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by timmg 9mo ago
Fantastic idea. I've done some PCB stuff in the distant past. But not recently. I wish I had some examples to test against this. Best of luck going forward. This is the kind of tool that could make a difference.
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by timmg 10mo ago
> Yes, millions of people in the poorest nations have been raised out of absent poverty since... That... seems like something that shouldn't just be waved by. And if you include China and India it's more like hundreds of millio
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by timmg 10mo ago
Dumb question, but: is there a way to find/filter ones that are? (I can't seem to find anything in the (web) UI that makes it clear which books are downloadable.)
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by timmg 10mo ago
I said quite a bit more than what you quoted. And I find your interest in my comment and why I made it... odd. I'm sorry if I didn't get my point across in a way that satisfies you. But I suggest you take a step back and re-read
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by timmg 10mo ago
I was responding to the previous comment, not so much the article. > The author has a "centrist" view that genes matter but are not the only determining factor. Nobody thinks genes are the only determining factor (that's a
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by timmg 10mo ago
> It’s not that surprising that many successful people seem to be strong fans of heritability, or more broadly, of the idea that metrics like IQ point to some sort of “universal independent” metric of value. I agree that that could be a
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by timmg 10mo ago
That hasn't been my experience at all. I always wondered if we just get used to how to prompt a given model and that it hard to transition to another.
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by timmg 11mo ago
> And Google will end up with lots of useless super specialized custom hardware. If it gets to the point where this hardware is useless (I doubt it), yes Google will have it sitting there. But it will have cost Google less to build th
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by timmg 11mo ago
They will, I'm sure. The big difference is that Google is both the chip designer *and* the AI company. So they get both sets of profits. Both Google and Nvidia contract TSMC for chips. Then Nvidia sells them at a huge profit. Then
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by timmg 11mo ago
Not sure if this matters for you or not, but my understanding (with some experiments) is that the "slicers" implicitly do a union. As in: you could have an STL with a bunch of overlapping blobs and the 3d printer slicing code jus
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by timmg 11mo ago
Minor suggestion/request: would be great if you added a final STL file to the github repo of a working example. Might be easier for people to try if they can't get the python code running on Linux. (I haven't tried yet. But
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by timmg 11mo ago
Not sure why the government would bother to bail them out. I would imagine Google could take up most of the slack if OpenAI implodes.
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by timmg 11mo ago
Hopefully Aaron Sorkin will write a screenplay about this sometime in the next decade.
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by timmg 1y ago
Wow, that's interesting. I was a very early Evernote (paid) user. But they lost their way sometime after they became a unicorn, so I bailed out. I had assumed, since they were bought, that it was just a way to squeeze money from exi
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by timmg 1y ago
> Streaming was fun for a while, but as always these greedy execs are ruining it. I've been doing a lot more digital purchasing. Like movies and TV shows. I know there is some risk to the services shutting down. But Disney's
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by timmg 1y ago
There was a brief period when Google Cloud had support for hosting git on a pay-per-use basis. (I think it was called Google Cloud Repositories.) It had a clunky but usable UI. I really preferred the idea of just paying for what I used --
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by timmg 1y ago
I wonder if anyone else here is old enough to remember the "I'm a Mac", "And I'm a PC" ads. There was one that was about all the annoying security pop-ups Windows (used to?) have. (FWIW, it starts here: https
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by timmg 1y ago
One thing that seems to help me with tinnitus is the Airpods Pro when you customize it for your hearing. Like they have a tool on the iPhone/iPad that will (essentially) set up an equalizer in it that matches your (lack of) hearing. I
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by timmg 1y ago
I wonder why there has never been open source tax software. It seems exactly the kind of thing the community would be good at. I imagine it would be hard for very complex taxes. But for the 60% that have simple taxes, I don’t think it shou
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by timmg 1y ago
Interesting. I read it as a bit tongue-in-cheek. But who knows...
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by timmg 1y ago
I think it would be pretty cool if Framework made a TrueNAS targeted NAS box.
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by timmg 1y ago
Isn't there a sweet spot where solar is too much of your energy mix -- due to its intermittency? I think I read that once you get to like 40%, you need to spend a lot more on storage. Is the EU also ramping up (battery?) storage? O
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by timmg 1y ago
I don't know, man. Did Biden voters vote for high inflation and open borders? Did they vote for 50% tariffs on solar panels? I was a Biden voter and I didn't.
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by timmg 1y ago
> This falls into the endless list of "remember you voted for this". I think, to be fair, there are only two parties. You can only vote for one "package" of policies. Maybe you are a one-issue voter or maybe you wei
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by timmg 1y ago
It's interesting how much "they are a private company, they can do what they want" was the talking point around that time. And then Musk bought Twitter and people accuse him of using it to swing the election or whatever. Eve
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by timmg 1y ago
I was under the impression that their uptake it slow or non-existant. Am I wrong on that?
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by timmg 1y ago
I (vaguely) think what the Mojo guys' goal is makes a lot of sense. And I understand why they thought Python was the way to start. But I just think Python is not the right language to try to turn into this super-optimized parallel pro
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by timmg 1y ago
Man, if I get to a point where I have a terminal disease and am in pain — or on a path to losing my mind — I sure hope I have an option to decide on when and how I go. Forcing other people to live hopeless lives in pain for your own moral
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by timmg 1y ago
The interesting thing is that "Darwinism" will sort it out for us in the long run. If the execs are right: more work gets done in the office, those companies will do better; if people are happier and more productive at home, tho
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by timmg 1y ago
I don’t know the reason, nor do I have proof of anything. But: to me this is a great time to consider Occam’s Razor. Executives seem to (mostly) universally want people to RTO. Why would they? They obviously have lots of data. If it was

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