Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

When they say that "prompt engineering" is a skill, they're not kidding. Look at the staggering difference in results from these two prompts. The first one is how a human would ask it. The second one kowtows a bit to the machine side, hinting at the algorithm it should employ.
#ChatGPT #LLM

That's what I'm talking about! #machinelearning

Oh, come on, you're not even trying. #email #spam

FFS. He literally bragged on tape to journalists about his crimes.

It's insane that this is the level of evidence it takes to indict rich white men in America.

Source:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.3.0.pdf

What the fuck? #Walmart has a sponsored ad for a Trump 2020 flag when looking at the listing for a pride flag.

A #sunset #rainbow in #Florida for #pride month.

This took well over a dozen iterations to get it just how I liked it, but the tiny size helped me iterate quickly. Now, though, it's perfect. The LED easily slides right in, the legs lock into their grooves, and the holder snaps easily and securely into the panel it needs to be on. This will make installing the LEDs onto the actual build much easier.

This has got to be the highest engineering-to-volume thing I've ever worked on. It's a holder for an LED that's meant to easily snap into a dashboard. So, it's got a slot for the LED, slots for its connectors, a retaining ring, and two clips.

All for something that's barely a centimeter across!

Trying something a little more snug for the new smaller screws I bought.

Here's the above colorful panels, printed and assembled. I'm glad I tried this partial test before going for the full panel design. I learned a couple things that will inform the design of the rest.
1) Gonna make the holes smaller and use smaller hardware. Those screws are at least half of the weight of the panel.
2) Gonna do some 2x2 square screw brackets instead of the 4x1 long ones I started with.
3) The fitted edges work really well (look at the border between blue and green on the right above). The angled triangles help keep everything aligned. Where I don't have them, the build is far less cohesive.
4) I need to make the panel above the yoke hardware-free to ease in final construction. It should just be an easy pressure fit, which will allow me to place the yoke, remove it, and mount its bracket to the frame before replacing it... without having to disassemble half the panel.
5) I am never not surprised by how much smaller these end up in real life compared to my modelling program.

Also got a touchscreen hooked up to an Arduino and running on it. Refresh rate is a problem, though, even with certain techniques to improve it... The problem is that with a glass cockpit type program, pretty much the entire background can need to be refreshed at any given frame.

Next thing to try is generating graphics elsewhere and just pushing them through the USB cable.

Here it is from the front:

Working on the panel now. It has to be designed in a way that it can be printed in my 3D printer, which is a bit smaller than 5"x10", and it has to be sturdy and easy to connect without slipping.

It's disturbing how quickly journalists normalize this manchild just because he's rich.

Got the frame mostly built out now. Once I get the component unit tests complete, I'll start 3D printing the dashboard cover pieces.

Wait, I thought recessions were bad?

Stepped out my front door to find this beauty staring me in the face this morning. They only bloom at night, so it's pretty rare to see them in this state in the sunlight (this was taken shortly after dawn).

#cactus #flower

*screams internally*

After getting it all designed, I measured up the pieces and bought them and cut them to size. That's enough for today, I think. By next weekend I should be able to have the desk portion constructed and make a little more progress on the dials.

I do need to wait on a number of components I ordered before I can hook up the electronics.

Today, I got to work on building the frame for the cockpit itself.

I designed the frame in #Maya and then went out to purchase the lumber. I'm planning to 3D print the dashboard itself, so the lumber part just needed to be the base frame, enough to support the rest without getting in the way. This is what I came up with (along with a representation of the yoke controller).