rkangel

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by rkangel 14d ago
I (as someone British and from an Army family) read that as - "You know you screwed up right? Please reassure me you know that and won't do anything like it again". Followed by an admission that we all screw up sometimes (imp
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by rkangel 14d ago
GPDR fines in the EU are NOT trivial.
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by rkangel 14d ago
If you're happy with API billing then just use OpenRouter: https://openrouter.ai/google/gemini-3.8-flash Makes it easy to switch between models and I like it for exactly the reason that you're saying - I prep
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by rkangel 19d ago
These companies have displayed zero respect for everyone's intellectual property getting these models trained. I think not giving them your complete trust is reasonable! I'm not saying zero trust, and ZDR is fine for most things b
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by rkangel 19d ago
It is absolutely not worth buying hardware to run models for purely (long term) cost reasons. For open weights models the economies of scale means the cloud beats local significantly and your payback time is like 10 years. However there are
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by rkangel 20d ago
The performance of the recent open weight models is making it harder for the bug players to justify their pricing.
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by rkangel 20d ago
It's the domestic policy version of "commoditise your complement".
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by rkangel 23d ago
Thinkstation PGX maybe? Got the recommendation from these articles: https://www.xda-developers.com/qwen-3-8-27b-reverse-engineer... https://www.xda-developers.com/lenovo-thinkstation-pgx-revie... But haven&
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by rkangel 28d ago
Yeah, and Stripe is "just" a payments platform. Openrouter is easy, reliable and performant (like Stripe).
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by rkangel 29d ago
Yes this is how jj does it, except that jj is more powerful because it does automatic rebase of all the downstream commits. If you have any descendants of the gir history split (i.e. it's not the most recent) you'll have to do som
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by rkangel 1mo ago
Anyone got any thoughts on which Worms I should be buying on Steam? Worms Armageddon is on there, which is the one I remember from my childhood. Or am I better off with Worms WMD?
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by rkangel 1mo ago
There are actually periodic tests for people over 40 in the UK. The GP comment is wrong.
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by rkangel 1mo ago
Cynically - this sounds like an opportunity to sell you more medical care. The NHS isn't perfect, but one of the things it does well because of it's structure is minimise costs holistically. It's cheaper to treat conditions e
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by rkangel 1mo ago
Does the 7 day turnaround hold up for more complex boards (8-12 layers, laser drilled, blind micro-vias etc.)? Not looking for a detailed quote - just a hand waving answer. I'm in the UK and we have our own electronics assembly but the
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by rkangel 1mo ago
Yeah, maximum concurrent clients being 50 is nothing and you're already seeing a large gap. That is the whole point of the BEAM - it scales well with concurrent stuff which is important with web in general and very important for LiveVi
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by rkangel 1mo ago
But that's the right lever! That gives the local voting population the ability to decide how much they're willing to put up with data centres. And a state that has excess water and electricity can have tax breaks and then that&#x2
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by rkangel 1mo ago
It is genuinely useful on its own. I have enjoyed discovering the things I want and adding them bit by bit. I'm doing quite well with just a "todos" extension, and a "plan" prompt template (doesn't enforce read
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by rkangel 1mo ago
I use OpenRouter, currently Kimi K3 which has been extremely effective.
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by rkangel 2mo ago
I and my team did a full set of documentation for handing over a codebase to the client. A large complex codebase with accumulated history and subtle reasons why things were done. Diataxis was fantastic . It took a bit of effort to work ou
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by rkangel 2mo ago
Had some fun! One suggestion: Track generation needs a slightly longer bit at the start that is straight, wide and has no obstacles. The reason for this is the way the touchscreen controls work (exclusively played on phone with touchscreen)
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by rkangel 2mo ago
Lots of issues with that: Communicating from buoy to an underwater sub is hard (ULF antennas are 100s of metres long) and more importantly would give away there was a vessel there somewhere. Also that would only locate where the buoy is, no
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by rkangel 2mo ago
Again, this is what we know about the state of the art 20 years ago: For receiving (very very slowly) there is VLF, as the other comments have said. Can be done underwater. Think 160 character tweets that take minutes to arrive. One option
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by rkangel 2mo ago
Can you provide a citation to this fairly major claim?
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by rkangel 2mo ago
Very classified so we only know bits and pieces. "Inertial navigation" is part of it - basically very precise dead reckoning. Using specialist equipment like laser ring gyros to get precise measurements. Then also some other equip
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by rkangel 2mo ago
> First, because it promotes an "us vs them" mindset I was always intrigued by the maturity about how the Rust team approached this sort of thing. IIRC years ago you and I had a back and forth on me thinking it would be helpful
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by rkangel 2mo ago
I think that in addition to the cost you would also have a corrosion problem. That's usually the reason that silver isn't used as an engineering material.
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by rkangel 2mo ago
> My intuition is that npm, cargo, zig build etc are all “wrong”. And that Bazel/Buck are architecturally correct. Arguably yes. The fundamental issue is that Bazel etc. are "hermetic" build systems - every build step they
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by rkangel 2mo ago
I'm not saying that people should talk about this all the time, but are you saying you don't want people to feel able to mention key details of their personal life?
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by rkangel 2mo ago
I think they have gone for turboprop for a few reasons: There's an economy of scale with turbofans to some degree. Large high bypass turbofans are extremely efficient, particularly at their cruising mode. Smaller regional aircraft have
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by rkangel 2mo ago
I believe that they're safe, but I don't understand how . My circuit breaker is specced to be a bit lower than the capability of the downstream wiring. For the sake of argument let's say that the breaker is 16A and the circu

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