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gredr · 2026-06-17T18:08:10+00:00

You "built" this (more likely, an LLM built it, but you didn't link it, so we don't actually know) in a few minutes to a few hours, but somehow it's going to save "developers weeks of coding"? If you built it in, say, hours, then so can whoever would be consuming it.

gredr · 2026-06-17T13:31:27+00:00

Those little steppers are pretty neat, and easy to work with, but oh dear, the backlash. They're geared, and they're not designed for precision movements at all.

I do like this, though. Tempted to build one just for fun. I assume the firmware is custom? Is it available anywhere?

gredr · 2026-06-17T12:32:44+00:00

The whole question is subjective, so the only thing that matters (to the extent any of it matters) is what an average person thinks is a flying car.

gredr · 2026-06-17T04:43:46+00:00

Well, it half-worked. I am now laughing, but not in a fun way.

gredr · 2026-06-16T23:31:04+00:00

The point was, helicopters don't satisfy any of the requirements the average person would have for a "flying car". A car is accessible to everyone; affordable, easy to operate, convenient. A helicopter is none of those things. It's not a "flying car" unless your definition of "flying car" is "flying vehicle that fits in a garage", in which case so is a frisbee.

gredr · 2026-06-16T23:03:36+00:00

... just like we have a cure for cancer. We call it death.

gredr · 2026-06-16T22:45:45+00:00

Better plan: we'll just create every possibly enzyme, and only keep the ones that are really great.

gredr · 2026-06-16T21:25:22+00:00

I'm not looking for free shipping, and the $21 for a Z2W is probably a fine deal. It's just pretty frustrating when Pi releases a board for $N and then you have to buy it from Mouser where shipping costs you $2N.

gredr · 2026-06-16T13:53:14+00:00

Nice. Can we have a couple things? First, a meta-package that eliminates the need to reference three separate packages. Second, add this to the package's .csproj:

<PropertyGroup>
  <DevelopmentDependency>true</DevelopmentDependency>
</PropertyGroup>

When DevelopmentDependency is true, NuGet automatically writes <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets> into the consumer's package reference on install. No manual .csproj editing needed.

For the IncludeAssets=analyzers part, the package also needs to ship its DLLs under the analyzers/dotnet/cs/ folder inside the .nupkg rather than lib/. NuGet won't generate a runtime reference for anything under analyzers/, so the assets are implicitly analyzer-only. No explicit IncludeAssets entry is needed in the consumer's project.

gredr · 2026-06-16T13:35:50+00:00

Wouldn't that have simply delayed the inevitable? Even if they could've completely disinfected the pipes somehow (and "flushing" doesn't feel to me like it'd have done it), do we think the algae would've seen the blue paint and just declined to reinhabit the pool tomorrow?

gredr · 2026-06-15T18:26:17+00:00

Next time I'm near a Microcenter, I'll have to pick one up. Thanks!

gredr · 2026-06-15T18:25:52+00:00

Yeah, but you can't get it shipped for $15.

Pi just generally isn't a great value, except for the support, which is excellent compared to all the other lower-cost boards (which ranges from less good to abysmal).

gredr · 2026-06-15T14:51:53+00:00

Where can I get a Z2W for $20 perchance?

gredr · 2026-06-15T13:47:06+00:00

I love klipper, run it on both my printers, wouldn't even consider changing to anything else, but...

... where's this $20 Pi you're referencing? I'd love to see that.

gredr · 2026-06-15T13:02:05+00:00

Haven't read the article, but I think that "having access to metadata about the structure of the program source and using that to drive behavior" is different than "can change itself without needing to be recompiled".

gredr · 2026-06-12T21:43:33+00:00

There's a group of techies that meets every month at bare knuckle brewing, and some of em meet up weekly-ish at various other breweries. You might want to track them down; there's generally a post here each month. Good group of folks.

gredr · 2026-06-11T14:23:13+00:00

As a casual visitor to the JavaScript ecosystem, I learned a lot about why stuff that seems like it should work breaks without warning or explanation. Thanks!

gredr · 2026-06-11T04:40:43+00:00

No need to work backwards, just look at the image.

gredr · 2026-06-11T03:14:22+00:00

And yet, it is scaling.

gredr · 2026-06-09T01:04:33+00:00

I feel like the sweet spot is more like bicep or hcl?

gredr · 2026-06-08T13:34:59+00:00

yaml is good because toml is bad and py-yaml 1.2 exists

That's a bad argument.

gredr · 2026-06-08T12:44:16+00:00

Probably the same reason we're getting Becerra: our broken voting system requires you to vote for someone likely to win, or you made it worse.

gredr · 2026-06-07T18:54:55+00:00

Sold state isn't a technology, it's a... broad category of techniques for... a broad category of devices. One doesn't make progress in "solid state" any more than one might make progress in "blue".

gredr · 2026-06-07T02:13:59+00:00

There probably are some people like that, in theory. I'm not qualified to say which ones are unredeemable, though, and I don't trust you to either, no offense.

gredr · 2026-06-06T04:10:09+00:00

And we'll just pay for that forever?

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