jlawrence6809

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by jlawrence6809 3d ago
I had no idea KVMs existed until an agent filled me in last night (I had the idea of building one with an fpga so an agent could drive os installation). Lo and behold the next day KVMs are on the front page of Hacker News!
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by jlawrence6809 14d ago
Yeah that pretty close to some problems I'm working on with mine. It has an "IQCON ALC loop failure" and claude was able to diagnose that the 2013 rail is around 11.44v (outside of the 10v range iirc) and the 2015 one is zero
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by jlawrence6809 14d ago
Some parts. It's still a WIP!
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by jlawrence6809 15d ago
Oops yeah you're right, it's a VNG. A VNA would be great to have though! I wonder if these agents are going to just increase the utility of ever piece of equipment people can hook them to.
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by jlawrence6809 15d ago
Very cool! Yeah I lucked out finding mine. It was in the intake section at my 2nd hand electronics store. It had a broken power button so they were selling it "as-is". A button repair and battery swap later I have a 3.3Ghz VNA. Ca
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by jlawrence6809 15d ago
My model is an SMIQ03E actually! I've grown quite addicted to going to my local 2nd hand electronics store in recent months scrounging for anything with an rs232 port!
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by jlawrence6809 15d ago
I just had claude walk me through refurbishing a Rohde & Schwarz signal generator from the 90s. It feels pretty cool getting a multi thousand dollar piece of equipment for 60 bucks even if you have no idea what you'll use it for.
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by jlawrence6809 16d ago
That's as good a guess about the future as any I suppose! Personally I'd give that about a 30% chance of happening in a large way. For small systems though I don't think I could ever personally go back to the old way. And may
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by jlawrence6809 17d ago
Maybe I'm a bad programmer or have worked at places with terrible dev culture, but honestly I've made changes to code I didn't really understand. The changes I made seemed to accomplish the task I was aiming at, but the dow
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by jlawrence6809 17d ago
Programming was the thing that clicked for me most out of anything I've done in my life. That's not to say I was an exceptional programmer, probably a bit above average among professionals but not by much. However for some reason
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by jlawrence6809 17d ago
I've been using the "experimental teams" in claude code forever and its great for this. I never start a claude code session manually, I just ask the main agent to open a new tmux window for me. The lead agent knows all the ag
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by jlawrence6809 18d ago
This is probably a controversial take, but I love this. Back in the early days of claude code I had to write a script (well, claude wrote it) to pull out the session id and append it to every commit. It's a lifesaver when you are tryin
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by jlawrence6809 24d ago
I've been having the time of my life as a former EE who has missed playing around with hardware. I'm quickly racking up a list of reverse engineering projects that each would have taken me months or years without LLM assistance. I
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by jlawrence6809 3y ago
When I was shopping for a mini split recently all the models I could find seemed to be variable speed compressor and blowers, unless I was reading something wrong. So maybe this isn't an issue anymore? I oversized mine but wish I went
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by jlawrence6809 3y ago
A heat pump is just an AC that can move heat in either direction so you should be able to.
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by jlawrence6809 3y ago
I built a platform for homeschooling families with structured courses that are taught and graded by an llm (chatgpt 4 API). Homeschoolmate.com
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by jlawrence6809 3y ago
This extension is pretty unlike most of the examples the chrome docs provide because it extends the devtools which most extensions don't do. There are a lot of hidden gotchas you have to look out for when extending devtools and the api
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by jlawrence6809 3y ago
Thanks! Here is the repo if you have any issues/suggestions: https://github.com/jlawrence6809/CSS-Selector-Helper-for-Chr...
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by jlawrence6809 3y ago
I built a chrome extension that is featured on the chrome web store[1] and the number of requests I get from shady data brokers looking to buy my extension and fill it with spyware is really concerning. A naive dev could build something coo
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by jlawrence6809 3y ago
They've done so in the past when they blocked the AdNauseam extension several years ago.