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Solo-founder of https://ninja.ai

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  1. schappim
    Thank you for the really detailed reply.
  2. schappim
    > cloud service is the only available option for students using school-issued Chromebooks

    Perhaps Chromebooks are incompatible with open-source too?

  3. schappim
    STM32 is great!

    > nontrivial applications

    Out of curiosity, where do you find that you’re hitting the limits of what it can handle?

  4. schappim
    There is a version of Thonny[1] designed for use with the Pico that is great for education. Raspberry Pi have some good resources on getting started[2].

    If your target audience is school kids, you really can't go past the micro:bit and Makecode[3].

    1. https://thonny.org

    2. https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started...

    3. https://makecode.microbit.org

  5. schappim
    To "yes, and..." you, the whole RP2040 microcontroller line is great and I would encourage folks to support the smaller maker/OSHW companies on Tindie[1] who use it.

    [1] https://www.tindie.com/search/?q=rp2040

  8. schappim
    Feedback does scale if you’re willing to adjust the loss function.

    I like the Jason Fried-ism of: If something really matters, you’ll hear it again. If you have to write it down to remember it, it’s probably not important.

  9. schappim
    This makes me wonder what concessions Google were able to get out of Apple for access to Gemini.
  10. schappim
    It was completely unusable on an iOS device with slightly increased text size.
  11. schappim
    I used Grok to successfully split a large 10K-line file of spaghetti code into multiple smaller well organised files. This was after giving the same task to Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini, all of which consistently failed.

    Grok certainly has its uses, but I default to OpenAI for most business tasks and Claude for code.

  12. schappim
    I was doing a demo to my colleagues and had the above.
  13. schappim
    > indeed a few bugs

    This is a perfect use of understatement.

  14. schappim
    Early versions crashed when I was demoing blinking an LED.
  15. schappim
    This reminds me of the Arduino Intel Galileo.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Galileo

  16. schappim
    I made/use this to get around the inability to select text: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR
  17. schappim
    Have you given RBS/Sorbet etc a go?

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