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· Nov 24
Got final joists in place this weekend for the mezzanine.
Below will be workbenches, tools, and cupboards.
Top will be 3d printers, electronics, and maker things.
Below will be workbenches, tools, and cupboards.
Top will be 3d printers, electronics, and maker things.
This looks like a pretty neat inference ready machine vision camera, and which isn't horrendously expensive. Not cheap, but also not "contact us for a price".
shop.luxonis.com/products/oak...
shop.luxonis.com/products/oak...
OAK 4 D
OAK 4 D is the most advanced stereo vision and edge inference camera we have produced. A true standalone device running Luxonis OS, the OAK 4 D combines an elegant design, industrial grade materials, ...
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December 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This looks like a pretty neat inference ready machine vision camera, and which isn't horrendously expensive. Not cheap, but also not "contact us for a price".
shop.luxonis.com/products/oak...
shop.luxonis.com/products/oak...
today was frustrating 5 hours of debugging where in the system is preventing my LED strip from lighting up.
and the answer from that 5 hours is, everything looks correct, and i have no idea.
and the answer from that 5 hours is, everything looks correct, and i have no idea.
December 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
today was frustrating 5 hours of debugging where in the system is preventing my LED strip from lighting up.
and the answer from that 5 hours is, everything looks correct, and i have no idea.
and the answer from that 5 hours is, everything looks correct, and i have no idea.
why is every platform adding games.
like netflix has games, reddit has games, and now even fucking linkedin has games.
like who goes "i want to play a game" and then thinks, oh, I know, I'll expose myself the soul destruction of opening linkedin?
like netflix has games, reddit has games, and now even fucking linkedin has games.
like who goes "i want to play a game" and then thinks, oh, I know, I'll expose myself the soul destruction of opening linkedin?
December 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
why is every platform adding games.
like netflix has games, reddit has games, and now even fucking linkedin has games.
like who goes "i want to play a game" and then thinks, oh, I know, I'll expose myself the soul destruction of opening linkedin?
like netflix has games, reddit has games, and now even fucking linkedin has games.
like who goes "i want to play a game" and then thinks, oh, I know, I'll expose myself the soul destruction of opening linkedin?
You know, I bitch a lot LLMs for coding.
Yet, occassionally it's brilliant. It's a very different mode to coding, instead it's being an ADHD manager with a tight feedback loop.
Yet, occassionally it's brilliant. It's a very different mode to coding, instead it's being an ADHD manager with a tight feedback loop.
December 8, 2025 at 4:32 AM
You know, I bitch a lot LLMs for coding.
Yet, occassionally it's brilliant. It's a very different mode to coding, instead it's being an ADHD manager with a tight feedback loop.
Yet, occassionally it's brilliant. It's a very different mode to coding, instead it's being an ADHD manager with a tight feedback loop.
God damn the obsession with companies spamming their brand and logo on products but not showing it on product images.
December 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
God damn the obsession with companies spamming their brand and logo on products but not showing it on product images.
A dragonfly came in to investigate my project
December 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
A dragonfly came in to investigate my project
Are you fucking kidding me google?
December 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Are you fucking kidding me google?
A reasonably good summary of OpenAI deals which have caused RAM module pricing to explode www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-alt...
Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal
Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole ChristmasWritten by Tom of Moore’s Law Is DeadSpecial Assistance by KarbinCry & kari-no-sugataBased on this Video: https://youtu.be/BORRBce5TGwIn...
www.mooreslawisdead.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A reasonably good summary of OpenAI deals which have caused RAM module pricing to explode www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-alt...
May have to do Ombudsman complaint about the road-side saliva drug testing roll out.
Driving impaired is a crime and bad news. Don't do it!
But these tests detect historical presence and don't have enough specificity to be anything but population-level surveillance of drug use.
Driving impaired is a crime and bad news. Don't do it!
But these tests detect historical presence and don't have enough specificity to be anything but population-level surveillance of drug use.
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
May have to do Ombudsman complaint about the road-side saliva drug testing roll out.
Driving impaired is a crime and bad news. Don't do it!
