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derekp7
·24 dagen geleden·discuss
Integrated car seats were popular in some minivans and SUVs a number of years ago. Then they fell out of favor. I think it was because safety standards changed faster than the vehicle lifespan.
derekp7
·vorige maand·discuss
There is a dual ladder setup. Where you can have Administrator, Systems Engineer, Sr. Systems Engineer, Lead, Architect, Sr Architect, etc. These will have parallel tracks to equiv. management positions for benefits and perks (bonus levels, etc).

Now obviously you can't have every employee promoted to a Sr. Architect or Fellow, but that is ok be cause not everyone can (or want to) obtain that necessary skill set. A while back I recall seeing a grid with various levels, what management title that would typically mirror, and the skills that would be required for each level.
derekp7
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Couldn't a stroke of a pen (executive order) specify that US markets must be saturated prior to exporting?
derekp7
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Don't forget that you are having the cloud hosted services generate and send executable code to a device inside your corporate firewall. I can see all kinds of potential issues corporate security would have just based on that fact alone.
derekp7
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
The biggest issue with a Linux tablet, is you don't have a lot of tablet apps for Linux. Desktop apps don't translate to tablet usage that well. I found that out when I was using a Chromebook tablet, with the Linux mode add-in. Tried using things like openoffice, even firefox, and there were just too many issues (smaller tap targets, things like dragging your finger on a window selecting text (i.e., what a mouse would do) instead of scrolling like you would expect on a tablet of phone, etc).

So you are either running Linux with a web browser that has a tablet mode, and making sure all apps are web apps adapted for mobile or at least non-keyboard use. Or you re-invent Android. One thing that somewhat worked was Nokia's Maemo -- it used X11, but the defined UI toolkit and guidelines made everything uniform and touch-screen friendly. Not sure about how the successor projects look if they are what I remember from Maemo / Meego (so maybe Sailfish or Tizen, not sure how open these are though).
derekp7
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
"Create a single page web app scientific RPN calculator"

Qwen 3.5 122b/a10b (at q3 using unsloth's dynamic quant) is so far the first model I've tried locally that gets a really usable RPN calculator app. Other models (even larger ones that I can run on my Strix Halo box) tend to either not implement the stack right, have non-functional operation buttons, or most commonly the keypad looks like a Picasso painting (i.e., the 10-key pad portion has buttons missing or mapped all over the keypad area).

This seems like such as simple test, but I even just tried it in chatgpt (whatever model they serve up when you don't log in), and it didn't even have any numerical input buttons. Claude Sonet 4.6 did get it correct too, but that is the only other model I've used that gets this question right.
derekp7
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
Except that no one has been preaching at you for your entire academic life that you MUST drive a car into someone's house at 18 in order to be able to get more than a minimum wage hard labor job.
derekp7
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
My problem with stock photos is that unless it is clearly a stock image, it can mislead. For example, when looking up information on the solar panels that Jimmy Carter had installed on the White House, the article had a stock photo of a modern photo-voltaic panel. So I was initially confused, as what was described was a solar collector that concentrates the sun's heat to provide hot water for the kitchen. Which makes a lot more sense of why it wasn't re-installed during some roof renovations under Regan (the initial purpose of it was more to inspire the nation, that wouldn't be served much by re-installing it after it had been removed for roof work as the original moment had passed).
derekp7
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Honest question. For the purpose of adding a throw-away visual to help set the tone of an article, is there really any difference between shitty AI slop vs shitty Photoshop slop? Either way it is obvious that this isn't a real studio photo, and that wouldn't be expected. I guess the better (or more traditional) article picture would be a hand illustrated piece that an in-house artist would throw together in maybe an hour or two, depending on the detail and desired quality.
derekp7
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
> Property taxes are usually % of value, so dependent on absolute value changes, not changes relative to the rest of the community.

I may be completely wrong, but this is what I've been told by people I've known in the past that held some local public office (such as a coworker in one case, and a neighbor in another, they were both local aldermen). I've also google searched it, and came up with similar answers.

