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New comment by donquichotte in "One in ten people are older than 65. Three in four live under a leader who is"

donquichotte — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:17:03 +0000

Well, one in twenty people is a doctor and nine in ten go see one if they have a stomach ulcer.

New comment by donquichotte in "The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]"

donquichotte — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:38:38 +0000

Reminds me of my favorite abstract, from John Doyle's paper "Guaranteed Margins for LQG Regulators".

https://improbable.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ThereAreNo...

New comment by donquichotte in "German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol"

donquichotte — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:50:18 +0000

"But Wolfgang, could these Regulierungen be umgangen by hosting TiefSuch Blitz on our very own Rechneresysteme?"

New comment by donquichotte in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash"

donquichotte — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:05:39 +0000

I also love the gaslighting of some models, like ChatGPT mixing in words with cyrillic letters and when asked about it answers: "it can look as Slavic to the eye" and "sorry that it came across as Russian"

New comment by donquichotte in "We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person"

donquichotte — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:02:09 +0000

Feels a bit more light hearted and humourous, more like Brazil?

New comment by donquichotte in "Household Laser Cuts"

donquichotte — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:03:08 +0000

I bought one of the 60W Chinese Laser cutters, 40cm x 40cm, with RUIDA controls for the steppers. It's a decent machine and it runs with Lightburn. I get shocked a little bit from the HV supply when touching fluid in the cooling loop, and there is no interlock preventing the laser from firing with an open hood, but it cuts well and the mirrors are adjustable. It was about 700$ for the machine and 700$ for shipping to Europe in 2023.

Just keep in mind this is not a desktop machine to run in a flat. You need some infrastructure like a cooling loop and air exhaust, so this thing best lives in a basement or hobby room.

New comment by donquichotte in "Show HN: Yet another minimal and lightweight terminal multiplexer written in Go."

donquichotte — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:57:20 +0000

Claude Code stopped working in tmux for me at some point. Which is of course more of a CC problem than a tmux one, but maybe OP was trying to work around such issues.

New comment by donquichotte in "AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU"

donquichotte — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:16:41 +0000

Damn 15 AK47 bullets per token

New comment by donquichotte in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

donquichotte — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:54:12 +0000

I was not trying to make that kind of argument, but rather a geopolitical one.

Retaining world-class talent and home-growing industries is no small feat. In Europe, we have been struggling with this, and I am not even entirely sure why.

New comment by donquichotte in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

donquichotte — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:24:56 +0000

My conspiracy theory is that this is the new space race, and the CCP encourages this to show the world what Chinese engineers are capable of, and tank the Anthropic/OpenAI valuation bubble as a desirable side effect.

New comment by donquichotte in "Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects"

donquichotte — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:58:37 +0000

There is really no good reason to ever use I2C, except if that's the only interface your peripheral supports. Debugging a stuck I2C bus, and attempting to un-brick the bus for a stuck slave (disabling ISRs, unhooking DMA, reconfiguring pins to GPIO, clocking the slave out of its coma and then doing everything in reverse) is just not worth it.

EDIT: I was hoping for HaLow WiFi!

New comment by donquichotte in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

donquichotte — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:38:33 +0000

> I can think of the tedious task of finding certain functionality within a codebase. I usually can't beat an AI agent harness at this task today.

Yup, I remember "racing" the AIs to figure things out in codebases just a year ago. Today, I have no chance. Whether it is due to degraded reasoning capabilities on my part or better models, I don't know.

New comment by donquichotte in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

donquichotte — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:06:51 +0000

I also got an email from Anthropic: "We're updating our Privacy Policy". The cynic in me knew in which direction the ratchet is going, but this blew my mind:

> As part of our measures to keep our services safe and secure we may ask you to verify your age or identity, and we've described what we collect and how.

Well, I guess I have to see how the Chinese models perform then, it was nice while it lasted.

New comment by donquichotte in "Claude Glass (Or Black Mirror)"

donquichotte — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:38:36 +0000

Same here, I expected an "openclaw powered google glass", leading to a "Black Mirror"-esque world full of glassholes regurgitating LLM output at each other.

New comment by donquichotte in "PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf]"

donquichotte — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:27:47 +0000

Beautiful illustrations!

New comment by donquichotte in "Cherry gives up German production and wants to sell core division"

donquichotte — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 19:35:10 +0000

Interesting, do you have any examples of the latter two categories? Looking for a replacement for my Cherry-Keyboard.

New comment by donquichotte in "I Run LLMs Locally"

donquichotte — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 20:10:27 +0000

Are you using an external provider for image generation or running something locally?

New comment by donquichotte in "VW breach exposes location of 800k electric vehicles"

donquichotte — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 06:45:50 +0000

In Europe, this is mandated by law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall

New comment by donquichotte in "Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z"

donquichotte — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:46:29 +0000

I recently installed NetBSD on a Thinkpad T430s, it is surprisingly snappy and usable, except when firefox is running.

With i3wm, tmux and helix with clangd it is a capable development machine with a surprisingly modern feel, only the compile times give away that the machine is from the early 2010s. Even WiFi is working, and pkgsrc is fast and well-stocked with the newest software.

New comment by donquichotte in "Rawdrawandroid – Build Android apps without any Java, in C and Make"

donquichotte — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 08:18:11 +0000

cnlohr is in his own league, this guy is bordering on genius.

Dissatisfied with the state of the vendor SDK for CH32V003 microcontrollers (ultra-cheap RISC-V MCUs), he created his own [1], which is a pleasure to use. He also has a header-only RISC-V emulator that runs Linux (and Doom!) [2], and hacked an ESP32 to emit valid LORA frames with clever use of aliasing [3].

[1] https://github.com/cnlohr/ch32v003fun

[2] https://github.com/cnlohr/mini-rv32ima

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIdHBDSQHyw