dr_analog
razorboy
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dr_analog
razorboy
4hr ago
Thanks, good info. I'm going to try ordering some things and see how they go.
There are premanufactured flexible 'sheets' of WS2815s that may be easier to work with for something like a vest, if they have enough density and brightness for your task.
Oh jeez I was just planning to do the contours of our cargo bike with strips but after all, why not? Why shouldn't I paper every square inch of the box with these sheets?
Looking up this term has convinced me that any research related to child rearing is absolutely insane.
Yes. Fucking everyone in the world has opinions on parenting. It's worse than politics.
Re: Ferberizing
I think if I knew we were looking at 2 years of that shit we would have been much more hard about it. Something about being in the midst of it made it unthinkable.
We were all set to do it with the second kid but she barely put up a fuss.
dr_analog
razorboy
2d ago
Okay so if I was willing to forego individual addressing of LEDs, sounds like COB lights would be a good way to go?
I was imagining creating a 3D model of where every pixel was and being able to do a really sophisticated animation based on that (e.g. a pulse starting at some center like my vest and radiating out to the edges of my helmet and bottom of my bike), but there's only going to be a couple of light strips per item (helmet, bicycle, vest) so I don't imagine anything too intricate will show up and I should just consider controlling the color of all strips on an item as a single unit.
I'm kind of tempted to make TRON style lights for my bicycle helmet, bicycle and vest for myself and my family. A central controller would broadcast what LED should display what color. This way when we cruise around town we can all have synchronized lights and look absolutely sick.
I'm not really worried about doing the Arduino/ESP stuff or the wiring, but I would like to avoid buying a bunch of random stuff blindly and struggling with various LED light technologies. Anyone familiar with what I actually want? Regular very common LED light strips are too dim to use during the daytime. Thoughts?
Every baby is different. Try not to compare your baby to your friends’ babies too much, especially when it comes to sleep. Our baby is not a good sleeper and my husband and I are still taking it in shifts every night 4 months out because our little one is up every 1-2 hrs. I’ve had people tell me that he’s probably cold, hungry, sleeping too much during the day etc., and no, he is not, he’s just a crap sleeper.
You have my sympathy.
Our first kid was a crap sleeper for 2 years and it almost killed me.
Someone asked me once what I wanted for Christmas and I just said "... 3 nights in a row where I can sleep 8 hours a night" and I had to leave the room in case I started lolsobbing.
The second kid? No problem.
dr_analog
razorboy
2d ago
100,000 accountants? Sounds like heaven.
Quick googling says we have 1.6 million accountants and auditors in the US. Which isn't even factoring in all of the southeast Asians they farm work out to.
dr_analog
razorboy
4d ago
Right, we should go back to horses. Except, you know, the whole problem of being buried in manure, which is why NYC originally enthusiastically adopted the automobile.
This isn't like eliminating cars in Dallas Texas.
NYC has robust subway, railroad, and bike infrastructure. Busses would also be a lot more useful if they weren't stuck behind cars all of the time.
you could presumably look at the list of packages that are depended on and see how many installs they have
the package that looks like an important one that only has 10 installs vs the rest that have millions is a good clue
it's way too late to look at the SBOM though. installing a rogue package recommended by an LLM already risks totally compromising development
dr_analog
razorboy
4d ago
At least this one is funny.
As someone involved in infosec, my reaction to this is the guy pressed up against the window going "yes ... hahaha ... yes!" sickos meme
dr_analog
razorboy
5d ago
what incentive does Russia have to participate in peace talks if they're not interested?
dr_analog
razorboy
7d ago
'Rittenhouse was found to be acting in self defense therefore Murder by anybody left/POC-aligned that I find morally justified is apparently not a crime' thinking from the Left side of the aisle you see lately is insane
whoa wait. what did I miss?
dr_analog
razorboy
8d ago
The last time I found someone's phone it was so responsibly locked down I couldn't even read notifications.
The best I could do was write my own phone number on a sheet of paper and take a picture of it with their phone. This way it had some chance of appearing in their cloud Photos collection.
But inevitably they had a friend of theirs call it, and I answered, and we arranged a meet.
dr_analog
razorboy
8d ago
The lack of named sources coupled with lack of comment from both the USG and Nvidia would seem to hint that the story was false from the start.
