darksim905

12 hours agodiscuss

This isn't really related to the post, but I need to vent I suppose.

CoreWeave feels very YC-ish. I thought I had an in as a referral for a position there and got interviewed by someone who knew a lot of my peers where I worked. Dude seemed to ask very textbook style questions that you would only learn if you went to a school system for this particular position/subject. I guess I didn't answer to their satisfaction despite knowing more than them on almost everything else. I suppose I'm still bitter seeing as I interviewed with them three times for two different roles. Absolutely wild.

darksim905

2 days agodiscuss

The hardware package is slightly different in PI vs CV along with in some cases a tune. The HP would vary from anywhere from 10 to 20 from Civilian to Police.

Generally though, you'd also want a police vehicle because of how well maintained fleet vehicles are in general, along with some added features and viewing the idle engine hours.

darksim905

3 days agodiscuss

I fail to see why you couldn't also literally just stack RAM chips themselves on top of each other. If it works for stupid consoles (see NES/Dreamcast/PS1/PS2 hacking of recent), PCs should be no different.

darksim905

3 days agodiscuss

observation that I've noticed recently: what's with wikipedia downsizing the hell out of images site wide? Every image I look at is garbage and I have to dig through multiple links to find the original.

darksim905

3 days agodiscuss

posit: are these considered 'road vehicles' in the same way that a car is?

darksim905

3 days agodiscuss

It is very easy to confuse intense passion with anger and blind rage.

darksim905

3 days agodiscuss

Not to be rude, but what explicitly, made him an ass from your perspective?

Look at it from his standpoint. He has an untold amount of people vying for his attention, comments that hopefully are managed by a 3rd party/other folks, and who knows quantity of people contacting him with ideas for a story, video, or some such. I don't even know if he still even runs or manages his repair business at all at this point. When you combine all those things, you end up getting into a mindset of filtering out what matters to you and/or others very quickly and having little time for much else especially if people wax on and are not good at getting to the point.

I get that HN isn't Reddit in the sense that you don't see long form comments like this, but I've dealt with this a lot in the Information Security industry. I think that's what may separate people who get shit done from infosec rockstars and other folks who talk a big talk, but when you get to know them, they are deep down, jerks. I could share my own stories of Deviant Ollam, JohnnyXm4s or other individuals -- but how much of that is my own bias and frustration with what I did, or did not get when interacting with those people? It does not make them assholes just because I did not get the experience I expected.

darksim905

3 days agodiscuss

That may be so, but are you skimming, or actually retaining the the things you care about? Video can have a lot more impact and staying power when it comes to things that matter in this context.

darksim905

3 days agodiscuss

You really want more succinct videos than what he already makes? Although they may seem long in a modern day where people have the attention span of a gnat -- his videos are fantastic and to the point. He literally ignores a lot more complexities and drama surrounding a lot of issues. Does he ramble sometimes? Maybe, but the talks so fast at times that the video is over before I've even gotten half way through with my own research. And this is from someone who has followed him since he posted videos on spinning on your own VoIP server and when he was still based in NYC.

darksim905

9 days agodiscuss

so probably waveshare or some other ODM? got it.

darksim905

16 days agodiscuss

Unrelated but I'm curious about how someone like you and your opinion and belief on UBI, unions for computer security people, and how this alien intelligence future will look like if most people are out of work and can't support themselves with an administration that doesn't care to support the people living on borrowed time.

I get it, eventually the things industrialized and automated industries that us geeks helped bring forth with widgets in the manufacturing world was eventually going to happen to our own industry too. But the way it's being done, with private equity destroying everything we used to hold sacred, it just isn't it, my dude.

darksim905

16 days agodiscuss

commented elsewhere but The links you shared are pretty cool, a little before my time (born late 80s). That's kinda neat, it makes me think of a post on HN some time back by Donald Knuth on the letter S and the technical challenges back then about that as a letter, mathmatically. I'm guessing given that, that's why printers needed these modules and were set up this way. Neat!

darksim905

16 days agodiscuss

The links someone else shared are pretty cool, a little before my time (born late 80s). That's kinda neat, it makes me think of a post on HN some time back by Donald Knuth on the letter S and the technical challenges back then about that as a letter, mathmatically. I'm guessing given that, that's why printers needed these modules and were set up this way. Neat!

darksim905

16 days agodiscuss

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darksim905

16 days agodiscuss

'font' cartridge? the what now?

darksim905

20 days agodiscuss

I'm with the other comments here, but what's the deal with the '120 fps scrolling' blah blah blah? This clearly isn't a game or movie -- why are we talking about frames?

darksim905

23 days agodiscuss

The film Jumper is good fun, though it was a missed opportunity to have this be the character's name. :)

darksim905

23 days agodiscuss

Outside of some military applications and maybe search and rescue, a lot of people kind of freaked out about Boston Dynamics. They have cool robots, sure, but at what cost if they are implemented by a bad actor? No thanks.

darksim905

23 days agodiscuss

Bad apples?

darksim905

23 days agodiscuss

I am a very basic beginner/familiar with tools like Solidworks that have every feature under the sun, but I never really took a class or learned beyond experiencing it at work for a company that made cosmetic packaging. What you're saying is somewhat right, because unless you're a trained engineer who even understands what the hell GD & T means, yeah, you're going to be confused as hell from a design perspective.

CAD/CAM software with Cartesian planes are already confusing as is for most folks. Once I started watching some videos discussing tolerances and such from an engineer perspective, the layout, tooling and concepts made a lot more sense to me.

At that point, it's essentially understanding the intention of the tools and if you're performing additive manufacturing or subtractive. A lot of CAD/CAM software is geared toward machine shops and setups and mindsets like that and not necessarily 3D printer-esque communities. I think these solutions are great for the 3D crowd and not so much the engineer.

There are some in-between things that break the mold and do things in unique ways for people who are product designers like Rhino. The node editing in that is so cool. I look forward to seeing what more people can do with AI now and scripting.