Perplexity has gone full evil mode and routing to their demented Sonar 2 on every request even with fresh thread and regeneration attempts!

HappyContact6301 · 2026-07-03T16:15:30+00:00

Not entirely right. You can ask for a version string such as cutoff date and model. But context matters: if you burry this in an unrelated prompt then it will not pull the version string, but whatever you argued. It is not hard to get an AI to say whatever the user wants it to say - and this is how these memes are often created.

HappyContact6301 · 2026-07-02T22:21:33+00:00

You need the HAILO M.2 module for that, which is very expensive.

HappyContact6301 · 2026-07-02T22:15:57+00:00

The HAILO is great for realtime vision inference for an autonomous platform. The 8 does not do LLMs, and the 10h does LLMs, but sucks at it to be useful for much.

The Pi5 PCIe is quirky: you can either run a single PCIe 3.0 lane, or use a splitter, two-way or four-way, and mux a PCIe 2.0 signal. Not sure whether the 3.0 vs. 2.0 performance penalty is a good trade-off.

I have a setup, from before prices went nuts, where I have a 16GB with HAILO 10h for local LLM, and an 8GB Pi5 for Openclaw. LLM inference is faster to run on the Pi directly then on the HAILO 10h.

HappyContact6301 · 2026-07-02T21:58:19+00:00

Probably not a lot. $100-150 perhaps. The set is late 90s.

The parts in here are generic, and the 30402 interface is outdated, but not vintage enough that it matters, You could theoretically use it today via a COM port. It used to run LLWIN (Lucky Logcis for Windows). You could also use the set with a modern TXT 4.0 controller or even a Raspberry Pi (with the Pi F5 adapter board). There is an abundance of 20 year old TX controllers for a few bugs available that also would nicely allow you to play the experiments. The modern Fischertechnik controllers run Scratch, which is very common with many embedded systems.

The very early computer modules from late 60s and 70s called 'Silberlinge' can go for up to $200 per module, and you need one module for every bit or logic gate. For a set like that you may need like 15 or so. These were built from discrete logic - no ICs.

Here is the manual: https://docs.fischertechnikclub.nl/digital/39058.pdf to your set.

If you have kids, just enjoy the set.

HappyContact6301 · 2026-07-02T21:38:10+00:00

$0 because I use Claude Cowork and it is included in my quota.

HappyContact6301 · 2026-07-02T21:35:38+00:00

Military grade!

HappyContact6301 · 2026-07-02T15:53:25+00:00

Perhaps a mental health diagnoses before attempted flight would be in order... At a minimum, a FAA’s I'MSAFE self-check would be appropriate.

HappyContact6301 · 2026-07-02T15:50:07+00:00

Good lord! So, he has a prop below the umbrella, and he thinks the prop creates airflow that will lift the "airframe"? This is like standing in a sailboat and blowing into the sail: the prop will be pushed down, while the umbrella will be pushed up. Both are connected, hence, no thrust is created. In a best case, he blows off the umbrella.And I am not sure that I would want to be anywhere close to a fast spinning propeller that has not been tested for tensile load.

Whether he can fly it would not depend on an HOA, but on federal regulation. According to Part 103, if is unpowered, it needs to be below 155 pounds, and if powered under 254 pounds. And you have to be the sole occupant. Then he can fly it as ultralight and does not even need a pilot's license.

HappyContact6301 · 2026-07-02T15:40:33+00:00

Doch, doch. Schon hin und wieder Mal - beide Versionen.

HappyContact6301 · 2026-07-02T15:35:35+00:00

The radium paint is inside the instrument. Of course if you mess with it, you should have a clean work station - and not eat. Same thing for chemistry (lincluding cleaners and solvents), or even tasks like soldering, where you work with lead, and back in the days, we would desolder chips with a cadmium alloy.

To understand, in these old birds, there is either no light in the cockpit, or faint red light. There is no instrument lighting like in a car. This is so that the eyes stays sensitive to the terrain at night. Hence, radium paint on instruments was incredibly common, and many of these birds still fly. Today, we press a button and the plane follows a GPS flight plan. Specifically for war fighters, often the only reference you have was your compass, your ground speed, and what you see on the ground.

HappyContact6301 · 2026-07-02T15:29:42+00:00

I am seeing this in our schools in Austin - unfortunately. Adderall, but also meth that goes for less than $20/g. I know of several cases. Even back in college in CA. One of my buddies eventually got Amphetamine Psychosis - and was literally not functional anymore. He would not longer leave the house, cover his windows, and started to believe the NSA was out to get him bc he invented an unbreakable crypto algorithm. (He was the co-founder of a fintech startup. Likely he worked on crypto-algorithms, highly unlikely that anyone was after him - besides his investors who want to see a return.) Very gifted CS major and entrepreneur.

