The 2025 model of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 has NACS and is my favorite alternative in terms of looks, features, and price. Rivian has been in a different price category so I have a hard time believing the $45k starting price.

The author wanted to use languages that were new to them, if the author has enough familiarity with rust to have a vendetta then it probably isn't new to them.

It really isn't that challenging to get going with JWT auth in AWS. Gitlab has pretty good documentation for how to use Gitlab ID tokens to assume roles that includes everything other than how to generate a JWT here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/cloud_services/aws/

And of course generating OIDC PKI JWTs is pretty easy and well documented elsewhere.

The harder parts in my mind are:

  - Updating this OSS project to serve a JWK from OIDC .well-known
  - Convincing people that this method of authn is safe and that those keys are securely stored

I completely Agree on this point. I have this in mind for implementation. For now, I'm focusing on bringing more cloud providers.

The US Army at least uses Azure and AWS govcloud and not their own infrastructure. I don't think this takes away from your points though, the infrastructure is very locked down and meticulously managed and approved.

It's not one or the other, they use both third party cloud and a lot of their own infra.

An LLM isn't providing its "best" prediction, it's providing "a" prediction. If it were always providing the "best" token then the output would be deterministic.

In my mind the issue is more accountability than concerns about quality. If a person acts in a bizarre way they can be fired and helped in ways that an LLM can never be. When gemini tells a student to kill themselves, we have no recourse beyond trying to implement output filtering, or completely replacing the model with something that likely has the same unpredictable unaccountable behavior.

Are you sure that always providing the best guess would make output deterministic? Isn’t the fundamental point of learning, whether done my machine or human, that our best gets better and is hence non-deterministic? Doesn’t what is best depend on context?

There is no other way to use an LLM than to give it context and have it give its best guess, that's how LLMs fundamentally work. You can give it different context, but it's just guessing at tokens.

I highly doubt it's possible to have a single solution in a puzzle like this at any size

At least it is possible to force a single solution (discounting backtraces which is always possible) in 4x4:

  | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 
  | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 
  | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 
  | 3 | 3 | 3 | G | 

I'm fairly sure the only solution here is 2 down to 3 right to 1 to goal. You can of course then use this to generate a couple of more by changing all the numbers that are impossible to reach.

Why buy this for $250 when you get the same thing from a pinecil v2 and use it with any 20v 100w PD USB-c power pack? I'm not seeing any differentiating features.

Honestly a pinecil is more than enought to deal with small electronics

I can see why somebody might think that of general pine64 offerings, but the Pinecil is anything but that. It's a significant improvement over my bucket of old soldering irons I inherited and purchased over the years. Unless you are doing some serious heavy duty work, I'm hard pressed to think of a better alternative.

I love iFixit, but their tools, parts, and kits have been a bit mixed (bit of poor, bit of good) in terms of quality.

I think their tools are overhyped - not worth the price, you pay for the brand they have built by basically PR (repair scores for iPhones).

For me it's hard to reconcile what is a good initiative to ostensibly reduce waste, with the reality of ordering at least one of their products. For example I couldn't get a screen replacement at one point unless I ordered a kit, but I needed 2 screens, so I ordered 2 kits and now have redundant, specific, toxic, tools, only some of which actually helped perform the repair.

I'm thinking of the heating liquid pad, which gave me a bit of a laugh and didn't work, the plastic spudgers that were too soft to be durable, the precut adhesive strips that almost seemed insultingly ineffective. The actual handles and screwdriver bits were great though, so mixed feelings, I just hate waste.

This is really cool, I've been running something similar to simplify rotating database credentials for legacy projects.

Offsetting your damage doesn't change the fact that you are causing damage. What would be good is if these people stopped flying around the billionaire circuit on private jets _and_ paid their fair share of taxes but that's too much to ask these days.

I do agree having a separate list of who pays the most in taxes relative to wealth/income would be interesting but also obviously less accurat.

In some airlines you can pay some extra to offset the damage you do according to the CO2 you produced on said distance.