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metal_am commented on Gemini 3.1 Pro   blog.google/innovation-an... · Posted by u/MallocVoidstar
gavinray · 25 days ago
Do you have Personalization Instructions set up for your LLM models?

You can make their responses fairly dry/brief.

metal_am · 25 days ago
I'd love to hear some examples!
metal_am commented on A modern 35mm film scanner for home   soke.engineering/... · Posted by u/QiuChuck
ralferoo · 4 months ago
Seems weird. The fact it talks about rolls of film and reading DX codes suggests that it's able to scan undeveloped film. Maybe that's possible, but I've never heard of that before.

If it only scans developed film, then it's unlikely to still be in the cannister with DX codes, and I've never seen that film delivered to a customer in a roll - it's normally cut up into strips so they can be stored flat.

metal_am · 4 months ago
Developed film has a bar code type of encoding for DX info. The talk about the whole roll is the ability to scan the entire thing in one go vs having to load in multiple strips.
metal_am commented on No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off   steveblank.com/2025/10/13... · Posted by u/chmaynard
ActorNightly · 5 months ago
Really? What is so innovative?

LLMs are just better google. In the past, you used to google shit, and copy paste from stack overflow, now you just skip the middle man and go directly to Chat GPT. Anyone that has been programming for a while can attest to that the answers aren't any better, its just more efficient to iterate on them now.

AI hasn't even begun to be solved yet. Everyone is focused on feedforward transformer architecture that is never going to replace the imperative processing of actual intelligence.

Smartphones are pretty much solved, as they have replaced a lot of the need for in person interaction (which by extension means transportation). The last decade has been all about monetizing smartphones.

Wearables aren't transforming society at all.

3d printing and home fab is still too niche and expensive for most people, and you can't really make it cheaper and more accessible.

Electric vehicles largely suck. Self driving is mediocre.

We literally went through a pandemic and people got richer because they had to stay at home and not spend money on things like daycare or gas or car maintenance, without losing any productivity.

Hell, the state the US is in currently is largely explained by the fact that most all the problems in society have been solved to the extent that people have to invent bogeymen and elect a demented felon into office on the promise of solving those problems.

metal_am · 5 months ago
This is a very surface level analysis like saying that the automobile was just an iterative improvement over a horse. Or a computer is just a better abacus. Fundamental research is all about diving into the weeds and finding new problems to solve. It's true that some of the "low hanging fruit" no longer exists (you won't see someone like Euler or Newton who's names pop up all over the place), but I can promise you that real gains are being made on a lower level. These small gains in fundamental research snowball into bigger advancements. As an example, the transformer architecture used by LLMs was first published in 2017.
metal_am commented on Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot   figure.ai/news/introducin... · Posted by u/lairv
numpad0 · 5 months ago
There are couple UR5 single arm cobots on eBay at $5.5k each right at this moment. The truth is that the value of humanoid is in it form, the novelty, the sense of accomplishment, not features.
metal_am · 5 months ago
If you found one for that price with the controller and pendent, please send me a link. I’ve looked a lot and have not seen any UR for remotely that cheap.
metal_am commented on iFixit iPhone Air teardown   ifixit.com/News/113171/ip... · Posted by u/zdw
throwup238 · 6 months ago
> We tapped in some friends in the additive manufacturing industry, who said it wasn’t quite like any metal 3D printing they’d seen before. Their best guess is that Apple’s using a binder or aerosol jet process in addition to some after-printing machining.

I’m curious who they talked to. I’m no expert but this photo [1] looks like laser sintering. It’s got the telltale melt pools and the laser scanning direction from hatch passes

Maybe Apple has figured out economic electron beam melting at scale?

[1] https://valkyrie.cdn.ifixit.com/media/2025/09/20111617/USBC-...

metal_am · 6 months ago
Looks like spot melt laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF). Electron beam doesn’t make sense for something on a smaller scale like this; it wouldn't have the resolution. Spot melt is interesting. Renishaw is the only manufacturer I’m aware of that uses a pulsed laser vs continuous wave (and I’m not even sure if they’re still doing that for their newer machines). I would’ve guessed it would’ve been printed on a Farsoon since it’s in China. I just wish the images had scale bars to give a little more info.
metal_am commented on Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?    · Posted by u/lucideng
sitzkrieg · 6 months ago
if youre interested in repair and solid part design, you may also want to consider SLA design printers. 4k panels are super cheap and its easier to work with strong resins (but messy) than eg, ABS heated bed and fume enclosures
metal_am · 6 months ago
I have both a resin and FDM printer. The FDM is hands down easier to work with than dealing with resin. FDM ABS is also a far better material than ABS-like resin. (Disclosure: I've never tried a proper industrial resin from LOCTITE or something.)
metal_am commented on Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?    · Posted by u/lucideng
metal_am · 6 months ago
I've been very happy with my Qidi Q1 Pro. I paid about $350 pre-tax off Amazon almost a year ago (Black Friday). For me, it was the most machine for the lowest cost I could find. It almost fits your desired print volume (245 x 245 x 240), but it is fully enclosed and has a dedicated chamber heater. I have almost exclusively printed ABS at a 60 deg. C chamber temp. It runs open source Klipper firmware, but I'd imagine repairability wouldn't be the best. Best of all, I have not needed any calibration. It seems pretty spot on out of the box.

My Voron is hands down a better printer but also required significantly more investments in components and especially time.

metal_am commented on iPhone Air   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte
A_D_E_P_T · 6 months ago
0.16mm is roughly the diameter of a strand of human hair. (0.1 to 0.18mm.) In a consumer product, that's basically imperceptible -- and, in all but the most precision-engineered products, it would be within standard manufacturing tolerances.

So I suppose there already is a phone with an analogous form factor.

metal_am · 6 months ago
You're making me wish I still had access to a CMM. I wonder what the tolerances are on an iPhone.
metal_am commented on Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect   wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wi... · Posted by u/pabs3
szundi · a year ago
What do they offer more in your experience?
metal_am · a year ago
Chamber heater is really nice for ABS
metal_am commented on Inside the university AI cheating crisis   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/pseudolus
indymike · a year ago
This is an easy to solve problem: oral exams / interview exams.
metal_am · a year ago
That's how grad degrees are done. But there's simply not enough time to do this at an undergrad level with potentially hundreds of students.

u/metal_am

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