z3ugma

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by z3ugma 6mo ago
At some point, don't you just end up making a low-quality, poorly-tested reinvention of SQLite by doing this and adding features?
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by z3ugma 6mo ago
Didn't they already have one of these? Like the original FitBit was a screenless fitness band...
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by z3ugma 6mo ago
You did all of this in one week?! Pretty cool. Even with LLM-assisted making, it shows that you have a lot of taste and architecture know-how. What would you attribute to being able to think through useful abstracts like the design tokens?
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by z3ugma 6mo ago
I have been using this library for a few months alongside Gemini 3.1 Fast It's really useful to get an iteration loop going with an LLM. The OCCP viewer extension for VS Code helps make sure you can see and manipulate the resulting mod
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by z3ugma 7mo ago
See also the recently-posted open source project https://github.com/ForestHubAI/boardsmith "Text prompt → KiCad schematic, BOM, and firmware. No templates — real wired circuits with computed values."
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by z3ugma 7mo ago
Do you know the meme about carcinization ...how in nature, everything tends toward becoming a crab? I think we are reinventing HTML from first principles. It's semantic structuring with a meaningful render
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by z3ugma 7mo ago
"Well There's Your Problem" on the collapse of the St Francis Dam, mentioned in Grady's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxLgM1vnuUA Also I love when they refer to it as the "_First_ California
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by z3ugma 7mo ago
I will say I came upon this same design pattern to make all my chats into semantic Markdown that is backward compatible with markdown. I did: ````assistant <Short Summary title> gemini/3.1-pro - 20260319T050611Z Response from the
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by z3ugma 7mo ago
Nah read my own comment history. I tend to phrase things this way a lot too because it positions it as opinion/curiosity rather than arrogant / confident statement?
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by z3ugma 7mo ago
This is such a well-written essay. Every line revealed the answer to the immediate question I had just thought of
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by z3ugma 7mo ago
Building a PCB milling software tool that combines converting Gerbers to toolpaths in G-Code and then actually commanding and operating a restored PCB mill from 1998. Bringing back the hobbyist self-made PCB workflow since it can be a heada
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by z3ugma 7mo ago
Do you want some more science YouTube recommendations to top that off?
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by z3ugma 7mo ago
Right click > "Paste from Markdown" instead of just straight up pasting in
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by z3ugma 7mo ago
"78 incidents in last 90 days" per https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ that's....gobsmacking...I knew it was memeably bad but I had no idea it was going so badly
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by z3ugma 8mo ago
There's a nice middle ground here, Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) which also goes through 510(k) in the US and has its own regulatory pathways distinct from hardware medical devices
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by z3ugma 8mo ago
I have a calendar reminder on August 4, 2026 to send a message to my high school English teacher from 20 years ago, for having this date stuck in my head that whole time.
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by z3ugma 9mo ago
This has been one of the things their latest clinical trials are pursuing, which is to see if the side effect of insomnia ends up outweighing the benefits of preventing the apnea
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by z3ugma 9mo ago
It's exciting seeing open-source sleep models catch up with the industry. In case you're interested in a deep-dive, a lot of commercial software like this falls under the FDA medical device product code "MNR" and "O
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by z3ugma 9mo ago
EnsoData | healthcare, sleep, machine learning | Hybrid or Remote (Madison, WI) | Product Manager - Software Medical Devices SaaS | Full Time | $110k-$130k + bonus, stock options | https://apply.workable.com/ensodata/j&
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by z3ugma 10mo ago
and yet: When you ask an AI like ChatGPT a question, what is it actually doing? Survey of 2,301 American adults (August 1-6, 2025) - Looking up the exact answer in a database: 45% - Predicting what words come next based on learned patterns:
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by z3ugma 10mo ago
No surprises, many of these are fawning, big visions for AI infrastructure. I would love to see success from some of these less-ambitious hits that have a real chance at being successful in the next 18 months. The "creative tools go mu
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by z3ugma 11mo ago
Really excited for this, it might be the model that gets me to fully commit to a Starbook
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by z3ugma 11mo ago
Making the Nest 2nd gen thermostat the Google recently bricked compatible with local setups like Home Assistant. I'm involved in 3 projects that are solving this problem from different angles: https://sett.homes/ http
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by z3ugma 11mo ago
I'm reasonably excited about the prospect of this authorship of replacement firmware I think that putting MQTT on this would be an important step toward local control and connecting it to Home Assistant
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by z3ugma 11mo ago
After you flash the exploit and SSH into the thermostat you can see it at https://github.com/codykociemba/NoLongerEvil-Thermostat/issu... It's a boot script called /bin/nolongerevil.sh that supplies
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by z3ugma 11mo ago
I'm working on https://sett.homes which is in this spirit. Instead of an Atmel it's an ESP32. It uses MQTT with Wifi as you requested :)
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by z3ugma 11mo ago
If you're interested, I went a different route to design new PCBs for the hardware to have 100% firmware control, see for example https://sett.homes/blogs/updates/the-lcd-display-reverse-eng... I am hopeful t
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by z3ugma 11mo ago
I agree, there's a "hammer and nail" problem here, it's impressive though that he used Ghidra to RE some of the API calls that the Nest binaries are making after having got root access - according to some of what Cody ha
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by z3ugma 11mo ago
I agree that it's a great starting point
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by z3ugma 11mo ago
Not quite exactly what the bounty had in mind, but I've been working on https://sett.homes/ which are replacement PCBs for the Nest 2nd gen; which gives 100% local control over the thermostat because you can literally

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