AriedK · HackerTrans

4 maanden geledendiscuss

The power savings are minor btweeen LED and low presssure sodium lamps. The LED streetlights emit light along the full spectrum, the sodium lamps only at 589 nm. The LEDs are more controllable so smart dimming ( when there are no cars) is a perceived advantage.

AriedK

4 maanden geledendiscuss

This gets quite close to chindogu, the Japanese art of designing objects that kind of serve a very niche purpose, but then without being useful. https://www.tofugu.com/japan/chindogu-japanese-inventions/

AriedK

10 maanden geledendiscuss

Here in the Netherlands we’ve got ‘fietsknooppunten’. Numbered junctions with proper bike paths linking them up, and clear signage pointing you to your next number. https://www.fietsknoop.nl/planner Just remembering, or writing down a couple of numbers gets you a long way. As a backup I have OsmAndMaps for pre-loading gpx files to my phone.

AriedK

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There’s a fun documentary that explores this concept:

The Town That Took On The Tax Man https://youtu.be/ipV_GU7YaQg

It’s about a Welsh town that set out to do just this. Recommended watch.

AriedK

vorig jaardiscuss

I read the url as: ever t-pot, as a reference to 418. Turns out it's the author's actual name.

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vorig jaardiscuss

That's a bit of a cynical take in my opinion. For a community focused initiative, I'd say they deserve a bit more slack in terms of expectations of professionality, scale and sustainability. They now leave it up to the community to decide to pursue that or abandon altogether. Fair thing to do I'd say.

Also: the original forums aren't suddenly deleted: https://davehakkens.nl/community/forums/index.html He explains the process of migrating into 'One Army': https://davehakkens.nl/index.html

AriedK

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Helpful tool for car makers.

Would have probably saved them from the Mitsibishi Pajero, Ford Pinto, Mazda Laputa

Downside is, it doesn’t analyze phonetics afaict. The hebrew Volkswagen Beetle (Hipushit) would have passed as fine.

AriedK

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Ah yes, Vulfmon! Jack Stratton seems to love his Fugues.

In case you haven't already: check out Vulfpeck /// Bach Vision Test; a really nice visualization of Contrapunctus IX a 4 alla duodecima.

https://youtu.be/vJfiOuDdetg?si=GF1mbszFHOky2QVd

AriedK

vorig jaardiscuss

So how long do we have until companies can pay to be in the system prompt to be recommended for certain queries?

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This is neat. The send buffers and live display give it a nice edge over something like Tera Term. One nitpick: I couldn't find the option to disable autoscroll on incoming serial streams. Like 'Auto scroll only in bottom line' in Tera Term. Thanks!

AriedK

2 jaar geledendiscuss

That’s a fun coincidence. I was at a museum recently that featured work of Sema Bekirovic. One of her works was that of 3 snails crawling over a grid cube so from then on they were the artists. https://www.semabekirovic.nl/grid/

AriedK

2 jaar geledendiscuss

At first glance you may have a point. Thing is they’re often recruited with very promising job titles and descriptions, training on mild cases. Once they fully realize what they got themselves into the damage has been done. If they’re unlucky, quitting also means losing their house. This may help empathize a bit with their side of this argument.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

They mention using a IMU dataset that is collected using an APDM Opal. https://www.apdm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Opal-Publica... This publication mentions a paper on p. 5839 (p 13 of the pdf) where a single sensor on the waist (as used in the Google research) would lead to an f1 score of 0.77 if I did my math correctly. In other words, pretty close to a >1 shot plot analysis of gpt4o and gemini pro1.5.

I would also be interested how the llm's would hold up to the free-fall interrupt that's built in to some consumer grade IMU's (BMA253 for instance), anyone here with experience in this usecase?

AriedK

2 jaar geledendiscuss

They could add an appendix with word math like 707 + 707 = 1414

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

Yeah these ‘predictors’ only make sense if they can give a countdown at a constant rate. The idea is nice but often they countdown at say 1dot/sonly to have the last 5 dots disappear in the last second so they miss their purpose. on the other hand, a consequence on predictable ones is that people will start cycling on the last 2 dots or so instead of waiting for the green light.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

I’m curious how this will find acceptance, regulation or rejection. Acceptance like the clap skate in speed skating (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clap_skate) or if they will be regulated like the swim suits in competitive swimming (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-technology_swimwear)

AriedK

2 jaar geledendiscuss

I had a similar issue with geese on a patch of grass in front of the house where the kids played. Flocks of geese in the 10s would ruin it in half a day.

I found a 532nm green laser to be extremely effective. Let the dot approach them and shine near their feet for best effect. (Of course avoid the eyes and keep the laser power down so the reflection doesn’t harm them either!). It took some time to get into the flocks psyche. You had to get the entire group distress level to a certain level before they would take off and leave.

The next step I got to was building a turret for the pointer. Goose detection image recognition was underway to make the system autonomous but I haven’t been able to finish it and have moved in the mean time so it’s not likely I’ll finish it.

If anyone else wants to have a go at it let me know.

AriedK

2 jaar geledendiscuss

On the finishing: “Of course because I 3D Printed it with a PLA filamanet, it's not as shiny and glossy compared to actuall electronic devices. People use acetone and various solutions to make it shiny.”

The acetone (vapour) approach only works on ABS and is pretty nasty. For PLA your best bet is sanding. You could add some putty to make it a bit easier and get better results. You will then also need to paint it. All in all if the print quality is good enough best stick with that.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

Exactly. My prius gen2 gets me 4.2l/100km (56 mpg) on regular rides. How manages to stretch it to 93 is quite an achievement.

AriedK

2 jaar geledendiscuss

Was looking for that too. The only way I found out was installing it, create a call graph, and the first click took me to a payment page. $19,95/month iirc I too would prefer to have this information upfront.

Also, not being able to click past the first layer in the free version is a bit too limited in my opinion.

Sounds promising, but having to fill out my payment details for a trial version is a a hard no for me.

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