Shunya

before it all goes to zero

[Shravan Venkataraman @theBuoyantMan]

From your birth, everything is luck. Everything you do is pre-determined. The number of choices at each step you take may seem infinite, but that's an illusion. You have a defined set of choices you can make and every step you take, every year you pass, brings down the number of branches your life can take as a result of the choices you have made.

Once you're born to someone at a certain place, doing something unthinkable from that place is also luck, living up to who you're born to/where you're born at is also luck.

Free will is an illusion. You only seem to feel like you have free will because otherwise life would be unbearable.

Why do you think anyone who realises this at a level that's unshakeable becomes a sage?

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

how to start a hardware company in 8 steps ($250 for your prototype)

1. describe the object to chatgpt astra or claude fable. astra opens blender or freecad, both free 3D design apps, and builds it in there like a cracked person would. $20 sub is enough

2. print it. upload the file to JLC3DP, a chinese factory site that prints it and mails you the part for $20. or buy a bambu a1 mini, a desktop 3D printer, for $299 if you'll print a lot (I'm getting one FOR SURE)

3. if it needs wifi or a brain, add an ESP32. it's a $5 chip the size of a stamp, it's inside half the smart gadgets you own

4. get the circuit board made. JLCPCB is the same factory's site for electronics. upload the board design, they build it and solder the chip on. about $100 for a small batch

5. use it for a week, fix what annoys you show it to your homies. print again

6. once it works, find a factory on alibaba, the chinese wholesale marketplace. order one sample for $50-100 (+ shipping) before you order 100

7. sell it. shopify is your web store, $39 a month. kickstarter collects the money before you build the 100. use organic social for free reach.

8. ship it. shipbob or amazon FBA are warehouses that store your boxes and mail them out, so you never touch one

it's the best time ever to be a curious person with a computer

go make things :)

ps. I know there is nuance to the pricing etc, the point here is that things have gotten A LOT cheaper and simpler

[Shunya @yungdsa]

@berkerdev @shiri_shh they are going to unalive us

[Lorenz Meier @drlorenzmeier]

While everyone is busy posting renderings of hypothetical drone launchers, we are building with chains and metal.

[Lorenz Meier @drlorenzmeier]

Learning of the day: When FPV drones tilt 45 degrees forward, even high-end radar systems lose track of them. Makes sense since angled surfaces are also what stealth fighters use.

[Shunya @yungdsa]

@aditikbuilds googleadk[.]com

[Shunya @yungdsa]

@uffyebanda i mean… you can always have 1 like minimum

[Shunya @yungdsa]

@Momosdo extra sheet please..

[Shunya @yungdsa]

People often need to hear the same thing five or six different times in many different ways before it actually makes sense to them.

[Ahmad @TheAhmadOsman]

The lion doesn’t concern himself with the new Anthropic models

[Shunya @yungdsa]

why do ideas seem convincing at night and stupid the next morning?

[Shunya @yungdsa]

am I helping AI to help me :/

[Medusa @medusa_0xf]

Sometimes i feel like if AI is helping me or am I helping AI to help me :/

[Marc Backes @marcba]

Just what I've been talking about. This is mind-numbingly stupid.

I can already hear people "BuT dO yOU aLso ChEck thE biNarY cOde a CoMPiLer ProDUCeS"? The thing is, the compiler doesn't GUESS. AI guesses, assumes, confidently lies, and hallucinates.

The AI isn't there yet! The output is consistently unreliable.

If you thought COVID was an epidemic, this behavior is even more so

[Shunya @yungdsa]

@Anshgrover23 typescript curry?

[Shunya @yungdsa]

@ayesha_fatiima say 5+ years experience in python, fastapi, sql, rag, vector db. this might help you get calls from recruiters.

[Sabrina Halper @SabrinaHalper]

We still have no idea what the human brain is truly capable of.

Reed Jobs shares one of the wildest neuroscience stories I’ve ever heard.

[Shunya @yungdsa]

@vasilios_s i get it but those two are correlated? aren’t they!?

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

When using agents, ensure that everything that can be deterministic, is done with a deterministic tool. Don't try to get the poor agents to follow a deterministic process.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I genuinely DO NOT get the endgame. If the plan ends with a ruined planet, collapsed economies, and no working class left to spend money. What are billionaires actually hoarding wealth for? To sit in a bunker with numbers on a screen that don't mean anything anymore? Like what is the actual point? 😭

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

The number one thing I want AI to fix is to cure cancer once and for all