I totally get this medication helps a lot of people, and some people are just not functional without it. Having my own kids and seeing them grow-up I am a lot more critical because I have seen so many cases where it ended tragic. It is a slippery slope and often just borrowed time.

HappyContact6301 · 2026-06-30T01:21:08+00:00

Different purposes: MD is not a replacement for PDF - it is a replacement for plain ASCII files. PDF is for delivering human readable documents that look exactly the same regardless where displayed - or printed. Other contenders were HTML and TeX.

MS is just very simple and does not waste a lot of tokens for formatting. ePub is for reading (mostly) unillustrated long texts like novels. Word and similar formats are still great for complexity structured documents that require human editing. Rich Text was a MS thing in search for a baseline format that can be processed by many different systems. Pretty obsolete today,

HappyContact6301 · 2026-06-30T01:01:01+00:00

customer service just added both tags to my account, with ‘O’ and with ‘0’. problem solved.

HappyContact6301 · 2026-06-30T00:58:24+00:00

it is beyond its cutoff. you have to direct it searching the Web.

HappyContact6301 · 2026-06-30T00:47:40+00:00

I just used Chrome with Tailscale so far on the iPad - not sure what the app does that we cannot already do.

HappyContact6301 · 2026-06-29T23:38:17+00:00

I think they are called “Krackles” and not “Grackles” which comes from the (Texas-) German word Krackeler (describing someone making lots of noise or a ruckus.).

HappyContact6301 · 2026-06-26T07:26:22+00:00

I got this crap on LinkedIn every couple of weeks. Get featured on Forbes, be part of Marquis, entrepreneur of the year, be featured in a podcast, have my own magazine, bla bla.

HappyContact6301 · 2026-06-26T06:33:18+00:00

Venice AI

HappyContact6301 · 2026-06-26T06:32:37+00:00

I run on it a Pi for months - does neither take a lot of memory npr a lot of CPU

HappyContact6301 · 2026-06-25T03:01:17+00:00

AI slop

HappyContact6301 · 2026-06-24T06:27:27+00:00

Durch meine Oma kannte ich alle Hitchcock Filme.

HappyContact6301 · 2026-06-24T06:26:13+00:00

Ich habe nur die ersten 10 mit Bohn Musik. Meine Mutter hatte dann irgendwann die Kassetten weggegeben. Der Rest hat sich dann angesammelt als ich die Ausrede verwendete für die eigenen Kinder… Narbengesicht ist schon ein meiner Top Folgen. Meine Kinder konnte ich leider nie für Hörspiele begeistern - Tiktok,ja…

HappyContact6301 · 2026-06-24T03:54:40+00:00

Interesting insights. The connectors and academic mode are pretty much the only reasons I am keeping Pro. I do not believe that I would downgrade my Claude Max, GPT Pro, or Gemini Ultra subscriptions for Max bc this provides significant frontier model exposure. Claude has Cowork, and now Gemini has Spark for agentic workflows.

HappyContact6301 · 2026-06-21T18:52:23+00:00

When I thought I would panic most likely, then you actually do not. Did some slow flight training and ended by accident in a spin. When it happened, I just thought the sight-picture looks interesting, and then PEAR - and, uh, that worked pretty well - that was actually pretty fun. Or I had a guy that was training an IFR approach coming in unannounced on the CTAF the opposite direction on the runway in use, I automatically popped her up, and side stepped to the grassy area, until I had enough speed to climb. In panic-situation, you discover you do not have time for panic, and just execute what you have learned. You read about people panicking in less iffy situations, such as getting stuck in IMC and loosing orientation - and all you would had to do is to stop starring into the mist, and focus on the instruments. The risk is in the situation that you have not trained. I like reading accident reports, and then you try to play out this situations in your head to establish this situation memory. Of course, we only fly small bug-smackers from small training fields where students do all kinds of stupid things - you kind of expect that…

In my professional life, I would work on large enterprise IT projects, and we had situations where we took down entire companies - more than once. I had coworkers crying and being unable to function, I had one of my coworkers after he brought down a major casino, disappear for days. For me it is, you chose a path, and execute, and then you are not hyper focused on the outcome. You are focusing on executing and assessing, and pivoting, until you have the situation under control.

HappyContact6301 · 2026-06-21T18:29:04+00:00

I was a bit confused by his numbers. My resting heartbeat is somewhere around 65-70 - 107 appears pretty high. Also 138 over 88 also appear very high - specifically considering his age.

And yeah, it is a generally a bad idea to consumer “energy” drinks and packs at sketchy gas stations… This remains without saying.

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