tonyarkles

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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
Yup, they're definitely cousins. The only reason I didn't mention OSC is because you're not going to have the same ecosystem of existing open-source and commercial lighting control software available. OSC is fabulous for cont
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
Oh! TIL! Thanks for sharing that, I don't do web stuff much these days but will keep it in mind next time I do.
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
Do you know what causes this? I'm really curious!
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
I'll throw out two quick suggestions for you: - DMX kinda sucks but it's manageable. Cabling isn't cheap, it really wants shielded 120 ohm cable. If you do go that route, don't cheap out and use Mic cable or Cat-5, you&#
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
This is one of the things that upsets me the most about LLM writing. “Load bearing” and “belt and suspenders” are two tropes I’ve used for a long, long time and now I have to be intentional about not using them lest I be accused of offloadi
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
I mean, they're talking to newspapers using their real names. And they're admitting what they've done. If this was actually about real sabotage and causing real damage, the move would be to do something similar to what they&#
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
> now have to add security so it doesn't happen a second time You assume that that cost is going to be borne by the corporation building the facility and not by the general public through lobbying to protect construction sites from
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
Other shot in the dark, misconfigured bridging or similar where ARP isn’t getting forwarded and rewritten quite right
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
> Do you have to use it for work? Do you just consider other editors to be even worse, so Emacs is the best of a bad bunch? Not who you’re asking but: - I have a very long legacy of both muscle memory and “just right” coziness in my Emac
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
Probably not a bad idea for just making sure that you’re starting from a buildable tree anyway!
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
Speaking as someone who has tried Haskell but hasn’t ever really gotten into it, but spends all day with a C++ codebase that also has long cold-compile times… I think the author of the post said they’re using git worktrees to be able to hav
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
> what's the solution here? speeding up the haskell compiler? if that were easy, would it not already have happened? I suspect you’ve nailed the answer: it’s probably not easy, although it’s also possible that it just hasn’t ever
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
I mean, in this particular case one of the biggest pain points they’re talking about are just straight up build times. An LLM that can produce a patch in 5 minutes and then has to wait 15 minutes for a build… to then put together another 1
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by tonyarkles 3mo ago
Often it ends up being multi-session for this particular kind of work. We’ll get to a point where I have to go actually test some stuff out with hardware to provide some answers back, or in the case of this servo in particular… I end up hav
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by tonyarkles 4mo ago
Not the person you asked but I frequently use Claude (Opus primarily) to reverse engineer embedded hardware. It uses a mix of Ghidra, Radare2, and just the arm-none-* tools. I can’t say I have a particular workflow though, I just say “we’re
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by tonyarkles 4mo ago
I mean, it worked reasonably well for my father while he was as recovering from his knee replacement. Fentanyl patches that gave a precise time-released dose.
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by tonyarkles 4mo ago
Very much with you on that. It’s not a position I personally hold by any means, but I appreciate its existence connected to a prominent long-standing organization.
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by tonyarkles 4mo ago
I have a 91 Ranger Club Cab, 4.0L RWD sitting around waiting to get used again. The only reason I upgraded (2016 Tacoma) was because of how bad it was in the winter (Western Canada, lots of snow and ice). Couldn’t get good tires for it anym
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by tonyarkles 4mo ago
You’ve hit a nerve for sure. A couple years back I was doing some field ops in rural Illinois and the rental SUV I had (Nissan?) made it almost impossible to turn around on a gravel road. Slowly backing up towards the ditch, watching carefu
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by tonyarkles 4mo ago
And pretty cheap. I was a member for a year, just to get access to the entire AES67 standard. I think it was $65 for the membership at the time.
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by tonyarkles 4mo ago
I’ve seen studies use methylphenidate as well for the “control” group. Relatively harmless, will have some effects and side effects on naive subjects.
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by tonyarkles 4mo ago
I feel your frustration for sure and agree to a large extent. Any attempts I’ve made to try to formalize any LLM-based workflows has resulted in me being again dismayed that no one seems to have any real idea of how or why certain things wo
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by tonyarkles 4mo ago
> It's strange to me that nuclear isn't a bigger mix in Sask with the Uranium industry so big there. There's two factors to this: - Before SMRs, we wouldn't have been able to build conventional Big Reactors without vi
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by tonyarkles 4mo ago
They do, but they're also not strictly required to be named explicitly: They can be: >>> def foo(bar=None): ... print(bar) ... >>> foo() None >>> foo(bar="baz") baz
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by tonyarkles 4mo ago
That's the thing about SK... we do actually have a pretty significant hydro investment. Problem is that the untapped hydro resources are quite remote. We can't really extract a whole lot more energy out of the South Saskatchewan R
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by tonyarkles 4mo ago
Something to keep in mind with hub motors is that they’re unsprung weight, vs the battery pack is pretty much always sprung. While that’s not a huge differentiator for efficiency, it sure cuts down on the abuse the wheels and hub motors wil
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by tonyarkles 4mo ago
You need to be careful about those assertions. On the “stolen” side, so far the courts have not generally agreed with that perspective except in cases where there is actually an existing copyrighted work that the LLM output is substantially
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by tonyarkles 4mo ago
I appreciate where you’re coming from but no, I don’t believe so. I have had Claude do some incredible reverse engineering on very proprietary niche firmware blobs that aren’t generally available to the public. One of the really interesting
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by tonyarkles 4mo ago
Similarly for making a basic CPU that implements the logic you’re describing. In 2006 or so I made a super simple microcontroller on an FPGA for a course project. It had a whopping 256 bytes of RAM, 1kB of ROM, and I think four 8-bit regist
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by tonyarkles 4mo ago
It was gas-filled presumably ultra low loss RF cable, but the thief cut it into small sections so that they could take it away. You might be right about the 50% number of they had somehow managed to steal it as a single intact spool. As-is,

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