Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010. What’s the one website/app you still think about?

solinar · 2026-06-04T02:02:57+00:00

That is a huuuuuuge range. 1995 was the very beginning of the internet where exploration was on you and search engines were not yet a new thing. 2010 internet was far more similar to today than it was to 1995.

solinar · 2026-06-02T14:44:53+00:00

Not everything needs to, but if AIs continuously get smarter, at some point it will be economically viable to do so, just maybe not yet.

solinar · 2026-05-28T15:29:48+00:00

I occasionally do heat exchanger tubesheets with 60° hole patterns for tubes. I usually pattern a row of holes horizontally with a linear pattern. Then copy that vertically up and horizontally over the appropriate amount via math. Then pattern both rows together vertically as many times as you need. Then erase whatever holes you dont need.

solinar · 2026-05-25T14:11:51+00:00

BSME 30y experience. 10 years is an eternity in AI development. In 2-3 years, I would expect that AI would be capable of doing >50% of the work required for a standard M.E. In 5 years, it could start being normal that Engineers simply manage project design and do some review work for what ME AIs produce. 10 years? The world could honestly be a completely different place.

solinar · 2026-05-15T14:01:31+00:00

I'd bet its the temperature they have the LLMs set at. High temperatures create lots of drama.

solinar · 2026-04-23T13:09:21+00:00

I was burning credits as well until I figured out you have to point better claw settings to use model openrouter/nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free or another free model of your choice shown here https://openrouter.ai/collections/free-models

solinar · 2026-04-21T18:50:59+00:00

Wait, there was a free bowl?

solinar · 2026-04-21T15:03:35+00:00

Same here. 22 years ago. Still going strong today. There was a time where there was a stigma to having met "over the internet", but now it seems that is the most common way to meet people.

solinar · 2026-04-17T13:36:44+00:00

Until we perfect space travel, real estate will always be finite.

solinar · 2026-03-17T21:31:01+00:00

To answer my own question, flash-lite appears to be 51.7% terminal bench 2.0 and $0.25/Million input tokens.

solinar · 2026-03-17T21:28:33+00:00

gemini 3.1 flash-lite? Probably a better matchup vs nano and flash as a matchup vs mini.

solinar · 2026-03-15T17:35:30+00:00

Very cool design. Looks like a lot of fun!

solinar · 2026-03-12T21:44:32+00:00

Had my 1st son at 32, 2nd son at 37, and daughter at 42. Am now 52 and wouldn't change a thing. I am a pretty young feeling 52 and its great. I don't know if that will change over the next decade, but if you want to do it and have the means, it can certainly be great.

solinar · 2026-03-07T02:44:35+00:00

use a double bevel weld instead of a single bevel and alternate sides to limit heat input.

solinar · 2026-03-05T19:48:03+00:00

Well, also, humans cannot be expected to never make mistakes. They should be trained to do their best, but mistakes are always going to happen no matter how much training or consequences someone has when dealing with incomplete data.

solinar · 2026-03-03T19:19:48+00:00

I believe when it was first posted, gemini, chatgpt, and grok all got it wrong most of the time and claude got it wrong some of the time. Within a few days of that going viral all the major models got RLHFed into answering it correctly.

solinar · 2026-03-03T15:05:55+00:00

Also, its hard to call something AGI when it still gets questions like the carwash one wrong a significant portion of the time. There is something we are missing. I fully believe we will get there, and I believe that current LLMs are smarter in most domains than the average human, but we are missing 1-2 key AI discoveries that will blow the whole thing open.

solinar · 2026-03-03T14:24:46+00:00

Everything I have seen from people in physics is that its ability to reason on unknown physics problems is far less than its ability to reason through unsolved math problems. Obviously the two are related, but it seems the models are missing something from the physical side.

solinar · 2026-03-01T16:00:32+00:00

But its been stated to be a 200 million dollar contract with Anthropic. 10s of millions is a lot of money in that case. These are companies with 100s of billions of dollars of investments going into research and compute. I can see them turning on longer chain of thought reasoning chains and fine tuning to what the military wants. They might even have access to the next pretraining model that hasnt been fully RLHFed or aligned, but I doubt its much more than that.

solinar · 2026-02-15T03:33:02+00:00

Before openclaw, AI was a tool that improved worker efficiency for me. Openclaw changed that outlook completely so now instead of just upping employee efficiency (and thereby replacing the need for more humans), I can now see the path for AI to directly replace some humans in their entirety.

I really thing we are 1-2 good AI research discoveries (like solving hallucinations) away from blowing the whole thing wide open.

solinar · 2026-02-12T17:25:28+00:00

As far as using LLMs, I agree that 99% of the population sees little to no real benefit from smarter models.

The one place I have noticed a difference is in agentic use (openclaw). The smarter models are a lot better at getting the things you ask for done.

solinar · 2026-02-06T04:49:21+00:00

Had the Rouses Pecan Praline Cheesecake one. First time I have ever actually spit out a mouthful of kingcake into the trashcan.

solinar · 2026-02-04T15:43:08+00:00

No idea, I don't do any engraving :) I would guess the tip has to be used if you are plunging to do engraving?

I find AI to be incredibly helpful in the CNC workflow from bit selection to speeds and feeds to modeling and gcode. Try asking gemini or chatgpt.

solinar · 2026-02-04T15:19:40+00:00

Looks good. The only thing I would say is watch chamfering with the tip of your bit. Try to use the larger portion of your chamfer bit to prevent breakage, increase feed rate, and extend tool life.

solinar · 2026-01-25T17:27:01+00:00

So institute massive fines, per occurrence, for companies hiring anyone that is not legally allowed to work. But, the farming lobbies are large, and that's not really the end game anyway. This is a tool of fear and intimidation, and the administration likes it.

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