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Pleased to see this project in the wild– it seems useful to have a stepper motor with all the control components right on it, and USB-C PD to drive it. This one has an ESP32 chip on it to support a web interface as well. Lots of things I could think of making with this!

Right– write the application by using it. Pave the paths that work the way you want.

I've determined that it's a bad idea for me to write an article like this because every time I've seen one of these they're absolutely riddled with errors and incomplete information. I have no doubt I'd do worse!

If you're emotionally on edge when reading it, it's easier to miss that his math is wrong and he's no expert. Writing that way benefits him.

I had not heard of zero point clamping. This video I found is extremely cool, I can see how that would save a lot of time and money in the shop!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrLri_RdgK8

What happens when you use up the 60 minutes of talk time?

I'd argue it doesn't show growth or shrinking. What capacity does remembering strings of numbers "grow"? There's no clear connection to remembering other things, or math skills, or anything but how many numbers you remember.

The author says they still remember these numbers. Maybe they remember fewer and this is shrinking? Seems like a poor example at any rate.

Would it be possible to check for the power adapter and run processing then? These are the types of things I've been thinking about for my own app: https://stardateapp.com

Awesome, this is a good idea! Having a nice wrapper to make LLM calls easier is very helpful too :)

Nice to see someone digging in on the system models. That's on my list to play with, but I haven't seen much new info on them or how they perform yet.

The art of the deal isn't a deal. It's extortion.

This video is great, but it must have been awkward to have Linus narrating about your own house while you sit there. Why not interview Kenton?

Does this work for Raspberry Pi? Say for example I wanted to make an image that would auto-connect to my Tailscale network, or pre-install some software, would this be able to achieve that?

How are you handling the mailing? I love the idea of a mail-based project, but I worry that I would forget to go to the post office occasionally.

That is kind of strangely worded, but I think I see what they're getting at.

Say you would have been exactly not-profitable ($0) if you could expense all of your R&D as in the old system, therefore avoiding tax. Now with the new rules you may be on-paper profitable because you can only deduct 20% of the R&D as an expense this year. The remaining 80% of that expense tips you over, becomes profit, and that's taxable.

Not sure why, but reasons.json is mostly duplicates (as many as 50!) of the same 25 responses: https://gist.github.com/deanputney/4143ca30f7823ce53d894d3ed...

It'd be easier to add new ones if they were in there a single time each. Maybe the duplication is meant to handle distribution?

Tracking stock trades is one of the most advanced uses of audio journaling I've seen– wow! You're pushing that into an area I had not thought of, very cool.

I made Stardate[0] for my own voice journaling and use it similarly. I track how much my dog weighs, sailing hours and notes, and new issues I find in the app. Recently I used it to make a daily checklist on paper by feeding the notes into LaTeX[1]. There's just so much to explore here!

[0] https://stardateapp.com

[1] https://www.deanputney.com/blog/2025/03/20/Paper-Checklist-P...

That's very interesting. I guess it just can't compete with any of the Nvidia cards? I would think your results should show up if sorted by "generation"– maybe the leaderboard is cached...

I cannot tell if the original tweet is sarcasm or not. Sections like this make me think yes? It's got to be at least tongue-in-cheek.

The purpose of these changes is to hurt those who are vulnerable to them. It's shocking to see how quickly people were willing to trade that support for some perceived short term gain. I suspect a lot of people are about to find out they're vulnerable too.

The trouble with the bulbs is that if you turn off the switch, now your automations can't control the bulb.

I've got one bulb that occasionally loses connection. Then I have to turn it off on the switch, and the next time I go to turn it on with the automation I've got to turn the switch on again and let it connect first. This is not a seamless system.

The Fletcher's Mill grinders are _excellent_. Highly recommend these.

This is a better joke too.

Understood! Then yeah, jeans are probably fine.

The hike around the base of Mount Rainier is a multi-day endeavor. Since the author mentions a guide, I’d guess this is what they mean. It requires preparations like shipping supplies in advance- jeans would be a poor choice.

https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/washington/the-wonderland...

Before I bought a printer for home, I'd go print things at my local library. Pretty convenient, and it was free for 10 b/w pages a week! But getting my own used Brother printer was a real step up.

Maybe "Buy us some crayons" instead? You could even do a partial donation for coloring supplies to a kids' charity.

Taxes should also be included in the advertised price, then. Just imagine!

Is this specific hardware necessary? If I wanted to run this on a Raspberry Pi zero, for example, is that possible?

I read your comment, then looked at Bob's and thought "Ah, he's from Seattle." And I was right.

It's not clear what can be searched on this. The interface suggests "concepts", and I'm not sure how I would define those in a movie trailer.

Being able to search actors or movies would be interesting, but IMdB already serves this purpose. Searching dialogue is what I was hoping for, similar to morbotron.com or frinkiac.com. filmot.com does this for general YouTube videos, but I would love to see that applied to a quality film collection.