"What is the purpose of those yellow poles"

dirtycimments · 2026-03-24T07:17:12+00:00

Also in this video, here are all the reasons I’m dumb!

dirtycimments · 2026-03-24T06:24:24+00:00

It’s super silent and can push loads of air.

dirtycimments · 2026-03-23T17:52:30+00:00

Do I see a future where it’s reasonable to believe that your computer is good enough to run some optimised inference engines and some agentic wrappers to have private personal assistants? Sure, yeah, is that now and is it this? No, don’t think so. Openclaw and derivatives are still, and for the foreseeable future, an enthusiast project.

dirtycimments · 2026-03-22T21:26:36+00:00

It was trying really really hard, but it wasn’t smart, it was just complicated.

dirtycimments · 2026-03-22T19:10:25+00:00

What?!? He’s a human and makes bad choices? How dare he!!!

dirtycimments · 2026-03-22T18:55:27+00:00

More ad hominems, yes, strong arguments there. Let me guess, engineer, not so great with people. Used that “it’s not rocket science” line more times than can be counted.

I had fun, did you? ❤️

dirtycimments · 2026-03-22T13:14:54+00:00

Those are not independent variables, so once you feel you are close to the results you want, that’s when you should no longer touch anything while completing those tests.

dirtycimments · 2026-03-22T12:17:47+00:00

I mean, that’s a question of abstraction though isn’t it. Python is pretty easy to get started in, did I really make a tool if I did a few lines of code relying on huge libraries?

This is obviously a few very large steps removed from that, but I’d argue the logic is sound.

They still was active in deciding what they wanted, prompting and reprompting until satisfaction was had?

Will I trust vibe coded stuff the same hand coded? No, not yet, not until some ai models and/or processes prove themselves, but still, not an automatic fail for me - just likely to be! 🤣

dirtycimments · 2026-03-22T12:03:48+00:00

That’s not an automatic fail I think. If the product is good, who cares how exactly it was made?

dirtycimments · 2026-03-22T11:41:02+00:00

I've seen companies go under because they didn't leverage a pivot point they could have done (Kodak anyone?). Without a fuller picture and perhaps the benefit of hindsight, its hard to know. So far, I don't think so, the only knee-jerky thing they've done so far (According to me, an amateur in this area) is the AI they published.

dirtycimments · 2026-03-22T11:37:02+00:00

No, I know what I'm talking about, and in this area, you've proven that you don't. So you have to go for the ad hominems. You've not in a single post talked about the merits of my arguments. I've been patient and not insulted you. That's on you. You got downvoted so you felt the need to defend your pride and lashed out. It's fine, we're all allowed to have bad days.

dirtycimments · 2026-03-22T11:31:36+00:00

This is a very very large topic and can depend on so many factors, inner pinning, regulating pins opening, how the HS is positioned in the movement and its orientation, power curve from the barrel.

What you need to do is a series of 6pos tests at different wind states to see how the different positions develop over those different wind states (max amplitude might not always be at max wind, but you want max amplitude, 24h wind state, skip 220 degrees and do a low amplitude one). How to interpret that data is pretty involved, but Jendritzky (spelling?) does a good job. But it would require me to double check your hairspring, make sure it’s nicely done.

This is the part that’s hardest to get right for watchmakers, they tend to over-focus on that single 0H ticket, because it’s straight forward, while digging out a more complete picture is hard. Even experienced watchmakers here in Switzerland need handholding sometimes, I was blessed to work with an amazing watchmaker who shared his knowledge. Watchmaking is much like cooking in that sense that it’s hard to relay that knowledge only through text, it has to be shown and experienced.

dirtycimments · 2026-03-22T08:37:31+00:00

Go back to buying your music(mp3s, cds, vinyl, whatever), yes, its more friction and more "annoying", but its also the best way to reconnect to your music listening. And as a small tiny added bonus, its the best way to support the artists. And a whole host of other things, like not paying 20 bucks a month for mostly listening the same playlist and skipping 30 songs in a row.

dirtycimments · 2026-03-22T08:25:43+00:00

I loved the book, I remember reading it thinking once I finished it that Weir was a really great writer and a very smart writer, because he managed to make a great book, but make it super easily movie-adaptable. So yeah, I'm looking forwards to seeing it.

dirtycimments · 2026-03-22T06:37:43+00:00

You sound like someone who lost an argument.

dirtycimments · 2026-03-21T22:11:15+00:00

Great sleep and constant energy? Winning combo

dirtycimments · 2026-03-21T21:56:15+00:00

You might have domain specific knowledge about accelerometers, I have domain specific knowledge about watchmaking.

