monomial

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by monomial 7d ago
> I have enough electronics hobbyist magazines from the past several decades to keep me thumbing through PDFs for years This sounds great. What magazines do you recommend?
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by monomial 7d ago
I find that piracy is the only sane option any more
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by monomial 7d ago
How so? I have 1 bank account with a local credit union and I have never logged into any of the online stuff. What do you take issue with, specifically?
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by monomial 2mo ago
KOReader is awesome and it's my go to for most e-reader reading. I've recently been trying out Plato ( https://github.com/baskerville/plato ) as well and it has a really nice experience for reading PDFs. It c
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by monomial 2mo ago
1 (not long running)
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by monomial 2mo ago
I don't really understand this trope and I grew up in a tiny town. Why not start a band or make movies with your friends? Build model airplanes, explore some creeks or forests. Not to say I didn't smoke and drink as well but wh
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by monomial 3mo ago
Modern cars are such enshittified garbage. I was in a modern Toyota recently and every time you start it, the screen shows a "Guest mode activated" that you need to explicitly dismiss. The only way to disable this is to install
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by monomial 3mo ago
> Then petition your government to enact laws around this. Do you really expect your government to do anything useful here?
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It's Time to Build Assets?(molsonhart.com)
2 points by monomial 6mo ago|0 comments
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by monomial 7mo ago
Yeah GLM-5 has been pretty impressive when it works but the z.ai plan is unbearably slow most of the time to the point where it's effectively unusable.
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Harness Engineering(openai.com)
7 points by monomial 7mo ago|0 comments
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by monomial 8mo ago
Is this a common pattern to have an agent request a sandbox? I feel like I'd want the whole agent running in it's own sandbox to begin with. Firecracker does look like a decent solution for that.
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by monomial 9mo ago
Oh interesting. The datasheet for the PCM5102A says it supports line-level output with a minimum load of 1kΩ [1]. I think most headphones typically have an impedance of less than 100Ω. I'd guess the excess current results in some di
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by monomial 9mo ago
Cool. I'd like to try something similar. Does that amplifier module drive headphones as well? What future replacement do you have in mind? Is it all low power enough to use a battery?
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by monomial 9mo ago
Do yourself a favor and go get a Kobo reader, install KO Reader on it and never look back.
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by monomial 9mo ago
I recently switched to GrapheneOS and it's been great. Letting any sort of commercial entity between you and your computing just seems like a bad idea these days. Linux is top notch, self-hosting has never been easier. There's
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by monomial 9mo ago
I block my old TCL Roku TV from accessing the internet through my router. It works fine as an HDMI display.
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by monomial 1y ago
Anyone have some recommended resources for learning this stuff? I know there are commonly recommended electronics books like "The Art of Electronics" and "Practical Electronics for Inventors" but are there any resources
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by monomial 1y ago
Same. I have a very old iPhone stuck on an old version of iOS that's incompatible with most apps these days. In the rare case I need to deposit a check there are banks like Ally that don't have physical branch locations but stil
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by monomial 1y ago
I rarely need to dynamically add attributes myself on dataclasses like this but unfortunately this also means things like `@cached_property` won't work because it can't internally cache the method result anywhere.
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by monomial 2y ago
I agree with chrisweekly, it's not even close. WeWork provided value to people by assuming some risk in signing those longer term lease agreements and repackaging it to people looking for shorter term office space or to those who woul
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by monomial 2y ago
I agree, I just want normal text instead of all the images and scrolling. The content seems great but it's a bit unreadable as is.
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by monomial 2y ago
I self-host everything I can. Unfortunately email is a bit tough these days but I should start archiving it locally. What tools are you using for that? I haven't done much experimenting with local AI models yet - probably need some n
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by monomial 2y ago
Good god. This is why I will continue to repair my older car until it's completely infeasible to do so. Then what? Are there internet communities out there actively working on disabling all this nonsense? Can't imagine buying
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by monomial 2y ago
I've been using an amalgamation of pyenv, pip-tools, black, isort, etc. for projects and just gave uv and ruff a try. Wow, it really is fast! Skeptical of anything VC-backed but I'll be keeping my eye on it.
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by monomial 2y ago
Here are the uBlock Origin filters I'm using: # background news.ycombinator.com###hnmain:style(background-color: transparent !important;) # top bar news.ycombinator.com###hnmain > tbody > tr:first-child > td:style(ba
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by monomial 2y ago
Agreed. Darkreader + some uBlock Origin filters to remove any residual orange and I have a perfect white on black reading experience.
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by monomial 2y ago
I find it hard not to see "AI safety" in a similar vein as "the war on drugs". I truly can't imagine it ever succeeding (nor do I want it to, despite the unfortunate outcome in Las Vegas).
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by monomial 2y ago
Periodic reminder that you don't need to use GitHub to collaborate with other developers. My Gitea is still humming along nicely!
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by monomial 2y ago
I find it increasingly hard to justify any sort of SaaS subscription these days. Is the value you get out of Microsoft 365 really that much greater than any of the open source alternatives? So much better that you let a corporation dictat

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