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Comment Re:Slight problem (Score 1) 172

You know outside walls also have outlets.

Battery is a separate and optional concern, sounds like they largely expect these to be grid-tied.

So no particularly significant problems, though some folks may misunderstand how much a kilowatt of peak solar will give them in a given month, but it'll probably be cheap enough to be worth it.

Comment Re: Linux Domestic Everywhere (Score 1) 151

I prefer a PoE hat and PXE booting. I have about 14 of them doing different jobs all booting and running from a NAS. Makes remote updates easy too.

That sounds like a fine solution for a working network situation. My needs are more in line with putting Pis in places the network is spotty and I need them to survive for a while on battery and restart from local storage and keep on doing the thing when power is lost for too long. So a UPS hat and NVME seems to do the trick.

Comment Re:Linux Domestic Everywhere (Score 1) 151

> random number generators replaced by domestic designs.

Do you have any information on that? Like which domestic designs? Is there a link?

I've designed the RNGs in several chips including the RdRand/RdSeed one in Intel CPUs. The AMD one was a bit weird but I have no information on it. In my current role we sell a couple of RNG silicon IPs to whoever wants one (a big fast one and a small slow one) and I've left behind a trail of RNGs in other places.

A thing I've noticed is that a number of the RNG IPs out there are not great, but they are for sale and people buy them, including national bodies looking for their own national secure silicon designs, but they're getting the RNG from a chop shop in Bangalore, except for India who's getting theirs from outside India.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 28

More like 'neutral', Cursor is by no means the only path to vibe code and OpenAI's models are by no means the only models (in fact, generally viewed poorly in those circles). So OpenAI making it harder for Cursor users won't make a dent in the general scheme of things.

Comment Re:OpenAI is dying and SpaceX is overvalued (Score 2) 28

From an economic standpoint, you absolutely have to count training as a facet. If everyone cuts back on scale up, then nvidia, memory vendors, and various other players in that space take a hit. Maybe a troubled AI company can cut out its capex by pausing training, but the downstream impact still is in the broader market.

But even the capex exposure may be hard to shake, given how much debt and purchasing commitments are in play.

Comment Re:Mass vs. Weight (Score 1) 27

In space, the problem becomes apparent rapidly. You have to worry about every action having a reaction - and though the forces are always equal, the velocities resulting very much depend on the relative masses.

On a space walk, forgetting that can mean testing out your tether or losing hardware. Or maybe (though I'd think unlikely): getting caught between two massive things you can't just flick out of the way because they're 'weightless'.

Comment Lines of code (Score 3, Insightful) 119

There have been times in the past where goofing around on my own projects or experiments, I've cranked out many hundreds of lines of code in a day. It's possible that I've exceeded 1000 lines in one day. It usually computed the task at hand at least once, but it wasn't commented, documented, code reviewed, fitted with unit tests, run through any kind of QA process, etc.

On the other hand, I would estimate that when working for a salary and writing code that ran on mission-critical systems, over the course of a project I probably averaged about 10 lines per day. Time spent actually writing the code was dwarfed by time spent negotiating architecture tradeoffs in meetings before even starting, testing the code, documenting it, writing test procedures, debugging issues generated by the test engineers, going through the revision and deployment workflow, reviewing other peoples' code, etc.

Which kind of code is being cranked out from a couple of chatbot prompts? My bet is that it is mostly like the first case I described, and it also probably works at least once.

Comment Re:Ontario is native american, not Canadian (Score 1) 268

yeah, the Iroquois held most of the land of present day New York State and inhabitable parts of Ontario and Quebec provinces.

It means "Great Lake" in their language - the one their nation surrounded.

However, let's not be trolled by Trump and Google who are both fighting a losing war for foreign interests and want us distracted from $7 diesel.

I just went shopping and the $30 can of shellac primer I usually get is $95 now. Imported ingredients.

Comment Re:Easy way to lower your cholesterol (Score 2) 33

Cholesterol is not one molecule.

A lot of your brain is made of types of it.

Complex systems involving certain light ldls and other factors can ultimately result in inflammatory blockages.

The two populations with the highest life expectancy are Hong Kong and Macau.

They also have the highest per capita consumption of meat.

Again, it's a complex system but "eat plants to live long" is disproved.

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