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Just a sweaty nerd interested in software, home automation, emotional issues, and polite discourse about all of the above.


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Gimmie dat d-limonene over any of these, please.
Open source can be enshittified. FOSS with many contributors should be basically proof against being fucked with.


Yep, that’s my use-case. I am not interested in unlocking the door, only locking it.


the f stands for file. The c manpage has some details on how it works: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/flock.2.html


CAD was a big problem for me as well. I’ve been happy enough with OnShape (coming from Autodesk Inventor), but the extreme SaaS nature of it makes me worry.


Yeah, I think it’d be a pretty silly thing for us to ever try to do. My goal was to take their stupid idea, provide a slightly less stupid idea, and then say “or just don’t do space power at all and keep everything terrestrial.” Orbital solar power stations were lots of fun in science fiction, but panels are cheap, there’s plenty of land, and giant death masers that cook any birds flying into the beam are, uh, suboptimal.


We’ve had the template for this for decades. Put the solar panels in space where the thick soupy gunky spunky atmosphere doesn’t stop the little energy things from the sun. Collect the power in orbit. You just do that up there up in orbit okay? And then you fucking beam the power down to the surface you numpty fucks. Use a maser to send the power down to the surface and you can pick a frequency that isn’t affected by the gunky spunky and then the receivers on the ground can pick it up and they send the power through these things called wires to a building that uses the power and the building can use this neat little thing called CONVECTION to more efficiently remove the heat from the things using the electricity wow.
Or just, y’know, use less power and make use of ground based solar. We don’t need fucking AI data centers in space. Don’t get me wrong, I think it might be useful to, say, have some compute up in geostationary orbit that other satellites could punt some data to for computation. You could have an evenly spaced ring of the fuckers so the users up there can get some data crunching done with a RTT of like 50ms instead of 700ms. That seems like a hard sell, but it at least seems a bit tenable if you needed to reduce the data you’re sending back to the earth down to a more manageable amount with some preprocessing. That is still not fuckass gigawatt AI data centers. Fuck


This script is why I ended up learning how to use OnShape. It’s probably much better nowadays, but I could not get it working a few years ago. I needed CAD and OnShape was close enough to Inventor that it was almost frictionless.


The No Kings protest in Utah ended tragically because armed “peacekeepers” (aka armed civilians) shot at a protester who was open-carrying an AR-15 at the protest. The protester had no ill intentions, but the peacekeepers didn’t know that. The peacekeepers missed and killed a bystander.
That’s why you don’t open carry at protests. The untrained “good guy with a gun” is likely to shoot you. Carry concealed if you’re going to carry, or don’t bring a gun at all.


Oh god, please don’t use it for Bash. LLM-generated Bash is such a fucking pot of horse shit bad practices. Regular people have a hard enough time writing good Bash, and something trained on all the fucking crap on StackOverflow and GitHub is inevitably going to be so bad…
Signed, a senior dev who is the “Bash guy” for a very large team.
Yo, I think your shit got hacked.
I’ve listened to most of the Culture series and I really liked it all. Look To Windward was especially good imo.
I love The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks. The audiobook is narrated by Peter Kenny and he does such a good job with it.


AFAIK, LFP thermal runaway can’t start fires. NMC or other lithium chemistries can and they scare me, but LFPs are pretty damn safe. That being said, I’m still stoked for sodium chemistries to be developed. If the round trip efficiency issues can be solved, then I think it’ll be a great solution for residential power storage.
I made the mistake of buying a Samsung washer/dryer set in 2017. The washer actually still works and the seal has held up well, but the dryer drum jumped its tracks within the first year, and both have been plagued with gremlins.
Fuck Samsung appliances and honestly most things Samsung sells.
I’m not using it because it would be extremely inconvenient for me, but I think that the English language deserves to have the thorn returned to it.
Where would be manually modifying modules.dep and map files on this, I wonder?
it was a form from Google soliciting feedback on the thing.
Yeah, 88/2 is weird as shit. Perhaps the GPUs are especially large? I know NVIDIA has that thing where you can slice up a GPU into smaller units (I can’t remember what it’s called, it’s some fuckass TLA), so maybe they’re counting on people doing that.