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I have a post-processed NC file from Fusion 360...which I think is just gcode. How can I transform that into something this can simulate? My hacky attempts have failed.


Does Fusion 360 have postprocessor for GRBL? I've tried to make the simulator GRBL compatible. At least to some extent...

If that does not help, please share the g-code...


Static analysis paired with AI is the middle ground that makes sense to me (working in a similar security space). But the hard part needs to be regular computer science and the AI comes second.


> But the hard part needs to be regular computer science and the AI comes second.

Yes, indeed. The AI could be used to prefilter the list of warnings generated by static analysis to reduce the amount of false positives. To achieve that an AI could use the history of the projects static analysis results to find likely false positives. Or an I could propose a patch to avoid a warning. If it is automatically compiled, passed to the test suite and the whole ci pipeline, it could reduce the manual effort to deal with finding of static analysis tools.

But leaving out the static analysis tools would loose so much value.


We completely agree. I would redefine it a bit.

We combine static analysis + LLMs to do better detection, triaging and auto-fixing because static analysis alone is broken in many ways.

We've been able to reduce ~30% of tickets for customers with false positive detection, and now be able to detect classes of vulnerabilities in business and code logic that were previously undetectable.


I just picked up 900 lbs of tile and the place would refuse to put anymore in my Subaru Forester. It's a pretty substantial load with big safety ramifications if not stored well.


I was on a bike stopped at a stoplight and was rear-ended by a car for this very reason.


The broker was advising him on price point, strategy and fielding the interested parties for further discussion. Pretty important for this type of transaction.


Seems like exactly what real estate agents do. That being said agent fee of 3% seems too high to me..


How much of this can be learned by reading a couple books? I wonder how much higher profit he actually made compared to if one could self teach these skills.


You can learn a lot of information from books. What upu can't get from a book is experience.

In this case you have a seller with no experience, and ultimately a buyer with no experience. In either situation a broker is valuable. In the case of both its an enormously important moderator who can keep both parties on track to a successful conclusion.

Book learning in such cases only gets you so far.


Also, LLMs not withstanding, you can’t pose questions to a book. Or even necessarily know when you should be asking a question you haven’t considered.


Having dabbled in some deals like this, books can give you some general ideas, but by nature they won't be current. A lot of things change quickly in the market, especially for smaller deals like this. A company or market segment that was getting a 5x valuation last year could be at 8x now, or 2x. Also, in many cases the buyers are more experienced than the sellers, though that doesn't seem like it was the case here. Your broker can help inform you, and prop you up. They can also act as the go-between for many communications, which can help mask feelings, worries, urgency, and other things that don't always help your position in a face to face conversation.


I imagine the broker he used is fairly experienced and well compensated, so he'd have to learn a totally different profession from the ground up without any mentors or experienced people helping him, on top of continuing to run the business, which you can easily argue is worth $90k


I have a bone to pick with "read book" purists...

Books tell you what they did in their situation.

They don't tell you what you should do in your situation.


Practical knowledge, very little.

Most of this value is in the soft areas, like how hard to push and how to manage expectations with the buyer.


About 80%. Which is great, if everything goes well. But if you're in the 20% that get to learn via failure, the cost is much higher to you.

One of the core skills of being a founder is learning when to delegate.


Just because you “can” self learn, is it worth the time to self learn? As he mentions in article the deal needs to move fast or one side may bail. If you have amateur hour seller, the buyer is more likely to back out.

This isn’t AdWords where your landing page sucks, and you can just quickly pivot and get some more traffic. There’s only so many serious buyers of a business like this why risk squandering any of them.

It’s a 15% commission to massively reduce the risk to seller and time commitment. Assuming broker is competent they’re going to get the deal done right. Seems well worth it to me.

He also mentioned having a kid soon, so why drag it out? Dude already made almost a cool million what’s 90k in grand scheme of things to get deal done and money in bank?

Skipping a broker in an extremely high friction transaction is penny wise pound foolish. If residential real estate hasn’t figured out yet how to cut out brokers, business acquisitions definitely have not


Please do Xcode next!


wouldn't $(sudo mv /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode.nope) do that, while leaving the actually important SDK bits intact? I hypothesize `sudo chmod a-x` may work, too, but I don't actually know how much the .app bundles care about unix perms


In my experience they haven't been in the past, but LLMs change the game by doing it by default.


Yes, it's a very good idea. I don't think it's lost steam, it's just buried underneath other layers of the stack.

Red Hat has Fedora CoreOS and RHEL CoreOS variants. Flatcar is going strong with the CoreOS-ethos intact. Talos Linux is also pretty popular.

The cloud providers have various minimal OSes for use underneath Kubernetes clusters but not used for standalone machines. I think Rancher OS is no more but the rest of Rancher is ongoing. VMware's various minimal OS efforts are no more.


Don't overlook Bottlerocket, which despite coming out of AWS is not (AFAIK) AWS-centric: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket#readme

It's also super handy for writing out static Pod manifests to have replace the brain-damaging Ignition as a less stupid alternative to cloud-init


I love the standalone kubelet/static manifests pattern. It's ideal for edge type stuff and really simple systems. Here's a talk on my CNC control software running in my shop with just the kubelet, no control plane: https://developers.redhat.com/devnation/tech-talks/kubelet-n...


Cool thanks for the information


I just finished reading Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen – it was great. The book walks through a minute by minute scenario from the second of launch through the satellite detection, alerting of forces, decision making challenges, evac and continuity of government during a nuclear exchange. Highly recommend.


She was also recently on Hardcore History Addendum with Dan Carlin discussing the book.


What do you think of her also-very-nuclear-related "Area 51: an Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base" (2011)?

(leaving aside the frequently-repudiated Mengele-Stalin slant of the excerpt at the end, a la https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/area-51-... ' Barnes, the Roadrunners' president, said he believes the childlike aviator tale was fabricated to give the publisher something "juicy" and "sensational ')

She frames a very unique angle on James Killian (of MIT 'Killian Court' fame) in context of Pacific thermonuclear nuclear tests, for example.


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