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gbgarbeb··on The quiet resurgence of RF engineering
A $50 TinyVNA is too expensive? Please.
gbgarbeb··on Paraloid B-72
polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) is used extensively in photolithography of silicon chips.
gbgarbeb··on Paraloid B-72
Can we see the bones, Mr./Mrs. Bones?
gbgarbeb··on A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU
Grok, show me "Sexy Daniel."
gbgarbeb··on The seven programming ur-languages (2022)
I know where the gold coin is.
gbgarbeb··on Ternary Bonsai: Top Intelligence at 1.58 Bits
When do we get 1100B Kimi K2.6 in 160 GB of memory at 1.125 bpw?
gbgarbeb··on Vercel April 2026 security incident
10 years ago it was Heroku and Three.js.
gbgarbeb··on Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page
Demonstrating what hypertext is capable of.
gbgarbeb··on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
The only problem is that the American models are super fracking dumb. Arcee Thinking Large (398B) is orders of magnitude worse than even Qwen 3.5 35B, getting stuck in thinking loops with incredibly basic questions that Google could answer in 500ms.
gbgarbeb··on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
$277 a month for a two bedroom is literally 6-10% of what someone in the SF Bagholder Area pays.

Either you're in Africa, southeast Asia or south/central Amarica.

How do you even afford internet?

gbgarbeb··on Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine
Kathy Hochul is cracking down on illegal flying probe machines.
gbgarbeb··on Can Claude Fly a Plane?
"Actual controls engineers" use PD loops (no I) all the time.
gbgarbeb··on ML promises to be profoundly weird
You're a little out of date. Cetaceans communicate images to each other in the form of ultrasonic chirps. They chirp, they hear a reflection, and they repeat the reflection.
gbgarbeb··on Protect your shed
Ever heard of Github? Or forums?
gbgarbeb··on DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
The 16GB model has eight times more ram?
gbgarbeb··on Artemis II is not safe to fly
Ask Charlie Camarda.
gbgarbeb··on Artemis II is not safe to fly
They have analyzed the problem with 1D non-coupled models that are so poorly matched to reality they would receive an F in a high school science class.

They are YOLOing it. It is insulting that clowns like yourself continue to cover for them.

NASA lowers its standards every time an accident happens. When they designed Shuttle, they intended for a failure rate of 1 in 10,000 or thereabouts.

Remember, it was meant to fly dozens of times per year. At the real failure rate, we would have lost dozens of Shuttles by now. The public would have shut NASA down in protest for massacring astronauts.

Good job moving the goalposts.

> They just slink away, and then when the next event happens, they cry wolf again. When they happen to be right 2 of ~130 times, they get to say "see I told you so!" and go on speaking tours about how they figured it out but NASA wouldn't listen, say they should be considered for a leadership position in NASA etc.

NASA does not have a single model that accurately predicts the heatshield damage. They are lying about this fact and crossing their fingers that all is okay. That might work in SWE's little AWS and GCP world, it doesn't work during hypersonic reentry. IOW they are gambling.

If you have a college degree, especially one that taught statistics, put it in a shredder and remove it from your CV. This is embarrassing.

gbgarbeb··on Bird brains (2023)
Most people don't know it, but birds actually are optimizing against rotational inertia far more than they're optimizing for mass.

Otherwise they would barely be able to eat or drink; their stomachs are far larger and can be far heavier than their brains.

Why would inertia need to be optimized? Think a little bit.

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