cripblip (u/cripblip)

cripblip commented on MSFT needs so much power to train that it's considering small nuclear reactors futurism.com/the-byte/mic... · Posted by u/signa11

thunderbird120 · 2 years ago

Because submarine style high enrichment pressurized water reactors are both a nuclear proliferation concern due to their fuel type (i.e. much closer to weapons grade uranium than normal reactors use) and INCREDIBLY expensive. The reactors built for nuclear submarines are performant, not economical.

cripblip · 2 years ago

Thanks! I knew someone would have the details. Are there alternatives you think would work in a distributed model like this that address these concerns ?

cripblip commented on MSFT needs so much power to train that it's considering small nuclear reactors futurism.com/the-byte/mic... · Posted by u/signa11

pjfin123 · 2 years ago

This would be so cool, hopefully this helps get nuclear off the ground.

cripblip · 2 years ago

Always wondered why having the military running submarine units for commercial power has not happened. They have the experience of running safely in more challenging conditions.

cripblip commented on UK hobbyist stuns math world with 'amazing' new shapes phys.org/news/2023-06-uk-... · Posted by u/mojomark

cripblip · 3 years ago

Somewhat related. Just listened to this podcast about brainstorming and ideas, mentions Einstein and gave me some good tips about idea generation in general

https://podcruncher.co/play/4MXd

cripblip commented on Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/2... · Posted by u/5e92cb50239222b

cjmcqueen · 3 years ago

I tend to prefer Google over other docs tools. Occasionally I hear that people feel it's terrible, but I don't understand why. Would you mind sharing a few things that bug you the most?

cripblip · 3 years ago

+1 the collaboration features of Google docs are so good, does not have feature parity with say MS Word, but I have not missed local apps

cripblip commented on Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/2... · Posted by u/5e92cb50239222b

mrweasel · 3 years ago

Only the color sensitive part is exclusively related to image and video editing. It's an interesting question, over the past few years I've only sparsely done document editing in anything but Google Docs (which I still find absolutely terrible). Most of the "documents" I write goes into systems such as Confluence or various wikis, rarely do a produce an actual document in a word processor.

I might be completely wrong, but it seems like word processing is becoming a bit niche, something limited to legal and sales teams.

cripblip · 3 years ago

Could you expand on the Google docs comment?

cripblip commented on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? · Posted by u/l2silver

HornyDude · 3 years ago

Throwaway time!

I built a custom smart motorized masturbator.

It borrows from 3D printer design, and has a NEMA 17 stepper motor driving a 2GT belt loop around a short length of 2020 extrusion to slide a carriage along a linear rail. The carriage has attachment points that I've put clamps on, that close around a fleshlight-style sheath. There's a brace at the business end that you put around the base of the penis and it keeps everything aligned.

All the parts are custom-designed and 3d printed.

It has an outboard control box that contains:

  - an ESP32-based microcontroller with a small OLED screen. 
  - a clickable rotary encoder that is the single input control
  - a TMC2209 stepper driver
  - 12v power input and a buck converter to feed the esp32
  - 12v output ports for 2 additional vibrators and an an H-bridge module to control them

The simple UI allows full control over the motion:

  - stroke duration
  - stroke amplitude
  - offset from the 0 position
  - motion path (just sinusoidal vs triangle wave so far)

The controls also allow control over the secondary vibrators for intensity, rhythm, and duty cycle.

It's been evolving for a couple years now and it works brilliantly!

cripblip · 3 years ago

Dude, you have to write this up!

cripblip commented on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? · Posted by u/l2silver

codpiece · 3 years ago

Not sure if it counts as tech, but I created a voiceboard for my mother to help her communicate while in hospice. She had a massive stroke and could no longer speak.

I thought of a tablet app, but the stakes were too high, so it wound up as a laminated paper. You can read about my design decisions here:

https://voiceboard.org

cripblip · 3 years ago

This is a wonderful project, I hope someone in the community helps you with a self service version, love the thought you have put into it and Thankyou for explaining the reasoning. You should share this in the Occupational Health community.

cripblip commented on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? · Posted by u/l2silver

bruno_rzn · 3 years ago

I'm building a MIDI controller that has knobs (rotary encoders) displayed on top of a full hd display. I looked everywhere for something similar and I'm pretty sure that it does not exist. Did my first gig with the first prototype. It's basically a mix between the Electra One, the MP Midi Controller and the Stream Deck.

I'm working on this for months now, and I had to learn how to use tools like Fusion 360 and Kicad for this, which is incredibly fun!

I'm looking for a name for this product, current propositions are "a screen with holes" and "écran total" but ideas are welcome :)

cripblip · 3 years ago

Such a fan of rotary encoders, building a hardware Sonos controller with them now

cripblip commented on Ask HN: Anyone else noticing an uptick in spam on Gmail? · Posted by u/par

cripblip · 3 years ago

Definitely noticed anonymous spam via 33mail.com recently

cripblip commented on Amazon owe me £53,000 and refuse to trace the funds old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdv... · Posted by u/wlj

cripblip · 3 years ago

The lack of instrumentation for transfers like this is infuriating.

I used Transferwise for years until one day a transfer (US/UK) did not arrive. Transferwise said they sent it, HSBC said they did not receive, I was stuck in the middle and both TW and HSBC support were incredibly unhelpful. It got to the point I was looking up job functions in HSBC money transfer on linked in to try and understand the process from an engineer.

Somewhere in the ether must be show me all transfers to my bank account number with source.

Eventually the money arrived; I am no longer a TW customer.