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chpatrick··on Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)
There are also portable split systems like Midea Portasplit.
chpatrick··on Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)
Some ACs have UART interfaces inside that can be fairly easily hooked up to an esp32.

You could also buy an IR transmitter module from AliExpress and add a temperature/humidity sensor chip on I2C like an SHT41.

chpatrick··on Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)
This, I'm very surprised they didn't go with it.
chpatrick··on Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women
It's different from those other cases because it's like getting in a car accident and other people saying you can't get treatment because it's against their religious values, or saying you're not allowed to lose weight because they don't like it.
chpatrick··on Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women
It has absolutely no medical function apart from further traumatizing a woman who's already in a really shitty situation.

No one's saying abortion should be possible at 8 months. At 6 weeks when there's a heartbeat it's barely a bag of cells.

chpatrick··on Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women
In Hungary abortion is technically legal but only surgically, and the public health system is mental torture including being forced to listen to the heartbeat of the fetus (thanks to our local fascist party). Women on Web is a million times more humane. It's not like anyone thinks "oh I'm pregnant I'll just pop a pill and it's solved".
chpatrick··on Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture
http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
chpatrick··on Claude Opus 5
And the saas won't be required either because people can just get these problems solved directly.
chpatrick··on Claude Opus 5
It's definitely not seen the counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture before.
chpatrick··on HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router
I got Xiaomi AX3000T, but I heard newer versions can't be flashed.
chpatrick··on China's open-weights AI strategy is winning
My guess it's to mess with the proprietary vendors economically. It's in China's interest to squeeze the US AI business.
chpatrick··on Airbus Takes Flight from AWS
Hetzner if you have sense.
chpatrick··on HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router
I gave it a shot but I really didn't see any benefit over OpenWRT which is plain old Linux.

There's also some really good value hardware that you can install OpenWRT on, I picked up a Xiaomi AP for like $30, flashed OpenWRT and it works great.

chpatrick··on Show HN: Kurvengefahr – browser CAD/CAM for pen plotters
Achthung die kurve :D
chpatrick··on US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections
I think the idea is to test (with the jury as a sample) if the evidence is compelling enough for society at large to agree with the verdict. It's rarely going to be 100% clear cut so the jury has to use their judgment.
chpatrick··on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
I recently had a pretty bad injury and out of curiosity I asked Gemini what it thought based on some CT scan slice images (and no other information). Surprisingly it came to exactly the same diagnosis and treatment plan as my doctors, but the big advantage is that I could ask it follow up questions any time, whereas the doctors barely explained anything.
chpatrick··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
Scraping the internet for training is also using compute resources.
chpatrick··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
Then distillation isn't a violation either by extension.
chpatrick··on Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking union recognition
That's like saying not wanting to work 14 hours a day in a coal mine is selfish because it's at the expense of global prosperity.
chpatrick··on The unbearable cheapness of open weight models
I think it's such a vague term. If you showed someone in 2010 what we have now they would say it's science fiction.
chpatrick··on We’re making Bunny DNS free
How are the smaller hosting providers going to buy cheap hardware?
chpatrick··on We’re making Bunny DNS free
Hetzner can't magically buy cheap hardware and prices have multiplied the last year.
chpatrick··on Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing
PaddleOCR (also from Baidu) is pretty damn good actually.
chpatrick··on Unlimited OCR: One-Shot Long-Horizon Parsing
It absolutely hasn't been solved, it's just got pretty decent in recent years.
chpatrick··on Will It Mythos?
Unless you think someone's going to build it, and either it's you or them, and you hope you can do it less horrifically.
chpatrick··on GLM 5.2 vs. Opus
It's pricing is a lot cheaper if you can run it yourself.
chpatrick··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
Sure, you need the right place, but it's not like there's a shortage of space far away from everything.
chpatrick··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
I think it's not that hard of a problem in general. There are plenty of abandoned mines with tons of space where you can forget about it forever.
chpatrick··on Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?
Nothing can beat the Python numpy/ML ecosystem. There's a lot of value in just being able to run a Python script as well without any compilation step. The typing isn't perfect right now but it's usable.

For vectorizable problems there also won't be huge performance gains from switching to a compiled language because all the hard stuff is already done in highly optimized native code. The only time it really makes a difference is if you have to write a custom for loop or traversal.

chpatrick··on If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II
The difference is that LLMs may or may not be sentient in the domain of human language, which we can relate to, unlike the domain of chess.
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