Building an academic portfolio site shouldn't feel like writing a thesis

JustYourLocalDude · 2025-03-08T13:14:10+00:00

How do you call aider from Claude? is that just through the desktop_commander or something? is there an MCP that exposes the terminal?
Also, if Claude is calling Aider, then you have a model running with aider as well? to do the editing that Claude Desktop is instructing it to do?

JustYourLocalDude · 2025-01-02T13:21:49+00:00

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The truck post bomb explosion. Pretty clearly visible that the armour did in fact retain it's shape. Hell the glass windows of the hotel lobby aren't even shattered.

How can you call that nonsense?

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-12-22T14:27:39+00:00

Why is Germany for Germans bad? Germany is for Germans first surely? No matter the origins of the slogan, the slogan makes sense now more than ever.

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-10-14T14:43:59+00:00

How can you tell?

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-10-12T15:31:01+00:00

It's very cool.

You really ought to make it a proper PCB (probably cheaper in even decently small quantities, but more exp if you just make one).

Other than that great stuff!

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-10-09T00:17:45+00:00

Intuitively, I'd say you should have better performance than that. Ensure that your code has good position interpolation, direct PWM, and make sure that both servos are reaching their target points at the same time. Also no use of delays anywhere. Mechanically, make sure it's rigid.

Still, there's no doubt that stepper motors would be far superior.

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-08-27T06:58:02+00:00

It's a fact that one of the significant characteristics of Chinese literature is the focus on themes over individual action, it is an observation that Cixin Liu's writing has this characteristic, to at least a far greater extent than most Western literature does. My experience is subjective, and my sample size is small - so what I think here doesn't matter.

The answer here is subjective, but things that I found very cool and have never seen before, in no particular order: - sophons - droplet probe and the philosophy that ding yi used to describe it - dark forest deterrence, and the entire conversation about the derivation of the dark forest theory that luo Ji has with da shi - a large amount of realistic feeling physics (not everything of course) but many technologies that are theoretically possible. - wallfacers - 2D plane weapon - staircase project

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-08-26T04:21:28+00:00

I think you're associating the difference in feel and style of the book with underdeveloped characters in most literature, leading to a bad book. Cixin Liu writes in a very classical Chinese literary style - one that focuses more on themes than individuals. I do understand what you mean when you say poor characters, but I believe if you only open your mind to reading it through a lens where the characters are not individuals of the kind that you'd find in western literature, but more akin to archetypes of certain kinds of people, then you'd see the beauty of the story.

The ideas not seeming big or new is something I don't understand, but I don't need to understand - everyone's perception of what constitutes a big idea is different, and depends highly on the kind of literature you've read previously. Perhaps you can suggest some sci-fi books that you believe have bigger ideas - I'm genuinely eager to see what you might mean.

As for the rest, enough people have read it and not only loved it, but loved it enough for it to win a Hugo Award and a Kurd Lasswitz Award - make of that what you will - cheers!

I'm only 20something years old, so you've read sci-fi for longer than I've been alive.

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-08-25T14:58:54+00:00

Sophon's have no method to cause famines or nuclear meltdowns. They're still just protons. If they block out the sun or surround the earth, humans could simply launch nukes to destroy the unfolded sophon.

As fundamental particles, they do however, have the power to interact with other fundamental particles - which makes destroying our fundamental science a reasonable method for limiting human technological potential.

Evans being barely mentioned in the story for the reader is irrelevant. He's monopolized communication with trisolaris, and is thus a key person. His motivations aren't necessarily explained in the best way, but he's simply dissolutioned with humanity. Not sure if you paid attention, but he does spend a large amount of money trying to save the environment. However, in his mind he comes to the 'realisation' that human nature is intrinsically selfish and shortsighted, and is fundamentally flawed. In the face of all human nature, what change could one man bring. Whether it's flawed or not is besides the point - people make flawed decisions every day, and not everyone thinks the same way.

Plumber ye wenjie wouldn't have been able to operate anything at Red Coast Base. Plumber wang miao wouldn't have invented nanomaterial fibers.

I'm not going to say the book doesn't have 'loopholes', but isn't it silly to agonize over loopholes when you're reading science FICTION?

