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cameron_b

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Beekeeping, videoconferencing, MicroPython in no particular order

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cameron_b··on Show HN: Bible TUI – Read the Bible in your terminal
I tried loading a csv from https://github.com/jadenzaleski/BibleTranslations as an alternate to the KJV included, but the json structure was different. Claude is working on a format converter tool, but paused for free tokens :/

I think I can see why you used the organization you have for your csv, did you roll that yourself or reference it from somewhere else?

cameron_b··on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts
be sure to buy such shoes with cash or the Amazon cart ( or CC data ) will lead back to you.
cameron_b··on Intel Foundry demonstrates first Arm-based chip on 18a node
I understand the part where Intel is trying to get external customers interested in the output of their fab by exhibiting an implementation of an ARM processor.

In the past I understand that they did some custom implementation of Xeon cores for hyperscalers, but the meat and potatoes was the chip they designed.

Do we take this to mean that the current leadership assess the value proposition -of Intel- to be in the /making/ of the chips, akin to TSMC, and not in the /designing/ of them, as in all past seasons at Intel?

I suppose a key factor here is how far from reference this chip is. If they mean to innovate in ARM ISA territory, that's a development to ponder. But if this is a "we can also make those things" statement, I'm hearing bears in the woods.

cameron_b··on Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Fresh Water from the Depths
it seems that you would remove the need to have a pump to build pressure, but you would still need a pump to move the product water ( perhaps creating the negative pressure on the outflow side of the membrane in the same step )

Way less energy, apart from the challenges of operating at depth. There would be power delivery constraints, and the basics of plumbing.

cameron_b··on SC's proposed nuclear reboot: 'We're going to finish these reactors'
As a resident of SC I'm in favor of finishing the project.

I'm also glad to see attention brought to the Savannah River site's challenges even if not directly impacted by this work. Nuclear can be done cleaner than we have done in the past.

cameron_b··on Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
The article's assertion is specifically "open hardware" 3d printing, facing patent challenges [ other parties patenting designs released as "open" to the community ] especially in China, open hardware designers can't get their work manufactured in China ( in this very example, but similarly in any other country where the patents are filed ) or imported/exported because they become Infringing materials of the patents filed by other parties who have copied their designs.

Open Hardware designers are having to become international patent experts, which is more expensive than releasing the designs to the community for free.

cameron_b··on Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²
I'm guessing you mean the support structure for the desk and shelves, which seems to be a nicer version of something like

https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/H-4814/Wide-Span-Storag...

or perhaps the same thing ( in several sizes ) with a coat of gloss paint

cameron_b··on Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation
In the implementation, the design uses a 'card edge' type connector with the whole PCB fitting into the constraint of the thickness of the center blade of the USB-C connector. So when charging, the board slots into the cable-end connector, and when not charging there is only the PCB. The PCB has cut-outs for the cable-end connector to fit into the PCB -- so like you're saying, but even thinner.
cameron_b··on Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections
What you see as skepticism, others see as Hanlon's Razor[0]. The prevailing wind of incompetence has masked a lot of what you might rightly consider malice, but in holding to a certain decorum or "wishing the best of people" there is a lot that could just be bungling.

I'm certainly not saying you're wrong, a lot of dots connect and do look like malice, but there's a vast amount of data that supports incompetence.

[0] Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. ( elsewhere and generously, incompetence ) https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

cameron_b··on OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware
Haven’t seen it yet so I’ll mention Hanwha, they were part of Samsung before the unit was spun out. They are probably the best competition to Axis and sit differently in the geopolitics, coming from Korea
cameron_b··on Most Illinois farmland is not owned by farmers
"Agriculture use" is the zoning class of choice for developers to hold land out of town until the town gets there. They have to show some actual agricultural use, so they lease it to farmers or cut the pine trees, and in return they get the lowest tax value for holding the land.

Then when they want to cash it in, they rezone it to commercial or residential and build on it.

cameron_b··on Pebble is officially Pebble again
I was stunned by that as well, but it seemed to be proven this week that Intel has had their hands full lately with keeping the lights on.
cameron_b··on Donate to the Treasury to help pay down the $36.7T public debt
Very expensive to test their precision.
cameron_b··on Ask HN: Will AI solve homelessness by forcing UBI on countries worldwide?
Which path to wealth creation through Machine Learning bubbles up to a body which would distribute it to the masses? Not sarcastic. I think we’re a long way off from an economic situation on the ground that would connect the dots of money flows here.
cameron_b··on What happens when housing prices go down?
Price reduction against builder margins would be a more reasonable way to look at it than raw price change, and additionally factoring in the degree of financing vs cash and the cost of financing would possibly shed more light.

Stable firms, not out over their skis, can afford to entice buyers while still making a profit. Just like in a startup, the cost of money and the degree of leverage sets the [minimum] speed limit on the runway.

cameron_b··on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database, faked data, told fibs
The context window fights back.