Typically, a city / county budget is set, and they then need to collect it from the pool of property owners by taking the assessed value and using a multiplier to reach their budget target. Now the budget may increase due to inflation or other factors, but I'm not aware of any local government that suddenly finds itself flush in cash due to doubling of property values. If your elected officials do things differently and look at rising property values as their own windfall, well then you and your neighbors need to vote them out of office real fast.

I've verified this with my own house (both the last one and current one, about 30 years of home ownership). The 2008 - 2009 crash had negative affects on property values, but my property taxes didn't go down, and insurance quadrupled (because the insurance companies lost a lot on investments and had to make up for it). And plotting property tax increases over the last 10 years where my property doubled in value, the taxes were just under 5k when I bought and now are just barely over 5k.

One thing that can happen, is as budgets go up with inflation or new initiatives, absolute dollar amount taxes rise accordingly. And people don't like to pay more taxes, so a lot of people will appeal their tax assessment. And a good attorney can get it lowered to some degree. That means that everyone who hasn't fought (and won) against their tax assessment (the assessed value of their home), will see their taxes increase more as their assessed value is now higher relative to the neighbors who fought their assessment.
derekp7
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
Also current homeowners don't care about house prices, since they are locked into fixed mortgage payments - other than how it affects insurance and property taxes. And taxes are mainly affected if your property value rises higher relative to the rest of the community.
derekp7
·9 maanden geleden·discuss
If the motor is geared it could make a difference. For comparison, most people put out about 100 watts with their legs, but need to downshift to go up hills. This looks like a mid drive unit, which should be capable of varied gearing.
derekp7
·9 maanden geleden·discuss
What I'd like is for the AI to interview me for what my personal preferences are, and for what policy areas I feel comfortable enough with even if they aren't my personal preferences. Better yet, I want to be able to supply the questions too, because question selection could be biased. Then I want it to research each candidate's past voting records and causes they supported, and analyze any recent shifts in their messaging, then give me original sources to read through along with a summary of that source documentation.

As for biases, in the past when you could actually have political engagement discussions, I had often recommended my non-preferred candidate to other people based on what they felt was important to them, and I would spend my energy on presenting what was important to me, and understand their priorities too.
derekp7
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
I ran into rendering limitations when modeling a multi cyclonic add on for my shop vac, and manifold saved this project. I used one of the nightly builds for this.
derekp7
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
This is similar to what I've found, in that writing documentation for a product before I've written any code actually makes the product turn out better. When in design / development mode, I tend to think of all kinds of "cool" features to put in, but since using them requires knowledge of my state of mind at the time I designed them, it gets very difficult to document these features.

So I end up writing the end-user documentation, then build a specification from there (functional requirements), then work on the technical design while prototyping various elements. Stringing together the prototypes often then ends up in a finished product.
derekp7
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
The problem is that the heat from the power supply needs some place to go. So installing the bulb upside down traps heat, and putting them in an enclosure also traps heat. Probably 90% of installations is one of these two.

I've put in some "filament" style LEDs, these look like they will last longer as there doesn't appear to be a power supply taking up half the bulb (although there are electronics down in the screw part).
derekp7
·8 jaar geleden·discuss
This reminds me of a quick in Kings Quest, which let you walk across the water to the island by ducking while slipping down the embankment. Apparently you couldn't duck and drown at the same time.
derekp7
·9 jaar geleden·discuss
And they were one of the few cards with excellent Linux drivers.
derekp7
·10 jaar geleden·discuss
By that logic, no company would be the source of any original development, because that means that they are the last stop in the liability chain. Free software could, therefore, be treated the same as in-house developed software.
derekp7
·10 jaar geleden·discuss
Is it useful to report these potential mistakes? I have showdead on, and quite often I'll see decent comments. When I look at the user's history, sometimes there will be over 1000 karma for that user, decent posting record, and then at some point you see all their comments as dead (with no obvious troll comments that could have triggered it).

I wouldn't mind reporting on these, or vouching for the good ones, but it would be nice to have a channel where I could get feedback -- such as "this use was banned for reason xyz on these 10 comments".