Hacker News: loamaa

New comment by loamaa in "FBI: Largest homemade explosives cache in agency history found in Virginia"

loamaa — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 02:56:10 +0000

I was interested, so went and checked out the filing for this [1], it looks like he only got hit with the possession with intent to distribute, with the other 3 charges (including 'possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number') being dismissed.

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/8228342/parties/united-...

New comment by loamaa in "GPT-4o"

loamaa — Wed, 15 May 2024 19:09:16 +0000

I understand you want to refute/diminish the parent comment on finite automata, but I think you are providing a straw man argument. The parent comment does provide an interesting, factual statement. I don't believe finite state automata are at all close in complexity to real-world self-driving car systems (or even a portion thereof). Your closing statement is also dismissive and unconstructive.

I believe finite state modeling is used at NASA, A google search brings up a few references (that I'm probably not qualified to speak to), and I also remember hearing/reading a lecture on how they use them to make completely verifiable programs but can't find the exact one at the moment.

New comment by loamaa in "Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer"

loamaa — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 18:58:34 +0000

Thanks for this initial go at the blinking LED script! I went ahead and tried to add some quality-of-life features to this that I wanted. I've never used pyqt before, so I admit I had help from google and copilot figuring out methods. Anyways, here is an updated version that has a few more configurations for background color, circle color, slowdown period, graceful window resizing, and graceful shutdown.

https://gist.github.com/rzwiefel/4527d40de25a7fd5a723016fbd4...