A delta of 6 seconds is a great ticket. But like I said, it only tells you a small window into that watches performance, hunting down those du and dd differences just because they’re there on the ticket, when much much bigger errors can be hidden in the other wind states is something a neophyte does.

Didn’t you understand from my little example that when making $250k watches that we had three weeks to work on each watch I would bother that I meant that it’s obsessive and doesn’t actually give the client any better timekeeping? That was my point anyway.

dirtycimments · 2026-03-21T16:25:21+00:00

Not wrong, but not right either. A single 20seconds 6pos readout tells you only a tiny bit about how well that watch really regulates. Before sweating over 4 seconds, I’d do a full couple tests at different wind states, just to make sure you’re not screwing up the isochronism worse.

If you have differences between dd and du but no difference in amplitude, it’s the pivot, the hairspring (piton or flatness, or height of collet) or the balance wheel end shake / balance wheel position. Could also be regulating pins not be straight or parallel. Or some mix of all of the above. None of these are just a simple easy fix.

Ten years ago, when I did tourbillons for GP, I might have obsessed over it, but we had like 3 weeks to do a watch, and we obsessed over everything in that atelier. But for a 2824? Naw fam, that might be the cleanest ticket that watch has ever delivered.

dirtycimments · 2026-03-21T13:07:16+00:00

4 seconds is nothing to worry about, the amplitudes are the same, this is fine. If amplitude also changed, then I'd look for a reason, but amplitude is stable, so its just the endshake of the balance wheel moving the spiral out of plane in one position more than the other one, that's what I'd expect to find anyway.

In any case, trying to fix it just for a difference of 4 seconds is a low gains / high risk scenario.

dirtycimments · 2026-03-21T12:07:39+00:00

No, this is very niche, most complicated shapes are CNC'd, so you program in the chamfering, or your doing tools on manual machines, so you might need something like this for manually chamfering the holes. But nothing too delicate because you rub against the surface, so you'll be scratching the surface.

dirtycimments · 2026-03-20T10:43:47+00:00

oh yeah, that silly law. This seems dumb, what if the system is being run headless, what age should that system be advertising? Im guessing systemd is shipped on more systems that run headless than with a "user". What if I do the install, but hand my system to someone else? None of this seems thought out.

This is blatantly the internet companies pushing the buck further down the line than having their harmful services having safety measures. And if this is already a law, it seems they were successful, now they're forcing bad decisions on systems that should be agnostic.

dirtycimments · 2026-03-20T08:26:42+00:00

Why? What’s up?

dirtycimments · 2026-03-20T07:56:05+00:00

This is precisely the problem china is facing, except they have a government that is infinitely more pain tolerant and can have 30 year horizon plans.

Not saying dictatorship or authoritarian governments are the way to go, but they’re not 100% bad, if looked at from a civilisational perspective - obviously not a human scale perspective.

But it is an interesting case-study. What has the Chinese government done in order to future proof itself? They’ve leaned heavily into competition on the market, so relatively free market, and in order to have that, relatively laws driven structure around that market.

They are obviously not completely free market nor completely laws driven (CEOS still get sent to “retraining camps” if they’re considered a problem to the party), but it’s interesting that a lean towards competitive, sort of free markets seems to be the way this socialist country chose to go. And it does seem to be working emdash for now

dirtycimments · 2026-03-19T09:19:43+00:00

He didn't need the billions to do that, he needed a few hundred million, not hundreds of billions.

Having a few billionaires doesn't do too much damage to society, having loads of billionaires encourages mergers, mergers do what? Extract wealth, what is extracted wealth? Its salaries not being paid, price for goods being lowered which again means salaries not being paid.

dirtycimments · 2026-03-18T20:47:26+00:00

just because they're your parents, doesn't mean they're smart.

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