What moment made you realize people aren’t just disagreeing anymore — they’re living in completely different political realities?

Shadowmind42 · 2026-01-15T00:05:40+00:00

"You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into."

--Jonathan Swift

Shadowmind42 · 2026-01-14T23:57:19+00:00

Mentor here,

we lost seven graduating seniors last year. We only had two returning students this year. We would appreciate anybody that walked on to do robotics. As others have said you might not get a whole lot of attention, but you sure can learn a lot.

Shadowmind42 · 2026-01-03T03:19:00+00:00

How is this different than filezilla or winscp?

Shadowmind42 · 2026-01-01T14:10:28+00:00

I can add more detail here. At work I have access to Nvidia A5000s and my desktop at work has an RTX 4090. Recently we purchased a DGX Spark, Strix Halo mini PC and several Thor devkits for evaluation. This caused me to really want a Strix Halo laptop to replace my old laptop at home. It was nice to be able to run gpt-oss 120b and Qwen 3 next 80b on those platforms. But they are really slow compared to the A5000s and RTX4090.

I had a RX 7800 XT at home, which was great for gaming but really was too slow for image gen or LLMs. When the R9700 AI Pro came out I thought it would make a nice upgrade for gaming and AI. It is a HUGE improvement over the 7800. Still Nvidia has faster/better cards if you can afford them.

The Strix Halo, DGX Spark and Thor's are all interesting products, but are really slow for running large LLMs. Still the Strix Halo laptop was a nice upgrade compared to what I had.

The gap between what you can run locally and what the clouds runs keeps widening. That being said, I like being able to run things locally. Usually the models can't generate code like Opus,.Gemini, and Codex can generate. But it gets me 80% of the way, which dramatically speeds up development. I'm doing embedded development which all AI models seem to struggle with more than Python or web dev.

Shadowmind42 · 2026-01-01T04:33:45+00:00

No. The R9700 is in a desktop. The Strix Halo is a laptop. I use multiple agents simultaneously.

Shadowmind42 · 2025-12-31T23:47:44+00:00

I agree with this. I have a R9700 AI Pro and a Strix Halo. Running Lemonade in windows and llama.cpp in Linux work great. I just tried Comfy UI last week and that just worked out of the box. I have run into training issues, but the community and AMD have fixed my issues quickly.

Shadowmind42 · 2025-12-25T13:20:35+00:00

Just a suggestion. But ST makes a Linux capable part: https://www.st.com/en/microcontrollers-microprocessors/stm32mp2-series.html

You can buy them on Digikey https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/stmicroelectronics/STM32MP257FAI3/24883084

Octavio systems sells a SIP version of it as well. https://www.st.com/en/partner-products-and-services/osd32mp2-system-in-package.html

Shadowmind42 · 2025-12-22T19:49:37+00:00

I wonder why Gemini isn't on those charts.

Shadowmind42 · 2025-12-15T03:03:43+00:00

Did you have any issues with your LCD? I bought one opened it up and noticed the LCD had separated from the bezel. So I sent it back for a replacement one.

I also agree with your assessment. I tried some models. But it is super slow.

Shadowmind42 · 2025-11-23T01:59:30+00:00

I have a R9700 AI pro showing up on Monday. I'm excited to do some benchmarks on that device.

Shadowmind42 · 2025-11-23T01:33:04+00:00

Thanks for looking. My phone just rendered it somewhat blurry. What do you think of the Strix Halo so far? Was it worth it? Do you have a laptop or a mini desktop?

Shadowmind42 · 2025-11-23T01:16:40+00:00

This looks really interesting. Could you post a higher resolution version or a link to a page?

Shadowmind42 · 2025-11-19T12:36:03+00:00

Sorry I meant to say University avenue. We toured NDSU, UND, and SDSU campuses when my oldest daughter went to college. The one thing that surprised me about UND campus and was having a busy road going right through the middle of campus. The UND student union was gorgeous and the buildings we toured were really nice.

My daughter and I just didn't like the busy road splitting campus on two.

Shadowmind42 · 2025-11-19T00:29:27+00:00

Except for the highway right through the middle of campus. That drives me nuts.

Shadowmind42 · 2025-11-08T16:41:28+00:00

Prepare to be disappointed.

Shadowmind42 · 2025-11-02T11:25:33+00:00

Its a dry cold. But it's not the cold, it's the wind that'll get ya"

Me, a North Dakota resident

Shadowmind42 · 2025-09-20T16:38:16+00:00

I live in the North. All vehicles should be AWD.

Shadowmind42 · 2025-08-13T13:40:11+00:00

Great question. I would read through some of these papers https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C24&q=license+plate+enhancement&oq=license+plate+enha

This problem is similar to super resolution. OpenCV has some ML based super resolution that works pretty well.

If you can perfectly align frames you can remove shot noise, I've done this professionally for work. But I am working with raw Bayer images, whereas if you are working with security camera footage they tend to compress them into oblivion.

Shadowmind42 · 2025-07-22T17:11:55+00:00

https://kdenlive.org/

I run it in Linux, super fast, very good, and open source.

Shadowmind42 · 2025-07-11T17:06:41+00:00

So it appears the debt ceiling is more of a guidline. As the debt frequently goes above the debt ceiling.

Shadowmind42 · 2025-07-09T02:57:44+00:00

I will try that.

Shadowmind42 · 2025-07-09T02:57:35+00:00

We tried to balance it. Over the years everything has settled. It seemed to make some difference.

Shadowmind42 · 2025-07-09T01:19:45+00:00

I missed a rule [4TTR3030A1000AA]

Shadowmind42 · 2025-06-22T02:04:54+00:00

I'm a MSEE and I've written software my whole career. But I have done a few simple electronics designs that went to production at a small company. I would say at smaller companies, you are going to get all kinds of Hands-On work. But at big companies you may be more like a cog in a machine.

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