jdboyd

Yes, it makes tips more expensive. However, for the about of improvement in performance, I think it is worth it. I use Hakko T15 tips and they are about $20 each. Cheaper Chinese compatible toys are available and probably are good enough, but I don't replace yours frequently enough to care to find out.

I didn't use an LLM, but on rereading in the morning, I am cringing at "wasn't so interactive", so maybe I should have. There had to be a better way to put my complaint.

They don't seem to be too interested in releases. Their git is sadly gitweb, which isn't something I love seeing, but the main parts appear to have activity this year.

My experience using sigrok with cheap fx2 based logic analyzer hardware was great, and I heavily recommend it. My experience using it as a GUI for an oscilloscope was less impressive (it wasn't so interactive).

The next time I need my oscilloscope, I want to take a few moments to try out https://www.ngscopeclient.org/

As some one bummed by how second class RDNA had been for ROCm, this tremendously exciting. While there are other reasons that ROCm is second class to CUDA, I think this has been a big one.

I mainly use Field Notes brand. I like the thinner covers.

I tend to grab a new book pretty commercial project, so those books didn't always get filled before I'm done with them.

I also go through a series for sketching. I wish I could find something the same size that was good for water color though.

FreeCAD/Ondsel ES are the main open source game in town. I know SolveSpace is out there and sound pretty serious, but it doesn't appear to have enough CAM built in to go from 3D model to G-Code to send to your CNC.

Some people have made Inkscape to G-Code workflows, but that is probably extremely limited for anything beyond engraving.

I used to hear mention of HeeksCNC, but I haven't seen anyone talk about it for years, and I've never tried it.

Easel is freemium (but NOT open source). It is an online service, which I hate, and it is very limited, but for many things it is easier than just about anything else (also using it is required for some machines at a maker space I'm a member of). That might not be a bad tool for someone clone into a beginner friendly limited CAM package. It would get you pretty far. I might have to try to set a weekend aside to try doing something like that.

Personally, while I started with an older version of FreeCAD, I mostly use Fusion360 currently. With the introduction of Ondsel ES, I've been meaning to give that a try, but at the previously mentioned makerspace, there is also a machine that only allows (policy, not actual machine limitation) using Fusion360 for CAM, so I still would be somewhat tied to that.

QML wasn't (at least in the Qt5 days) a good fit for traditional desktop style applications. It was nice for more multimedia touch screen stuff, but HTML5 in an embedded browser like CEF or Electron was catching up fast and with much better third party library support.

The title doesn't do this justice. This is about how in 2016, there were no roof fall deaths in US coal mines for the first time ever and the career and life of a federal employee who played a large part in that accomplishment.

Why VR instead of projectors?

I've been interested in (but haven't yet tried) the BliKVM devices that are a for of PiKVM but are on a PCIeb card to put the device in the server. First generation from them used Pis the second switched to some other Linux SoC.

Probably because USBC connectors are really cheap. If this was 5 years ago, they probably would be doing something terrible with a usb 3 A connector instead.

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I am a 20+ year experienced developer.

Most of my work has involved embedded development (Linux, RTOS, baremetal, C/C++/uPython), including various forms of networking and distributed systems, audio/video, as well as backend services (usually using Python, Django, and Go), deployments (AWS, DO, Ansible, Docker, etc). I also do iOS and Android development. I do some frontend work, but that isn't my specialty.

I love helping people develop new products to meet their goals and needs, especially with a focus for getting it in use and making money as soon as possible to demonstrate utility and make money. I also have extensive experience taking over existing legacy code bases.

I am available for part-time or full-time contract work, long-term or short-term. I would love for every project to turn into a lasting business relationship.

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This feels like spam to me. If I'm wrong, could someone add some explanation?

URL should probably be: https://magic.dev/blog/100m-token-context-windows instead.

Please explain. This isn't obvious to me.

Here is Databricks page on that: https://www.databricks.com/glossary/data-lakehouse

That wasn't very enlightening (at least not to me), so here is Google's page: https://cloud.google.com/discover/what-is-a-data-lakehouse That page wasn't great either.

As best as I understand it, they are trying to add more structure to the data lake, and optionally ACID compliance, so that datawarehouse tools can talk to the lake directly.

In this case, you can read what he said about why here: https://medium.com/@tonyszhou/postmortem-1b338537fabc

There was a record set in 1999 to do E2M1 in under 8 seconds. It was broken repeatedly since then, but people thought it was impossible to get it under 7 seconds, and finally someone did that. This video shows the old record, new record and many improvements along the way.

I've been using Fedora Silverblue for a few months. It has Fedora in the name, so it isn't super fringe, but as one of their experimental distros, it isn't exactly mainstream.

The laptop I run it on was running Ubuntu 22.04. I tried to update it to 24.04 and so much stuff was broken that it was either do a clean reinstall of 22.04, or try something else. I figured if I was going to try something else, I wanted to try something that might make a big difference in my life, not just an incremental one.

After 4 months of use, I'd say the jury is still out on this. The part that is most irritating is that command line tools in flatpaks are unpleasant to use, and having to enter a container to use such cli tools also isn't always the nicest either (not that entering a container is hard, but if you have to then install tools in that container, you either have to keep the container around, or wait for the tools to re-install everytime you want that tool again).

It would be interesting to know how this could be less innovative and still have had a chance to work.

From my perspective, the point was the software. Getting that software to markets with unreliable electricity and little money would have been a problem without a new type of hardware device. In the end though, it was the hardware that dominated the consciousness, which was too bad. OTOH, if they hadn't tried, that might mean something like 2+ million kids might have had a worse education (assuming that the OLPC machines were useful to their education), so I doubt it is fair to call it a failure.

It definitely wasn't aimed at US or European mainstream success, nor was it even really offered in those markets, so lack of success in those markets is expected.

An email us link is a bit discouragement for using it work purposes. I want a clearly defined price list, at least for some entry levels of commercial use.

I wanted one of those things so badly. It inspired me to buy a used DECstation 5000 to get my hands on something with an R3000 CPU to try writing code for the CPU until I could hopefully someday get a Yaroze. That idea didn't really go anywhere though. Thinking that the DECstation was a useful step towards a Yaroze was probably only wishful thinking. I wish I still had the computer, but then there are a lot of things I wish I still had.

They specifically mention A2000 as supported. I assume that requires an '030 accelerator card then, but an A2000 with '030 card is probably much cheaper than an A3000 or A4000.

On paper, this looks to me like what the MK4 should have been from the beginning.

Who needs kids shows when you can make your kids watch the channels mentioned in this thread?

SEEKING WORK | USA | REMOTE

I am a 20+ year experienced developer.

Most of my work has involved embedded development (Linux, RTOS, baremetal, C/C++/uPython), including various forms of networking and distributed systems, audio/video, as well as backend services (usually using Python, Django, and Go), deployments (AWS, DO, Ansible, Docker, etc). I also do iOS and Android development. I do some frontend work, but that isn't my specialty.

I love helping people develop new products to meet their goals and needs, especially with a focus for getting it in use and making money as soon as possible to demonstrate utility and make money. I also have extensive experience taking over existing legacy code bases.

I am available for part-time or full-time contract work, long-term or short-term. I would love for every project to turn into a lasting business relationship.

Github: https://github.com/jd-boyd Website: https://boydtechnicalsolutions.com/ https://blog.jdboyd.net/ Email: jdboyd@boydtechnicalsolutions.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdboyd/