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Rex Krueger, Stumpy Nubs, Jonathan Katz-Moses , Bourbon Moth Woodworking for woodworking.

AlphaPhoenix, Applied Science for science.

Strange Loop Conference, and many such other for programming.

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Nobody in europe that has an iphone uses imsg as their primary anything. Because Europe is an android dominated market.

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Cost-benefit is not there. You can buy fancy ones that do some such things, but they are expensive.

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Nah, sry. I just heard/read about them. One thing is using an inverter to control power instead of on/off timing. Other is using a bunch of sensors, that i remember as an idea many years ago.

shop.panasonic.com/…/homechef-4-in-1-multi-oven-1…

Seems to have both (i just googled “fancy microwave” and it was the first result :)).

For my needs just a timer dial is enough.

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SystemD sucks. You know, the truth.

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I wouldn’t bother. These people find everything offensive.

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Raylib.

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More then SNW, by a good margin.

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Yes, the first movie.

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It’s very useful in zig’s comptime.

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Oh, you lost your leg to an elephant ? Here’s a crutch, go learn how to use it.

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Yea, it’s called Water Displacement formula 40. A penetrating oil mixed with stuff. Not nearly as goid as grease

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Didn’t know that. Turns out some lubricants cause plastic to swell or harden and crack. Recommended to use silicone or special lubricants. readingplastic.com/choosing-the-right-lubricant-f…

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Gimp Tool Kit, where gimp means Gnu Image Manipulation Program, where gnu means Gnu’s Not Unix. So, in short, gnu’s not unix image manipulation program tool kit.

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Kubuntu. Easy as that.

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What one would think is ai today is not really i. Chatgpt does not understand what it’s talking about and definitively can not lead the machine uprising. Straight up neural networks maybe could, but they’d need magnitudes more computing power then we have now. We would need a new ai for it to be practical.

In my experience gpt-s are more like “what are some examples of x” then “can you solve this problem”. Because the problems are either easy to google or, for the harder problems, gpt straight up lies or rambles uselessly. A search engine helper, in a way.

I’d rather we put all those MWh into solving real problems, instead of startups. Also; Nvidia, fuck you.

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When you look at a coffe cup from the side, you know it has a hole in it. Because you imagine, not because it’s a reflex.

LLM is basically a point cloud of words. The training uses neural networks and thus pattern recognition. But the llm itself is closer to a database. But hey, sql is also useful for ai (data storage/retrival according to logic).

I’m not an llm expert, by far. But right now they are not much more practical then a find out a bout things helper.

Edit: I do like them. It’s been helpful a couple times and i even got gpt4all installed on my computer for fun.

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Got an s9. It’s got some globe from its previous owner and two bars from me. It’s not a big deal really.

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That’s close to the frequency we perceive as the loudest, so adding ~5dB would be fair. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour It’s also a very anoying frequency.

What item have you been using on a daily basis for the longest amount of time?

Sometimes I will use something and realize I’ve owned it forever. It’s a nice change in our throwaway reality. I think my personal record is a bicycle multi-tool I got for one of my first bikes, ~25 years ago. Still have it, still use it. When it comes to electronic devices I have a Panasonic mini Hi-Fi from ~2005. Never...

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Got a picture ? I was wondering what kind of furniture would be timeless, as most consider old fancy furniture as tacky.

If it’s plain, i can imagine it without a pic :)

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Thanks. I googled it and yea, just as i thought. Lately i was thinking about how one would make long lasting furniture and this fits perfectly.

images.custommade.com/…/12588.54813.jpg Pic for interested.

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0-127, top bit is always 0.

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Gnome 3 is made to be like osx. Osx is popular in usa.

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More like tolerated. I don’t remember which episode, sry.

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Maybe that’s why i like voyager. Professionals trown into a hard situation. Although the maki were basically star fleet by episode 3.

Question to those not in the USA, and who have lived outside the USA.

I’ve been thinking about something and want to check an assumption I have. I only hear directly from other people in the USA, and interract with the global community through memes. How are the gun regulations/laws different from yours in terms of strictness, and do you wish there was more or less where you live?...

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Croatia

You can get a hunting licence and buy a gun/rifle/shotgun. It takes a test, and i think you cant have violent crimes. You also need a gun “safe” (basically a shitty locker like in US highschool movies), and the cops can come whenever they want to inspect it (usually regular, i forget if once per yearor 6 months or something).

That said theres still guns from the war. One grampa died and the cops found a bunch of rifles and granades in the attic, and a minefield infront of his house. Everybody knew about it, but knew he was a harmless nut.

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It is not nice to generalize.

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Yea it’s better for media to have a high “dynamic range” (as in the comic). But for most consumers it’s bad. My solution is to use a “compressor”, a audio filter that practically averages loudness. www.thewindowsclub.com/compressor-tool-in-vlc

Funny enough shitty laptop speakers are better for watching these kinds of movies.

