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Fantastic idea. I've done some PCB stuff in the distant past. But not recently.

I wish I had some examples to test against this.

Best of luck going forward. This is the kind of tool that could make a difference.

> Yes, millions of people in the poorest nations have been raised out of absent poverty since...

That... seems like something that shouldn't just be waved by.

And if you include China and India it's more like hundreds of millions. Like, if you think about the people of the world and not just "the West" the standard of living since the time Causescu was overthrown has increased dramatically.

Dumb question, but: is there a way to find/filter ones that are? (I can't seem to find anything in the (web) UI that makes it clear which books are downloadable.)

I said quite a bit more than what you quoted. And I find your interest in my comment and why I made it... odd.

I'm sorry if I didn't get my point across in a way that satisfies you. But I suggest you take a step back and re-read what both of us wrote. Or maybe just move on.

I was responding to the previous comment, not so much the article.

> The author has a "centrist" view that genes matter but are not the only determining factor.

Nobody thinks genes are the only determining factor (that's a straw man on the other side :)

Most people agree it is somewhere on a continuum. Some people think it leans more one way; others the other way. Some people want it to lean more one way; others want it to lean more the other.

> It’s not that surprising that many successful people seem to be strong fans of heritability, or more broadly, of the idea that metrics like IQ point to some sort of “universal independent” metric of value.

I agree that that could be a motivation. But I would also say that having a motivation for a given result doesn't preclude that result. That is generally true in science.

I'm not an expert. But there seems to be fairly overwhelming evidence that some significant amount of intelligence is heritable. That IQ is a reasonably good measure (or proxy) for intelligence. And that IQ correlates well with a lot of other things like educational attainment and income.

That doesn't mean that your genes determine your future. But it does suggest that some people are "born" in a better position than others -- aside from their socio-economic status.

This shouldn't be controversial. Height is well-known to be heritable. Being tall gives you a better shot at making the NBA. The same is true for many other things.

That hasn't been my experience at all. I always wondered if we just get used to how to prompt a given model and that it hard to transition to another.

> And Google will end up with lots of useless super specialized custom hardware.

If it gets to the point where this hardware is useless (I doubt it), yes Google will have it sitting there. But it will have cost Google less to build that hardware than any of the companies who built on Nvidia.

They will, I'm sure.

The big difference is that Google is both the chip designer *and* the AI company. So they get both sets of profits.

Both Google and Nvidia contract TSMC for chips. Then Nvidia sells them at a huge profit. Then OpenAI (for example) buys them at that inflated rate and them puts them into production.

So while Nvidia is "selling shovels", Google is making their own shovels and has their own mines.

Not sure if this matters for you or not, but my understanding (with some experiments) is that the "slicers" implicitly do a union. As in: you could have an STL with a bunch of overlapping blobs and the 3d printer slicing code just checks isInside -- which is effectively a union.

At least that's what I found when I was generating STLs in code.

Minor suggestion/request: would be great if you added a final STL file to the github repo of a working example. Might be easier for people to try if they can't get the python code running on Linux.

(I haven't tried yet. But I'd love to just send an STL to my printer to see how well it prints.)

Not sure why the government would bother to bail them out. I would imagine Google could take up most of the slack if OpenAI implodes.

Hopefully Aaron Sorkin will write a screenplay about this sometime in the next decade.

Wow, that's interesting.

I was a very early Evernote (paid) user. But they lost their way sometime after they became a unicorn, so I bailed out.

I had assumed, since they were bought, that it was just a way to squeeze money from existing users. I had no idea they were actually improving things.

> Streaming was fun for a while, but as always these greedy execs are ruining it.

I've been doing a lot more digital purchasing. Like movies and TV shows. I know there is some risk to the services shutting down. But Disney's MoviesAnywhere mitigates that some.

I typically buy stuff when it is on sale. Generally a digital movie is (way) cheaper than a single ticket at a theater. And I've kinda built a decent sized library where I usually can find something to watch.

And, generall, my library is way better than Netflix at any given time. (Though I still have a couple(!) streaming subscriptions...)

There was a brief period when Google Cloud had support for hosting git on a pay-per-use basis. (I think it was called Google Cloud Repositories.) It had a clunky but usable UI.

I really preferred the idea of just paying for what I used -- rather than being on a "freemium" model with GitHub.

