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larpingscholar

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larpingscholar··on Gboard Conveyor Belt Version
I think the cross links beteeen tracks on the flex pcb are a mistake. These links make it impossible to vary traction which will cause premature wear and makes turning impossible.
larpingscholar··on The GPU Black Market That Washington Can't Shut Down
An AI summary with no new info since March is generally considered uninteresting by anyone paying attention.
larpingscholar··on Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
Wouldn't using OpenAI break the cleanroom?
larpingscholar··on Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers
Rack densities have also more than doubled just in last 5 years
larpingscholar··on FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US
Foreign lidar cars are already effectively banned under the same 7 year old (renewed yearly) "emergency powers" Executive Order that led to this drone ban. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/05/17/2019-10...

And more properly there is an introduced bipartisan bill - SAFE LiDAR Act.

larpingscholar··on Grok Build is open source

  curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash
this is unauditable trust in XAI.
larpingscholar··on Preservatives linked to high blood pressure and heart disease in new study
And "Ascorbic acid (E300) was also specifically linked to cardiovascular disease." That is, they are claiming that vitamin c gives you heart disease...
larpingscholar··on Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks
The difference is share of global production vs exports
larpingscholar··on Wi-Wi is wireless time sync at 1 nanosecond
It's the period of the carrier wave (900MHz)?
larpingscholar··on Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?
You think the chemical compounds were just magiced into the ocean with no carbon intensity. It literally says carbon will not be absorbed and that geoengineering is not the goal.
larpingscholar··on Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?
From your link:

> Not geoengineering

> The project is also unlikely to bury much if any carbon dioxide for one simple reason: metabolism. As other iron fertilization experiments have shown, it is relatively easy to get plankton to bloom, but it is harder for that bloom to sink to the bottom of the ocean, where it takes CO2 with it.

This project is a net carbon emitter by design.

larpingscholar··on Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
You are yet to discover the joys of the managed settings scope. They can be set three ways. The claude.ai admin console; by one of two registry keys e.g. HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\ClaudeCode; and by an alphabetically merged directory of json files.
larpingscholar··on When rust ≠ performance. a lesson in developer experience
I agree. Though the line count is meaningless as the vibe coded diff has pointless formatting and whitespace changes.