Why wouldn't the USG have just denied it with a statement like "lol fake news, more made up trash from NPR"?
The Nvidia H20 exports ban is back on?
Lets recap. DeepSeek stuns the world by dropping a model almost as good as SOTA models while flexing incredible performance gains through cunning Chinese hacking. It's revealed they used lower end H20 GPUs vs the more decadent A100 / H100 / B100 class chips that fat American programmers use. Thusly, the US moves to ban exports of H20s as well.
Except last week, on April 9th, following the news of Jensen Huang dropping a million bucks at a Mar-a-Lago dinner with Trump, the ban is apparently lifted, stunning all China hawks in the country (and AI safetyists) and demonstrating that Trump will sell out his country to fucking China for a $1 million donation.
But today, Nvidia announces the export ban is on. And ... apparently was never lifted? The market reacts and knocks them down a few points.
What... happened? Checking back, it seems the only source for the news that the H20 ban was lifted was "two unnamed sources" reported by NPR.
Following the Mar-a-Lago dinner, the White House reversed course on H20 chips, putting the plan for additional restrictions on hold, according to two sources with knowledge of the plan who were not authorized to speak publicly.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5356480/nvidia-china-ai-h20-chips-trump
Weirdly, neither the USG nor Nvidia commented on it.
Can we read into the fact that since neither party commented on it, lifting the H20 ban was actually on the table? Was this leaked by one side to put pressure on the other? Was it a trial balloon? Or do we even trust that NPR actually reached out for comment like they said they did?
it's like 4% of their endowment
anyway, they could, and maybe they should spend more of their endowment on their own research, but that still doesn't mean "failed dumb ideological shit tests" is a solid reason for government to cancel science funding
dr_analog
razorboy
9d ago
Having to suspend or scrap tons of ongoing research projects is fairly bad for them, and probably also society. I suppose they can float them out of endowments but not permanently.
It would be nice if we were laying off biochem grads for good reasons and not ideological shit test reasons.
My wife wants us to move. I keep arguing that if America goes down the shitter, Europe is probably an even worse place to be even if we can live there indefinitely (we can).
Her argument comes more from a place of virtue ethics, rather than utilitarianism. She feels invested in America and we raise our kids here and reading all of this bad stuff in the news feels bad and makes her want to get America out of our lives. It does not matter if our quality of life would be worse in Europe, at least we can live in a society that is not so sick.
I'm surprised it's legal to physically remove someone from the US without a court hearing right before they get shoved onto a plane to at least confirm identity and that a legal basis exists to deport them.
I would expect the absence of this to make the judiciary pretty mad and for ICE agents to be found in contempt if they keep doing it after admonishment.
I am in the middle of the Culture series and feeling a loss of momentum. I enjoyed Player of Games, Consider Phlebus and to some degree Use of Weapons but it feels pretty underwhelming afterwards.
The State of the Art was a weird mix of short stories that barely kept me going. Had to skip ahead to Matter since the others aren't available in my library.. I'm finding Matter is also rather snoozeville.
Any other good ones? I really like being immersed in the Culture parts of the Culture universe but all of the rest is not that interesting.
Well, what does a good outcome look like to you?
Every way I can think of to measure this universal tariff move looks bad, regardless of how many dimensions of chess I use.
Aside from maybe demonstrating that the coffee shop revolutionary liberals suddenly love capitalism and are hypocrites. That has been amusing but not really worth the cost.
dr_analog
razorboy
11d ago
We'll just start an old-timey war effort to re-purpose old smartphones for military purposes. Win the War with your Brains and Brawn by recycling your old smartphones!
But more seriously, domestic production of smartphones is possible. Purism produces a Made in USA smartphone if you don't mind not having the SOTA. I expect interest in this space to increase from here.
I consider myself using the deliberate tactical choices lens here. Valuate the choices by its effects: it's bad!
Stated another way, I interpret your post as saying: don't judge Trump by the virtues of his choices, judge him by the results. See how he punks the planning boards who don't let shit get built? Great. Now lets apply that standard to his universal tariffs.
When I do that, they still seem like a disaster.
Don't tell anyone but the stock exchanges are all in datacenters in NJ now. The trading floor on Wall Street is just for show.
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