But -- as many things with Google -- it was shutdown. Probably because most other people do prefer the freemium model.

I wonder if this kind of thing will come back in style someday, or if we are stuck with freemium/pro "tiers" for everything.

I wonder if anyone else here is old enough to remember the "I'm a Mac", "And I'm a PC" ads.

There was one that was about all the annoying security pop-ups Windows (used to?) have. (FWIW, it starts here: https://youtu.be/qfv6Ah_MVJU?t=230 .)

Lately I've gotten so many of these popups on Mac that it both annoys and amuses the hell out of me. "Die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain", I guess.

But, man, Apple hardware still rocks. Can't deny that.

One thing that seems to help me with tinnitus is the Airpods Pro when you customize it for your hearing. Like they have a tool on the iPhone/iPad that will (essentially) set up an equalizer in it that matches your (lack of) hearing.

I think actually stimulating the parts of your hearing that match the tinnitus is what helps. That's why this white noise thing works. But, also, listening to music or watching movies with the Airpods Pro (after configuring) -- I assume -- does something similar.

I wonder why there has never been open source tax software. It seems exactly the kind of thing the community would be good at. I imagine it would be hard for very complex taxes. But for the 60% that have simple taxes, I don’t think it should be unmanageable.

Is it a matter of liability? Like I could definitely see a big issue with mistakes — even if it was just operator error.

Interesting. I read it as a bit tongue-in-cheek. But who knows...

I think it would be pretty cool if Framework made a TrueNAS targeted NAS box.

Isn't there a sweet spot where solar is too much of your energy mix -- due to its intermittency? I think I read that once you get to like 40%, you need to spend a lot more on storage.

Is the EU also ramping up (battery?) storage? Or are they getting near the max of what they can do with solar? (Or do I have it all wrong :/ )

I don't know, man. Did Biden voters vote for high inflation and open borders? Did they vote for 50% tariffs on solar panels? I was a Biden voter and I didn't.

> This falls into the endless list of "remember you voted for this".

I think, to be fair, there are only two parties. You can only vote for one "package" of policies. Maybe you are a one-issue voter or maybe you weigh all the different positions of the candidates to find the one who aligns most with you.

I don't think it is accurate to say that all the people who voted for Trump approve of any individual policies -- like this one. So they are allowed to be as upset as anyone else about this stuff.

It's interesting how much "they are a private company, they can do what they want" was the talking point around that time. And then Musk bought Twitter and people accuse him of using it to swing the election or whatever.

Even today, I was listening to NPR talk about the potential TikTok deal and the commenter was wringing their hands about having a "rich guy" like Larry Ellison control the content.

I don't know exactly what the right answer is. But given their reach -- and the fact that a lot of these companies are near monopolies -- I think we should at least do more than just shrug and say, "they can do what they want."

I was under the impression that their uptake it slow or non-existant. Am I wrong on that?

I (vaguely) think what the Mojo guys' goal is makes a lot of sense. And I understand why they thought Python was the way to start.

But I just think Python is not the right language to try to turn into this super-optimized parallel processing system they are trying to build.

But their target market are Python programmers, I guess. So I'm not sure what a better option would be.

It would be interesting for them to develop their own language and make it all work. But "yet another programming language" is a tough sell.

Man, if I get to a point where I have a terminal disease and am in pain — or on a path to losing my mind — I sure hope I have an option to decide on when and how I go.

Forcing other people to live hopeless lives in pain for your own morality is evil, in my opinion.

The interesting thing is that "Darwinism" will sort it out for us in the long run. If the execs are right: more work gets done in the office, those companies will do better; if people are happier and more productive at home, those companies will tend to do better.

I guess we can just wait and see :)

I don’t know the reason, nor do I have proof of anything. But: to me this is a great time to consider Occam’s Razor.

Executives seem to (mostly) universally want people to RTO. Why would they?

They obviously have lots of data. If it was bad for productivity, why would they do it?

Answers seem to be things like “power trip” or “need to justify real estate”. I’m pretty sure most companies would save money by giving up their leases. Maybe they are all having power trips, but irrational behavior from leaders won’t win out in the long run.

My observation from my time is that, likely: some people are really good at getting stuff done at home. But most probably get less done. And I suspect the leaders find this in their data.