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> I know many are scared off by the closed bootloader of the teensy (though I feel it's a fair thing to do).

Why is it a fair thing to do?


It supports the developer by preventing blatant ripoffs of the Teensy.

Paul is one guy, and has put in a ton of effort writing high quality libraries for it. Most or all of them are open source. The main MCU is a commodity item. Only the bootloader chip is closed source.

If you want to rip off the Teensy, you can use the same MCU but you'll need to come up with your own bootloading process (Adafruit could do this if they wanted to). It wouldn't be that difficult but is enough of a barrier to stop casual cloning. Seeing as how Amazon and Aliexpress are filled with cheap Arduino clones but not Teensys, it seems to have gone well so far. Nobody wants to be undercut so easily by someone who has no intention of contributing back.


Supporting free and open source technology means supporting whoever can get it in as many hands as possible as cheaply as possible while paying your employees fairly. Adafruit gets this.

Making anything proprietary at this point for use in DIY software or hardware projects just makes me roll my eyes and hold my money for the day the open clones come. I have been saddened by dead open hardware projects because old versions of Teensy they were built around are no longer produced.

I will never buy a Teensy, but I look forward to buying the Freensy.

Sparkfun blew it by making the Teensy partially closed and so Teensy will be irrelevant. LibreOffice, OpenTofu, MariaDB etc. The most open solution always wins in the end. It is why I buy Prusa over Bambu, and why I pick Adafruit over Sparkfun.

My own companies likewise freely OSI license everything we do to the public no matter what the profit minded folks in our universe have to say. I -love- when people compete with us using our own work. If you can make a budget version of what we invent for people that cannot afford a bit extra to support us, wonderful. That is success for us as a creators that want to maximize impact.

If you cannot afford our prices, by all means buy from a competitor and contribute to the ecosystem that our customers benefit from anyway. That is why we will never spend a second of our engineering time creating or promoting proprietary technology because all the skills we have are because others shared their work with us.

I honestly take a lot of inspiration from companies like Adafruit as a leader of my own orgs.


In "yiwei"/"creer" case, Juan believes that they are going to promote him (but his belief is not very well calibrated and is likely false). yiwei/creerse asserts something about the truth value of the belief, in addition to what the belief is.

In the "doubts" case, Juan believes that they are not going to promote him. There is no assertion regarding the truth value of that belief.


Have you tried continue.dev's new open completion model [1]? How does it compare to llama.vscode FIM with qwen?

[1] https://blog.continue.dev/instinct/


Would love for you to share the Codex patches you needed to make and the AGENTS.md prompting, if you're open to it.


Basically just find the place where the inference call happens, add top_k, top_p and temperature to hard-coded numbers (0, 1.0 and 1.0 for GPT-OSS) and you should be good to go. If you really need it, I could dig out patch from it, but it should be really straightforward today, and my patch might be conflicting with the current master of codex, I've diverged for other reasons since I did this.


That makes sense, wasn't sure if it was as simple as tweaking those two numbers or not, thanks for sharing!

If there's any insight you can share about your AGENTS.md prompting, it may also be helpful for others!


Which models do you enjoy most on your 4090? and why vLLM instead of ollama?


I don't think it's the heat, rather, the wasps seem attracted to the radio wave EM radiation. I'm not sure why, but I've seen it first hand when turning on high powered outdoor point-to-point WiFi antennas (eg. airMAX LiteBeam 5AC). The moment I connected the power, several wasps immediately began crowding around the antenna.


The wasps are of similar size to the wavelengths of 5 Ghz RF frequencies. It seems plausible that they experience the absorbed energy quite differently.

Maybe it's like a pleasant warmth from within and they just fly towards the direction of increasing warmth. I guess it wouldn't take many dBms of absorbed power to slightly heat a wasp.


Monkeys like to be microwaved; may be a similar effect.


Humans, too: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2012.3787

I remember treatments like these happened in GP's offices in the 1980s.


Very curious how you get IRB approval to microwave monkeys.


There is no IRB for monkeys.

The animal equivalent to an IRB is usually an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), but the laws they are subject to vary with jurisdiction, and their use is optional if your grant provider (i.e. NIH) or academic publisher do not require them.


I beg your pardon?


Try it: you'll see. Low power recommended.


Humans like to sit in saunas.


It's a useful small tool for low cost Ethernet bridges but a sub $200 ubiquiti 802.11ac point to point bridge is not a high powered radio, electrically they max out at something like 200 milliwatts, the rest of the eirp comes from the gain of the antenna.


Why is GC problematic for web servers?


Because GC will pause threads while requests are being served, this leads to latency spikes at the higher percentiles.

It introduces a whole distinct type of complexity into operating the server.

The latency of a request to your server is not just caused by the code that is ran to serve that request (which is how people intuitively would think about it), it can be caused by GC pauses that are happening because of the memory pressure caused by previous requests.


I put my tri-ply stainless pans in the dishwasher all the time.

Why shouldn't I?


You should, it's 100% fine (and the main reason I prefer stainless to cast iron).


While stainless steel is “dishwasher safe”, dishwasher detergent is still overly harsh, can cause discoloration, and will prematurely wear the pan surface.


We're talking about normal dish soap for hand washing (eg. Dawn).

Dishwasher soap is a whole different story. It contains abrasives, among other things.


Dawn definitely damages the patina over time. You can get away with a few washes, but then food starts to stick, it rusts, etc.


KVM switches are often slow and/or buggy and/or expensive. Plus, looking glass is more flexible since you can display both OSs at the same time.

As a sibling comment stated, you can get a dummy monitor plug on Amazon for like $5 which fools your GPU into thinking there's a monitor attached.


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