joshvm

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by joshvm 1mo ago
If you still want the experience, go and browse McMaster Carr. Wizards designed that website.
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by joshvm 2mo ago
Any expat who has lived in Europe knows the pain of having to run to the train station on a Sunday because you ran out of some ingredient.
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by joshvm 3mo ago
The simplest option is to print the part raised at an angle so the layer lines aren't parallel to faces. Clough42 has some good videos on support/rib design in Fusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXaLxSmtnbQ ,
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by joshvm 4mo ago
When I was younger, I used to think the Shard was daylight robbery. But 16 quid for a signature cocktail and a view (or 12 for a spirit + mixer) is no longer outrageously expensive in London and you'd pay that to go up a skyscraper in
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by joshvm 4mo ago
I recently started playing around with my Palette 3 again (on a MK3.5S). It’s an amazing piece of engineering that has a reputation for being frustrating to use. It’s now discontinued but Mosaic still sell spare parts and it’s designed to b
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by joshvm 4mo ago
That one has a strange rendering error for me, the trees and horizon are in front of the mill building and the exterior isn't properly rendered unless you are in orbit mode. But my mind was a little blown when i discovered that I could
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by joshvm 5mo ago
I don't know about useful , but the most visible one is copywriting. Even when there's a human involved, every startup/small org I know runs content through them. (And that includes this article.) It's definitely someth
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by joshvm 5mo ago
This is the sort of economics that small companies face when working with large companies, particularly when physical things/CAPEX are involved. Large companies expect net 30/60 terms to pay you. That's much simpler for their
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by joshvm 6mo ago
RTOS doesn't give any guarantees about "safe to compute/execute" - that's more the domain of formal verification. In the sense that you can make guarantees about how the program will behave given some domain of inpu
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by joshvm 6mo ago
Really Useful Boxes are excellent. The best feature for me is that the lids are raised, so you have some room that's slightly higher than the rim of the crate. Sure, buy a bigger crate, but it's nice to pack things just about le
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by joshvm 6mo ago
I have a Supernote which I like primarily because it's repairable and the developers are very responsive. It's the A5 version. It's very nice to write on and if you haven't tried eink in a while, it's pretty impress
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by joshvm 6mo ago
I started buying Belkin TB5 cables which are around $50 a pop. They can easily power a laptop at full load and can stream video at any reasonable resolution/framerate I might need. I've yet to find a need for an NVMe faster than 2
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by joshvm 6mo ago
https://www.itsquieterfilm.com/trailer is the official site.
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by joshvm 6mo ago
This definitely happened to a paper that I submitted a couple of years ago. ChatGPT 4 was the frontier. The reviewer gave a positive, if bland, summary with some reasonable suggestions for improvement and some nitpicks. There were no gramma
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by joshvm 6mo ago
This is true, and even with black tea where you'd normally want hotter, I don't think anyone really pays attention Thinking about it, we also had some "fancy" packet ramen from Momofuku. Good example there - those noodle
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by joshvm 6mo ago
> Do they not do soaked beans? Leave them in water for 2 days and they shouldn't need a full boil I wouldn't think? We'd definitely have kidney beans in chili and some other dishes, but I got the impression it was a hassle
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by joshvm 6mo ago
The few times I've baked there, it's been a pretty good experience. There's a full height proving cabinet, yeast works really well at altitude, the ovens have steam injectors, there are good mixers, a commercial fryer. In man
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by joshvm 6mo ago
No mention of Claude/ChatGPT's favourite new word genuine and friends? They also like using real and honest when giving advice. Far as I can tell this is a new-ish change. > Honestly? We should address X first. It's
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by joshvm 7mo ago
Have you tried writing that as a skill? Compaction is just a prompt with a convenient UI to keep you in the same tab. There's no reason you can't ask the model to do that yourself and start a new conversation. You can look up Clau
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by joshvm 7mo ago
The same is also true within the Macbook line. The 14" Pro is smaller and nearly 2lbs lighter than the first 13" unibodies. I have my 2009 college laptop on a shelf as a memento and it feels pretty chunky. This hasn't changed
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by joshvm 7mo ago
Baffin make some of the best cold weather boots. We use them in Antarctica, though you probably don't want the chonky -70C rated ones. I have some lighter boots rated for about -40 and they're great. Really any good gore tex mid-a
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by joshvm 7mo ago
My gut feeling is that performance is more heavily affected by harnesses which get updated frequently. This would explain why people feel that Claude is sometimes more stupid - that's actually accurate phrasing, because Sonnet is pro
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by joshvm 8mo ago
Reference managers have existed for decades now and they work deterministically. I paid for one when writing my doctoral thesis because it would have been horrific to do by hand. Any of the major tools like Zotero or Mendeley (I used Papers
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by joshvm 8mo ago
> I am vaguely aware of stuff like Gaussian blur on Photoshop. But I never really knew what it does. Blurring is a convolution or filter operation. You take a small patch of image (5x5 pixels) and you convolve it with another fixed matri
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by joshvm 8mo ago
> its not really about uptime for the homelab, its about graceful shutdown/restart. These are different requirements. The issue I described was not a power outage and having a well managed UPS wouldn't have made a difference. N
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by joshvm 8mo ago
My home server doesn't need to be high availability, and the BIOS is set to whatever state prior to power loss. I don't have a UPS. However, we were recently hit with a telco outage while visiting family out of town. As far as I c
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by joshvm 8mo ago
I've found that for any sort of reasonable task, the free models are garbage and the low-tier paid models aren't much better. I'm not talking about coding, just general "help me" usage. It makes me very wary of usin
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by joshvm 9mo ago
AvE’s Juicero teardown is also a classic: https://youtu.be/_Cp-BGQfpHQ?si=V-LLVn1cQmrMsiDZ
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by joshvm 9mo ago
Also check if you're in education at any level. Most university libraries subscribe to what used to be Safari and you can SSO the full (enormous) catalogue. I didn't realize this for quite a long time as it's not widely adver
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by joshvm 10mo ago
I would also split the concerns: 1. Compliancy with relevant standards. HIPAA, GDPR, ISO, military, legal, etc. Realistically you're going to outsource this or hire someone who knows how to build it, and then you're going to pay a

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