albrewer

Not OP, but your math is a bit off - I have solar panels :)

What problems are you running into? Ive been running multiple qwen coder next agents locally and it works fine.

the battery often dies around the time most people would consider upgrading anyway

Most people I know would prefer to just use the same phone they're familiar with until its physically not possible. They don't want to learn new things. They dont care about the latest features. It's an appliance; a means to and end and nothing more.

Define a protocol[0] that declares it implements `__getitem__` and type annotate with that protocol. Whatever properties are needed inside the function can be described in other protocols.

These are similar to interfaces in C# or traits in Rust - you describe what the parameter _does_ instead of what it _is_.

[0] https://typing.python.org/en/latest/spec/protocol.html

My AI experience has varied wildly depending on the problem I'm working on. For web apps in Python, they're fantastic. For hacking on old engineering calculation code written in C/C++, it's an unmitigated disaster and an active hindrance.

Because in the software engineering world there is very little engineering involved.

I can count on one hand the number of times I've been given the time to do a planning period for something less than a "major" feature in the past few years. Oddly, the only time I was able to push good QA, testing, and development practices was at an engineering firm.

Don't be ridiculous. It's a set of solenoids typing into a punch card machine.

I've housed two sibling that were labeled as "mentally unstable"(raised by mentally abusive narcissists) and "lazy"(has narcolepsy), respectively. Both situations were pretty bad before they landed in our home, but everyone in their lives called us "angels" for taking them in.

Each of them lived with my family for two years. All my wife and I did was let them exist in their own space with no pressure to do anything (other than coexist in our house, but that's purely logistics).

Both of them have gone on to go to college and pursue their respective dreams. The elder of the two lives independently, and the younger just shipped off to college.

The broader point being that most people just need a support network and a stable place to live to start to thrive.

Granted, that's just anecdata on my part, but it seems to line up with moth metal health studies I've read when it comes to homelessness.

This made them useful for astronomers because their light was easily filtered

The wavelength is so specific that it can have all kinds of cool applications:

https://youtu.be/UQuIVsNzqDk?si=R4VUDCfC6zcHd4XC

but norepinephrine is actually the common thread among all ADHD medications

Anecdata, but my ADHD (and depression!) didn't significantly improve until I was on both lisdexamfetamine and buproprion. Both drugs lift production of both neurotransmitters, but they "specialize" in dopamine and norepinephrine, respectively.

People who have been doing this their whole lives can probably aim with a precision of a Marine Corp Sniper but to us

I bought these sprayers for my house when people lost their minds hoarding toilet paper during the initial COVID lockdowns in the US. It only took a few days to start getting it right the first time, every time.

LLMs can reliably solve the problem of a blank-page.

This has been the biggest boost for me. The number of choices available when facing a blank page is staggering. Even a bad/wrong implementation helps collapse those possibilities into a countable few that take far less time to think about.

There a company awhile back that did almost exactly this called CoinHive

I worked for a foundry that had been at the same location for 120 years. GE ran it into the ground and closed it 2 years after acquiring it.

Even if it did, wouldn't the development of the wrong genitials for their preferred sex make an edit like this meaningless? The existence of XX AMAB and XY AFAB people goes to show that it's more about what happens in utero than what genes you have after birth.

I had a similar experience but had an opposite takeaway. I learned that my car, in dry, daylight conditions, could comfortably go 20±5 mph faster around curves than those signs suggest.

I was thinking more like "Ear" and "Car" or "till" and "tilt"

often

Often being about 30% of the time in my experience

It’s deporting illegal aliens.

There are multiple news stories of them deporting US citizens and legal residents. Here's one[0].

If citizens don't have due process, then nobody does. All it takes is the government to declare you a non-citizen; there will be no due process for you to prove otherwise.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/deported-family-us-citiz...

Google learning this the hard way with the recent chromecast outage[0]

[0] https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Streaming/Regarding-a...

For the same reason Python is so popular. It's not the best at anything (besides being really easy to use), but it's top 5 at all the things that matter. When your use case outgrows Excel, then yeah, invest in a specialized system... when budget allows (which is never).

creat[e] a graph where each permutation is a vertex and every permutation is connected by an edge. Each edge has a weight associated with it; the weight is calculated by seeing how many characters can be added to the end of one permutation (dropping the same number of characters from the start) to result in the other permutation. [...] Any Hamiltonian path through the created graph is a superpermutation, and the problem of finding the path with the smallest weight becomes a form of the traveling salesman problem.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpermutation

Given their respective histories, I'd say we're still in the "Volt pile" era of LLMs and AI.

none of that is the same as spending time to figure out how to ensure that something breaks at the right time

Yes it is. At the absolute limit, balancing cost and reliability is this exact optimization exercise; we are talking about the exact same thing taken to different extremes. The difference between your ideal scenario and the practice outlined in the OP is the difference between 97% BOM efficiency and 99.99% BOM efficiency. At extreme scales, that gap can mean the difference between a company laying people off vs. surviving.

Side note - this same discipline is what ensures your widgets fail in a safe, controlled manner and not in a catastrophic way.

I feel like you're reading my message extremely uncharitably

I saw an naive take on how mechanical design for failure works in practice and wanted to educate. I mean no disrespect, it's just seemed like it might be an unknown unknown for you. Your comment had at least a few upvotes, so there are others out there who may also lack the same information.

To your charitability point, though, my first take on the OP above is probably the most charitable take. The least charitable scenario for the OP is that the company wants to make sure they have higher annually recurring revenue from replacing their widgets breaking down but need to _barely_ beat or match the other guys in a warranty. Reality is probably somewhere in between.

In mechanical design, you typically target an order of magnitude of stress cycling for product design. In a pump, everything stress cycles, so it all needs to be simulated. If this was a pump you were going to make ten million of, then suddenly every fractional 10th of a cent you save becomes the difference between, e.g., having another coworker or not. So to balance that with offering a reasonable warranty such that there's actually demand for this product makes sense.

Before anyone brings it up: sure, a lot of companies just pocket this savings or whatever, but a lot don't; you just don't hear about them because they're typically midsize companies that nobody complains about.

Amsterdam lets little vehicles like this operate in its bike lanes. They can't be capable of going over ~30 mph. I imagine a similar policy is being followed here.

The solution is not to stick strictly to prefix, postifx, or infix notation. Instead, all three should be valid.

All these should be equivalent:

  + a b + c d + 
  + + + a b c d
  a + b + c + d
  a b c d + + +

  x = a + b
  = + x a b
  x a b = +
  + x = a b
  x = a b +
  x a + b =

sell their skills to foreign countries?

200 of the world's most experienced nuclear personnel are now unemployed. Yes, these people are the kind that get actively recruited by nation states.

I've read about this exact practice in one form or another since the Pentium 3 (sometimes just directly cooling with R134).

Sounds like you might have conscious control over your tensor tympani muscle[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle