tonyarkles

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by tonyarkles 6d ago
As I look up and see three lightbulbs side-by-side over my desk and another one in the lamp on the desk… which is dramatically more light than the old 100W bulb used but also lower energy consumption.
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by tonyarkles 9d ago
Heh, you're probably right. Something that did make me laugh pretty hard... I had a GoPro timelapse of an IMAX theatre screen being replaced and I thought to myself "surely in the vast sea of DaVinci Resolve features I've nev
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by tonyarkles 10d ago
Having somewhat accidentally also discovered this pattern, I do recommend figuring out some kind of compaction/deprecation method, potentially history-preserving, potentially just letting the git commit messages themselves serve as the
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by tonyarkles 10d ago
I think there's a really interesting tension between what you're saying and what the parent post is saying, and it's something that's been discussed for a long time but LLMs are throwing a new wrench into it: a given use
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by tonyarkles 14d ago
But also achievable on a $150/mo (CAD) Max 5 subscription (I currently have 11.6B tokens in the last 30 days) according to /usage. It doesn’t break down input vs. output tokens as far as I can tell.
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by tonyarkles 14d ago
Oh, my friend, I’m in my 40s now and while I’ve never touched ladder logic (mostly on purpose), I can honestly say I’ve been writing C since the last century and C++ only a few years less. I remember, with pain in my heart, what C++ looked
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by tonyarkles 14d ago
Something that wasn’t super clear to me was whether the turbines are actually used for propulsion or if they’re used solely as generators to recharge the batteries/power the electric motors. I could honestly see it going either way. Ha
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by tonyarkles 14d ago
I’d guess comparable for a 30-seat regional, you’d probably want to compare with a PT6, especially since this aircraft is prop driven. That’s only about 250lb dry.
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by tonyarkles 14d ago
To that point, the battery capacity they’ve got, rough envelope math, is maybe 10 minutes beyond reserve. They’d likely need at least double, probably triple battery capacity to fly useful routes all-electric with enough reserve stored in b
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by tonyarkles 14d ago
Typical reserve requirement is 30 min for a turbine aircraft (45 for piston). Given the 125 mile battery-only range and the probability that it flies at at least 200 kts (230 mph), it’s pretty unlikely to hit even a 30 min reserve on only b
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by tonyarkles 14d ago
Yeah, the nifty part is instead of trying to write your whole multi-threaded high performance tool in Julia, there is excellent support for taking the math work you’ve done and codegen C out of it. Am very happily using that in prod today
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by tonyarkles 15d ago
I'm currently split between Python and Julia, having used R happily in the past for data analysis and Matlab for this and that in my EE program. For me, Julia crushes one niche that the rest of them are not good at: making the math loo
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by tonyarkles 15d ago
There’s been an interesting co-evolution that I’ve been experiencing with Claude Code. I’ll ask it to do a task, I’ll watch what it’s doing (often lots of find and grep and ripgrep) and then after the task is complete I’ll ask it if there a
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by tonyarkles 15d ago
> Adults with responsibilities, especially with families I’ll rephrase a little bit because “not give a shit” is maybe too flippant and what you’re saying is important context: if you have a family and responsibilities, framing it in ter
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by tonyarkles 16d ago
Or not tonight. If I didn’t enjoy yard care, I wouldn’t have a yard or I’d xeriscape or gravel + trees, or something. Laundry’s kind of a drag, mostly the folding part. Most of the time I enjoy cooking and tidying up afterwards; when I’m no
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by tonyarkles 16d ago
Nope, they might just want to clock out from work at 5pm and go ride their bike until sunset without giving a single shit about anything but the fresh air. Or go home and walk their kid to the park. Or throw a ball around the yard with the
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by tonyarkles 16d ago
Rationally-speaking, maybe not. I’ve been a long-time subscriber. When I first subscribed, my day-to-day involved embedded Linux and getting the “breaking news” was pretty valuable. These days I still do that somewhat but I’m stuck on a cru
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by tonyarkles 20d ago
Not a lawyer, but to some degree I think policies like the one Debian came up with can help the argument. You’re not submitting a stream of commits that all have an Authored-By: Claude Code footer and massive yappy commits and comments. The
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by tonyarkles 20d ago
And to keep the loop going, stroller-accessible spaces are also walker-accessible spaces and cart-accessible spaces. Worked at a computer store in the early 00s. Our rented retail space had a wheelchair ramp and there were a few elderly reg
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by tonyarkles 21d ago
I love north-up maps because I find they give me way better spatial context. My truck’s nav system gives north-up as an option but my phone and my truck map both suffer from the same problem on different axes. My phone sits in its holder ve
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by tonyarkles 21d ago
I’m smiling a bit reading this thread because I went essentially the opposite way: started contracting in 2010 when my grad school stipend ran out, in Feb 2020 (kind of lucky timing…) one of my clients convinced me to come on as FTE #2 at t
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by tonyarkles 26d ago
Something I’ve found comparing between Fable and Opus is that Fable has impressively good analysis skills, but both of them seem to go way way overboard with “present state” comments “# We’re making this change here because of this issue bl
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by tonyarkles 26d ago
Both things can be true. I’ve noticed both the same thing the parent posted and what Linus posted and my vibe on the split (I haven’t kept detailed notes) is that on greenfield code they tend to maybe over-verify and on brownfield code or d
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by tonyarkles 27d ago
Here’s the thing about the immigrant pulled-up-by-bootstraps story: immigration is expensive. When you hear about someone coming to North America with “only a few thousand dollars in their pocket”, you have to remember that by time they’ve
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by tonyarkles 1mo ago
You’ve just described a significant amount of ITAR. Am Canadian but have to deal with it occasionally. MWIR/LWIR imagers are another prime example. I can order way better (spec-wise at least) IR sensors from AliExpress than I can from
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by tonyarkles 1mo ago
I was digging into the history of PostScript engines inside laser printers and Adobe made tons of royalty money off of that for quite a long time.
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by tonyarkles 1mo ago
> Blaming the airport staff who have to optimize for the greater good is quite something. I don't think it's actually as noble as "optimizing for the greater good", but rather "optimizing for getting through the
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by tonyarkles 1mo ago
Am in Canada where postal codes are somewhat street name-dependent even when that doesn't strictly make sense. Through a quirk of history, my corner house's address is on the otherwise vacant side street instead of on the main tho
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by tonyarkles 1mo ago
Haven't tried with Sol but Opus's ability to reverse engineer both Linux and naked microcontroller firmware has blown me away. I'm basically at the point where embedded devices doing something weird get Claude Code + radare2
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by tonyarkles 1mo ago
And if the success rate is 1/10 but the cost is 1/100… that’s still a win as far as the war chest is concerned.

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