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kurthr commented on Quartz crystals   pa3fwm.nl/technotes/tn13a... · Posted by u/gtsnexp
Isamu · 8 hours ago
You mean could you get it down to a low enough frequency? Hmm I guess you can get down into audio frequency but maybe the amplitude will be tiny, you probably want a piezo mechanism that will give you more of a rumble.
kurthr · 7 hours ago
As mentioned in the article there are a lot of common watch crystals that oscillate at 32.768 kHz, but they are tuning fork crystals rather than bulk mode (or modern SAW), which have much higher frequencies. It would be challenging to lower the frequency of these, but perhaps you could evaporate Au or W onto the tips and reseal them to get into the audible frequencies. Much easier would be to get two crystals which beat against each other in the audio range. Even a couple of 6MHz crystals 100ppm off would be ~6kHz (temp sensitive), and you would need some driving circuits, but you might be able to hear the beat by driving an electret microphone or a really tiny tweeter coil speaker (probably need an amp though).

It's much easier to build/buy electrical rather than mechanical LC components to hit audio frequencies ~100Hz-10kHz.

kurthr commented on Agent Skills   agentskills.io/home... · Posted by u/mooreds
idopmstuff · 6 days ago
I have been using Claude Code to automate a bunch of my business tasks, and I set up slash commands for each of them. Each slash command starts by reading from a .md file of instructions. I asked Claude how this is different from skills and the only substantive thing it could come up with was that Claude wouldn't be able to use these on its own, without me invoking the slash command (which is fine; I wouldn't want it to go off and start checking my inventory of its own volition).

So yeah, I agree that it's all just documentation. I know there's been some evidence shown that skills work better, but my feeling is that in the long run it'll fall to the wayside, like prompt engineering, for a couple of reasons. First, many skills will just become unnecessary - models will be able to make slide decks or do frontend design without specific skills (Gemini's already excellent at design without anything beyond the base model, imho). Second, increased context windows and overall intelligence will obviate the need for the specific skills paradigm. You can just throw all the stuff you want Claude to know in your claude.md and call it a day.

kurthr · 6 days ago
So how is this slash command limit enforced? Is it part of the Claude API/PostTraining etc? It seems like a useful tool if it is!

I'd like a user writeable, LLM readable, LLM non-writable character/sequence. That would make it a lot easier to know at a glance that a command/file/directory/username/password wasn't going to end up in context and being used by a rogue agent.

It wouldn't be fool proof, since it could probably find some other tool out there to generate it (eg write-me some unicode python), but it's something I haven't heard of that sounds useful. If it could be made fool/tool proof (fools and tools are so resourceful) that would be even better.

kurthr commented on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues   cnn.com/2026/01/26/tech/t... · Posted by u/kotaKat
inetknght · 13 days ago
That doesn't mean it should be ignored. That doesn't make it normal.
kurthr · 12 days ago
No, it is not normal, but conflating the detention and forced sterilization of millions for over a decade to the current administration's violently unconstitutional over reach is still a bit much.

Though, neither are really served by TikTok.

kurthr commented on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues   cnn.com/2026/01/26/tech/t... · Posted by u/kotaKat
urmackchually2 · 12 days ago
In response to Vietnam invading Cambodia... Yeah...

That's not exactly imperialist aggression is it?

kurthr · 12 days ago
That's not how the Vietnamese see it.
kurthr commented on TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin   bbc.com/news/articles/c24... · Posted by u/ourmandave
basilgohar · 12 days ago
All media, newspapers, and social media networks do this. I'm not sure why you're raising this specifically in response to the fact I was stating TikTok was uniquely able to bring awareness to the issue of the genocide in Palestine.

Many people were completely unfamiliar with the plight of the Palestinians over the past 100 years and TikTok (and, to a much less degree, other platforms) brought the issue to their attention. Israel is no longer untouchable and many have recognized them for what they are now - the last remaining Western imperialist settler colony. This was not the case merely 4 years ago. The transformation is stark and real.

What can people do with that knowledge? That's up to them.

I don't really get the rest of your comment, unfortunately.

kurthr · 12 days ago
Do they really have knowledge or do they just have "vibes"?

