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xandrius··on Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
That link is unfortunately quite useless, link doesn't work.
xandrius··on Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
And in between? Also what would I really need it for?

I mainly do ESP circuits and stuff like that, would I ever need anything other than a multimeter if your opinion?

xandrius··on Unusual Suspects
Please don't spoil answers for other people
xandrius··on Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
Throw in some wolves and create a brand new set of problems :)
xandrius··on Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong?
Great stereotypical engineer's response.
xandrius··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
It was just less of everything than Chrome. First install experience for an average user was much better in terms of speed and snappiness. That was one of the keys to its success.
xandrius··on The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
But if I give you that command and all tools and unrestricted limitation to do absolutely anything then why not?
xandrius··on Kobo can run apps now
That's because you don't actually own the kindle.
xandrius··on I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers
Skimming Adam's articles should come with a fine and some time in.
xandrius··on I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers
Just fyi, you can take your time-based rating and fit it the 5-stars system of the club.
xandrius··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
The problem is that you probably do little research or read very few old books.

There are multiple instances of a book being referred within another book, while at the time the author had access to it, we might not have it today. Taking a rare book and destroying absolutely erases that link we have with the past.

You not seeing a problem with this is the core issue, it's probably why the people doing it (it's people destroying these books not aliens) just shrug and don't feel too bad doing that.

Old books are even more crucial than today's books due to how uncommon it was to have something written/printed and bound. Many unique and single copy books explain to us a ton of things about the past, sometimes for funsies and sometimes for useful findings. Destroying old books is akin to destroying the closest we got to time machines.

xandrius··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
Google probably wanted to sell the whole of Google Books.
xandrius··on Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)
I'd be careful banging two rocks together else someone might start a war with them!
xandrius··on Every Fucking Website (2020)
The price you pay should definitely be higher then.
xandrius··on Could a computer scientist build a brain?
It's "to make an apple pie from scratch".

You can make a sandwich with two slices of bread and whatever filling.

xandrius··on In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace
This comment is clearly not in good faith but one can clearly understand that the current generation is out outdated.
xandrius··on Hello, me. It's been a while
Replaced sounds, not with silence but with a different type of sound?
xandrius··on U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’
I also woke up around that time, just because it took 30-40 min to go to school + breakfast and preparation.

So why dismiss other people's lives just because they are different than yours? What's the point of lying about waking up early?

xandrius··on Pixel Watch 5
Apple watch, even with most things disabled barely makes it to the next day. Pretty but etrash.
xandrius··on Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
I wish it worked with a Kobo Clara too!
xandrius··on Itadakimasu: A word you say to the food, not the cook
ご馳走 (gochisou) means feast. 様 (sama) is a highly honorific suffix. でした (deshita) it was.

Basically literally saying "that was a great feast", as it is said after eating the meal and leaving the establishment. Not sure why the Japanese friend would say that.

xandrius··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
Enough good? You are joking, right?

They also kick off a ton of other nefarious things we are still paying for.

xandrius··on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
Have you actually tried? I refreshed a ton of arguments which I had studied or briefly encountered before, so it's less likely to fool me than if I knew 0. And the fact that I can frame a question precisely and as deep as I like is truly unique and incredible.

For some things you still need videos and practice but cmon, I don't get this generalised hate on LLMs, they are based on what us human wrote anyway.

xandrius··on Meta Muse Glimmer – Open weights 30B local coding model
If there is anything meta can do to regain hearts other than owning up their evil deeds, radically change their business model and paying up for taxes and damages, then the world is truly fucked and corporations will continue to win.
xandrius··on From your doorbell to your home network
Yeah but you lose some capabilities of the product.

It's hard to get the convenience of remote access and network isolation.

xandrius··on From your doorbell to your home network
I just started zigbeeing and making my own zigbee devices, I wouldn't say they are rare.

There some glaring holes in products (wall-pluggable lights, eink displays, scales, pressure gauges, etc.) but buying an esp32-c6 and you can fill the gaps

xandrius··on RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB
I'd take it for free then
xandrius··on Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10
Used extra virgin oil from Italy.
xandrius··on The coolest use for the Vision Pro
We literally held stuff together with duct tape as the project also turned the Oculus into a VR + AR system. Taped 2 webcams to act as eyes as then you could toggle VR and AR.

Shipping it was stressful (renderer was in Ogre3D) and product fit well my face thanks to all the tape.

xandrius··on The coolest use for the Vision Pro
Yep, we did hackathons with old Oculus Rift DK1 around this concept over 15 years ago or so.
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