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by throwaway219450 4d ago
I would suggest watching the Animatrix - particularly The Second Renaissance (part 1 & 2) which tells the story of how humanity ended up at war with the machines. It's only about 20 minutes total, but it's really well done.
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by throwaway219450 4d ago
ALDI/Lidl copy every big brand under the sun. They've been litigated against, but they get away with it way more often than they lose. Many cases fail to prove that consumers were misled, and (I find this incredible) one of the st
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by throwaway219450 5d ago
If you were a superintelligence why would you farm humans and waste resources on all the excess... material... that isn't required for thought? And unless the machine's goal is to specifically abuse human consciousness, why wouldn
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by throwaway219450 5d ago
I consider myself a decent amateur baker and I've never noticed a huge difference in bread flours. I buy from a local mill because they sell interesting grains and I want to support them. Otherwise I get King Arthur, or Bob's Red
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by throwaway219450 6d ago
Some thrift stores will take them, if you have a good one nearby (I’ve been lucky here, but they’re rare). You can also put a note on your local freebie groups and someone might bite. In some cities you can leave them bagged outside your ho
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by throwaway219450 6d ago
I thought the same thing, and then wondered if this must be an enterprise problem, because what home user adds loads of icons - so many that IO becomes a concern - and also wants them to be randomly assigned to other family members? But t
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by throwaway219450 7d ago
Bootstrap was/is popular for the same reason. One framework and your site looks decent on almost any device. The downside is a bit like LLM work in that it all ends up looking like a Bootstrap site unless you’re a good designer.
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by throwaway219450 8d ago
IANAL. In states with multi or all-party consent, there is usually some wording like "reasonable expectation" of privacy, which you don't have in public by default. The store could argue you have no expectation of privacy the
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by throwaway219450 11d ago
> Today, legitimate businesses are very careful about how they use bulk e-mail I don’t think this is remotely true. Sure, they’re legally obliged to let you unsubscribe, and sure, it’s not dick pills, but every US company will immediatel
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by throwaway219450 11d ago
Do you mean 375 F? 60/40 is liquid at that temp (374 F). 375 C is way overkill for lead unless your iron is terrible.
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by throwaway219450 11d ago
My advice is to try letting the agent fill in the gaps. You can probably architect better than it can. Write your class outlines, explicitly define the public facing bits and what you want APIs to look like. Write the key integration tests
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by throwaway219450 11d ago
You can express a circuit as a graph, and many schematic formats are plaintext. Same goes for the Gerbers which are an ASCII format used to describe the masks that are used to define the PCB traces. The models are trained on a lot of academ
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by throwaway219450 11d ago
There's some cool research that looks at how strongly the weights are aligned through training vs adherence to the system prompt. Like when you know a model is lying through censorship: https://arxiv.org/html/2603.
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by throwaway219450 12d ago
For stuff like this, definitely. It’s already exciting. Claude et al are surprisingly competent with real hardware. I’ve also had good success debugging basic issues with micros - not via the debugger, but giving datasheet and written analy
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by throwaway219450 13d ago
The most interesting open source example of this I can think of is Ben Krasnow's (and friends') temperature reporting magnetic stir bar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh1SIfipQs4 The temp sensor and transceiver
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by throwaway219450 13d ago
You can stream Big Picture with tools like Sunshine/Moonlight or their forks. Works amazingly well over a LAN if you have a server somewhere and stream to something connected to the TV. I have a headless server and an NVIDIA GPU so not
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by throwaway219450 14d ago
Easy enough, since this is how celestial navigation works, especially as we have very accurate clocks. You can get latitude from image declination and longitude from time, provided your clock is set from a good reference. In theory you only
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by throwaway219450 14d ago
I want to believe this, but every time I try Gemini coding assistance within Colab it's utterly dire. Code gen in a cell is OK, but things fall apart when you try to get into a feedback loop. The system prompt/harness fails to inf
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by throwaway219450 14d ago
It’s curious that this doesn’t exist really. All the components are there, location via GPS, the tracking mechanics are not particularly difficult once you know the orientation, and there are good open plate solvers. Maybe good sensors sudd
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by throwaway219450 16d ago
> explicit quality gates, content-addressed provenance, frozen empirical contracts, synthetic qualification A fellow Opus 5 user I see
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by throwaway219450 17d ago
It depends very much on the furniture, I think citation needed on exactly which items you’re talking about. Name and shame! The big wardrobes? They are the worst combination of impossibly heavy, awkward to disassemble and expensive to repur
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by throwaway219450 17d ago
> For those of you who look down on IKEA furniture, I'd like to hear about what alternatives you think need mentioning. Especially for young people or people of modest means. I look in antique/thrift/charity/freecycle
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by throwaway219450 19d ago
I still use chat copy/paste for this. Can't argue too much when the results work. The tried and tested alternative for niche Linux issues is browsing the internet and checking different options until something works anyway. I do r
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by throwaway219450 20d ago
I used to assume it was the fault of average human annotators. That the people who are paid peanuts to rank chat outputs preferred the pretentious sounding ones. It wasn’t until quite a bit into the LLM boom that companies started to pay fo
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by throwaway219450 20d ago
Unless you value privacy, pay for openrouter. You still get the benefits of cheap tokens and programmatic usage. 3090 pricing is something of a wild card. Since the only big-mem consume cards are the xx90s, and a 5090 is pushing $5000 , re
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by throwaway219450 21d ago
It's not worth engaging in the debate. People have complained that Prusa printers are expensive since forever, even when the MK3 was objectively superior to the alternative models. They would rather buy a $200 Ender and spend a lifetim
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by throwaway219450 22d ago
If it’s purely for experimentation then why not the DGX Spark/GB10? It’s up about 10% from release RRP which is quite good (you might argue it was overpriced then, but prosumer and workstation GPU prices are up 100% ). 4TB NVMe is not
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by throwaway219450 25d ago
Benchmarks test whether models can pass exams with a right answer or a green test case. I don't think the models are getting dumber, but they're definitely getting more incomprehensible to talk to. I've noticed this happening
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by throwaway219450 26d ago
Can I just say this website is great. It's an old-web rabbit hole of little experiments that are occasionally on the dangerous side, life commentary and the comforting lack of any significant CSS. Recommend going to the site map and wa
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by throwaway219450 26d ago
Apple makes this very easy. I broke an iPhone and bought a replacement. If you have iCloud, you login to the new phone and you can see which backups you can recover from. If you are transferring a phone, say you upgraded, it’s even easier.

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