joshwa

https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban

URA quotas—I see the Amazon infection has spread from Seattle to Redmond.

The thing about language models is that they are *language* models. They don't actually parse XML structure, or turn code into an AST, they are just next-token generators.

Individual models may have supplemented their training with things that look like structure (e.g. Claude with its XMLish delimiters), but it's far from universal.

Ultimately if we want better fidelity to the concepts we're referencing, we're better off working from the larger/richer dataset of token sequences in the training data--the total published written output of humanity.

Just the opposite! When sautéing, too-small pieces have burned by the time the larger ones have cooked, giving the dish a bitter burnt flavor and ugly black flecks.

https://onion-cutting-simulator.streamlit.app/

I made my own version of this a while back, and it lets you create your own cutting methods, plot the statistical distribution, and share your ideas via permalink. It also lets you tweak onion parameters, such as number of layers and the layer thickness distribution curve).

Along the way I discovered two things:

1. I came up with my own method ("Josh’s method" in the app above) where the neither the longitudinal cuts nor the planar cuts are full depth, so the number of cuts at the narrower core is less than at the wider perimeter.

2. After all this hyper-optimization about size, it turns out what really matters when cooking is the THICKNESS, since ultimately determines the cooking rate. The only way to avoid thin outliers that burn long before the rest are cooked is to discard more of the tip of the onion, where the layers are the thinnest.

The 3D version of the simulator is still in progress--turns out 3D geometry is a lot harder than 2D. :)

Pull requests are welcome! https://github.com/joshwand/onion-simulator

My thought is just to rent it out for to rich folks with lawns for a few hundred bucks a week. My contraption will have thermal detection, AI target discrimination, and precision targeting with a laminar flow water stream. That’s the plan, anyways.

Likewise but for raccoons. Are you precision targeting or just broad sprinkler coverage? I need to make sure my cat doesn’t get hosed :-/

I got a cheap MLX90640 off aliexpress for target detection and a grove vision AI V2 module to use with IR cam for classification/object tracking. Esp32 for fusion and servo/solenoid actuation.

Collab?

messagingengine.com is the domain used for fastmail's mail servers.

Ah, the classic build tool evolution cycle! 1. Become frustrated with complex build tool

2. Write a new tool that is dead simple, opinionated (your opinions), convention over configuration, etc

3. Post to HN

4. Achieve adoption

5. As more people use the tool, feature creep ensues

6. In order to satisfy diverse use cases, make everything modular and configurable!

7. Tool slows and becomes impossible to manage

8. GOTO 1.

Can I just stick a vibrator against the back of my skull for a few minutes daily?

Hi OP, did you ever find a good solution for this? Trying to set something up for my daughter's kindergarten class.

(email in profile)

On a larger architectural scale, see: Use Boring Technology

http://boringtechnology.club/

Also described as: "how to be old, for young people"

Knowing how so many devs are hungry to move to the new shiny thing, the question is often more like "why hasn't this been rewritten in Python3 already?".

Possible answers:

• Legit technical or cost/benefit reasons

• Probably a good idea but no budget/time for the effort

• Somebody already tried and it was a disaster

• No manager has been stupid enough to humor the devs

Yandex Image Search already uses facial recognition and is available to the public. See:

https://yandex.com/images

https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2020/01/07/facial-recogniti...

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/12/26/guid...

Worth mentioning Exce-Lint, an Excel add-in that automatically finds formula errors in spreadsheets.

https://plasma-umass.org/ExceLint-addin/

https://sparxsystems.com/products/ea/

It's kind of an old-school tool, but Enterprise Architect is a tool that does just this. It's also a completely overwrought model-based engineering thing but ignore that and it's a useful systems/data architecture model database tool.

https://sparxsystems.com/products/ea/

Ah, the classic build tool evolution cycle!

1. Become frustrated with complex build tool

2. Write a new tool that is dead simple, opinionated (your opinions), convention over configuration, etc

3. Post to HN

4. Achieve adoption

5. As more people use the tool, feature creep ensues

6. In order to satisfy diverse use cases, make everything modular and configurable!

7. Tool slows and becomes impossible to manage

8. GOTO 1.

There's a good review of existing and novel desalinization technologies, including OP's supercavitation method, here:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271673255_Large-sca...

Hey I can't actually PM you but my email is in my profile.

It's a super-common dictionary word and is the brand of a very-well-known media company.

(my friend has a local business that's been an active and legit user of the name since 1994, and will have to give up serious local SEO/brand value to sell)

awesome thanks all!

Yes please contact me (email in profile).

My personal favorite in this vein: https://thekinspiracy.tumblr.com/

The article seems to assume that it is, in fact, possible to completely and correctly specify a system, and not only that, do so ahead of development.

This is a pipe dream in all but a minuscule slice of software projects.

GWT/cucumber is as decent a tool as any for creating automated tests of system actions (and especially interactions) in a mostly-human-readable format that is likely to be understood by BAs, testers, and devs, even if not all of them are expected to be able to write them.

I've used them across many projects with great success, with the understanding that it's not intended to replace unit tests for calculations, nor stories for initial specification.

As endian says downthread[0]: ", G/W/T isn't the solution to domain understanding, conversations are. You should be continually communicating to between all stake holders to maintain a current domain understanding."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674013

got stuck in customs at SFO for over 3 hours when their layover was scheduled to be just over an hour.

Less than two hours for an international-domestic transfer is crazy at ANY airport, USian or otherwise.

I use an extension called "onetab"[0] that saves (and closes) all my tabs in one click.

[0] https://www.one-tab.com/

Any chance you can elaborate on [2]? Sounds interesting.

Nothing about the blockchain can tell you whether somebody switched the labels, or who did it. And the not-guilty parties probably have no way of verifying what they received, either.

Having movements logged in a federated database has all the same properties.

I always say "the moment you need to verify that a human did something outside the system, your blockchain is broken."

broken for me here SF

EDIT: aaaaaaand it's back