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Cake day: December 31st, 2023

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  • The materials were also chosen with an eye on reducing maintenance and repetitive tasks for the yacht’s staff, so traditional materials like teak decks and wooden handrails are out, and composite alternatives are in. The diesel-electric power plant works alongside a battery storage system that allows Leviathan to operate for long stretches with no emissions, and it also features an advanced wastewater treatment system.

    On the one hand, it’s nice that mr Newell seems to be reducing the footprint of their luxury yacht above and beyond most of what I have heard happens in the rest of the luxury yacht industry. On the other hand, I shudder to think of what the footprint for the manufacturing of this custom-designed, one-of-a-kind luxury yacht looked like. Not to mention ‘composite’ usually means some sort of plastic, so now there’ll be one more thing spewing microplastics directly into the ocean…





  • Incredible. All throughout my studies the “bitter lesson”, so to speak, was that analogue circuits just couldn’t hold a candle to digital ones in terms of reliability when operating on small currents, to the point that no one bothered to miniaturize in analogue anymore. Even guitar pedals are almost all transistor-based, because it’s so much more feasible to to manipulate small currents through binary, quantized signals than analogue ones (even though the analogue ones are theoretically infinitely more precise).

    Here’s the publication in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-025-01477-0

    Here is either the pre-print or an accompanying paper on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.05853

    I’m trying to figure out how they get around the compounding imprecision that is inherent to multiple analogue steps and actually manage to rival digital circuit’s precision; seems like a big part come from how they have managed to squash all of the useful “work” down into almost a single step thanks to clever use of operational amplifiers on the “edges” of their resistive random access memory array.





  • What exactly is meant by “smart features” ? The watch is an esp32 microcontroller driving an ePaper screen and a gyroscope (I forget if there are any other peripherals). It’s already much smarter than a “regular” wristwatch, and being open source you can make it as smart as you want (in theory and within the performance allowed by it’s specs, of course). The stock “os” will fetch the weather and adjust to daylight savings via internet.

    Do you mean stuff like there’s no smartphone app available for it? It doesn’t pair with a smartphone out-of-the-box to do things like show SMS, email, calendar events, etc?






  • Primeagen has interviewed DHH at least twice over the past 2 years, in hour+ videos posted to his YouTube channel. Including one where DHH goes unprompted into a pro-natalism rant.

    Primeagen also just spent a week with some other creators working on a video game, sponsored by Cursor and on Framework desktops running Omarchy.

    He is either sympathetic or apathetic to these issues - certainly doesn’t seem to care about being decent to those not of his tribe.