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I've determined that it's a bad idea for me to write an article like this because every time I've seen one of these they're absolutely riddled with errors and incomplete information. I have no doubt I'd do worse!

If you're emotionally on edge when reading it, it's easier to miss that his math is wrong and he's no expert. Writing that way benefits him.

dang.. that's an angle I haven't thought of

I had not heard of zero point clamping. This video I found is extremely cool, I can see how that would save a lot of time and money in the shop!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrLri_RdgK8


What happens when you use up the 60 minutes of talk time?


This:

"A Chinese father's video of his daughter tearfully saying goodbye to her broken Al learning robot"

https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeCry/comments/1o2yf3i/a_chines...


Santa will tell your son or daughter to go beg his or her parents to pay 'santa' for more talk time:

Generous Talk Time: 60 minutes of talk time included, and additional minutes are available for purchase for extended holiday entertainment throughout the season

That's not what I understood Santa to be like.


Something like as follows:

Rule 34.vc - if it exists, it can be enshittified.


"Ho ho ho! I'm sorry but our time is up. If you'd like to keep talking to me, please provide a credit card number. Merry christmas!"


Better would be something along the lines of "You were only so good this year, and the time is up. If you want to talk more, you need to earn more good points with your mom and dad!"

No idea how you'd monetize that, though.


With 'in-app' purchases of course: 100 brownie points now only $10, hurry this offer won't last.

Somehow this device fits well with the Don't be a sucker video linked to elsewhere on this here site [1]. Good advice, valid in many contexts. Don't.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45573025


Nah - I want something that one can monetize and actually makes the kids be good (somehow).

Perhaps a parent commitment that if the kids earn X many goodie (goody?) points, then the CC is charged, and let the parent control how they earn those X points.

Gamifying good behavior has been shown to be pretty effective with kids. See Kadzin.


"Ho ho ho! I'm sorry but our time is up. If you want to keep talking to Santa, go into Daddy's wallet or Mommy's purse and bring Santa the rectangular cards with the numbers on it. Now, let's play a numbers game! You read the numbers on that card to me, and I'll tell you what you're getting for Christmas!"


"Santa needs more money to function"


You drink another verification can.


Reverse Santa


I'd argue it doesn't show growth or shrinking. What capacity does remembering strings of numbers "grow"? There's no clear connection to remembering other things, or math skills, or anything but how many numbers you remember.

The author says they still remember these numbers. Maybe they remember fewer and this is shrinking? Seems like a poor example at any rate.


Would it be possible to check for the power adapter and run processing then? These are the types of things I've been thinking about for my own app: https://stardateapp.com


Wow, yeah that's clever I hadn't thought of that. Will add as an advanced setting.


Awesome, this is a good idea! Having a nice wrapper to make LLM calls easier is very helpful too :)

Nice to see someone digging in on the system models. That's on my list to play with, but I haven't seen much new info on them or how they perform yet.


We’ve begun internally evaluating the model and will share our findings more in details later. So far, we’ve found that it performs well on tasks such as summarization, writing, and data extraction, and shows particular strength in areas like history and marketing. However, it struggles with STEM topics (e.g., math and physics), often fails to follow long or complex instructions, and sometimes avoids answering certain queries. If you want us to evaluate a certain use case or vertical, please share it with us!


The art of the deal isn't a deal. It's extortion.


This video is great, but it must have been awkward to have Linus narrating about your own house while you sit there. Why not interview Kenton?


Honestly I think interviews are just not something Linus does a lot of. He has a particular workflow where he writes a script for himself and then acts it out for the camera. Changing it up would be going outside his comfort zone and there wasn't a lot of time.

That said there is a "behind the scenes" video where we initially toured him through the house which is a lot more conversational, but it's on their pain subscription service.


Does this work for Raspberry Pi? Say for example I wanted to make an image that would auto-connect to my Tailscale network, or pre-install some software, would this be able to achieve that?


Use RPIOS [pi-gen](https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen), it's pretty versatile and stupid simple, I could not wrap my head around Yocto and Buildroot. Even set it up in CI so GitHub would build the image and id just get the final tar.gz file as an artifact.

It's all just bash scripts and you can basically strip the entire image down. I had no window manager and no display server I was using DRM to show my UI.


I use [pi-oven](https://github.com/keichi/pi-oven) for my raspberry images. Not perfect, but kind of works and removes a lot of hassle for the provisioning.

Could not quickly find out from the project page an example on how to bake rpi images with mkosi, but the descriptions do point towards somewhat similar use case :shrug:


I've checked on this several times over the years, and I think the answer will probably be no for a long time, or forever. The RPi boot process is a bit arcane and specific. Systemd's philosophy seems to want to target the 95% use case, but maybe the sheer size of the RPi sphere will provide enough pressure.


If you install a UEFI bootloader on the Pi, I don't see why it couldn't work.


Balena could do that for you. You make a usb stick for a fleet and anything flashed with the stick joins the fleet and downloads the latest release.

The releases are dockers via docker compose. You can manage all devices via a web interface too.


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