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Yes, its very much a part of my work setup. It transformed working so that for the first time I have a good working setup everywhere. Its also my preferred place to consume cinema.…

I find the easiest way of explaining LLMs to laypeople is "Bulls*t Engine". If tuned well they're going to answer like a salesperson or internet troll: if they don't know they will…

I really enjoy the luxury of both. I have a MacBook Air that I use when I'm traveling or sick of being at the desk, but 80% of my computing is done at my desk with my Mac Studio. g…

Look at the UK. Tipping has gotten weird in the last decade but the service culture is just missing. The service industry is what you do in high school or college because it’s the …

'over the wire' is less obvious than it used to be. If you're in k8s pod, those calls are really kernel calls. Sure you're serializing and process switching where you could be just…

I bought Ben Eater's Motorola kit and was overwhelmed, I have a whole new respect for folks that can do this.

Yes. But CO2 is a problem because it prevents the heat from the sun from escaping (and there is 1kW/m2 of that). Without excess “greenhouse” gasses excess energy is free to radiate…

As a turbo for cars to enable focusing on super high wH/kg storage class batteries this is interesting. But as power delivery for drones and rail guns these could be game changing.…

Dyson fans substitute one large, slow fan, for a small fast fan and then hydraulically gear that down. Its an interesting idea. You would definitely create an uplift if air was blo…

For me its worse when my introversion is acting up. Its like having a song stuck in your head. It really only goes away if you engage with the rest of the world.

I started modeling in OpenSCAD. It fit really well with my programmer mentality. The language is small, the concepts simple and you can do some really amazing things with it, far m…

There isn't one way of doing this. Quickly figuring out if the model is good, I'd start with a map. If I'm feeling fancy I'll add a schema, if I need to I'll convert to a Record. B…

I work with people with multiple phds. They’re smart. Technology focused professionals and they still have problems. Computer skill must be a parretto distribution. The difference …

Yeah. For example, I don't find Veggietales to be family friendly. Its a minority opinion, but I can't get it removed from my kids profiles. So now I have to talk to my children, u…

The Guardian has the motto: “Comment is free, facts are sacred” During the rush to digital a section was launched “facts are sacred” Hahhahahah No it was “Comment is free”, that is…

I work in Pharma, we're not worried yet. We've done a few trials of nano-fabs, essentially 3D printed labs where you inject the raw materials and drugs pop out the end. They kind o…

Democratising manufacturing. CAD / CAM is still hard. CAM especially. You have to know a great deal about materials and tools, even order of operations to help the computer build e…

The difference between solving a problem, and solving a problem for someone else for money. If I'm solving a problem for myself, if it breaks in 'prod' then "Ooops", I try and avoi…

These books refocused my life's work towards drones and AI. I now know what I want to be when I grow up: an interstellar von Neumann Probe. I might even make my AI butler look like…

I quit for a year. Then figured I’d just use facebook for the bits that work for me: local sales, peloton and fitness groups. My deal is no friends, not even my wife. No posting ab…

The most interesting thing about serverless for me isn't 'web scale' its 'scale to zero'. My apps tend to be bursty, with trickles of data in between. I mostly concerned in reducin…

We have been free. We were free for millennia. But... if you look at the most free animals in nature: cats, after domesticating humans and getting guaranteed safety, shelter and fo…

I used to be angry at ‘polluters’ now I’m frustrated at a market/society that encourages bad behavior. Few set out to destroy the planet. If you buy fish from fishermen that drop t…

You can see this on a micro scale in Basel, CH. Buying bread in different countries, just a short walk / bike ride with unenforced boundaries and there are real price differences. …

On vacation in Copenhagen right now. OMG is it bike friendly.