peteforde

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by peteforde 11d ago
I understand that there's always a hesitation to invest in what looks like an expensive and large tool, but if there's one thing that I could go back in time and force myself to get years sooner, it's a stereo microscope. It&
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by peteforde 17d ago
There are lots of pedals these days that are designed as performance instruments in their own right. Check out the Erica Synths Nightverb; it's all chonky knobs and it doesn't even have stomp switches. You'd never put it on y
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Storm Summoner, a MIDI controller for effects pedals(kabaragoya.com)
32 points by peteforde 20d ago|8 comments
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by peteforde 22d ago
Austria: Federal Environment Agency / approved dual system. P €810 + W €1,110 = €1,920/yr. Battery: +€1,110. Belgium: IVC/CIE; Fost Plus for household packaging / Valipac for commercial packaging. P €585 + W €585 = €1,17
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by peteforde 22d ago
I'm not part of the Musk fan club either, you can count on that. However, I've been using Cursor since it came out. I have a massive amount of institutional knowledge locked into their platform, and vastly prefer it to the other o
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by peteforde 22d ago
I don't know because I honestly don't know or really understand how/why anyone needs what you're describing. I am not saying that you're wrong, just very aware that we appear to use LLMs in radically different ways.
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by peteforde 24d ago
A few months ago folks were understandably annoyed when Microsoft dropped their heavily subsidized per-request pricing model because it was figuratively burning cash. Well, I'm here to tell you that whatever is going on behind the scen
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by peteforde 24d ago
I'm sure that these are good or even excellent books, but this topic is deep in my nerd wheelhouse and as a list it's alarmingly sparse on the titles people who are deeply into this stuff actually recommend. The single most glarin
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by peteforde 24d ago
This is peak HN. It's a criminal shame that nobody else is seeing it.
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by peteforde 1mo ago
I feel like you're getting hung up in semantics such that your essay doesn't say the obvious: coding is "easy" relative to confidently knowing how and what to do next at every stage. The comparison does not imply that co
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AI alignment is a red herring(interconnected.org)
3 points by peteforde 1mo ago|0 comments
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Siglent enshittifies their frequency analyzers(siglent.tawk.help)
5 points by peteforde 1mo ago|1 comments
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by peteforde 1mo ago
Let's say you're in the market for an $1800 frequency analyzer such as https://siglentna.com/spectrum-analyzers/ssa3000x-plus/ Well, if you want to use your new tool to analyze some frequencies, you need
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by peteforde 2mo ago
That's why we're here. Even the lame posts on here have survived vastly more scrutiny by smart people than >99% of what is published online.
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by peteforde 2mo ago
Maybe I'm an outlier, but I find that my main reason for discontinuing Ground News/Nebula/whatever is that I subscribe aspirationally and never actually make time to consume the content. One year I got my partner and I subscr
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by peteforde 2mo ago
Everyone's experience will be different, but I will say that I have not received significant network effects traffic on Substack nor have I ever been tempted to click on suggested posts to others' content. In short, I think that f
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by peteforde 2mo ago
I've been talking to them since before my first comment to you, and they are unable to sell even a single unit to a verified engineering team. They told me that if I am willing to commit to at least 300 of the 4GB/32GB eMMC + BT&#
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by peteforde 2mo ago
Thanks for reminding me that that exists! I'll have to give it a try, as it seems to have matured significantly since I last checked. That said, outside of casual experimentation, I have almost zero need for an LLM to lay out my circui
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by peteforde 2mo ago
Every variant comes up as not available. This is the listing, right? https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007516847708.html
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by peteforde 2mo ago
I have serious beef with ChatGPT's text-based circuit schematic drawing abilities. Even though the model itself appears to be fully coherent about the big and little picture aspects of whatever's "on bench" I have wasted
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by peteforde 2mo ago
This is really cool. I would love to switch from using the SoM I'm currently using to the Radxa CM3 but I cannot find even a single unit actually available for purchase on any of the "international" distributor options. Can y
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by peteforde 2mo ago
Right... except I'm asking so that I can apply his techniques to my PCB, which you know nothing about.
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by peteforde 2mo ago
Very happy to hear about your success! I'm curious to hear more about your anti-counterfeit strategies beyond just enabling encryption. I'm curious if you feel like anti-counterfeit and open source firmware are mutually exclusive.
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Frozen 2 should be Rated R(interconnected.org)
23 points by peteforde 2mo ago|18 comments
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Digital Fauxice – an OSS clean room Nikon Digital Ice with 1:1 results(github.com)
2 points by peteforde 2mo ago|0 comments
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by peteforde 2mo ago
Again: getting a call is enough to knock someone out of deep concentration. Anyhow, in addition to not hating LLMs, I would add "try not to use dramatic, hyperbolic devices in casual writing, it makes you sound ridiculous" to my a
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by peteforde 2mo ago
That's really interesting about German law. I didn't know that, so I appreciate learning. I suspect that if we were having this debate over dinner, we would agree on far more than we disagree on. I think we're speaking past e
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by peteforde 2mo ago
I wish I was there with you to witness the look on your face as you slowly begin to realize that something as simple as a call can and often will absolutely pull you out of the flow state. Someone sneezing nearby can pull you out of the flo
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by peteforde 2mo ago
I'll defer to John Green, here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80SCl6n0TEo
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by peteforde 2mo ago
It is a skill that you can develop.

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