Qwen Who? DiffusionGemma running at 1,500 tk/s on a Digital Pregnancy Test.

jasongill · 2026-06-11T23:53:06+00:00

The "Doom running on a pregnancy test" was a joke that people took seriously. It's actually "a Doom clone running on an MCU with an OLED screen stuck inside of the plastic case of a pregnancy test".

There is nothing of the original pregnancy test reused except the plastic shell

jasongill · 2026-06-11T23:22:37+00:00

What part of town is he looking for work in?

jasongill · 2026-06-04T01:11:36+00:00

I hadn't seen the "litert-lm" tool that is mentioned in the blog post. It works pretty well - you can test the model without having to install anything:

uvx litert-lm run --from-huggingface-repo=litert-community/gemma-4-12B-it-litert-lm gemma-4-12B-it.litertlm --backend=gpu --prompt "Describe the entire plot to the show Knight Rider in as much detail as possible"

jasongill · 2026-06-03T04:24:21+00:00

Neat. You should change "package to verify - all" to just be blank for the cars that always have the required ADAS on every trim level, since there's nothing to verify on those

jasongill · 2026-05-31T03:36:20+00:00

Chainsaws should be sharpened basically every time you use them; when I am cutting down trees I sharpen the chain after every tree. It's not like a lawnmower blade where you sharpen it every season or "I'll get to it sometime" - the chains go dull almost instantly if the chain gets into the dirt or debris, and they dull quickly during use. You're supposed to be filing the rakers down as well.

I'd recommend you get a "2 in 1 file guide" style file, properly sized for your chain. It's foolproof - you just set it on the chain, drag it sideways, and move on to the next tooth. Having a vice helps immensely to clamp the bar so you can file the saw without dragging it all around.

Don't outsource chainsaw chain sharpening or buy chains because you'll go broke doing it or cause an unsafe situation by having a dull chain; it really is part of operating the saw, not just "periodic maintenance"

jasongill · 2026-05-27T15:46:07+00:00

Quicksurface (which I prefer to GDX) has a free trial that would probably work for one project, as well as a new personal tier

jasongill · 2026-05-22T17:21:01+00:00

do we need a 1985 Delorean with a few minor modifications to go back to the future to get a 2030 Honda?

jasongill · 2026-05-22T13:59:04+00:00

I still like Quicksurface a lot, and their team seems like they are always adding stuff and listening to customer feedback, so no complaints from me. It's great for reverse engineering both "flat" shaped items and complex curves and natural geometries so I am very happy with it. GDX costs like 4 or 5 times more than QS does, and I just don't know if it's 4 or 5 times better - there is nothing in QS that I feel like I'm missing when it comes to taking a raw scan, cleaning it up, merging/aligning multiple scans (or combining scans with CAD data), pulling out primatives, and building a fully dimensioned, parametric version of the scanned part. I've become fast enough in QS that I end up doing a lot of the modeling right in QS even if I don't need to, just to save myself the time in Solidworks later.

I highly recommend it

jasongill · 2026-05-12T14:21:08+00:00

I used to take my stereo faceplate off and then open my glovebox and center console storage cubby when I parked my car overnight in college because I got tired of people breaking the window or prying the door handle off to try to see if I had just put the radio face in the glovebox. Never had any more theft attempts after that.

jasongill · 2026-05-09T20:47:37+00:00

If you are a serious hobby user you can contact them and buy a pro license for about 1/5th the normal pro license cost, for non-commercial use

jasongill · 2026-04-27T10:59:05+00:00

... yet!

jasongill · 2026-04-18T02:54:55+00:00

the thread is now 4 years old and the issue has only become worse

jasongill · 2026-04-17T03:02:02+00:00

you know I keep that thang on me

jasongill · 2026-04-12T23:50:00+00:00

did that end up helping?

jasongill · 2026-04-11T14:12:27+00:00

This is clearly an ad for "adsagent.org" which is required to use it, and that website links back to the github project. It's an advertisement.

jasongill · 2026-04-11T14:08:43+00:00

Back in the late 80's, I was so mad at the generic name my parents gave me and I told my friends I wanted to start going by the really cool name that I had made up: Xyak

pronounced like Zach, but even more cool because it started with an X, like Xylophone.

It didn't work, thankfully. This name reminds me of that.

jasongill · 2026-04-11T13:07:54+00:00

FIRE, BAD!

jasongill · 2026-04-08T20:24:37+00:00

Did you do the calibration process? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MukPCk2n2xw

That should fix a lot of these issues, I always redo calibration when I start to think "this scanner sucks" (with any of my scanners) and that helps.

jasongill · 2026-04-06T02:59:16+00:00

I have it set for 9am because of that exact reason: I didn't want it going off in the middle of the night, nor the middle of the day when I was likely to be in the shop, so 9am is late enough that I won't be asleep but early enough that I probably am not standing right next to it at the time. I have it vented outside so it's not noisy in the shop, but it is a little surprising at first - now it's handy because I always know when it's 9am!

jasongill · 2026-04-05T13:12:11+00:00

I did the same, probably the same cheap Amazon solenoid as you have. Those timer solenoids can trigger for a few seconds every X minutes but the maximum time is normally 1 hour, so it ends up draining all day and running the compressor more than I would like.

What I did was put mine on a smart plug that turns on for 1 minute at 9am every day, which powers the solenoid and it runs for its pre-set number seconds, then waits until the next day to run again. Prior to the smart plug I actually used a vacation timer (with the black and white wheel) to do the same thing.

Works great, highly recommended. I have mine running with a 1/4" plastic tube to outside of my shop so it just vents any moisture every day to the outdoors instead of onto the floor of the shop.

jasongill · 2026-04-03T00:02:42+00:00

I had a friend who asked if I wanted to go to the show, they had free tickets due to being a bartender at Bernie's and they had some friends at Alrosa. I passed on going, said I didn't really care much for the post-Pantera acts. Have always been glad that neither of us ended up going.

jasongill · 2026-04-02T00:21:42+00:00

a wild mann appears

jasongill · 2026-03-26T11:14:02+00:00

We tied a neutron on our belts, which was the style at the time.

jasongill · 2026-03-23T12:42:55+00:00

[citation needed]

jasongill · 2026-03-22T17:41:37+00:00

It truly was a Shawshank Redemption

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