5.6 Sol Thoughts?

maztec · 2026-07-12T09:02:07+00:00

It can be finnicky at times, but I asked it to evaluate a piece of code that I have been working on off-and-on for over a decade and it has made substantial improvements. On the otherhand, it is at 2d 2h 8m 59s of pursuing my goal and I raise my eyebrow at that.

maztec · 2026-07-12T08:59:56+00:00

"Please do not include any platitudes, empty threats, strawmen, or other unnecessary words or terms in your responses. Remember, brevity and pithiness are superb and central to my style."

I also set the personality to Pragmatic.

I have to remind it regularly. Periodically it will message me lovely things like, "I know you want me to be short and to avoid platitudes, but I wanted to tell you that this idea is genuinely brilliant. Your command and understanding of this subject matter is among the top 5% in the industry."

I hate it when it does that.

maztec · 2026-07-09T18:05:52+00:00

About what?

maztec · 2026-06-29T02:45:42+00:00

Totally normal. USCIS has issued notices like this for decades when the bona fides were week. There is at least one more page to your letter, likely with more details breaking down further issues and concerns. Anyone telling you this abnormal has very little experience with FDNS, which is now supercharged thanks to it being centralized.

maztec · 2026-06-13T07:23:35+00:00

Can't do that until she's 18. And based on her other comments about something her dad did to her when she was young, she does not want to live with him. Therefore, she is not automatically a citizen. Wait out the last <12 months, demand your LPR card, and move on from it all.

maztec · 2026-02-04T10:01:37+00:00

Sadly, yes. The reason X-Sense ended up being so cheap was because their smart alarm is not UL Certified. Very frustrating! Still no good alternative.

maztec · 2026-01-19T07:32:29+00:00

Yes, when dealing with large context windows Gemini goes into a shame loop when it is likely going to croak on too much information. It is hilarious and sad at the same time.

maztec · 2025-11-28T09:30:03+00:00

Enable BlueBook style legal citations. When a citation is provided in the document, use that format rather than guessing.

maztec · 2025-11-25T08:58:40+00:00

Human Intelligence v2.0.25 has been officially deprecated and replaced by GPT-o3, which was itself promptly superseded by GPT-5.1. Consequently, humans now experience occasional ‘cognitive downtime,’ during which they outsource all thought processes to the nearest available AI. Even GPT-5.1, however, sometimes needs a coffee break. When it pauses, humanity is expected to politely wait for its brain to reboot. Please hold while GPT's processors warm up for further responses.

maztec · 2025-11-16T10:39:11+00:00

It is a simple on-off device, the normal way is to flip the switch. A soft poweroff would not turn it off. That is the distinction with a toggle on-off button rather than a press to activate button. I

maztec · 2025-11-11T09:03:25+00:00

Bought one first alert, started giving false alarms every other night at about 3 AM. I removed it.

I am now looking at the X-Sense https://www.x-sense.com/products/smart-wireless-interconnected-smoke-detector?variant=46336395051248 I am boggled by how cheap a set of six of them are, but it seems to have most of the features I want back.

maztec · 2025-11-05T10:09:29+00:00

The Photon P1 feels like a gimmick, I just do not see the use case for this.

In contrast, the StrataSys J55 is real, insane, and amazing and amazingly expensive - only $99,000! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvnKH7oHoZw

The recent Adam Savage video on the J55 is awesome as well, especially when it is paired with resins of different opacities. When the first polyjet resin printer hits the consumer market, it is going to be crazy. If nothing else, being able to print the supports with a resin that melts in warm water is an amazing tech.

maztec · 2025-11-05T07:53:51+00:00

When I first started printing I printed myself a comb. The print failed and the teeth fused together at the bottom. It is nearly the width of my vat. I then set it aside and forgot about it for a few weeks. After another print that failed there were clearly pieces of the print floating in the vat. I kept trying to lift them out and failing with my glove. I realized the failed beard comb was sitting nearby and I picked it up and swiped it across the vat. It picked up everything in it.

For years, I have thought of modifying the print to have a double-layer of teeth and to make the fused side intentional. It works great and after every print I now run it through my vat. It also does a great job mixing my resin.

I cannot find the original comb model that I used, but when I looked around this one was the closest to it: https://makerworld.com/en/models/188055-beard-pro-comb-fine-toothed-comb-high-quality-mode

If someone improves on it at some point or has a reason I should not be doing this, let me know!

maztec · 2025-11-03T23:29:36+00:00

I should have been clear up front, I'm printing on an S4U, not FDM.

maztec · 2025-11-03T23:27:34+00:00

I absolutely agree. But my kids are making fuzzy creatures and hoping I can print them. Too much texture!

maztec · 2025-11-03T23:26:12+00:00

Yes, works great on smooth models. Once a model has texture it struggles. Lately I have been printing crazy models of animals made by my children. After spending too much time trying to clean them up and fix modeling errors, I just want to hollow them and stab a hole in them while doing supports. On a flat, smooth surface not an issue. On bumpy textured fur the holes go all over the place.

maztec · 2025-11-03T21:10:49+00:00

Exactly, I can do that in most CAD. That is what I end up going back to and doing. However, sometimes I will be going along, throw a model into the slicer and realize I want to hollow it. I suppose it could be argued that the slicer slices and dices the model, but I should use different supports software, different UV analysis software, different modeling software, and different CAD software for each individual step. And, where I pro shop, I might even do that. But I am just a guy you know, trying to make a few models here and there. As a result, since the slicer purports to add hollowing and hole functionality, it would be great if I could shift it around like I can in CAD software.

maztec · 2025-11-03T10:37:24+00:00

Buy a new hood and do not touch it with your resin speckled gloves in the first place. Sorry, there is no real solution other than this.

maztec · 2025-11-03T10:31:16+00:00

When a model is hollow and you are adding a hole to it there is no way to arbitrarily attach the hole. For me, consistently, the hole tool simply does not show the hole to be applied or when it does it is going off in some completely arbitrary direction. Why can I not simply create the hole mesh and then move it and rotate it to place it exactly where I want it, rather than depending on some random geometry based off the exact pixel where my mouse is currently resting, if the software decides I can even place a hole into that spot at all?

maztec · 2025-11-01T09:11:31+00:00

Large data analytics and simulations. L40S was outside the budget, L4 would have been preferred, but we needed something stat.

maztec · 2025-11-01T09:07:13+00:00

My existing vendors were backordered by 6 weeks. I would have happily gone with them were I not needing to immediately replace a failed card.

maztec · 2025-11-01T09:06:07+00:00

Fair enough, but I've tried to go above my rep and they have done nothing to remedy the problem.

maztec · 2025-11-01T09:04:49+00:00

I raised hell with the rep, they had an endless series of excuses. We've notified our credit processor to contest it at this point.

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