I wonder if this will be documented as if it were an accidental Stanford Prison Experiment, or a proof case for differentiating between critique and coaching.

cameron_b··on Scientists identify culprit behind biggest-ever U.S. honey bee die-off
Project Apis m. ( data source cited in the article [0] ) is not limited to commercial beekeepers, but many backyard keepers are not plugged in to the research on either end. I responded to the survey as a backyard keeper with 4 surviving hives.

[0] https://www.projectapism.org/colony-loss-information

cameron_b··on Scientists identify culprit behind biggest-ever U.S. honey bee die-off
It is important to remember that the hives out in the woods are not wild but cast-off swarms of domesticated honey bees, and that the mating behavior of honey bees will fold in genetics from many hives in a region ( drone congregation areas represent feral and backyard and commercial hives in a rather vast area ).

The genetic research seems to point to the opposite happening - that because of pressures on honey bees from pesticides or pests ( and thereby viral pressure carried by various pests ) the feral and commercial populations track quite closely.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms8991 - there's a lot here specifically relevant to this discussion but especially note the emergence of African Honey Bee genotype in wild populations. This paper is from 2015 analyzing the biodiversity response to the arrival of V. destructor ( varroa mites ) and Africanized bees were introduced in the early 1990s as well.

The take-away is that until you have a 3 mile separation of water, assume that populations of bees in a land area are more related than not and face similar pressures in a given climate, whether feral or managed. Honey Bees especially ( but of course every living thing ) should be managed with an ecosystem mindset.

cameron_b··on GNU Health Hospital Information System 5.0 Released
As a healthcare enterprise IT worker, I’m very interested in hearing from anyone who operates this at scale. Do I understand that this sits next to Epic in the market?
cameron_b··on LaborBerlin: State-of-the-Art 16mm Projector
There are some scanners good at that but not at the scope of a 2 hour film.

The other factor is that a projector is the first part of allowing others to view films, and getting the light source nailed down could open the doors to making new prints of those films - a different path to archiving.

cameron_b··on As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook
Summarizing some discussion here before: practice, and with a goal or example.

Most notably - https://joshldavis.com/2013/05/20/the-path-to-dijkstras-hand...

Discussed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791049

cameron_b··on A Tour Inside the IBM Z17
But latency

The cache design in the Z is so different from cloud computing for collaborative job processes.

cameron_b··on Three Felonies a Day (2013)
Unless you actually spoke with someone on the legal side in billing, the assumption passed through hospital systems is to stay way away from things which could possibly be seen as fraud, quid pro quo, kickbacks, or any host of financial crimes that are unusual. The staff are taught “You are not a lawyer, let us handle that, here is your playbook” and not to deviate from that.

That disposition of bracing against legal wrangling underscores most of the annoying parts of healthcare, especially the cost.

-I work in a hospital system’s technical department.

cameron_b··on Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient
The attempt is surely to solve for an abundance of beetles, but it is often helpful to think of many of these 'problems' as imbalances.

Nature does not work in two-variable equations, and the abundance or absence of an element typically has repercussions that are difficult to study.

An often-cited example of missing the bigger picture in controlling one variable would be the Chinese campaign against the Four Pests - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign

cameron_b··on Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering
I have three M18 batteries that are from 2011, and have outlasted 4 Ryobi batteries that get much less abuse.
cameron_b··on Watch Antimatter Fall: Scientists Capture Gravity's Pull with a 3840MP Camera
also discussed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43576559
cameron_b··on Inside One of America's Last Pencil Factories (2018)
The company featured - https://generalpencil.com/
cameron_b··on AEgIS turns phone sensors into antimatter camera of unprecedented resolution
I found details about a talk[0][1] given by the hardware team, their names are on the blurry side of the picture in the top link - Authors: GUATIERI, Francesco (Università degli Studi di Trento); MUENSTER, Markus (Student); BERGHOLD, Michael (NEPOMUC / FRM2)

The name OPHANIM seems to be the combination of "Optical Photons and Antimatter Imager" as written in the silkscreen below the exposed ground.

And a crude take at the further inscription - Ex Saxis Homo Fecit Oculos Per Artem Ingeniumque Nunc Monstrum Usum Est ad Universum Resiscendum

"Man made eyes from stones through art and ingenuity. Now the monster has been used to re-emerge from the universe."

I haven't found a recording of the authors giving that talk or any significantly different materials, but the references to 'Ophanim' seem to be associated with Ezekiel's apocalyptic writings, and angels with many eyes, so that seems to fit.

[0] https://indico.frm2.tum.de/event/484/contributions/5093/ [1] https://indico.mlz-garching.de/event/484/contributions/5093/...

cameron_b··on The booming, high-stakes arms race of airline safety videos
But the article goes on to say that while it succeeds at being a novel spot for new media partnerships, it ( the style presentation ) performs more poorly at communicating the safety message
cameron_b··on Larry Ellison's half-billion-dollar quest to change farming
I'm fairly blown-away at the mission statement: “improve human nutrition and preserve the environment by growing food indoors"

Adding a building doesn't improve the environment, so for starters you're in the hole, for energy, you're in the hole (pending solar and thermal recovery, each with environmental impact of their own)...

Larry, let's talk. There's for sure a use for greenhouses, sensors, all the tech, but let's focus on the soil.

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