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tibbon commented on Nuvistor Valves   r-type.org/articles/art-1... · Posted by u/userbinator
ycui1986 · 11 days ago
tube’s failure is such that if they survive the infant fatality, they will be more robust and reliable than transistor. The transmitters on Voyager probes have been going for 47 years. Those tube were pre-screened ones that survived from infant fatality. It’s like sea turtle, if they survive first few years in the wild, they will a very long lifespan.
tibbon · 11 days ago
Yup. Lots of ones in my 4 Hammond organs are original. My Model M is from approximately 1950!
tibbon commented on Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code   claudiacode.com/... · Posted by u/zerealshadowban
zerealshadowban · 11 days ago
Claudia is open-source, made by a S24 YC company https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/asterisk
tibbon · 11 days ago
I'm shocked that YC hasn't advised them that this name is terrible. It actively breaks trust by trying to piggyback on Anthropic's tool naming.
tibbon commented on Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code   claudiacode.com/... · Posted by u/zerealshadowban
preommr · 11 days ago
I definitely thought this was an anthropic thing that they were trying to spin off into it's own website and app for normies.

I am not saying it's infringement, I am just saying that my dumb brain made that connection and I feel like it's not unreasonable to assume that other people might as well.

tibbon · 11 days ago
Same. But of course, I checked the GitHub first, and I really dislike this confusion. I don't trust someone with my AI tools that's acting like they are trying to trick me into giving them sensitive access. Nope.
tibbon commented on Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code   claudiacode.com/... · Posted by u/zerealshadowban
carbocation · 11 days ago
Actual instance of customer confusion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44933795
tibbon · 11 days ago
I had to check on their Github to see that this wasn't an official tool.

I don't want to install a tool like this that isn't made by Anthropic.

I, too, find this confusing and actively dislike the naming and association here.

tibbon commented on Nuvistor Valves   r-type.org/articles/art-1... · Posted by u/userbinator
JKCalhoun · 11 days ago
"Valves" had always been a mystery to me. When I began to really get into electronics, vacuum tubes were a kind of distant echo from my childhood that I barely remembered. As a kid I remember staring into the back of the small B&W television we had when I was young — the insides looking to me like some kind of Things to Come cityscape in miniature — all lit with orange neon. And there too was the ubiquitous "tube tester" in the Rexall Drug Store (looking somewhat like a prop from perhaps Lost in Space).

As an adult Thomas J. Lindsay’s books on building small regenerative vacuum tube receivers caught my attention — I also got caught up in building both tube-based guitar amplifiers and hi-fi audio amplifiers. These allowed me to dive into tubes and finally learn about them — you know, posthumously as it were.

After initially thinking that tubes were probably inferior in all ways to solid-state, I came to find them to still be very capable and even arguably better — at least with regard to sound amplification. Somehow too I had imagined in my mind they were outrageously dangerous to work with — thousands of volts — and assume,ed they were fragile and quick to "burn out".

The circuit I used however never went over 300 or so volts (to be sure, you still need to be careful with these circuits in a way you may not be familiar with if Arduino circuits are all you know).

The tubes have never seemed to burn out for me — even after one or two amps have been my "daily drivers" for well over a decade (two decades?) now. Perhaps other circuits used less capable tubes or pushed them to their limits? Perhaps other enclosures like TV's did not allow adequate ventilation? I don't know.

And as for fragility — I mean they are glass, but the tubes I used in my hi-fi amps were NOS from WWII bomber radios. They seem to hold up to a good deal of bouncing around.

tibbon · 11 days ago
Tubes burn out a lot less than most people think. I’ve got working tubes that are 60 years old and in active use. I have a tube tester and they do fail, but not ever 1-2 years like some think is a needed replacement cycle.
tibbon commented on Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI to make them for you   pipervoice.com/... · Posted by u/michaelphi
tibbon · a month ago
This is great! I started building similar at a hackathon a few weeks ago, and just haven’t had time to come back to it. I got all the infra up and had it making calls but was having problems with the syntax and to get it to respond to different answers. Best I could do in a few hours.

Glad to see someone go all in!

tibbon commented on The Two Towers MUD   t2tmud.org/... · Posted by u/astronads
vildoran · 2 months ago
It's a bit surreal to see this on the frontpage. I'm one of the main developers working on new content and maintaining the existing content. Happy to answer any questions, if people have them.

T2T is a very interesting place. It's been contributed to by hundreds of volunteer developers over the years, some of which had zero coding experience when they started. Several have gone on to pursue software engineering or other technical jobs, which I've always found really cool.

tibbon · 2 months ago
How can other developers help and participate in building, maintaining and operating the MUD? I've always wanted to be able to contribute to it. Am I correct that the source code isn't public?
tibbon commented on Claude's Max Plan   anthropic.com/news/max-pl... · Posted by u/nanfinitum
ozten · 5 months ago
I want different capabilities at $200.

I paid for that to get access to Deep Research from OpenAI and I feel I got more than $200 of value back out.

These companies have a hard time communicating value. Capabilities make that easier for me to understand. Rate-limiting and outages don't.

tibbon · 5 months ago
My current dream is a model that's good at coding with a ~10m token content window. I understand Llama 4 has a window approximately that size, but I'm hearing mixed results on its coding capacity.

If it had deep research and this, with a large number of API requests, I'd consider $200/month.

tibbon commented on The “S” in MCP Stands for Security   elenacross7.medium.com/%E... · Posted by u/skilldeliver
867-5309 · 5 months ago
stolen from IoT
tibbon · 5 months ago
If I can write an MCP for access my IOT devices I’ll be doubly secure!
tibbon commented on Back From The Future: 1995's predictions of 2025 life   newslttrs.com/back-from-t... · Posted by u/rbanffy
jackcosgrove · 5 months ago
Is there a genre of science fiction that deliberately tries to downplay the amount of change that will occur between now and the future? Would it just be unpopular so no one tries?

Call it staticpunk or something to jazz it up.

tibbon · 5 months ago
I want someone to lampoon tech problems of today still existing in the future. Sorry, we've gotta push software updates iOS 186.3 which will require 30 minutes.

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