LeifCarrotson

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by LeifCarrotson 5d ago
> They've been in the bottom for 10+ years. So, "when are you ever gonna use these?" was today. Don't ever let anyone take your Big Box of Cables away. The fact that you haven't used those cables in 10+ years d
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by LeifCarrotson 20d ago
The intentional cruelty must be visible because they're doing it to gain support from those who want to see immigrants mistreated. They're not trying to change the rate of immigration, they're just looking to score political
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by LeifCarrotson 25d ago
There was a lovely window of a few years when processors were fast enough and low-power enough that real development work could trivially happen on a Macbook Air in a lounge. That window is waning as more and more memory and graphics proces
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by LeifCarrotson 2mo ago
No, we can't. It's an ultra-low-power embedded ARM Cortex-M33 (successor to Cortex-M4) processor, the right language to use when programming it is C++. You want a minimum of abstractions and a close-to-the-metal programming enviro
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by LeifCarrotson 2mo ago
Neat! I've got a slice that's under 10 miles long going south into town, but I've also got 14 slices to the north (the ones that don't intersect with a couple up-state cities) that are over 3000 miles long. Vancouver is
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by LeifCarrotson 2mo ago
This is a comparatively small one: 40.25mm diameter screen, 14.4mm thick, at 50g. My Fenix 6 Pro has a 47mm face, is 14.7mm thick, and weighs 80g (but as a Fenix that's the stainless bezel one, the plastic bezel watches are closer to 5
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by LeifCarrotson 2mo ago
I love the Garmin pogo chargers. I've got a few of their $3 puck cables scattered about my home, car, and office, a USB-C to Garmin adapter in my keychain and backpacking kit, and someone recently made a neat little portable battery th
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by LeifCarrotson 2mo ago
It matches my lived experience. My body battery and stress often starts declining for no apparent reason and then 12-24 hours later I feel the symptoms of an illness. Similarly, when in a tough training block, HRV is a great tool to gauge h
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by LeifCarrotson 2mo ago
There are only about 400 units in existence, and they just started shipping June 30: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unawatch/meet-una-the-m... so it's been out for less than a month. That's why you
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by LeifCarrotson 2mo ago
That's not precisely how I remember that quote... But it's on the Internet, so my memory must be faulty.
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by LeifCarrotson 2mo ago
You can't view a random imgur screenshot in the UK? What image hosts work for you? Imgbb? Postimages?
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by LeifCarrotson 2mo ago
In my experience, a spec is often public (or available for purchase by the public from a standards committee for a few hundred dollars, close enough in business terms), but the source code for your competitor's implementations is not a
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by LeifCarrotson 2mo ago
If you're willing to put a little time into video editing, a 360 cam is great. The insta360 tools can make that a little easier if you want something simple. If you just want to store a snapshot of the moment as it was captured, a regu
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by LeifCarrotson 2mo ago
Low power electronics are all about low duty cycles: if it can be worn but asleep and drawing next to no power for 15 hours and 59 minutes, and recording audio for 60 seconds, they only need enough battery to run the processor for 60 second
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by LeifCarrotson 2mo ago
On the other hand, reducing competition and consolidating the market within the combined organization is good for the misshapen franken-org that comes out at the end... The question is whether or not they can weaponize the regulatory system
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by LeifCarrotson 2mo ago
I think that any workflow that requires the user to stare at the tokens being generated live is using it wrong. Delegate, don't stare! https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/?rate=10&mode=text You think of a
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by LeifCarrotson 2mo ago
Humans easily anthropomorphize things that are not humans, ascribing human attributes like motive and comprehension and emotion to objects and processes that are not people who can have those attributes. Claude is not a human. It is overwhe
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by LeifCarrotson 2mo ago
Tractors are immortal (my Dad's 80-year-old Ford 9N can attest to that), John Deere is immoral.
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by LeifCarrotson 2mo ago
I'm not left-handed, but I often scroll my phone with my left thumb. My right hand is on my computer mouse, or holding a pen, or employed to make precise touches on the phone screen with my right index finger, or briefly comes over to
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by LeifCarrotson 2mo ago
Your terminal doesn't typically use Consolas. You can do: $ wget https://archive.org/download/PowerPointViewer_201801/PowerPointViewer.exe $ cabextract PowerPointViewer.exe $ cabextract ppviewer.
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by LeifCarrotson 3mo ago
It's 0.0015, that's 1.5 to 2.5 thousandths, or 15-25 "tenths" as they're called. That's not a particularly tiny gap in the machinist world, it's large so that you can pump viscous oil in it and deal with a
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by LeifCarrotson 3mo ago
Auto start/stop isn't off for enough time for the oil to drain from the galleries and especially not out of the bearing journals. It's the first few seconds after an engine has been off for hours (or worse, for potentially ye
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by LeifCarrotson 3mo ago
What they meant when they said "planets" was the 8 (previously 9, previously to that 8, previously 7...) known and named planets in our own solar system. A hypothetical "Journal of Planets" that was actually about solar
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by LeifCarrotson 3mo ago
I work in industrial manufacturing and automation, several of my customers (those running steel foundries, aluminum die casting, plastic recycling and extrusion, and other power-intensive processes) represent a sizeable fraction of the util
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by LeifCarrotson 3mo ago
I've also been running Qwen 3.6 35B A3b on my Windows laptop (64 GB RAM, a 4GB GPU) and it's at least tolerable. It's not fast - a few tokens per second, slower than reading speed - but I can give it a task and come back late
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by LeifCarrotson 3mo ago
You've described a load cell, which is commonly used in laboratory and industrial environments to resolutions exceeding 0.05% of full scale. I've used these in the past with great success: https://www.interfaceforce.com
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by LeifCarrotson 3mo ago
Yes, that's "bare metal" as opposed to programming in MicroPython, Javascript with Espruino, Lua/NodeMCU, Rust, or adding your C application on top of an off-the-shelf RTOS. C support is basically universal these days, v
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by LeifCarrotson 3mo ago
"They" being the waiter or waitress, of course. Good ones can navigate complex bill splitting arrangements and even better can manage awkward interactions like one person quietly paying for another's dessert or covering an ap
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by LeifCarrotson 3mo ago
I don't think they're necessarily overestimating what they've dedicated to logistics, they're overestimating what they've dedicated to anti-scalping. If they cared to detect it, they could invest even just a token e
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by LeifCarrotson 3mo ago
From the paper: > The main sources of VMS were determined to be antiperspirants ... skin lotions ... wipes ... and hair conditioner. Several siloxanes-free options are available for [these products]. These products are now being assesse

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