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Beautiful! Thank you for making this. I've been trying to find something to use for enriching my own self-hosted LLMs and agentic tools with information I find useful. Metasearch t…

Hey, thanks for the feedback! If I get some time to circle back, I'll be sure to incorporate these into some new tests and address them. I want to set up a qemu-system emulator bas…

I use pi with an RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell to run Gemma 4 31b to do all my agentic coding. I find it useful. This side project highlights a similar approach to how I scope and tackle …

The container is a Linux container running a virtual machine inside. WinApps needs a Windows RDP server to work. Most of the functionality doesn't care where that Windows RDP serve…

I worry too. American consumer credit card debt sounds like it's rising pretty quickly, and many people I talk to have a lack of free will and carry a sense of unfairness in the sy…

I think most people don't care about optimizing an extra $10 out of their weekly grocery run. Probably a better example is figuring out the cost of a loan. Just multiply the amorti…

One of my undergrad degrees is in math. As you study it, you learn to identify your assumptions (axioms), find or build interesting abstractions, prove properties about them (theor…

I would hesitate to judge based on what's "easy to type" on the keyboard in front of me. A lot of editing tools and processes automatically converting `--` to `—`, so folks editing…

That makes sense. Mine runs every few minutes sometimes in heavy rain.

Thanks for the suggestion. It looks like 100Ah LiFePo4 batteries are pretty easy to find too.

Do you have any examples? I haven't seen what you're describing despite shopping UPSes, but something less than $100 that could last 10+ hours would be amazing. My $200 1500VA/1000…

I might get this for my basement sump pump in case the power goes out during a storm.

The official Python documentation actually comes with a Socket Programming HOWTO that goes over conceptual topics and intended socket API usage: https://docs.python.org/dev/howto/s…

The problem is platforms moved away from S3 sleep. I've heard people claim it was mostly so managed Windows laptops could force updates with the lid shut and the laptop suspended. …

The Adafruit FT232H works out of the box with pyftdi and libftdi. You don't have to use any special tools or flash it in any way. The USB commands are handled by the underlying lib…

Also, while libftdi isn't hard to work with: http://developer.intra2net.com/git/?p=libftdi;a=blob;f=examp... It's dead simple to also use these FTDI devices with Python: https://eb…

FTDI also makes a lot of USB chips with software controllable GPIO pins: https://www.adafruit.com/product/2264 https://ftdichip.com/products/ft2232h-mini-module/ Bit banging on a m…

Arduino is a nice, but it's still built on the shoulders of tools like GCC, isn't it? I never owned a computer in the 90s, but my impression was that Cygnus[1] did a lot of work po…

PBS Kids has a lot of games and activities on their website: https://pbskids.org/games If your kids watch any PBS shows them they'll recognize the characters. The activities were f…

We had 3 under 3. When our son was 5 and the twins were 3, we were able to switch to forward facing car seats in the back of my Dodge Challenger, which is technically just a coupe.…

Cross checking work doesn't scale. That'll only become more of a problem as your business grows and you have more important concerns that pull you farther and farther away from the…

You simply have to do it every day with self-awareness of what you're doing and why it's important until you get comfortable with it. Day one of my first studio class, we did sketc…

Most normal education tends to skew towards the didactic all the way through your undergraduate studies, especially with the math and hard sciences (which includes most CS students…

In art school, we spent a lot of time learning how to give and receive critiques, because the fastest way to improve was to try frequently and critique often. You learn very early …

Exist. That’s what I did for a good chunk of my twenties. My life has changed dramatically since then. It’s hard to set a direction for yourself with that mode of living, so I pivo…