I am familiar with;

1. https://www.seeedstudio.com/ 2. https://www.tindie.com/ 3. https://www.adafruit.com/ 4. https://www.sparkfun.com/ 5. https://shop.pimoroni.com/en-us

Most people that have a passing interest in "arduino" or "raspberry pi" have heard of these shops or marketplaces... perhaps not.

Either way, I learned of two other companies that have very cool offerings like;

1. https://soldered.com/ 2. https://shop.trmnl.com

There is also JLCPCB and PCBWAY which are not directly "blogs or shops" but more like platforms with manufacturing built in. The projects page: https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/ offers people really cool projects to learn and take inspiration from.

I follow the Hobby CNC space so people like Barton Dring (https://www.tindie.com/stores/33366583/ and his elecrow store: https://www.elecrow.com/store/BartDring) are book marked. Odrive (https://odriverobotics.com/) and Esk8news(https://forum.esk8.news/) and Foil.zone (electronics for e-foils) https://foil.zone/ are also places I visit frequently along with endless spere for ebikes....

My "ask hn" is where are the others? Post all the links to independent forums and electronics stores/blogs/resources!

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I receive at least 10 python job ads a day from indeed and linkedin. Are any of them legit? I have no reason to apply, so I am curious if they are bullshit or not. Any insight for this poorly constructed question?

I know of svg.py (https://github.com/orsinium-labs/svg.py) and drawsvg (https://github.com/cduck/drawsvg)... I have played with both a bit, no idea how they compare to others.

I don't understand why so many people focus on Trump and Left and Right and all the theater of politics in general. Subtract the politics from TFA and it is really, really good.

The author and I agree on some "pop-stoicism" critiques and disagree on others. Well reasoned and articulate arguments to support or dismiss "teachings" from the neo-pop-stoic culture.

The we get to passages like this; "It is, I suppose, strictly speaking accurate that if the approximately 8.6 million people who die each year due to a lack of access to quality healthcare were to wish their fate, their desires would not be frustrated, but tautological truth does not make for philosophical profundity."

Yes it does. How does this person know the 8.6 million people that died did not live meaningful lives while they were able bodied and healthy? How does the author know what is "right" for them? Whether I agree/disagree with the aspects of the authors POV; any sober and/or objective reading of this just reeks of ego and "holier than thou" attitude.

I suspect this type of attitude is a large reason why people that devote large amounts of time to thinking about politics end up categorizing "justice" into politically ideological boxes.

Edit to add;

I am reading the comments and not many are talking about this point either which I think is profound.

I hit ctrl-f inside TFA and did not find a word used in Stoic literature that I have read; Virtue.

You would think a critique on Stoicism would at least cover the basics, no?

Here is a reminder for everyone that cares;

Stoic virtue is the highest good and the only true path to a flourishing life, encompassing four cardinal virtues: wisdom, courage, temperance (or self-control), and justice.

I had maybe 10 plugins and they managed to step all over each other. One would break sync, another would break some theme and so on. There is nothing to ensure they play nice with the system itself, let alone anything malicious as you pointed out. From what I understand, there are people that have upwards of 50 plugins installed! They must never shut it down because it probably takes 20 minutes for it to start with that many plugins.

I will say that I am experimenting with various PKMS software. I am running SiYuan and it is has been very pleasant. I have only installed one plugin to make cool indexes on folders as folder notes. Everything else can be configured and used as is out of the box.

There are several others that I will try in the coming months as well. Anytype, Flusterapp, Joplin and Craft are going into my evaluation cue.

Luckily, we have Jan.ai and LM Studio which are happy to run GGUF models at full-tilt on various hardware configs. Added bonus; both include very nice API server as well.

GGUF/GGML was like the 4th iteration of file type quantization from llama.cpp and I remember that I had to consciously begin watching the bandwidth usage from my ISP. Up to that point, I had never received an email warning me about reaching limits of my 2TB connection. All for the same models just in different forms. TheBloke was pumping out models like he had unlimited time/effort.

I say all that to say, llama.cpp was still trying, dare I say 'inventing', all the things throughout these transitions. Ollama comes in to make the running part easier and less CLI flag dependent building off of llama.cpp. Awesome.

GG and company are down in the trenches of the models architecture with CUDA, Vulkan, CPU, ROCm, etc. They are working on perplexity, token processing/generation and just look at the 'bin' folder when you compile the project. There are so many different aspects to make the whole thing work as well at it does. It's amazing that we have llama-server at all with the amount of work that has gone into making llama.cpp.

All that to say, Ollama shit the bed on attribution. They were called out on r/localllama very early on for not really giving credit to llama.cpp. They have a soiled reputation with the people that participate in that sub-reddit at least. They were called out for not contributing back if I remember correctly as well, which further stained their reputation among the folks who hang in that sub-reddit.

So it's not a matter of "ease" to build what Ollama built... At least from the perspective of someone who has been paying close attention from r/localllama; the problem was/is simply the perception (right or wrong) of the meme; Person 2 to person 1: "You built this?" -> Person 2: takes item/thing -> person 2: Holds up item/thing -> "I built this". A simple act that really pissed off the community in general.

If you use one program at a time, do not need an actual file system, have no need to install software from a variety of places (Github, Vendor sites, etc), have no problem installing multiple "apps" that only work behind paywalls or not at all and you don't care about replacing a functional device whenever Apple obsoletes it... iOS is the best thing since sliced bread.

If you need anything outside of iOS's limited list of abilities, its a trash operating system that has crippled amazing hardware.

I love the idea of using the tube and measurements as a random number generator! However, please treat the whole category of homemade devices to measure/detect "bad shit" as novelty and nothing else. If you are actually concerned enough to really measure/detect harmful materials, buy the proper devices. Learn how to calibrate and how to use them properly. The last thing our 911 system needs are people calling with aliexpress radiation detectors going off in a cancer center.

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