But these tests detect historical presence and don't have enough specificity to be anything but population-level surveillance of drug use.
Driving impaired is a crime and bad news. Don't do it!
But these tests detect historical presence and don't have enough specificity to be anything but population-level surveillance of drug use.
I find I'm spending a lot more time on Bluesky.
The only downside is it's very exposed to US politics, but it's easy to mute.
Facebook is full of idiots and the website is completely unusuable. Reddit's signal has plunged off a cliff recently. X is dead to me.
The only downside is it's very exposed to US politics, but it's easy to mute.
Facebook is full of idiots and the website is completely unusuable. Reddit's signal has plunged off a cliff recently. X is dead to me.
December 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I find I'm spending a lot more time on Bluesky.
The only downside is it's very exposed to US politics, but it's easy to mute.
Facebook is full of idiots and the website is completely unusuable. Reddit's signal has plunged off a cliff recently. X is dead to me.
The only downside is it's very exposed to US politics, but it's easy to mute.
Facebook is full of idiots and the website is completely unusuable. Reddit's signal has plunged off a cliff recently. X is dead to me.
I sure do love when I wake up ready to get back into something I was in the middle of doing, only to find Windows 11 has updated and nuked my desktop context.
December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I sure do love when I wake up ready to get back into something I was in the middle of doing, only to find Windows 11 has updated and nuked my desktop context.
And lest people think I just complain - after my refactor, it helped me pinpoint a non-trivial bug I introduced!
They are great at being a kick in the pants when you get stuck due to your own preconceptions about code behaviour.
They are great at being a kick in the pants when you get stuck due to your own preconceptions about code behaviour.
Unravelling the mess of another LLM experiment.
I would probably fire someone that regularly shipped code like what Codex 5.1 produces.
Now refactoring it into something that is more reusable, more understandable, and crucially, deletes about 80% of the slop code.
I would probably fire someone that regularly shipped code like what Codex 5.1 produces.
Now refactoring it into something that is more reusable, more understandable, and crucially, deletes about 80% of the slop code.
December 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
And lest people think I just complain - after my refactor, it helped me pinpoint a non-trivial bug I introduced!
They are great at being a kick in the pants when you get stuck due to your own preconceptions about code behaviour.
They are great at being a kick in the pants when you get stuck due to your own preconceptions about code behaviour.
Instead of generative models, we need destructive models.
I believe the future is bright for engineers that love to delete huge unnecessary chunks of a codebase.
The days when I get to push PRs with a net -1000 lines of code, are nice days.
Lines of code are liability. Recycle them and put them to better use!
The days when I get to push PRs with a net -1000 lines of code, are nice days.
Lines of code are liability. Recycle them and put them to better use!
December 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Instead of generative models, we need destructive models.
Unravelling the mess of another LLM experiment.
I would probably fire someone that regularly shipped code like what Codex 5.1 produces.
Now refactoring it into something that is more reusable, more understandable, and crucially, deletes about 80% of the slop code.
I would probably fire someone that regularly shipped code like what Codex 5.1 produces.
Now refactoring it into something that is more reusable, more understandable, and crucially, deletes about 80% of the slop code.
December 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Unravelling the mess of another LLM experiment.
I would probably fire someone that regularly shipped code like what Codex 5.1 produces.
Now refactoring it into something that is more reusable, more understandable, and crucially, deletes about 80% of the slop code.
I would probably fire someone that regularly shipped code like what Codex 5.1 produces.
Now refactoring it into something that is more reusable, more understandable, and crucially, deletes about 80% of the slop code.
I was once CTO of startup where someone deleted the production database over Christmas.
We restored from a backup and later bolted on access control even though the DB at the time didn't support it.
We restored from a backup and later bolted on access control even though the DB at the time didn't support it.
December 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I was once CTO of startup where someone deleted the production database over Christmas.
We restored from a backup and later bolted on access control even though the DB at the time didn't support it.
We restored from a backup and later bolted on access control even though the DB at the time didn't support it.
