tonyarkles

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by tonyarkles 2mo ago
I love north-up maps because I find they give me way better spatial context. My truck’s nav system gives north-up as an option but my phone and my truck map both suffer from the same problem on different axes. My phone sits in its holder ve
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by tonyarkles 2mo ago
I’m smiling a bit reading this thread because I went essentially the opposite way: started contracting in 2010 when my grad school stipend ran out, in Feb 2020 (kind of lucky timing…) one of my clients convinced me to come on as FTE #2 at t
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by tonyarkles 2mo ago
Something I’ve found comparing between Fable and Opus is that Fable has impressively good analysis skills, but both of them seem to go way way overboard with “present state” comments “# We’re making this change here because of this issue bl
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by tonyarkles 2mo ago
Both things can be true. I’ve noticed both the same thing the parent posted and what Linus posted and my vibe on the split (I haven’t kept detailed notes) is that on greenfield code they tend to maybe over-verify and on brownfield code or d
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by tonyarkles 2mo ago
Here’s the thing about the immigrant pulled-up-by-bootstraps story: immigration is expensive. When you hear about someone coming to North America with “only a few thousand dollars in their pocket”, you have to remember that by time they’ve
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by tonyarkles 2mo ago
You’ve just described a significant amount of ITAR. Am Canadian but have to deal with it occasionally. MWIR/LWIR imagers are another prime example. I can order way better (spec-wise at least) IR sensors from AliExpress than I can from
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by tonyarkles 2mo ago
I was digging into the history of PostScript engines inside laser printers and Adobe made tons of royalty money off of that for quite a long time.
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by tonyarkles 2mo ago
> Blaming the airport staff who have to optimize for the greater good is quite something. I don't think it's actually as noble as "optimizing for the greater good", but rather "optimizing for getting through the
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by tonyarkles 2mo ago
Am in Canada where postal codes are somewhat street name-dependent even when that doesn't strictly make sense. Through a quirk of history, my corner house's address is on the otherwise vacant side street instead of on the main tho
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by tonyarkles 2mo ago
Haven't tried with Sol but Opus's ability to reverse engineer both Linux and naked microcontroller firmware has blown me away. I'm basically at the point where embedded devices doing something weird get Claude Code + radare2
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by tonyarkles 2mo ago
And if the success rate is 1/10 but the cost is 1/100… that’s still a win as far as the war chest is concerned.
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by tonyarkles 2mo ago
Awesome! I’ll have to try it again. Last time I tried was on some Wanhao i3 clone like a decade ago and it was not great, but the printer itself was not great all around other than the price :).
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by tonyarkles 2mo ago
That’s exactly it… if you tolerance the mouth reasonably tight, the centre pin doesn’t actually carry much, if any, of the load. Friction in the mouth carries a bunch of it, especially if you add the zip-tie clamp from my sibling post.
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by tonyarkles 2mo ago
I agree that it looks fragile, but my experience with a similar kind of design in practice has shown that it’s not actually as big of an issue as it seems it would be. A few other things that can help: - for the “it can work itself out” pro
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by tonyarkles 2mo ago
I think you’re actually asking good questions! > scalable business beyond being yet another Oshkosh OSH Park is fabulous for what they do, but they don’t do PCBA. I’m not OP, but I think I can provide some insight anyway: > Outside of
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by tonyarkles 2mo ago
I love to see new players in this space! We’ve done a ton of PCBA through Macrofab. My relationship with them goes back far enough to have been a beta customer and I’ve chatted on the phone with the CEO a few times. It’s interesting compari
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by tonyarkles 2mo ago
I, personally, would take the opportunity to have an undisturbed nap. The thought of having no notifications and a great excuse for why I wasn’t answering sounds lovely today.
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
You didn’t link to it but I looked back at my very few submissions and realized that I had posted it in 2019. I thought it sounded familiar!
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
Right, makes perfect sense. So this is pretty far outside of my area of expertise, but https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8133363/ suggests that there may be an evolution of Birkeland-Eyde that isn’t nearly
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
I don’t know the exact process but I don’t think ammonium nitrate actually gets involved. The system I was looking at (Green Lightning) actually doesn’t make ammonia but rather liquid nitrogen fertilizer Plasma to take N2 + O2 -> NO2 and
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
From doing a bit of digging into this myself after hearing it being promoted on the radio, I both agree and disagree. Working through the $/acre for on-site produced ammonia using locally-generated electricity (I forget if I was lookin
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
Yeah, in a small way I agree with the post, but agree with you as well. For me: human authorship is a pretty solid gate, because the vast majority of people are not doing the work described in the post’s hypothetical “argue through 6 drafts
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
One of the funniest things for me while exploring hosting and running local models: I discovered the abliterated models and pulled down a Qwen 3.6 version (my memory is a little vague, but I think it was 27B, q4) and started playing around.
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
I think they're saying the answer is: Price. Over here in AgTech land, we focus hard on fully-loaded dollars/acre. For kitchen staff, the metric's probably going to be dollars/hamburger, and a human can sure make a lot o
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
Qwen 3.6-27B (dense) from the same HF user works pretty good too. Haven't done a side-by-side on the 3.5 MoE model vs the 3.6 Dense though.
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
> almost everyone does simple spellcheck or has it automatically show the spelling errors Smiles in Emacs, where I do the majority of my writing and don't have any form of spellcheck set up. I will say though... Claude is shockingly
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
Well… only half of your premise is actually verifiable. We know that no one wrote it up, but we don’t know that no one did. What I can say… even the smaller (like 35B) “abliterated” Qwen models have impressive red-team capabilities for what
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
> The JS ecosystem is not that old I hate to tell ya this... LiveScript was renamed to JavaScript in 1995, and the first ECMAScript standard was published in 1997. So not 40 years old, but 31 years old. NodeJS (liberating JavaScript from
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
I’m guessing it’s because the detector is then working with power, not amplitude. The whole 10 log vs 20 log thing with dB.
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
Interesting thing I noticed was the word “magine” without the I at the start. Which felt quite human but… dunno

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