Jonathan VanBuskirk

Engineer, Consultant.

I make stuff.

[Jonathan VanBuskirk @VAT_Engineering]

I sort of made a bipod.

[Jonathan VanBuskirk @VAT_Engineering]

@emm0sh Solid Edge?

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@lecternleader The 5th element...wait

Demolition Man...wait

6th Day...wait

Nealry every action movie has some level of that stuff. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How about Shanghai Noon?

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@Atlas_Leather @MedicNamedHope So all this time cold medicine didn't have to taste bad?

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@heritage_USA_ @grok do data centers use evaporative cooling towers?

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@3DPBelgian USA Cultural appropriation.

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@geerlingguy @microcenter ALWAYS VISIT MICROCENTERS FOR GRAND OPENINGS

You have no idea the deals within. I still have a crate of PC stuff from their grand opening sale, I bought so much stuff.

And then I proceeded to buy 3 computers to build and 20lbs of filament.

Y'all got me. 🤣

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@eevblog I run both

You need a lot more ram than any local system can provide for decent performance in high-skill areas.

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@i2cjak *$450

https://t.co/QC9P4Mn21h

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@eevblog Labor-heavy and labor is cheap elsewhere.

Also $10 in fees per item.

I don't know how most companies sell anything for less than $20 at scale.

The people who know how to jump through all the hoops to actually sell something are mostly off-off-brand chinese companies.

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@geerlingguy Not to criticize, but it took me multiple articles to find the actual product link.

So here it is: https://t.co/QC9P4MmubJ

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@elonmusk 👍

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@AndyL5cc Not true.

Localized AI's are great for 90% of tasks. The other 10% they are 50/50, 5% decent and acceptable, 5% you need a larger model.

I run all of them because I refuse to pay OpenAI for higher RAM prices. Claude + GROK is my goal if they ever un-lobotomize grok.

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@_baldtires *Training AI to make the parts.

If you treat it like onboarding, it can be quite collaborative. I focus on the fun parts, the AI makes rough drafts of the annoyingly simple but tedious ones.

Yay, another tool for my toolbox.

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@Luth_AR_LLC When it shows up and it's actually just chocolate 🤣

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@Luth_AR_LLC The forbidden scrooge mcduck temptation.

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@blind_via CNC Kitchen pointed out that it results in a change in height of the feed tubes and wiring so that the filament tube and wires of the active head doesn't interfere with the stationary ones.

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@Ledge_Andary @bot And 2% Usage per single line statement on GROK Chat

Not even coding related.

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@Ledge_Andary @bot Grok bot costs more than a part-time employee.

I get about 5 minutes of usage per day if I run multiple local models and a lot of scripts and tools to offload as much as possible.

I'm tracking with monthly subscriptions a cost of ~$18/hr which includes time spent onboarding.

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@diogomonica Total lobotomy. Can't even generate a report without getting into a death loop.

Now making "Judgements" without any input and ignoring all existing rules. I've asked it to look at it's own rules and apply them.

It is as if they fired all my bots and rehired temu versions

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@JoyfulDynamics TPU bellows work in a pinch, plus there are off-the-shelf ones

https://t.co/8eXSESOJXY