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According to her Wikipedia page, she's ~23 and went to Harvard, so A) her life experience is limited, B) most of the experience she does have involves being on a path to elitehood,…

Step 1 of displaying a web page is to download a small LLM from the server to create a rendering framework at run-time...

I didn't know there was a sequel! Looks like there's also a part 3 that covers teensy dynamic linking: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/somewhat....

My favorite color in all the world is the green of a mineral called dioptase. It's a deep, dark green, richer than an emerald. It looks amazing in real life and utterly boring on a…

Automatic Pope, presumably. Offering pontifications (opinions) via technology (automated). “Pontiff” is another word for pope.

I feel like this poem isn't really about soldering, but if anyone is actually bothered by it, there are some options. Unleaded solder and a decent fume extractor make the process c…

Anthropomorphizing LLMs is something that happens in the design stage, when they're given human names and trained to emit first-person sentences. If AI companies and developers sto…

This is generally good but it’s missing low speed (1.5 megabits/second), which is also under USB 1.1.

This reminds me a bit of the ending of In the Beginning Was the Command Line: > The people who brought us this operating system would have to provide templates and wizards, giving …

Fair enough. I was thinking of local governments unilaterally deciding to impose income taxes. The impression I got was that existing local income taxes are effectively state fundi…

Well, local governments (cities and towns) also have expenses -- police, fire departments, trash collection, water and sewage, roads, public works. Schools are partially funded loc…

> Get rid of sales tax, property tax, exemptions, IRAs, 401ks, short capital gains, long capital gains, medicare, state, all of that bullcrap. Annualized, non-annualized, credits f…

Just used this to make a couple quick diagrams. It's easy to use and the diagrams export well. A couple suggestions for improvement: 1. When working with small rectangles, I had tr…

Some background for those who aren't familiar: "Romanization" refers to converting Japanese sounds into the Latin (Roman) alphabet. In Japanese, these sounds are written with phone…

To me, the valuable comments are the ones that share the writer's expertise and experiences (as opposed to opinions and hypothesizing) or the ones that ask interesting questions. L…

When Quake(world) was released, it was common to play games on dial-up modems, where 250+ milliseconds was a normal ping time. If you played on a distant server, you could easily g…

That’s exactly what I’m looking for! Thank you very much!

Tangential question: Does anyone know of a basic large-signal equation for a triode (or any other vacuum tube type) like the simplified Ebers-Moll equation for BJTs or the square l…

I’m interested in alternatives to Raspberry Pis right now and software support is a concern. Do you have any recommendations?

I don't think this holds up. Historically, memory sizes have increased exponentially, but access times have gotten faster, not slower. And since the access time comes from the memo…

This is a fantastic summary that's very easy to understand. Thank you very much for writing it!

What intensity is “high-intensity?” The article doesn’t give a number. Is this something that can be done with a few bright LEDs or do you need a specialized lighting array?

As an EE who changed majors from CS in college and who has also done a lot of programming, I can see where the author is coming from. But electrical engineering, by its nature, is …

> Does "career development" just mean "more money"? No. Career development includes paid training sessions, title promotions (junior -> senior, etc.) opportunities to work on large…