mk_stjames

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by mk_stjames 5d ago
For the interested; the saying I believe you are referencing in regards to writing code / debugging is from Brian Kernighan, specifically: Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So i
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by mk_stjames 13d ago
It's like a type of floating bog island that grows from piled up downed trees and other biomass and then breaks off from the main land. Happens on lakes in Wisconsin. See [0] for a very interesting example of what happens when one get
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by mk_stjames 16d ago
The approach noted in this article is similar to an experience I just had. I recently had some old hardware manuals I wanted to digitize, which were pages in 3-ring binders. I started thinking about scanning them but did not have an auto-l
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by mk_stjames 1mo ago
I noticed that resellers on ebay of used server equipment that I keep an eye on in Germany pulled all their DDR4 from surplus and used server racks and now list it separately for sale, at jacked up prices. Where you used to be able to see
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by mk_stjames 2mo ago
The prices of these boards have gone up it seems since the knowledge on how to bring them up and effectively utilize them has proliferated. After the crypto miners dumped them (that was, what, 2 years ago?), I saw one of the entire rack sys
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by mk_stjames 2mo ago
Cheers- I guess I'll add, the turbofans that all modern airliners use are almost always referred to by their 'thrust' and you ofter see a lot of published numbers of takeoff thrust and such - it is harder to find numbers at c
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by mk_stjames 2mo ago
Man this is a middle-schooler level napkin math question. Take a Boeing 777, it has a wingspan of about 60 meters, and I'll ballpark an average upper wing chord of about 7 meters, for a total upper flat area of about 420 square meters.
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by mk_stjames 2mo ago
Yes, just tried this, and my little exe ran on a Windows 10 64 bit machine just fine. Which means I just built a demo of a tiny 16 bit windows GUI applet, using emulated VB in Win 3.1 in a browser and got it to run on modern Windows in a sh
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by mk_stjames 2mo ago
Actually, yes, this was the experience I was recalling... it was 1995, not 1993, and it was the 'Turbo' version of Journeyman Project, which came in a CD pack bundled with Windows 95 by Packard Bell (a surprisingly large compilati
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by mk_stjames 2mo ago
I just did something neat- I tried out the install of Windows 3.1, which has a version of Visual Basic installed. I created a small program in Visual Basic, with a window and some buttons to press, and then saved the program as an .exe (re
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by mk_stjames 2mo ago
Nothing was worse however than getting a game used and not getting the manual included, when the manual contained very necessary information to progress through the game, and in an era where 'The Web' still wasn't really a th
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by mk_stjames 2mo ago
This is cool, I had some questions because I was trying to understand this more - not the diffusion model training part, because that I've actually seen before- but the actual way you bundled this into a web application and the choices
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by mk_stjames 2mo ago
Neat. My only critique of the script is that I would have added a sleep 0.1 in the loop so that as this prints in a terminal it is actually readable; any modern terminal will scroll so fast you can't see the message in flight.
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by mk_stjames 2mo ago
Interestingly the author shows a photo of a spot in Cape Town where there are two distinct structures in use - close up, in the photo, are actually Tetrapods - as pointed out in other comments, these are an earlier invention from France and
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by mk_stjames 3mo ago
That's not 'malicious compliance'... it's 'Jevonsian insanity'.
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by mk_stjames 4mo ago
In addition I'll give one more criticism: Above that reads this bit: >Its driver door panel consolidates mirror adjustment, mirror fold, door locks, all four window controls, and child locks into a single networked module. That
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by mk_stjames 4mo ago
Yes but specifically, in this article, the passage is written about a harness connector on a door window switch module as follows: >Fourteen pins in two parallel rows carry every signal this panel produces to the rest of the vehicle.
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by mk_stjames 4mo ago
This sounds like copy written by someone who hasn't actually spent a lot of time with the automotive world and in trying to sound like they have. Electrical connectors on automotive harnesses are far, far more reliable now on modern ca
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by mk_stjames 4mo ago
I have this little insight into PTO that I keep saved, from the book "Algorithms to Live By" by Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths (a nice read). I think of it often when hearing about people and their work schedules in modern s
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by mk_stjames 4mo ago
I edit my /etc/hosts file and send domains that I've realized I'm addicted to (ahem, lichess) to 0.0.0.1 This gives enough friction to the point, when I muscle-memory type the URL in a browser, and get an unreachable err
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by mk_stjames 4mo ago
I saw '1-bit' and my mind first went to 1-bit dithered B&W image generation, not 1-bit model weights.... and so now I'm wondering how cool /fast / compressed a diffusion image generator could be if the images it
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by mk_stjames 4mo ago
It seems like it should say "It takes Two Neurons to Steer an already moving Bicycle". The simulation is so simplified that I see no terms for the control of pedaling. Riding a real bicycle isn't just about steering and lean
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by mk_stjames 4mo ago
I encounter this problem as well when looking at projects on Github on a near daily basis it seems. It just led me to finding this: https://kicanvas.org/ worth a bookmark.
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by mk_stjames 4mo ago
Your comment on how you feel trying to execute a model is similar to the inverse of how many Mechanical Engineers (used to) talk about coding - they know what they want, they can write down what they want a program to do, they just don&#x27
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by mk_stjames 4mo ago
Everyone seems to love the Windows 7 era but for me, Windows peaked GUI-wise with Windows 2000 and everything since then has felt like a poor 'skin' or misplaced 'theme' on top of something else. Windows XP's level
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by mk_stjames 4mo ago
Since you are a wrapper on top of OpenCascade, I assume you have the ability to export STEP solids, and so one potential test you could run is have a series of standard objects that are exported and then re-imported with the basic opencasca
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by mk_stjames 5mo ago
Because the image generation is powered by a diffusion model that is only guided by the transformer model and still has somewhat vague spatial representation especially when it comes to coupling things like counting and complex positioning.
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by mk_stjames 6mo ago
In case anyone wanted technical details of the NN, I dug into the repo: Its a transformer, with a CNN refiner after. Specifically, a ViT using the Hiera architecture ( https://github.com/facebookresearch/hiera ) The Hier
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by mk_stjames 7mo ago
I want to point out that what keeps this 'OK' is that the little wire is so 'electrically short' compared to the actual wavelength at 1000khz (a real quarter wave antenna at that freq is like 75 meters)... and thus this
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by mk_stjames 8mo ago
I fly between various countries in western Europe a dozen times a year and have done so for a decade and every single time I've boarded a plane I have had to shown a photo ID with my name on it that matches my name on the plane ticket.

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