cbdevidal

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by cbdevidal 12d ago
My first job in IT was at AOL tech support and we could rattle off modem strings from memory :-)
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by cbdevidal 12d ago
My first job in IT was at AOL tech support and we could rattle off AT modem strings from memory :)
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by cbdevidal 12d ago
Someone also posted a link to the Hayes command set and I was glad. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567961
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by cbdevidal 12d ago
That's funny. I clicked on the HN article on the home page about the AT Protocol[1] expecting an article on the Hayse set. And then I scrolled down and saw this article. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527123
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by cbdevidal 2mo ago
I couldn’t help but notice that there was an equally cold spike at the bottom.
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by cbdevidal 3mo ago
OfferUp also has a ton, as does AutoTempest and even good old fashioned AutoTrader. I'm currently shopping for my son. Facebook seems to have the lowest cost cars, but it also seems to be the least successful way of contacting people.
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by cbdevidal 3mo ago
Correct, but who 25 years ago could have imagined they’d have gone so far as to roll their own? I remember the Balmer days. But the fact that they’re rolling a distro tells me they’re likely also writing software for Linux. I’m sure their A
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by cbdevidal 3mo ago
Also relevant quote that I think about when this subject comes up: “If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.” ~Linus Torvalds In this case, an entire freaking distro.
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
I personally am itching for more hardware H.264 or even H.265. There's the ESP32-P4 but it requires a second ESP32 to handle the WiFi. I got it working, but it feels like a hack, and the BOM cost is more than 2x a single chip. Course m
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
Air-gapped attacks are the most fascinating. Change my mind
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
Now you’re talking!
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
What fun! I’d love to also go the opposite direction, a full-sized laptop with an ESP32 running tiny386 and Windows 95 ^_^ https://www.hackster.io/news/he-chunhui-s-tiny386-turns-the-...
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
It’s got more horsepower than my first desktop computer
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
Crash Override boot screen made me genuinely LOL. Nice touch. https://photos.tylercipriani.com/2026-05-31_chuwi-boot-smol....
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
Make it your Wifi password too lol
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
It's funny to me that he wrote the song to prove that his fans would buy any American-sounding song no matter the lyrics, but it was such a banger that even we in America love to listen to it. Backfired in the best way possible.
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
Happened to me. CoPilot changing prices prompted me to cancel my CoPilot subscription and install a local coding model running entirely in VRAM. Will call Claude APIs when I get really stuck, but I should be able to handle 80% of my needs w
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
Old hardware is surprisingly effective. I've been considering a side hustle selling offline AI to local businesses who are privacy-sensitive. Medical, legal, places like that. At the low end, I'd use old Xeons with gobs of DDR3, i
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
:-) I'll keep you in mind.
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
I just have never been in any kind of dedicated developer role. A sysadmin who happens to know development for the past 25 years. And didn't know development at a high level; no one to guide, so I self-learned and acquired some bad hab
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
I’ve never known the joy of sitting with someone more experienced to ask for help; I’ve either always been the most knowledgeable in the room (which is not necessarily saying much) or I was the only one in the room. With AI coding agents, I
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
Excellent
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
Yeah agreed, DEET lasts way longer. I personally don't trust it, so I'm not going to use it unless I really, really, really need it. I'd rather re-apply lemon eucalyptus every hour. I like the smell, too. But I now tend to go
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
I don’t understand why sharing an objective study with good news would be downvoted, someone please explain? I’m not saying you have to use it; it’s good news for people who have concerns about other chemicals. It works—less effectively, bu
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
The new laptop has only 32GB DDR5 and a RTX 4070 with 8 GB GDDR6 on Xubuntu, so Gemini recommended qwen2.5. I don’t think I want to run anything larger because as you said it’d run on CPU and system RAM. As it is, the 14B model will still s
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
Really cool!!
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
I just found out about this last week, but the good news is a new PC with a better GPU will arrive in about two weeks so I’ve decided to install a pair of local LLMs that are similar in competency to the free GPT-5 mini model I usually used
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The Final Steps to a Sub-Minute Benchy(hackaday.com)
1 points by cbdevidal 4mo ago|1 comments
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
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by cbdevidal 4mo ago
Spray made from lemon eucalyptus works[1]. Not as well as DEET, but it works. [1] https://www.consumerreports.org/health/insect-repellent/oil-...

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