One could document how Israel became what it is and what actually happened, but we don't have that. We have feelings.

kurthr commented on SoftBank in talks to invest up to $30B more in OpenAI   wsj.com/tech/ai/softbank-... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
amelius · 12 days ago
I suppose the idea is that the LLMs will invent the compact molten salt nuclear reactors. Double win.
kurthr · 12 days ago
LLMs will create the pitch deck for molten salt reactors, provide progress reports, plans, and documentation, accept payment for delivery, and disappear into the night.
kurthr commented on ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants   bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s... · Posted by u/dberhane
danesparza · 12 days ago
And then governments use this data, but can wash their hands of it saying "we didn't collect it"
kurthr · 12 days ago
Yes, retroactively manufactured cause for a warrant to find only the information you want.

Also, don't forget that profit maximization means selling to the highest bidder, which might not be US govt. Certainly, there is means, motive, and opportunity for individuals with access to sell this info to geopolitical adversaries, and it is BY FAR the easiest way for adversaries to acquire it.

It has happened before and it will happen again.

kurthr commented on TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin   bbc.com/news/articles/c24... · Posted by u/ourmandave
basilgohar · 12 days ago
The elephant in the room of all of this is that TikTok was the social media platform that allowed for the genocide taking place in Palestine by Israel to reach audiences directly. All other major social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter) heavily censored this information or outright deplatformed and canceled accounts of prominent dissemination of information about the war crimes being committed by Israelis.

TikTok, outside of the US and Zionist-controlled sphere of influence, remained the one place for this information to be available widely far beyond what was possible on other platforms.

All the other platforms have the same concepts of algorithms and targeting and bubbles. TikTok was uniquely not under Western control, and thus, needed to be pressured to conform.

The significant shift in young people's opinions about Israel in recent years is heavily attributed to the unfiltered information about their ongoing genocide against the Palestinians that they could uniquely see on TikTok and must not be understated, especially in light of all the major shifts in news, media, and social media over the past few years as they grapple with the fallout of losing the narrative.

I don't deny that social media as a whole has many harms and negatives, but there's no action like this being taken against Meta, Google, or Twitter despite the exact same harms present, sometimes even more so, on their platforms. They're already in the same overall group that supports the narrative and have done so by self-censoring their platforms accordingly. TikTok didn't play ball and got trampled.

kurthr · 12 days ago
I'm fully against censorship, and I don't want it covered up, but at some point profiting off of the suffering of others and distracting people with holocaust porn or influencer virtue signaling is self defeating. What did all of that social audience gain? Clicks, entertainment, dollars, while children died? That's disgusting.

And in the end is there anything of value left, any documentation of what happened, or how to prevent it from happening again? Nope. That thankless unprofitable work is done by others and ignored by the same consumers.

kurthr commented on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues   cnn.com/2026/01/26/tech/t... · Posted by u/kotaKat
elektronika · 13 days ago
Radio Free Asia is USA funded propaganda.
kurthr · 12 days ago
But since that's all been defunded by DOGE then by your own argument, it doesn't count any more. Ignoring history is a good way to repeat it, just because it didn't happen this year.

Do you remember the last Vietnam War? Oh no, not the one you're thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War

Several hundred thousand Chinese troops invaded Vietnam with 500 tanks in 1979.

kurthr commented on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues   cnn.com/2026/01/26/tech/t... · Posted by u/kotaKat
elektronika · 13 days ago
> Content about Tiananmen Square and Tibet gets filtered out. Content about the United States government rolling through protesters in armored vehicles, killing people in Venezuela with bombs, and threatening Greenland, straight to top of feed.

There's also the degree of relevance. Tiananmen was over a quarter of a century ago. The USA is killing protestors, bombing Venezuela, threatening Greenland now.

kurthr · 13 days ago
The persecution of Uighurs continues apace. Even if it is not allowed to be called genocide on TikTok. The political elements to this are pretty obvious, but conflating two terrible Minneapolis ICE killings in 3 weeks to the horror that occurred in Xinjiang is beyond the pale. While we may go down the authoritarian path with a Clown King, we're still at least 10-15 years behind China.

https://www.rfa.org/english/uyghur/2024/11/05/uyghur-tiktok-...

u/kurthr

KarmaCake day9041August 21, 2014View Original