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double0jimb0 commented on Custom telescope mount using harmonic drives and ESP32   svendewaerhert.com/blog/t... · Posted by u/waerhert
fusslo · 12 days ago
I've been using freeCAD for about 3 years now. Looking at what he was able to make with it blows my mind. I love freeCAD, but I don't think I've ever been so continuously frustrated by a piece of software
double0jimb0 · 11 days ago
I've found ChatGPT and Claude to be extremely helpful as guides for this sort of stuff. As long as the software has decent/good documentation for the features you are trying to create, the AI does a great job telling you how to do things. There's definitely deep end stuff that the AI doest have enough reference material for, but I find it much quicker than blinding clicking through stuff or speeding watching YouTube videos.

You can also ask it to build a study guide for you to help build foundational knowledge.

But as always, expect some hallucinations, so ask it to provide links/references.

double0jimb0 commented on Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?   seangoedecke.com/real-rea... · Posted by u/ingve
phailhaus · 16 days ago
Feels like, but isn't. When you are reasoning things out, there is a brain with state that is actively modeling the problem. AI does no such thing, it produces text and then uses that text to condition the next text. If it isn't written, it does not exist.

Put another way, LLMs are good at talking like they are thinking. That can get you pretty far, but it is not reasoning.

double0jimb0 · 16 days ago
So exactly what language/paradigm is this brain modeling the problem within?
double0jimb0 commented on Designing a flatpack bed   kevinlynagh.com/newslette... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
double0jimb0 · a month ago
Author could spend a lot more time learning how to use Autodesk Inventor sketch environment. You can setup sketch dimensions as ‘driven’ and use equations to comply to whatever exterior box dimensions one chooses. His creating assembly from parts and arranging is silly. All parts /solids should come from same master sketch.

And then also how to use Autodesk CAM, you can use sketch geo to set paths, define offsets, etc.

double0jimb0 commented on I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits   maxemitchell.com/writings... · Posted by u/maxemitchell
groby_b · 3 months ago
It is "inevitable" in the sense that in 99% of the cases, tomorrow is just like yesterday.

LLMs have been continually improving for years now. The surprising thing would be them not improving further. And if you follow the research even remotely, you know they'll improve for a while, because not all of the breakthroughs have landed in commercial models yet.

It's not "techno-utopian determinism". It's a clearly visible trajectory.

Meanwhile, if they didn't improve, it wouldn't make a significant change to the overall observations. It's picking a minor nit.

The observation that strict prompt adherence plus prompt archival could shift how we program is both true, and it's a phenomenon we observed several times in the past. Nobody keeps the assembly output from the compiler around anymore, either.

There's definitely valid criticism to the passage, and it's overly optimistic - in that most non-trivial prompts are still underspecified and have multiple possible implementations, not all correct. That's both a more useful criticism, and not tied to LLM improvements at all.

double0jimb0 · 3 months ago
Are there places that follow the research that speak to the layperson?
double0jimb0 commented on Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts   daringfireball.net/linked... · Posted by u/robenkleene
inopinatus · 3 months ago
Do iOS devices still default to translating consecutive spaces into “. “ within a few seconds? Always used to be a bother when authoring md content on an iPad.
double0jimb0 · 3 months ago
That can be disabled [0] (and I feel like has been on option for many years now).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go4x9sIGEg8

double0jimb0 commented on Thoughts on thinking   dcurt.is/thinking... · Posted by u/bradgessler
double0jimb0 · 3 months ago
99% (or more?) of human written work is filler/fluff. LLMs seem to doing a great job of reducing this by actually getting to the point.

There is still a limit at which “points” can be groked, humans can only read so fast.

What is the problem here?

double0jimb0 commented on US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]   storage.courtlistener.com... · Posted by u/dave1629
0xbadcafebee · 4 months ago
I'm not sure people understand what the consequences of taking away Google's ad revenue is. If a large enough bank goes under, it takes out not just the bank, but huge sectors of the economy, affecting many more businesses and jobs. That's why the government bailed out the banks when they failed.

The same will happen when Google loses its ad revenue. Google is an ad company. By opening up all its trade secret data, it loses its advantage. That will make it lose its core revenue. The end result will be Google collapsing entirely within a few years. Then those component parts people are talking about "opening up" will be gone too.

Here's a small number of things that will die when Google dies. Can you imagine how the world will be affected when these go away?

  - Google Maps
  - Google Mail
  - Google Drive
  - Google Docs
  - Google Groups
  - Google Forms
  - Google Cloud
  - Google OAuth
  - Google Search
  - Google Analytics
  - Chrome
  - Android
  - Android Auto
  - Fitbit
  - Google Fi
  - Google Fiber
  - Google Flights
  - Google Translate
  - Google Pay
  - Waymo
In the best case, killing these will force consumers to move to Apple. You wanna talk monopoly? You haven't seen anything yet.

Apple has no alternative for much of the Business-focused products, so that will take considerable time for companies to adopt alternatives. But in the meantime, the world will become pretty broken for a lot of companies that depend on these tools. This will affect many more people than just Google's direct users. The whole web will shrink, and huge swaths of the worldwide economy will disappear. Businesses closing, lost jobs, shrinking economies, lack of services.

There are plenty of parties who want to see Google lose or take part of its businesses. But if it's not done extremely carefully, there's a very large stack of dominoes that are poised to fall.

double0jimb0 · 4 months ago
Yup, ok with all of those.
double0jimb0 commented on Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=-qisI... · Posted by u/rayhaanj
ceejayoz · 7 months ago
Boom also requires afterburners, at least for now.

You can watch them kick in on the telemetry (which goes from "100%" to "A/B" for all three engines) at the bottom of the video around the 58:35 mark. https://www.youtube.com/live/-qisIViAHwI?feature=shared&t=35...

double0jimb0 · 7 months ago
The engine in XB-1 test plane is not the same that’s going in the production plane.
double0jimb0 commented on Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly   forums.autodesk.com/t5/ne... · Posted by u/nsoonhui
double0jimb0 · 8 months ago
Autodesk deserves to be poster child for enshitification.

A few weeks ago I found a video that allowed me to work around a bug in Inventor 2025 that has existed for 20 years… the video was a grainy screen capture from a Windows 97 machine!

And each year I pay more for a product that gets worse.

double0jimb0 commented on Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human cells   medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/wglb
nikolayasdf123 · 8 months ago
other big overlooked area — paper cups are covered inside with hydrophobic film that is made of plastic, and given extra hot water makes plasticisers get off substance, chances are all those paper cups are releasing lots of microplastics into hot water. ask for mugs folks.
double0jimb0 · 8 months ago
Or are they coated with wax/parafin?

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