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New comment by lmpdev in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

lmpdev — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:44:09 +0000

Another LoRA moment

New comment by lmpdev in "Nostalgic Kits Central (2024)"

lmpdev — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:15:53 +0000

Jaycar in Australia still sells them

Just released new packaging actually

New comment by lmpdev in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

lmpdev — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:12:27 +0000

I mean in the same way getting Wolfram Alpha to solve a really hard/ugly differential equation I suppose

New comment by lmpdev in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

lmpdev — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:29:35 +0000

I repaired some of ~10 years ago (Australia)

Just low end uncustomised NUCs overheating behind the screen

No idea if that’s still the case

New comment by lmpdev in "Tourists to Australia to have social media vetted under Trumpian Coalition"

lmpdev — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:52:11 +0000

Their voter base is largely dying off

I don’t see them being one of the top two parties in a couple of decades unless younger generations start actually having resources/assets to conserve

New comment by lmpdev in "Tourists to Australia to have social media vetted under Trumpian Coalition"

lmpdev — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:48:20 +0000

Geoff Provest (Nationals MP) recently did the same thing commenting on an Albanese social media post pretending to be a disgruntled Labor voter

New comment by lmpdev in "Electrical transformer manufacturing is throttling the electrified future"

lmpdev — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:30:06 +0000

Not an expert but every node in an UHVDC network would need expensive equipment

Point to point is just two nodes, but scaling that outward would be very expensive

AC transmission is relatively cheap in comparison

New comment by lmpdev in "Some Unusual Trees"

lmpdev — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:55:21 +0000

Yeah the Blue Quandongs get pretty big

Tweed Valley in NNSW so lots of water and volcanic soil

Edit: turns out the Blue Quandong and the Quandong are very different species - my mistake

New comment by lmpdev in "Some Unusual Trees"

lmpdev — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:30:12 +0000

As someone who grew up with a Quandong in their backyard please don’t plant quandongs without serious planning

It grew 40m in ~10 years and spanned ~200-300m^2

New comment by lmpdev in "The Joy of Numbered Streets"

lmpdev — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:57:48 +0000

Only place I’ve ever seen it is the main stretch along Palm Beach on the Gold Coast

1st through 27th Avenues - they’re over 100 years old now funnily enough

New comment by lmpdev in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

lmpdev — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:44:40 +0000

I was surprised to find out they still have hardware repair technicians (extremely expensive but reliable: ~$400 per computer around 2022 iirc)

But yes they’re mostly enterprise/services/mainframes not anything overly consumer

New comment by lmpdev in "Building a model that visualizes strategic golf"

lmpdev — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:22:16 +0000

Someone get this in front of Tom Doak immediately

New comment by lmpdev in "I’m joining OpenAI"

lmpdev — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:36:44 +0000

This seems to be largely an American phenomenon

In more minor markets like Europe/Australia it seems to be a lot less leetcode and a lot more (1) experience (2) degree (3) actual interview performance

New comment by lmpdev in "New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect"

lmpdev — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 04:01:19 +0000

At this point we have several

They’re all largely untestable though

String theory, LQG, half a dozen others

New comment by lmpdev in "A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents"

lmpdev — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:01:16 +0000

Likely once sufficient numbers of boomers die off - and their property inheriting children don’t take up their parent’s views

New comment by lmpdev in "A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents"

lmpdev — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 05:58:30 +0000

I mean one would take the ad with a grain of salt

If it gets people to pull the trigger on engaging with the firm - it’s likely to embellish how massive the changes are of these patent lapses

New comment by lmpdev in "Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper"

lmpdev — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:49:15 +0000

Your framing is correct

It’s company vs user not regression vs efficiency

New comment by lmpdev in "Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break"

lmpdev — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:17:02 +0000

Possibly at Federal

State and Local little chance they’re not that optimised

New comment by lmpdev in "Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break"

lmpdev — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 01:18:05 +0000

(Australian not an American here)

You’d very quickly rise to the top of the public sector

My brother in law is only in his mid 20s and is in charge of half a dozen engineers

No nepotism (we honestly know no one) just leaping from the right firm to the public sector at the right time

Look for government consultant jobs or even better straight engineering roles

New comment by lmpdev in "Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate"

lmpdev — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 23:54:49 +0000

The problem with a lot of the “higher free variable” sciences like psychology, ecology and sociology etc

Is they are the ones who need to be at the bleeding edge of statistics but often aren’t

They absolutely need Bayesian competitive hypothesis testing but are often the least likely to use it