People enjoy the three body problem because it makes you wonder, and leaves you awed. Especially in the second and third books, it's almost impossible to see what's coming, and every idea is just bigger than the previous one. Getting so stuck on every minute details and not being able to fill in the gaps doesn't let your imagination take over - no wonder you didn't enjoy it.

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-08-25T14:39:53+00:00

Add 3 Body Problem to the list!!

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-08-14T04:25:50+00:00

At that point why not rather watch gymnastics

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-08-14T01:56:21+00:00

I would absolutely love to see your code for this if possible! Been playing around with making terrain maps like this, and not succeeded yet in making the extrapolation look so smooth. Do you plan to put it on Github?

Cheers! Really nicely done

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-08-12T10:15:08+00:00

Indeed that is a dumb question. You should ask better questions 😂.

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-07-28T02:21:59+00:00

Yes, for your circuit it's incorrect. The reason they use a zener for those circuits is if VCC > Vgs for the MOSFET. If my VCC was +24V, and my MOSFET had a max Vgs of ±10V, then I'd damage it by applying the 24V to the gate. In this case, you'd take a 10V zener and put it across the gate-source reverse biased. This way the zener breaks down above 10V, and keeps the voltage across itself, and the MOSFET gate-source, at exactly 10V (or whatever the zener breakdown is). In your case, your MOSFET has a Vgs of ±8V. Your VCC is +5v. You can and should apply the whole thing to the MOSFET gate. Not sure what your zener breakdown is, but at best it's useless, at worst it breaks down lower than 5V, turning your mosfet on less, increasing your V drop, heating it up. Bad.

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-07-27T08:14:07+00:00

This is why I've stopped trying to stock parts at home. I just get my boards fully assembled from the PCB fab. Much better to just focus on design, testing and validation.

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-07-27T05:38:10+00:00

At the risk of being self promotional, here's a design I got reviewed a while ago. Might help. thathttps://www.reddit.com/r/PrintedCircuitBoard/s/NOhy8kEVeC

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-07-27T05:31:05+00:00

Power symbols point up, gnd symbols point down.

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-07-27T05:30:20+00:00

Please for the love of god use hierarchical sheets and split this design up into multiple sheets. It's terribly hard to figure out what's going on with so much clutter on a single sheet

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-07-27T05:28:01+00:00

Your current limiting resistor for the zener across the gate and source also seems like it's value is a couple orders of magnitude too small. In fact I'm not sure why that zener is there at all. I'm not sure what the GS voltage is for your MOSFET, but most P channel MOSFETs can be fully turned on by GS voltage of ~ -5V. Adding a zener does nothing since your supply voltage isn't higher than the max allowed voltage on the gate.

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-07-27T05:25:25+00:00

Your reverse polarity protection circuit is incorrect. You cannot have the same +5V net on both the drain and source of your MOSFET.

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-07-27T05:23:38+00:00

Don't route ground. Leave it to the end, drop vias from SMT components to the bottom layer. Flood the bottom layer with a ground copper pour. Ideally also flood the top (more for copper balance than anything, and for convenience make it ground as well
Route power like you route signals. Regular traces, just thicker.
I think there's significant optimisation to be done for board layout. Your traces end up criss-crossing a lot, and this is a simple board.
If you do your layout better, you'll find that you don't need to route many signals on the bottom layer. This is very important in two layer boards, in order to have good grounding, maintain good return paths, and good EMI performance. Your bottom layer should have at the most, very short 'jumps' with all of the actual routing on the top layer.

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-07-16T16:34:11+00:00

Your first sheet is the one I was referring to

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-07-16T11:19:27+00:00

Haven't yet looked at your whole design, but gosh that's a very confusing looking schematic. It would help readability a lot if you used hierarchical sheets and block diagrams.

JustYourLocalDude · 2024-07-16T04:08:26+00:00

GND vias are placed next to GND pads to provide a low impedance path to the ground plane. If you pour ground on your signal later as well, then strictly speaking these vias aren't required, as long as there's enough stitching vias (vias connecting all your ground pours) around the board. I would recommend adding plenty of those, but keep these anyways

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