Recent content by variablevector

I see, you mean the kind of situation where you're asking how do you do X with Y? And someone says, why don't you just use Z which is designed for that? The framing of the very question is misguided or wrong. I think that's a great case where it can fail compared to a human. I wasn't saying...

It's funny how people usually overrate AI/LLM abilities in many, many areas but then get it wrong when it comes to the one thing they're actually insanely good at, which is absorbing and disseminating large amounts of information very quickly. It's just a information database with search, but a...

...ChatGPT. Explain like I'm 5. No human will be as patient or slow with you. Just talk to it as if it were a real person.

Odd. I've used it to do exactly that before -- mock up a website with html/css/js. And that was with 3.5, not with the new 4o. You may need to be more specific in your prompts.

It's very appropriate, especially for a beginner. LLMs only start to hallucinate when you give them complex problems. There are exceptions to that rule but with the kind of roadblocks that a beginner like @chungus will be running to, a decent LLM will speed up his learning process by a lot...

Arduino isn't a bad place to start. The IDE uses C++. Get a few LEDs turning on and off. Write a string to an LCD/OLED display. Make a pong or snake game. Then make a line-following / obstacle avoidance robot etc. It doesn't matter if nobody has taught you the basics. Each time you hear a term...

Indians this. Indians that. I get tired of the constant criticism and nitpicking of our culture. You will never be able to jump through enough hoops to please gora eyes on the internet. You will never be able to sanitize and "correct" the parts of your culture until you win white approval. And...

It's just a random guess but 92 up/down is a number I've most often seen when part of your lan is limited to fast ethernet instead of gigabit. Are you using your fibre-onu as your wifi access point? Because the wan port on it should most likely be gigabit. If you're using an additional router...

Yes. The catch is those cost even more money upfront and therefore it takes even longer to breakeven. I've seen 15-20 years quoted as the time for that to happen. Hence why people avoid them. I personally think they can still make more sense though. Because you get actual power backup and the...

Duracells probably have slightly higher voltages when fully charged than the cheap ones. Maybe that is enough for them to be out of spec for the clocks? Although that would have to be some poorly made clocks.

https://keralakaumudi.com/en/news/news.php?id=1271392&u=savings-from-solar-power-to-decrease-net-metering-system-to-replace-gross-meter-system-1271392 In Kerala, they're already talking about getting rid of net metering and switching to gross. The proposed rate you'd get paid for every unit you...

The probability of three different cosmic rays flipping three different digital clocks is so astronomically low that ghosts would be a better explanation. And if going in that direction, some sort of firmware error in the clock's chip is much more probable than either.

Not sure I get what's so scary. All 3 clocks were off by the same amount of time. That's a hint. It seems the reference used to set their time initially was off by that much. Or possibly one was used to set the others. It isn't that surprising that your dad only noticed it after you corrected...

Takes 5 minutes with the right tools. Especially for Cat 6, which doesn't have any shielding.

I have a 4 year old Luminous Zelio+ 900 VA pure sinewave inverter in UPS mode. I can confirm that my PC never turns off during a power cut. This is true for both my old build using a Seasonic 520W PSU and my new one with a MSI 750GL PSU. I'm talking about the case when the PC is in normal use...