I've had a few TWSBIs over the last 5 years or so and I love them. Haven't had any hairline fractures yet - any idea what may have caused them? Am curious now
Three Vac Minis purchased between 2022 and 2024 and all three have developed longitudinal micro fractures on the threading between the grip and the body, and the threading around the pump-cap and the body-end. On two of them this eventually led to an ink leak.
The pens travel with me during ~3h of weekly bicycle commuting between my home and my work, store in a pen case in my backpack. They’re not being babied, but I’m hardly kicking them down a mountain either.
My Vac700R, ECO, and Diamond580 are all doing fine but they definitely are deskbound and haven’t seen nearly as much much field use.
I live here too. I'm biased, but 1) this place is not full of awesome engineers, it's mostly full of overworked contractors and newbies with eighth grader syndrome. And 2) you can't just walk up to them and ask them to explain everything about their project. That's a huge security issue and if it were true it would be a lot easier to social engineer places today. Not to say that it isn't possible, but this comment paints an unproductive, idealized, and inaccurate view of the bay.
edit: it is a very cool e-ink project, and there are some cool communities like the maker faire. Reflexively reacting against the generalization
I didn't mean people who work at Uber explaining how their load-balancing works.
I meant walking up to a super cool music visualization at an outdoor art festival and they guy there happily explaining to me their entire system built out of a node flow diagram implemented on Max but adapted to visual graphics using a plugin called Vsynth.
Or going over to a friend's house and seeing their modular synth system and they happily explain to you how it works for an hour.
Just this weekend I met an amazing engineer with a street-legal steam-powered motorcycle which he patiently explained for an hour.
Yeah that makes sense. Got me wondering to what extent it’s possible with something like load balancing too. Maybe meetups don’t have to corner the market on that kind of info sharing
Whay do u mean i called Elon he said sure cmon over we smoked weed and made a cool double decker car and drove it to Tim Apples house and he hired me to work on m5 chip. its still like that.
I'm reading it as developing a level of capability which may (or may not) be genuinely accomplished but lacks requisite perspective and humility regarding its limits. Young teens (as in the 8th grade range) are famous for displaying this, and of course capable adults find it an easy mistake to make at many points in life.
Pretty sure that term doesn't apply here correctly fwiw. My best guess is that it means GP is saying that the devs in SF see themselves as overpowered/magical in their dev abilities. But it seems like a stretch of the meaning of this term as far as I have seen it used.
As a Gibson fan: this sounds like his robot avatars from The Peripheral and the VR glasses from Virtual Light.
In his most recent book, Agency, he describes 'laminar agents'. They're basically uncensored multimodal LLMs that can see the world through VR glasses.
Interestingly, Neal Stephenson named his metaverse company Lamina1. I like to think he named it after the term in Agency.
I think of Rosey from Jetsons and Detroit: Become Human for the dystopian realities that are probably more likely than we'd want
Having a Hololens 2, an experience that is worth trying, just waiting for FOV to improve, and to a lesser extent for the form factor to shrink. I would use the HL2 for monitors if the FOV was there, it's really light