Browser/js is fun for a prototype, but would be non-trivial for interacting with the embedded library, so I made an SDL app. This links against the code that would run embedded and is a closer simulation to the hardware.
November 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Browser/js is fun for a prototype, but would be non-trivial for interacting with the embedded library, so I made an SDL app. This links against the code that would run embedded and is a closer simulation to the hardware.
Coding with cutting edge LLMs is like a constant yoyo between
"wait, it can actually do that?"
and
"why the fuck am arguing with an idiot instead of writing code?"
"wait, it can actually do that?"
and
"why the fuck am arguing with an idiot instead of writing code?"
November 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Coding with cutting edge LLMs is like a constant yoyo between
"wait, it can actually do that?"
and
"why the fuck am arguing with an idiot instead of writing code?"
"wait, it can actually do that?"
and
"why the fuck am arguing with an idiot instead of writing code?"
I got a second hand drill press from a friend, so I decided to make a trolley stand from left over shed framing material.
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I got a second hand drill press from a friend, so I decided to make a trolley stand from left over shed framing material.
I sometimes wonder if some of the unhinged anti-AI people are actually bots by Elon to keep AI researchers on X.
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I sometimes wonder if some of the unhinged anti-AI people are actually bots by Elon to keep AI researchers on X.
Apps and sites that use one-off emailed sign in codes are so annoying. It makes a single-click sign-on with password manager into a clicky clicky adventure...
when what I really want is to just sign in and do thing I wanted to sign in for.
when what I really want is to just sign in and do thing I wanted to sign in for.
November 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Apps and sites that use one-off emailed sign in codes are so annoying. It makes a single-click sign-on with password manager into a clicky clicky adventure...
when what I really want is to just sign in and do thing I wanted to sign in for.
when what I really want is to just sign in and do thing I wanted to sign in for.
I would just like to say that this is a remarkably useful and well designed tool.
It is a staple remover.
Yes pliers, flat head screw drivers, etc all work, but this just does the thing so easily - and lumber yards have a tendency to cover everything with staples.
It is a staple remover.
Yes pliers, flat head screw drivers, etc all work, but this just does the thing so easily - and lumber yards have a tendency to cover everything with staples.
November 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I would just like to say that this is a remarkably useful and well designed tool.
It is a staple remover.
Yes pliers, flat head screw drivers, etc all work, but this just does the thing so easily - and lumber yards have a tendency to cover everything with staples.
It is a staple remover.
Yes pliers, flat head screw drivers, etc all work, but this just does the thing so easily - and lumber yards have a tendency to cover everything with staples.
Reposted by joel
Prashant Singh in the lab of Tina Iverson at Vanderbilt published this image of the bacterial 🦠flagellar motor, a detailed molecular model made possibly by CryoEM 🔬.
The similarity to mechanical motors are strong enough we can use terms like stator, rotor, rod & gearing to describe it.
The similarity to mechanical motors are strong enough we can use terms like stator, rotor, rod & gearing to describe it.
November 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Prashant Singh in the lab of Tina Iverson at Vanderbilt published this image of the bacterial 🦠flagellar motor, a detailed molecular model made possibly by CryoEM 🔬.
The similarity to mechanical motors are strong enough we can use terms like stator, rotor, rod & gearing to describe it.
The similarity to mechanical motors are strong enough we can use terms like stator, rotor, rod & gearing to describe it.
Every now and then I forget that people on the internet are mostly not real and far more to be LLMs now, and wonder "why am I arguing with a bot?"
And then I walk away from my computer.
And then I walk away from my computer.
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Every now and then I forget that people on the internet are mostly not real and far more to be LLMs now, and wonder "why am I arguing with a bot?"
And then I walk away from my computer.
And then I walk away from my computer.
Okay, since my last name alliterates with this, I'm coining it: we have past the AGI minima of Pitt's Parabola Law.
For historical reference, in 2000, the estimate was ~20 years on average, amongst people on AGI/SL4/transhumanist lists. So perhaps it's a parabola law.
November 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Okay, since my last name alliterates with this, I'm coining it: we have past the AGI minima of Pitt's Parabola Law.
