AdamH12113

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by AdamH12113 20d ago
Apple Maps does as well. It's sad that they're kowtowing to Trump in such a ridiculous way.
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by AdamH12113 23d ago
Strings are a really weird data type. I'm not sure you can do much better than C strings without implicitly requiring dynamic memory allocation, which C deliberately does not do. Definitely agree on multidimensional arrays. I feel like
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by AdamH12113 1mo ago
According to her Wikipedia page, she's ~23 and went to Harvard, so A) her life experience is limited, B) most of the experience she does have involves being on a path to elitehood, and C) she probably sees a chance at a life-changing a
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by AdamH12113 3mo ago
Step 1 of displaying a web page is to download a small LLM from the server to create a rendering framework at run-time...
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by AdamH12113 3mo ago
I didn't know there was a sequel! Looks like there's also a part 3 that covers teensy dynamic linking: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/somewhat....
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by AdamH12113 3mo ago
My favorite color in all the world is the green of a mineral called dioptase. It's a deep, dark green, richer than an emerald. It looks amazing in real life and utterly boring on an RGB display. The Houston Museum of Natural Science ha
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by AdamH12113 4mo ago
Automatic Pope, presumably. Offering pontifications (opinions) via technology (automated). “Pontiff” is another word for pope.
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by AdamH12113 4mo ago
I feel like this poem isn't really about soldering, but if anyone is actually bothered by it, there are some options. Unleaded solder and a decent fume extractor make the process cleaner. A decent soldering iron and solder wire with go
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by AdamH12113 5mo ago
Anthropomorphizing LLMs is something that happens in the design stage, when they're given human names and trained to emit first-person sentences. If AI companies and developers stop anthropomorphizing them, users won't be misled i
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by AdamH12113 5mo ago
This is generally good but it’s missing low speed (1.5 megabits/second), which is also under USB 1.1.
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by AdamH12113 5mo ago
This reminds me a bit of the ending of In the Beginning Was the Command Line: > The people who brought us this operating system would have to provide templates and wizards, giving us a few default lives that we could use as starting plac
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by AdamH12113 7mo ago
Fair enough. I was thinking of local governments unilaterally deciding to impose income taxes. The impression I got was that existing local income taxes are effectively state funding for municipalities collected and distributed by state gov
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by AdamH12113 7mo ago
Well, local governments (cities and towns) also have expenses -- police, fire departments, trash collection, water and sewage, roads, public works. Schools are partially funded locally. That has to be paid for. It's theoretically possi
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by AdamH12113 7mo ago
> Get rid of sales tax, property tax, exemptions, IRAs, 401ks, short capital gains, long capital gains, medicare, state, all of that bullcrap. Annualized, non-annualized, credits for having an EV on the 4th day of the second Tuesday whil
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by AdamH12113 7mo ago
Just used this to make a couple quick diagrams. It's easy to use and the diagrams export well. A couple suggestions for improvement: 1. When working with small rectangles, I had trouble getting the rectangle to move instead of enlarge.
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by AdamH12113 9mo ago
Some background for those who aren't familiar: "Romanization" refers to converting Japanese sounds into the Latin (Roman) alphabet. In Japanese, these sounds are written with phonetic characters called kana. (There are two ty
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by AdamH12113 9mo ago
To me, the valuable comments are the ones that share the writer's expertise and experiences (as opposed to opinions and hypothesizing) or the ones that ask interesting questions. LLMs have no experience and no real expertise, and nobod
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by AdamH12113 10mo ago
When Quake(world) was released, it was common to play games on dial-up modems, where 250+ milliseconds was a normal ping time. If you played on a distant server, you could easily get over 500 milliseconds or even much worse.
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by AdamH12113 10mo ago
That’s exactly what I’m looking for! Thank you very much!
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by AdamH12113 10mo ago
Tangential question: Does anyone know of a basic large-signal equation for a triode (or any other vacuum tube type) like the simplified Ebers-Moll equation for BJTs or the square law equations for the linear and saturation regions of a MOSF
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Measuring the Moon with a Tungsten Cube [video](youtube.com)
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by AdamH12113 11mo ago
I’m interested in alternatives to Raspberry Pis right now and software support is a concern. Do you have any recommendations?
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by AdamH12113 11mo ago
I don't think this holds up. Historically, memory sizes have increased exponentially, but access times have gotten faster, not slower. And since the access time comes from the memory architecture, you can get 8 GB of RAM or 64 GB of RA
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
This is a fantastic summary that's very easy to understand. Thank you very much for writing it!
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
What intensity is “high-intensity?” The article doesn’t give a number. Is this something that can be done with a few bright LEDs or do you need a specialized lighting array?
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
As an EE who changed majors from CS in college and who has also done a lot of programming, I can see where the author is coming from. But electrical engineering, by its nature, is a low-level field. If CS students spent their first couple y
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
> Does "career development" just mean "more money"? No. Career development includes paid training sessions, title promotions (junior -> senior, etc.) opportunities to work on larger projects in more significant rol
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
“Made from hair” is clickbait — the research is about keratin, a common structural protein.
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
From an API designer's standpoint (especially if that API has paying customers), Hyrum's Law is something that has to be taken into account. But from a user's standpoint, it is engineering malpractice, plain and simple. At th
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
I use tabs for indentation and spacing for alignment. Tables should be aligned with spaces. A wrapped line can be tabbed up to the start of the previous line and then spaced for alignment.

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