tonyarkles

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by tonyarkles 7d ago
As a quick WIP update: - The first board, which I had already done manual schematic capture, floor planning, and some routing on (but then I lost steam and it’s been sitting at 90% for 6 months) was finished quite readily by Opus + KiCadRou
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by tonyarkles 7d ago
And just to clarify another element of the story: there is a significant legal difference between pre-clearance in a Canadian airport and landing in the US and proceeding through customs on US soil. At a pre-clearance station, you are still
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by tonyarkles 7d ago
> Because you can't exactly sneak on/off of an international airplane. I'm actually pretty curious about this. You can't easily sneak on/off a commercial international airplane, but that's because they&#x2
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by tonyarkles 9d ago
Yeah it's the one mentioned in the article. I've tried FreeRouting or whatever it's called before and had... ok results... but it's a pain in the ass to set up. This KiCadRoutingTools code was super easy to set up in com
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by tonyarkles 9d ago
Your post and the link to KiCadRoutingTools is going to result in me finishing a project I started 6 months ago and have just let sit and linger because, like you point out, it was only the boring parts left. Fable found a bit of a showstop
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by tonyarkles 9d ago
> I think there is great value to using LLMs to assist in learning new hobbies, helping lessen the friction, and doing research Claude (web) saved me a ton of money with a new hobby. I was curious about astrophotography and had a budget
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by tonyarkles 9d ago
I've installed it this morning to play around with on some low-speed designs before trying a high-speed design. Looking at that specific screenshot you posted there... that looks partially like a floor planning problem to me. Looking u
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by tonyarkles 9d ago
> changed I2C to SPI for no reason Heh, tongue firmly in cheek: there's a good reason to change from I2C to SPI. I2C's pretty shit in comparison :D More seriously, I've had interesting mixed results. I had a hobby-maybe-co
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by tonyarkles 9d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49733104 Comes out to about $100/month
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by tonyarkles 9d ago
https://igamingontario.ca/en/news/igaming-ontario-posts-stea... $3.2B revenue, 2.6M player accounts, ~$1230/yr ~= $100/month
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by tonyarkles 9d ago
> Society has looked at that and decided that, yes, no one should be allowed to do that on public streets. So I keep that behavior to the race track and sign an extra liability waiver in order to do so. So can I still drink and gamble in
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by tonyarkles 13d ago
As I look up and see three lightbulbs side-by-side over my desk and another one in the lamp on the desk… which is dramatically more light than the old 100W bulb used but also lower energy consumption.
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by tonyarkles 17d ago
Heh, you're probably right. Something that did make me laugh pretty hard... I had a GoPro timelapse of an IMAX theatre screen being replaced and I thought to myself "surely in the vast sea of DaVinci Resolve features I've nev
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by tonyarkles 17d ago
Having somewhat accidentally also discovered this pattern, I do recommend figuring out some kind of compaction/deprecation method, potentially history-preserving, potentially just letting the git commit messages themselves serve as the
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by tonyarkles 18d ago
I think there's a really interesting tension between what you're saying and what the parent post is saying, and it's something that's been discussed for a long time but LLMs are throwing a new wrench into it: a given use
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by tonyarkles 22d ago
But also achievable on a $150/mo (CAD) Max 5 subscription (I currently have 11.6B tokens in the last 30 days) according to /usage. It doesn’t break down input vs. output tokens as far as I can tell.
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by tonyarkles 22d ago
Oh, my friend, I’m in my 40s now and while I’ve never touched ladder logic (mostly on purpose), I can honestly say I’ve been writing C since the last century and C++ only a few years less. I remember, with pain in my heart, what C++ looked
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by tonyarkles 22d ago
Something that wasn’t super clear to me was whether the turbines are actually used for propulsion or if they’re used solely as generators to recharge the batteries/power the electric motors. I could honestly see it going either way. Ha
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by tonyarkles 22d ago
I’d guess comparable for a 30-seat regional, you’d probably want to compare with a PT6, especially since this aircraft is prop driven. That’s only about 250lb dry.
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by tonyarkles 22d ago
To that point, the battery capacity they’ve got, rough envelope math, is maybe 10 minutes beyond reserve. They’d likely need at least double, probably triple battery capacity to fly useful routes all-electric with enough reserve stored in b
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by tonyarkles 22d ago
Typical reserve requirement is 30 min for a turbine aircraft (45 for piston). Given the 125 mile battery-only range and the probability that it flies at at least 200 kts (230 mph), it’s pretty unlikely to hit even a 30 min reserve on only b
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by tonyarkles 22d ago
Yeah, the nifty part is instead of trying to write your whole multi-threaded high performance tool in Julia, there is excellent support for taking the math work you’ve done and codegen C out of it. Am very happily using that in prod today
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by tonyarkles 22d ago
I'm currently split between Python and Julia, having used R happily in the past for data analysis and Matlab for this and that in my EE program. For me, Julia crushes one niche that the rest of them are not good at: making the math loo
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by tonyarkles 22d ago
There’s been an interesting co-evolution that I’ve been experiencing with Claude Code. I’ll ask it to do a task, I’ll watch what it’s doing (often lots of find and grep and ripgrep) and then after the task is complete I’ll ask it if there a
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by tonyarkles 23d ago
> Adults with responsibilities, especially with families I’ll rephrase a little bit because “not give a shit” is maybe too flippant and what you’re saying is important context: if you have a family and responsibilities, framing it in ter
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by tonyarkles 23d ago
Or not tonight. If I didn’t enjoy yard care, I wouldn’t have a yard or I’d xeriscape or gravel + trees, or something. Laundry’s kind of a drag, mostly the folding part. Most of the time I enjoy cooking and tidying up afterwards; when I’m no
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by tonyarkles 23d ago
Nope, they might just want to clock out from work at 5pm and go ride their bike until sunset without giving a single shit about anything but the fresh air. Or go home and walk their kid to the park. Or throw a ball around the yard with the
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by tonyarkles 24d ago
Rationally-speaking, maybe not. I’ve been a long-time subscriber. When I first subscribed, my day-to-day involved embedded Linux and getting the “breaking news” was pretty valuable. These days I still do that somewhat but I’m stuck on a cru
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by tonyarkles 28d ago
Not a lawyer, but to some degree I think policies like the one Debian came up with can help the argument. You’re not submitting a stream of commits that all have an Authored-By: Claude Code footer and massive yappy commits and comments. The
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by tonyarkles 28d ago
And to keep the loop going, stroller-accessible spaces are also walker-accessible spaces and cart-accessible spaces. Worked at a computer store in the early 00s. Our rented retail space had a wheelchair ramp and there were a few elderly reg

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