ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 17d ago
You realize that the slicer has to talk to the firmware, and it is documenting the commands their firmware implements which makes the combination of slicer + firmware print right? The whole point of the AGPL on the slicer was to prevent
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by ChuckMcM 18d ago
From the article: With the LLMs every time there’s a mistake, I don’t learn. I can spot the mistake because I have some experience (lucky enough to have been born 34 years ago), I can pinpoint the mistake and let the LLM fix it. This is s
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by ChuckMcM 20d ago
I think the author meant 'burnish' there, which is a clever way of showing they didn't use AI :-)
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by ChuckMcM 20d ago
I appreciate where you're coming from, but I think you may have unintentionally made my point. Try this: Change the context "Acme's Sunscreen which is made from killing an endangered fish, is significantly better than any oth
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by ChuckMcM 21d ago
Yes. Well they certainly bill at that rate, it goes some to the lawyer, some to rent, etc.
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by ChuckMcM 21d ago
Inevitably the situation is the "sketch" here is that the vendor avoids a cost by creatively interpreting the requirements. It became famously difficult to buy a reliable PC power supply at one point because PSU vendors were all t
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by ChuckMcM 21d ago
It was really depressing when I realized that people will buy a sketchy product which is hurting the community and makers of non-sketchy products because "its cheaper and its not like my purchase is gonna change things one way or anoth
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by ChuckMcM 21d ago
For background, I participated in a "small" action that Sun took against someone who was violating the Java license. The legal fees (in the late 90's) were 8.2 million dollars. $250K is nothing to sneeze at, its a solid 6 wee
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by ChuckMcM 21d ago
I think the Bambu case is a good one to litigate the AGPL but perhaps should start in the Court of International Trade. That court has the power to block imports as part of a TRO which would shut down a lot of their revenue from the US at l
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by ChuckMcM 21d ago
I think 'least regard' belongs to Oracle. For some reason I thought DuckDB was one of Gabe's ideas over at DuckDuckGo :-). That said, the acquisition by Amazon is interesting in that it seems to overlap with their existing DB
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by ChuckMcM 23d ago
It is pretty amazing the creativity with compute architecture which is afforded by a zillion transistors.
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by ChuckMcM 1mo ago
Its a fun radio, the Si4844-A10 is another one and it can tune AM as well. I built one for my house that was connected to an STM32 that was connected to the Internet and would let me stream AM radio to my phone. That way I could listen to s
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by ChuckMcM 1mo ago
> RISC-V is .. fine. Yeah, so was 8051 and it sucked too :-). I appreciated having this rant all in one place. Ranting against bad architecture is always cathartic and absolutely useless since the people who built and now champion the ba
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by ChuckMcM 1mo ago
Which sort of affirms the mantra, "If you can't prove causation, try to prove correlation." This because you can market correlation to unsophisticated readers and imply causation.
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by ChuckMcM 1mo ago
> The things that make me me are highly deterministic! Are they though? :-) There are some interesting papers in the tissue regeneration space which are working on building tissue (and organs) from stem cells for medical purposes (transp
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by ChuckMcM 1mo ago
Great writeup, and it was great to see them step in an pay the developers of SQLite to help them fix the bug. I get tired of corporations asking open source authors to fix problems that affect the corporation for free. And while I'm su
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by ChuckMcM 1mo ago
I completely agree, tremendous complexity can arise from simple mechanisms. Gleick's Chaos is a really good introduction to that. I was talking about the article though, and the mechanisms currently used for training and inference in L
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by ChuckMcM 1mo ago
I suspect you're being snarky :-) but this is a really interesting question, and one that has had a lot of research done. I'm not current (I stopped following folks doing this research closely around 2019) but what we 'didn
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by ChuckMcM 1mo ago
It also helps explain to people that LLMs are as likely as bzip to develop "consciousness".
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by ChuckMcM 1mo ago
This is, in general, a good statement of a durable problem one can 'solve' profitably. Basically take a problem that is hard to do 1:1, systemize it such that you can easily tune the solution to "all" variants of that pr
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by ChuckMcM 1mo ago
From the article -- In coffee shops and in the low-lit corners of bars, professionals are sharing dreams of “disappearing” or “living on a farm somewhere” or “going off the grid.” Because I spent my career working in tech in the Bay Area
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by ChuckMcM 1mo ago
In my opinion it carries much truth. Somewhere in Google's archives there is a message I sent to the OC that said, "The department of philosophy does not ship solutions to real problems, that is why there has never been a successf
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by ChuckMcM 2mo ago
In my original comment I linked the nature study that looked at farmers doing both. The "but if we don't plant crops we'll starve!" argument is just silly for a number of reasons, one I pointed out which is if we used al
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by ChuckMcM 2mo ago
The "Elevator Problem" (and the "Street Light Problem") were both CS 200 exercises when I was in college. Along with a bunch of other 'game' type systems like 8 queens, Hanoi towers, maze solving, etc. Still, t
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by ChuckMcM 2mo ago
Totally going to reach out here and see if we can help each other.
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by ChuckMcM 2mo ago
Yes, if farms went 100% from agriculture to solar we wouldn't have enough food :-) And we'd have anywhere from 100x to 1000x the entire power demand of the planet in energy. Solar has a $/acre value (which at the moment is pr
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by ChuckMcM 2mo ago
Its a fair question, California agriculture tends to use 11 trillion gallons (34e6 acre feet[1][2]) of water annually. (about 1,700 Googles worth). Generally from a market driven standpoint agricultural users are trying to get maximum $&#x2
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by ChuckMcM 2mo ago
In the US at least there is a lot (and by that I mean like maybe more than half) of civil case law around seller liability for defective or 'dual use' products. In the 70's some cities tried to sue hardware stores for selling
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by ChuckMcM 2mo ago
Yeah pretty much. Was the future though, amirite?
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by ChuckMcM 2mo ago
3D walkthroughs are absolutely the OG[1] use for head mounted displays. I had an interesting experience of a realtor who had a couple of Vision pro headsets that they would let you use to tour properties they had for sale. Definitely faster

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