There's playing the game as intended and playing to the rules. People who insist on doing the latter even after being asked not to are infuriating. I've got one friend who got himself permanently uninvited from board game night for these sorts of shenanigans.
Except trams have, as far as I know without exception, specific traffic rules around them. A tram simply does not and cannot stop as quickly as a car (or indeed a bus) can. The reason that that's largely accepted is because the tradeoff is also that a tram can't really make any sudden unexpected motions at all.
If you get hit by a tram it is because you are in a place where you should have known the tram would hit you. The things are on tracks.
I find this also heavily depends on which LLM you're using. I've found chatGPT is completely awful at getting corrected, it'll double down until the cows come home. Meanwhile claude will generally adjust its behavior without too much nagging.
is very easy to implement, easier than linear if you ask me, and should give it a nice damped movement. The constants can be tuned to go as quick or as slow as you like of course.
Splitting = and := is intentional, but not for the reason you stated. We could have used := for all assignments from the beginning:
is_logged_in := True
or
if is_logged_in := True:
I agree that this would require blurring the statement/expression distinction. You can still do that in a weird way, by disguising your assignment as an expression. This is valid:
(is_logged_in := True)
The reason it was done that way because := was an afterthought, and making it the assignment operator would have introduced a breaking incompatibility. That lead to having 3 different symbols for 2 use cases (assignment and comparison).
> Leaded solder is easier to work with for personal projects
it really isn't if you use a nice modern lead-free solder. you'll need your iron to be about 20c hotter, but it's not like the early days of lead-free where it'd flow all weird.
I was extremely surprised when, out of solder recently, I just bought some Draper lead free solder from my local Home Depot(!), and it flowed so much better than my previous roll of fancy lead-free solder from a decade ago. Basically indistinguishable from leaded. I was very surprised.
not really? I have a habit of using the wrongest solder for my projects. The stuff I use currently was formulated for wave soldering, no clue why it comes in spools but it was cheap.
In general the formulation is more important than the brand, and the formulation isn't /that/ important either. If it's lead free, has a rosin core, and comes on a spool, you can probably use it.
I can make no claims as to the brands mentioned in the parent post, but a 3 second heating time isn't all that fast for a real nice soldering iron. Previous job had an iron that'd heat between you picking it up and moving it over to the PCB. That one was stupendously expensive from what I heard, but I can only imagine that tech has gotten a lot cheaper since then.
> Previous job had an iron that'd heat between you picking it up and moving it over to the PCB. That one was stupendously expensive from what I heard, but I can only imagine that tech has gotten a lot cheaper since then.
Metcal Fixed Temperature Induction soldering irons. Still the gold standard after decades because instead of using PID with a heating element and sensor, it exploits the curie effect. The tips are made of a special alloy that is only magnetic until a certain temperature after which it doesn’t absorb any more energy from the PSU, which just dumps a constant 25Mhz signal into the tip keeping it at the fixed temperature.
When their patents expired a couple of Metcal engineers left to found Thermaltronics, which makes the same soldering iron (they’re even tip compatible!) for 2-3x cheaper. They’re still more expensive than hobbyist soldering irons but well worth the cost for anyone doing a lot of soldering. The Metcal power supplies are beasts though so you can easily pick up a 20 year old unit for a couple hundred bucks on ebay and it’ll run till the apocalypse comes home to roost. I have an old unit made in the late 90s that is still going strong.
Important to note that these days you really should use lead-free solder. You'll find all sorts of people going around claiming that leaded is better, but it's really not, and it's not worth the health risk. Your iron needs to be about 20c hotter than for leaded and your solder joints will look dull instead of shiny. If you find lead-free solder to not flow properly to be grainy your iron isn't hot enough.
Still wash your hands after using lead-free solder by the way. You don't want to be eating rosin or copper either.
Copper is an essential trace element for many living organisms, including humans, meaning you need copper to survive. Generally, copper has low toxicity. (That is, unless you have rare genetic defects such as Wilson's Disease)
Lead is nothing like that. We don't need lead to survive, we shouldn't put lead in our bodies. Lead is also known to accumulate in your body (especially your brain). Avoid lead exposure as much as you can.
For this example, perhaps not much, but a similar query also works. given this image[0] I queried qwen3.5-35b-a3b "where is waldo", and after thinking some got this back:
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Waldo is located in the *center* of the image.
Here is how to spot him:
1. Look towards the middle of the beach scene.
2. Find the *red and white striped lifeguard stand/booth* on the right side of the center area.
3. Just to the left of that booth, there is a man standing up wearing his signature *red and white striped shirt*, blue jeans, and red hat with a pom-pom. He also has a camera around his neck.
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Which is not generally something OCR can do. If you instead ask "how many horses are in this image?" you get this response:
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Based on a careful look at the image, there are *3* equine animals (which appear to be donkeys or ponies used for beach rides).
1. One is near the top left, being ridden by someone in yellow shorts.
2. Right next to it is another one, being ridden by someone in blue and yellow.
3. On the far right edge of the image (near the water), there is a third grey animal being ridden by someone wearing a hat.
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Now is this all anything you can't do with more boring machine learning? sure, but there's something incredibly convenient about how generic LLMs are. You don't need to train anything, just point the LLM at an image and ask.
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