Probably. How do you plan on getting food?
> Road wear increases with the fourth power of axle weight iirc That's not actually true, and the paper that describes the "fourth power" thing even says that right up front. If you massively oversimplify the model so…
Right now it's several hundred dollars to get anything electronic out of the US and into the UK, unless you're a big enough company to be able to lawyer your way out of it. We'll see what 2026 brings, I suppose.
Ferric chloride isn't that nasty, it just stains everything. Electricity costs 25 pence per kWh here. I don't have to make many boards before JLC becomes cheaper than firing up the heated bubble etch tank. I first…
The problem with OSH Park is that they're in the US, so they're prohibitively expensive for shipping and there's no guarantee your boards will even make it to you. I've also got concerns about the quality of American…
> Massive ongoing investment into roads Okay, let's stop spending money on roads then. How are you at riding your bike through mud? Pretty good? Got nice chunky tyres?
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This is definitely news for hackers.
I heard about 386BSD long before I heard about Linux but I didn't have a 386, or for that matter an easy way to get it. I did have a 286, but I also didn't have a way to get Minix. And then round about the time that I…
I don't understand why LLMs are supposed to be able to do things more quickly anyway. I've tried a couple of times to use Claude to help write stuff, and it sits there for a couple of minutes "thinking" before returning…
When I lived in Glasgow's leafy suburbia, my local pub was roughly equidistant between a pair of taxi offices and the local police station, so the regulars were in roughly equal quantity off-duty police or off-duty…
And my favourite: "There must be a hundred dollars in there", he moaned, "I mean that's not my league, I can't steal that much! You've got to be in the Guild of Lawyers to steal that much!"
> But the BSD developers shot themselves in the foot when they refused to support x86, referring to it as a “toy”. When was that? Presumably wwaaaaaaaay before 386BSD was a thing right?
AI makes people produce consistently worse results. I will not under any circumstances use AI, not least because it cannot possibly solve a problem I have. At work, I've already had to "fix" some incredibly faulty…
> you really have to be planning to get back as much money as possible Why? Just buy a car, and drive it.
Even down south here at 56°N I'd need a set of solar panels about 100m x 100m to charge even a very small car in less than a day.
Engine performance is actually increased on LPG if you do it properly. It's less energy dense, so you use more of it, but you get a bigger slower bang, giving you more torque. You need the timing a bit different. The…
Yeah do it in one that you can give back. Seriously though you'll get it figured out in no time, and while you'll probably never need it, one day you might.
That was kind of it. Until maybe five years ago, every branch of Morrison's had two LPG pumps at their petrol stations, as did Asda. Now it's mostly wholesale fuel suppliers that have pumps.
25 years ago in the UK, leaded petrol was being phased out but still pretty common. The UK Government was giving people grants to have existing cars converted to run on LPG, so they'd only run on a coke can of petrol…
> It's a market response where everyone needs to (or feels the need to) pick up and move at a moment's notice. You see the same thing with cars. People choose to buy (or more commonly lease!) a car for a few years and…
I don't really understand your comment. Are you saying it's "career suicide" to not use AI slop?
Even when the vehicle is moving and in gear, there's very little actually holding it in gear. Inside the gearbox you've got two shafts, one driven by the engine with geared teeth on it, which meshes with gears that spin…
> I can't imagine using a language without a good type system to catch all the junk the LLM produces One approach would be to not use LLMs.
You can, but very few people do. Mostly what I see people doing is saying "Hey, Spicy Autocomplete, steal me some content from someone else to do <this thing>" and then post it up and ask why it doesn't work properly.…
Probably. How do you plan on getting food?
> Road wear increases with the fourth power of axle weight iirc That's not actually true, and the paper that describes the "fourth power" thing even says that right up front. If you massively oversimplify the model so…
Right now it's several hundred dollars to get anything electronic out of the US and into the UK, unless you're a big enough company to be able to lawyer your way out of it. We'll see what 2026 brings, I suppose.
Ferric chloride isn't that nasty, it just stains everything. Electricity costs 25 pence per kWh here. I don't have to make many boards before JLC becomes cheaper than firing up the heated bubble etch tank. I first…
The problem with OSH Park is that they're in the US, so they're prohibitively expensive for shipping and there's no guarantee your boards will even make it to you. I've also got concerns about the quality of American…
> Massive ongoing investment into roads Okay, let's stop spending money on roads then. How are you at riding your bike through mud? Pretty good? Got nice chunky tyres?
[dead]
This is definitely news for hackers.
I heard about 386BSD long before I heard about Linux but I didn't have a 386, or for that matter an easy way to get it. I did have a 286, but I also didn't have a way to get Minix. And then round about the time that I…
I don't understand why LLMs are supposed to be able to do things more quickly anyway. I've tried a couple of times to use Claude to help write stuff, and it sits there for a couple of minutes "thinking" before returning…
When I lived in Glasgow's leafy suburbia, my local pub was roughly equidistant between a pair of taxi offices and the local police station, so the regulars were in roughly equal quantity off-duty police or off-duty…
And my favourite: "There must be a hundred dollars in there", he moaned, "I mean that's not my league, I can't steal that much! You've got to be in the Guild of Lawyers to steal that much!"
> But the BSD developers shot themselves in the foot when they refused to support x86, referring to it as a “toy”. When was that? Presumably wwaaaaaaaay before 386BSD was a thing right?
AI makes people produce consistently worse results. I will not under any circumstances use AI, not least because it cannot possibly solve a problem I have. At work, I've already had to "fix" some incredibly faulty…
> you really have to be planning to get back as much money as possible Why? Just buy a car, and drive it.
Even down south here at 56°N I'd need a set of solar panels about 100m x 100m to charge even a very small car in less than a day.
Engine performance is actually increased on LPG if you do it properly. It's less energy dense, so you use more of it, but you get a bigger slower bang, giving you more torque. You need the timing a bit different. The…
Yeah do it in one that you can give back. Seriously though you'll get it figured out in no time, and while you'll probably never need it, one day you might.
That was kind of it. Until maybe five years ago, every branch of Morrison's had two LPG pumps at their petrol stations, as did Asda. Now it's mostly wholesale fuel suppliers that have pumps.
25 years ago in the UK, leaded petrol was being phased out but still pretty common. The UK Government was giving people grants to have existing cars converted to run on LPG, so they'd only run on a coke can of petrol…
> It's a market response where everyone needs to (or feels the need to) pick up and move at a moment's notice. You see the same thing with cars. People choose to buy (or more commonly lease!) a car for a few years and…
I don't really understand your comment. Are you saying it's "career suicide" to not use AI slop?
Even when the vehicle is moving and in gear, there's very little actually holding it in gear. Inside the gearbox you've got two shafts, one driven by the engine with geared teeth on it, which meshes with gears that spin…
> I can't imagine using a language without a good type system to catch all the junk the LLM produces One approach would be to not use LLMs.
You can, but very few people do. Mostly what I see people doing is saying "Hey, Spicy Autocomplete, steal me some content from someone else to do <this thing>" and then post it up and ask why it doesn't work properly.…