teucris 2y ago
It’s far too reductive to compare social media to a drug. Social media participation, for better or worse, is a part of today’s society. I would say you must be very privileged to be able to avoid it. Those of us who can, need to fight to p
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by teucris 2y ago
Lots of people are posting their custom solutions using org-mode, cli tools, vim, etc. There’s a wide world of people out there who don’t customize their environments, and therefore miss out on great improvements to their lives. Let’s make
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by teucris 2y ago
That’s great to see. If executed, that’s ~$68B per year.
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by teucris 2y ago
All of the “absurd” spending DOGE cites may seem like a lot of money, but it’s a tiny amount in comparison to the overall budget, and remarkably skewed toward specific, hot button issues like climate change, DEI, etc. Where are the cuts to
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by teucris 2y ago
Unless the red tape is expensive. The trick is to be smart at striking the balance between reining in spending while not having a paperwork system that costs even more. Setting the limit to $1 doesn’t seem like striking any kind of balance.
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by teucris 2y ago
I’ve heard these statements before, and I agree with the general sentiment, but I’ve yet to hear a solid set of solutions. Many of these statements are contradictory, or at least hide opposing principles. For instance: > We are destroyin
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by teucris 2y ago
I’ve read a lot of articles like this over the past decade, and books, and papers. I agree with most of it: we need to bring technology back “to the people”. But everything I’ve read, including this, has two problems: 1. Consistently, peopl
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by teucris 2y ago
You may be speaking from your experience, which is valid, but please don’t extrapolate to everyone. People want and value different things, and the way the US is set up makes it very hard for many to get the kind of environment they would v
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by teucris 2y ago
I would love to hear them. Would you share a link or two?
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by teucris 2y ago
Just a “your mileage may vary” caveat: this doesn’t work for all kids - didn’t work for my eldest and isn’t working for my younger. They’re really stubborn kids - no idea where they get it - and they see the pedals on their bike and put the
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by teucris 2y ago
At first I thought this was going to be a puzzle about getting to a specific number using certain rules for navigating the pad, including the operation buttons. For instance, by pressing one or two buttons in each row from top to bottom, ca
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by teucris 2y ago
There are so many incredible ideas, projects, inventions, songs, books, movies, video games, etc. that will never see the light of day because the brilliant person or team who could make it can’t afford to stop working for long enough to cr
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by teucris 2y ago
LLMs are architectures written by humans. What an LLM creates is not algorithmic.
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by teucris 2y ago
This is meant to show that the housing can be made of wood, but the antennae and electronics still require mounting points via metal or plastic fasteners. The article gives a few reasons why this might be valuable, eg fewer toxins released
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by teucris 2y ago
Site with some photos: https://www.nanosats.eu/sat/lignosat
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by teucris 2y ago
I’m convinced this is the way to go. Rather than imitating commercial fab techniques, let’s find something that works without the toxic chemistry or vacuum chambers, even if it’s janky at first. 3D printers were janky at first too.
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by teucris 2y ago
Mistakes happen all the time. Cooktops have terrible user interfaces. People need to juggle multiple things at once, especially parents. Furthermore, the quote above merely states that the pan has to reach a specific temp, not be out for ho
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by teucris 2y ago
This is excellent work and I adore the result, but I can’t help but feel like the effect could have been achieved with crafted texturing. If you look at Sketchfab as often as I do, there are artists achieving this kind of thing purely with
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by teucris 2y ago
This post is set in a beautiful, liminal place between fantasy and reality. Could we actually do all of this? Probably not. But we don’t think about the specifics of things like this enough. It challenges us to think about ideas like this
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by teucris 2y ago
It’s an unfortunate byproduct of allowing patents to be bought and sold. Let’s say you had a patent: you worked hard on your invention and you deserve to reap the financial benefits of it. But you do not have the legal resources to protect
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by teucris 2y ago
Don’t conflate doctor/patient confidentiality and data security. If someone broke into an office and stole medical records, that’s not a violation of doctor/patient confidentiality, even if the doctor chose crappy locks on their d

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