roberte3

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Part of the Six Hour Startup hackers group in Seattle. http://sixhourstartup.com

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Comment · 24 days ago
I ported a linux game binary from a Cortex-A7 to a Allwinner A133P (32bit to 64bit) in about two hours using Claude over the weekend. (I didn't have the source). SDL and the games encryption were the only things that made it more than a 15 minute activity.

If it has a binary value you can aim the Ai at, (aka does it work or not), the models are able to figure it out.

For laughs I'm probably going to have a Qwen model on my Mac min with the Pi harness do the same task in a week or two.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
The problem with the 12c Platinum, is that it was a "ground-up" rewrite, and is actually slower than the early 80s 12c.
Comment · 6 years ago
Three words "Lake Effect snow"...
Comment · 6 years ago
Also I killed 2 via running Jetbeans. (Client requirement not my choice...)
Comment · 6 years ago
Wow, this is something that I have been looking for ~a year!

Great job, can't wait to dust that project idea off the shelf!

Comment · 7 years ago
Your looking at it wrong.

A doctor's appointment schedule is crazy busy, with "LONG" appointments being under 20min per patient. Imagine a scenario where a doctor is able to spend time with the patient/their medical history etc.

I spend a lot of time going to doctors appointments these days, and a large number of the doctors that I see, now have an assistant/transcriptionist in the room to manage the EMR/charting app, because that enables them to focus on the patient.

Comment · 7 years ago
Probably the best way is to use a mass-spectrometer.
Comment · 7 years ago
Alibaba...

A few years back, I was prescribed a anti cancer, prescription drug that costs $4k per box. (5mg per day, 28day day supply).

I went on Ali, and ordered 5lbs of the drug for $100 usd including shipping.

Comment · 7 years ago
I have a really rare cancer, and it didn't get detected until I hit stage IV and it started shattering my bones. Thankfully I lived 2 miles from a cancer research hospital that actually has a specialist in this type of organ cancer.

My current treatment regime is based on a research paper. My insurance initially denied me treatment based on "an expert in the field" and stupidly listed the doctors name. I looked her up and she was a podiatrist...

For the most part, my treatment is dialed in and mostly working. But I had a solid three months of fighting with the insurance company to get all of the medications, and I do the monthly phone calls to three different specialty pharmacies to get all of the various things that keep me able to walk.

Its a crazy hard problem because one of my medications is a "failed" cancer drug. Tens of millions of dollars worth of R&D, several clinical trials, and it turns out it doesn't work on most common cancers. (And even on cancers it does work on, its usually used as a Hail Mary play, at EOL because it might give someone a few more weeks, maybe). It costs roughly 40k a month, and I might be stuck on it for the rest of my days.

Comment · 7 years ago
No, I'm so sick of the local cancer centers rotating corps of musicians. Want me to get stabby? Keep playing your drum hippie...
Comment · 7 years ago
They have had a very solid store business at one point selling electronic kits. (Pi's, Arduino, etc).

A few years ago the kits were even in every Barnes and Nobel ni the country at Christmas. (And sadly most of them were in the clearance bin in January...)

Comment · 7 years ago
I'd grab a couple of Sphero robots (little bluetooth rolling balls) and show them changing colors/moving around the room via code. The apps for them have programming environments.
Comment · 7 years ago
I'd be interested. Username @ googles public email service...
Comment · 7 years ago
https://tripleaughtdesign.com, its tactical clothing that at one point was very similar to the stuff special forces guys were wearing. (They are selling more and more 'urban' friendly stuff these days). Most of it is made in America.

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