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I have older versions of litellm installed on my system - it appears to be a dependency for aider-chat (at least on NixOS)

Cue a flood of crass jokes as the bots attempt to prove their humanity

In this case though, the new driver has the same license as the project it was based on and explicitly credits the original project

  ISC License
  
  Copyright (c) 2010-2022 Broadcom Corporation
  Copyright (c) brcmfmac-freebsd contributors
  
  Based on the Linux brcmfmac driver.

How do you do it in nix?

Protothreads are amazing, but really expose you to a lot of subtle bugs. I would not recommend them for any new projects if something like async rust or an RTOS are options.

Here's the chat session - you can expand the thought process and see that it tried a few things (hands misaligned with the keyboard for example) before testing the Dvorak keyboard layout idea.

https://chatgpt.com/share/68e5e68e-00c4-8011-b806-c936ac657a...

I also found it interesting that despite me suggesting it might be a password generator or API key, ChatGPT doesn't appear to have given that much consideration.

I was concerned there might be sensitive info leaked in the browserbase video at 0:58 as it shows a string of characters in the browser history:

    nricy.jd t.fxrape oruy,ap. majro

I asked ChatGPT about it and it revealed

    Not a password or key — it’s a garbled search query typed with the wrong keyboard layout.
    
    If you map the text from Dvorak → QWERTY,
    nricy.jd t.fxrape oruy,ap. majro → “logitech keyboard software macos”.

I switched to a candy-bar style dumb phone for a month and did something similar. My list was pretty much the same as the one in the article with a few small changes.

The most jarring was probably maps - other things like email, messaging etc could be delayed until I could reach a computer but not knowing how to get somewhere right now was problematic and required planning in advance.

I usually kept my smart phone in my car and did a sim swap on the occasion that I really needed it.

LLMs struggle more with embedded software due to the relative lack of examples in the training data compared to javascript etc. They also struggle more with visual reasoning tasks like the character example you provided.

For your first task - give it smaller steps along the way that you can validate. Provide context where possible (like docs for st7789, examples of other zephyr projects). Use Opus instead of Sonnet for tasks that are on the edge of it's capabilities like this. It will still make mistakes, be prepared for iterating on the design and providing feedback.

For your font example, you always need to validate the output of the LLM, but did it still save you time? If so then I consider that a win. If not, give it the task that it's good at (ie generating the surrounding code and definitions) and then fill in the font data yourself.

This is the best explanation I've found of the mechanics of pitch bending https://youtu.be/Fp-GxEaChr0?si=-E9uDTQx51gtnd9C

Essentially, match the size of the resonance chamber in your mouth to the note you're trying to bend to. This is different for every note you bend. You can find the right size by making "hissing" noises while breathing in (without harmonica) and matching the pitch.

Yes you're right. I'd assumed that tokio was used internally in the UI but from a cursory read it doesn't seem to be the case.

Could you elaborate on why using block_on wouldn't be an acceptable solution for users that want a blocking API?

Linus tech tips on YouTube did a video about a windows bug where sleeping while charging would allow the laptop to wake up to check for updates etc but often caused this issue of turning on in a bag

I've seen Gemini Flash 2 mention "in the OCR text" when responding to VQA tasks which makes me question of they have a traditional OCR process mixed in the pipeline.

I wish remote build/deploy for Raspberry Pi was in a better state - it seems like a perfect fit for NixOS.

I've got x86 servers running NixOS that are deployed using Colmena, but it seems to fall apart when I add cross compilation into the mix.

Cars radios are battery powered so will continue to work during power outages, and large enough that adding an AM radio + antenna is not really an issue - unlike a mobile phone. Seems like a good way to ensure most of the population has access to emergency broadcasts.

Edit clarified car radios are battery powered

Humans are complex. It depends greatly on the situation.

Try tracking the table tennis bat

What would be an acceptable error rate for your use case?

There are situations where AI is good enough, other cases where you need more accuracy, and others still where you should be reading the reference directly.

AI is improving quickly though, and context windows will allow for summaries to be tailored to each end user.

Is Multicast networking suitable for distributing something like this on a large scale?

I've noticed Gemini exhibiting similar behaviour. It will start to answer, for example, a programming question - only to delete the answer and replace it with something along the lines of "I'm only a language model, I don't know how to do that"

I suspect the average openssh-server user just uses it for remote terminal access and copying files. Reducing the attack surface by dropping features and outdated standards is certainly valuable.

What about "printing" braille characters on a continuous rotating reusable tape?

Those silicone "popper fidget" toys come to mind as something that are flexible, could be cheaply mass produced, and could hold a given state at the "print" head. It might be possible to embed small metal ball bearings inside that are moved between the outer & inner surface to increase tactility.

The print head just needs enough actuators to change the state of a given column of dots as the tape is rotating past, and a feed motor to move the tape.

I don't like sifting flour. I add the wet ingredients slowly to the dry and mix well while it's thick to a smooth consistency before slowly adding the rest of the wet ingredients.

Gotham Chess is entertaining, but Levy's not doing so much beginner content these days. I like Eric Rosen's "speedrun" series. He's got an authorised speedrun account on chess.com (meaning that his opponents do not receive a penalty for the games) and he has a very calm style and takes time to explain the positions. Very educational.

What is "world" in this context? I assume it's all users on that machine, but the term "store" feels like it might be online?

Rosbag is just a capture of published Ros topics which can include point clouds, image/video data, imu, pose etc

What are the similarities/differences to plumbum? https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

I'm imagining a scene in a Bond movie where 007 casually bypasses encryption by mashing the enter key. Actually I don't think even movie studios would think that looks realistic.