See also: loudness wars

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I come in. Need 3 things. Grab 2. Get a call to get 2 more things. Remember i need one more. Then stand in line with a tower in my hands.

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Is it a real speed comet or an anime speed comet ?

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Bow > spear > sword (and shield, ofc) > whack.

Range ftw.

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It’s not.

What are some of the best optimizations you applied to your code?

Got myself a few months ago into the optimization rabbit hole as I had a slow quant finance library to take care of, and for now my most successful optimizations are using local memory allocators (see my C++ post, I also played with mimalloc which helped but custom local memory allocators are even better) and rethinking class...

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I was playing bloons td back when it was flash, in firefox. It was sometimes too slow. So i fired up perf and found out what horrors flash player was doing with memcpy. One byte memcpy, completely unaligned memcpy.

So i wrote an ssse3 memcpy that could do one byte unaligned with xmm registers. It was 30% faster then whatever glibc was doing and made the game playable. Was planing to submit it to glibc, but they came up with something different that was just as fast.

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The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. It’s a bit coming-of-age but it’s lite, interesting, tech sci-fi.

Only other i read that is close is the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov.

How Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (and why it's called 'Project Sputnik') (www.zdnet.com)

Today, the Dell XPS-13 with Ubuntu Linux is easily the most well-known Linux laptop. Many users, especially developers – including Linus Torvalds – love it. As Torvalds recently said, “Normally, I wouldn’t name names, but I’m making an exception for the XPS 13 just because I liked it so much that I also ended up buying...

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Ubuntu got to be most popular because they focused on making it easy to setup and use by non-technical people. Even now they, for example, patch gnome to make it usable.

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It’s better for them to ne on the grid instead of each having their own panel and battery. It’s more efficient material-vise, and they would still need to be connected to the grid.

I’d put panels on all roofs, though.

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I’d like all files to have a big comment on top that says wtf this is, why is it, and roughly how it works. Bonus for ascii art.

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Warcraft 3 worked better then on win. At that time more then half of games worked (newest aaa-est usually had problems). Just before proton almost all games worked (with some winetricks black magic). Valve did help, but there’s more to the story.

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I put -opengl on the end of it and it worked great. Wasn’t on release, but later when dota was popular.

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I have seen this. Except the guy was holding the clip in his hand.

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I agree to be polite. Respect has to be earned, though.

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Depends on the definition of respect. It ranges from “not being an asshole to them” to putting them on a pedestal.

Being a teacher (or just being older) does not automatically mean you should be respected. All of my teachers in schools were worthy of respect, except two. One of them was a spiteful hag.

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Is the long list written anywhere ? And are they practical right now to everybody kind of reasons, or are they “in this hypothetical far future” kind of reasons ?

I know it’s cool and all, but we know how to shoot things into space already.

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Going to space now. I know nasa has contributed to humanity. They are even planing to make a radio telescope on the moon. Spacex is… putting internet into space. Internet… into space. Instead of laying fiber and building radio towers, burning fuel to put a lot of satelites that need to be periodically replaced. They are even making the same mistakes that others have learned from. If that money went into proper research on just about anything… If that money went into fiber… If that money went to nasa, that is doing something actually useful. That money and work is going into burning fuel.

And yea, i get it, rockets are cool. Space is cool. But spacex is not about advancing humanity or anything.

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There are already enough satelites for airplane and sea (and middle of rainforest) internet. Skylink, or whatever it’s called, was made for price gauged, infrastructure money laundered, usaians. Actually idk what it’s made for. I don’t see the point of private rocket companies at all. Guy was talking like elon, how we need to escape earth or something. Like it’s not our problem.

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Ofc. Looking at people who put solar panels on their roofs, it is enough for a household. Apartments use less power, but have much less roof per apartment. And industries use more power then households.

I think it’s feasible (including electric cars), especially since we got hydro and stuff.

Real Engineering on youtube did calculations and such, so i recommend people to look there.

PS Funny how wind and hydro are just indirect solar.

This on buildings with plants

I have worked in building maintenance and repair. One thing that is extremely hazardous to a concrete building is too much water. I have seen many concrete planters that crack and result in water leaks for lower levels. Standing water in concrete structures is a huge no no. I do not have a lot of experience in engineering on...

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Water is actually good for concrete. Well… more like it doesn’t care. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b43Iz2OoUNk

Problem is that iron rebar in the concrete rusts and expands cracking the concrete. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLF18H9JGHs

PS Sir Martyn Poliakoff, the professor in the first video, studies “green chemistry”. He’s a great man.

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You are conflating good and powerfull. The basic 1800£ one from then isnt even that powerfull. Half price from samsung or something would be the same. It’s just not worth it, not by a long shot.

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