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IOT_Apprentice commented on Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center   fortune.com/2025/08/24/me... · Posted by u/voxadam
holoduke · 2 days ago
And yet computing power is what we need to advance technologicaly. Unstoppable force that indeed asks for solutions to new problems. Better acknowledge them then to fight them.
IOT_Apprentice · 2 days ago
Do you want one in your city? Taking water and power from your power infrastructure? I don’t, and thankfully our city government rejected an Amazon proposal to do that.
IOT_Apprentice commented on Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center   fortune.com/2025/08/24/me... · Posted by u/voxadam
otterley · 2 days ago
Audio is just one form of media, though. I prefer reading as I can consume the information more quickly (and it tends to be denser and can be more precise and detailed), and am happy to pay for quality written content.
IOT_Apprentice · 2 days ago
Feed it to notebookLM and have it make a nice text file.
IOT_Apprentice commented on A visual introduction to big O notation   samwho.dev/big-o/... · Posted by u/samwho
0xbadcafebee · 3 days ago
Toxic expert here! I hate when blog posts try to teach complex subjects. It's almost always a non-expert doing the teaching, and they fail to do it accurately. This then causes 1) the entire internet repeating the inaccuracies, and 2) the readers make no attempt to do further learning than the blog post, reinforcing their ignorance.

I'll double down on my toxicity by saying I didn't like the page layout. As someone with ADHD (and a declining memory), I need to be led through formatting/sub-headings/bullets/colored sections/etc into each detail or it all blends together into a wall of text. The longer it takes to make a point (visually and conceptually), the more lost I am. I couldn't easily follow it. The Simple Wikipedia page was more straight to the point (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation), but reading the "full" Wikipedia page thrusts you headlong into a lot of math, which to me signifies that this shit is more complex than it seems and simplifying it is probably a bad idea.

IOT_Apprentice · 2 days ago
Perhaps you could take the content and reformat it in a way that is better? I’d be interested in seeing your results. Thanks.
IOT_Apprentice commented on I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform   old.reddit.com/r/Entrepre... · Posted by u/bilsbie
IOT_Apprentice · 7 days ago
Have every engineer to install their product at a customer site, this should be able be done remotely and use the product to load key data and update. Have your engineers take support calls.
IOT_Apprentice commented on Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator   technoblogy.com/show?2AON... · Posted by u/chrisjj
jvm___ · 10 days ago
I'm backwoods camping next week, and we have 25 people spread out over three sites. I was thinking it would be funny to bring some old rotary dial phones and some sort of way of hooking them up, and then just have that as the intercom between sites for when dinner is ready or whatever.

It's next week, so unlikely to happen and I'm not sure what technology I would need to make it all work. Something like Lora plus a way to make the phones work.

IOT_Apprentice · 10 days ago
They did that on the last episode of Star Trek Strange New Worlds (rotary phones).
IOT_Apprentice commented on Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning   fallinorg.com/#... · Posted by u/bobnarizes
bobnarizes · 11 days ago
Hi HN, Fallinorg is a local macOS app that organizes files by their meaning, not just their name or type.

Problem: My Downloads and Desktop folders kept filling up with cryptically named, duplicate, or unrelated files. Over time, cleaning up and finding the right file became a pain.

Solution: It uses Sentence Transformers (SBERT) to understand the content and context of files, then automatically groups them. It runs fully offline, so you can safely classify sensitive files (finance, medical, personal, etc.). On Apple Silicon, it parses, tokenizes, and categorizes a file in about ~1.2 seconds.

You can download and test it now for free: https://github.com/taranntell/fallinorg/releases/tag/1.0.0-b...

Current version: Supports .txt and .pdf files in English; I’m working on adding more formats and languages.

Looking for feedback on: Classification accuracy, speed, pricing ideas, and potential bulk operations or integrations.

I first launched a few weeks ago and have been rapidly adding features based on early feedback. Happy to answer questions and share implementation details.

IOT_Apprentice · 11 days ago
This becomes interesting once you support epub, cbz, cbr.
IOT_Apprentice commented on Apple lacks strategic vision   unherd.com/2025/08/time-i... · Posted by u/retskrad
NewJazz · 24 days ago
The article addresses Apple's historical late mover advantage strategy, and suggests that Tim Cook doesn't have the same vision that Jobs had to pull those moves off.
IOT_Apprentice · 24 days ago
Cook isn’t a visionary, he is an ops & logistics guy. He has a major problem with failing at AI and lying last year about “Apple Intelligence”.

He needs some fresh blood in software as well.

He should just buy something like Claude and lock them in with stock and very high salaries.

He should also stop scrimping on integrated memory on the M series. Overpriced memory is a huge issue. And do something about the GPU as well.

Perhaps an AI N series with 128gig of ram, & dramatically more powerful GPU with higher core/thread count.

IOT_Apprentice commented on Build Your Own Minisforum N5 Inspired Mini NAS   jackharvest.com/index.php... · Posted by u/LorenDB
choonway · 25 days ago
it's already obsolete.

for USD699 (no ram and no storage) you can get this

6 SATA, 5 NVME drives, OCUlink and much more.

https://aoostar.com/products/aoostar-wtr-max-amd-r7-pro-8845...

IOT_Apprentice · 24 days ago
Thanks for posting this. I have several family members & friends at work who can use this AOOSTAR unit. I’d love to install TrueNAS SCALE on it, Jellyfin, tailscale, docker and perhaps some VMs via Promox. I’ve been looking for a product just like this and the price is reasonable.
IOT_Apprentice commented on If you're remote, ramble   stephango.com/ramblings... · Posted by u/lawgimenez
Aurornis · 25 days ago
I understand the point you were making, but from a manager’s perspective this format is something we’ve tried to avoid. Having a place to have people ask questions is great and encouraged, but doing anything that starts gravitating the knowledge toward a person instead of a topic creates problems for discoverability, searchability, and risks creating the impression (for new employees) that certain specific people are at the center of projects they just happen to know a lot about.

So while the Q&A format is good to have available, I’d discourage creating separate channels around a person. I would encourage everyone to just go to the appropriate topic channel and discuss it there.

I do the same thing when someone starts asking specific technical questions in #random or #general: Redirect to the project specific channel. That’s the place where all of the relevant people will be relevant and watching and it’s the first place they’ll search in the future.

IOT_Apprentice · 25 days ago
Oof. From a manager’s perspective why don’t you focus on getting this information being in place for your team so that they are productive? You could feed that content into a platform the is searchable, categorized and part of onboarding. Utilize utilities that will automate collecting information, rather than discouraging learning.

Focus on eliminating tribal knowledge, implementing a learning culture.

IOT_Apprentice commented on Intel CEO says it's "too late" for them to catch up with AI   tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/danielmorozoff
IOT_Apprentice · 2 months ago
Yikes. How the mighty have fallen.

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