MisterTea

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by MisterTea 6d ago
It's an ad ridden sewer. The final straw was disabling comment visibility to only those who are logged in. I used that site a bunch for Kenshi and the comments were a trove of information. No more. I refuse to make an account on that v
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by MisterTea 9d ago
All I know is I went from a Sound Blaster 16 Pro to an AWE 64 gold, the MIDI quality blew my mind. I believe this is the result of using instrument samples to render the audio instead of pure synthesis. I also remember that the SB and other
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by MisterTea 9d ago
I have no opinion on the subject but I have found this to be an interesting dive into the supposed controversy: https://justinas.org/the-bizarre-world-of-v
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by MisterTea 9d ago
> I don't see how it's worth having any emotions or opinions about it. Seems like you are wasting your energy. Some people only care about the easiest path to their pay check. Some people actually care about software engineerin
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by MisterTea 9d ago
They're good for small/independent businesses who need to store a few things instead of renting a full space or have no spare storage at home.
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by MisterTea 9d ago
This is how the Plan 9 fork 9front does a lot of its major plumbing, rc scripts. Many tools are just scripts that use rc, awk, sed, bc and other common tools originating on Unix. e.g. the ipconfig tool is an rc script. This creates a zero
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by MisterTea 9d ago
The 'at' in the middle tells me no. I also get Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law vibes but that could just be me.
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by MisterTea 10d ago
> I wonder why we haven't seen deployment of organic Rankin cycle generators in AI data centers Because there was never a long term plan for AI data centers. It's an AI market capture and cash grab scheme that ends when local
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by MisterTea 10d ago
I would just assume everyone has back doors in their equipment. Big country or not, it spies.
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by MisterTea 11d ago
Indeed. If that URL is too crude then one may also use only9fans.com.
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by MisterTea 12d ago
A mindless thought I had regarding the "AI apocalypse" goes something like this: Remember the whole 2012 apocalypse? Mayan calendar, Novelty Theory and all that? Well ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline
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by MisterTea 12d ago
84GB? How many child sacrifices does that cost?
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by MisterTea 14d ago
Who's selling dumb TV's again, Samsung? Who else? I'll happily pay a thousand bucks to not get screwed by my TV.
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by MisterTea 14d ago
The thing which depresses me the most is all these so-called smart TV's are giant Arm computers that run malicious software. Imagine if we could re-flash your TV with Linux or whatever.
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by MisterTea 14d ago
I feel like all the closed model providers are milking it as they likely know open models on local hardware will one day eat their lunch. We all know it's not a matter of if but when. The company goes bankrupt, the hardware and propert
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by MisterTea 14d ago
Regardless of flux, we still haven't addressed the core issue.
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by MisterTea 14d ago
Presently Xi is focused on growing China and doing a great job of it. But what happens when Xi is gone? Once China reaches its goal and is the worlds manufacturing source, how will it use its influence to obtain resources? We already see Ch
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by MisterTea 14d ago
I am talking about frivolous use of zip ties and over-application. Things like zip tying an extension cord for storage. And over application as in every 2-4 inches on cable bundles. Madness.
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by MisterTea 16d ago
> destroying democracies? Taiwan would like a word.
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by MisterTea 16d ago
I heard a story recently from a friend who mingles with a lot of tech and finance people. One conversation happened after a meeting between a group which deeply bothers him to this day. The conversation basically went like this: "How w
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by MisterTea 16d ago
Ah, they were proprietary then. I thought they were an early standard that lacked a 5th pin.
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by MisterTea 16d ago
There was also the Micro-A which I found on some dev boards. I think the Arduino Due (Arm Cortex M3 chip) used one for the USB host port as well as an Atmel Arm uc board. Also that weird, really small USB connector that was found on some ea
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by MisterTea 16d ago
> Ziptie once coiled, attach label for what format / length. Please god, no more zip ties. Use double sided Velcro strap. You can buy it in a roll and cut to length. Reuse it all you want. Join multiple shorter lengths to make a lon
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by MisterTea 16d ago
If what you wrote here are your own words then I would say that you write well enough to not need an LLM.
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by MisterTea 16d ago
Thanks. I was able to get the same result as you did. Pretty neat trick.
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by MisterTea 16d ago
Thanks for the details but I realized I should have said "Pretend I just installed GIMP and my knowledge of image editing is MS paint." This is what I was after: "move the midpoint slider to about where the peak in the histog
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by MisterTea 16d ago
Can you explain 2 a bit more? I see the Auto input levels but unsure what you mean by "move the midpoint to the median." The result I got for the original mars image was a washed out red image with some yellow around the craters.
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by MisterTea 16d ago
> I really hope the Chinese keep killing everything that gets too big to fail. Be careful what you wish for. What happens when China gets too big to fail?
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by MisterTea 16d ago
This was my biggest takeaway from Japan in terms of home design - the bathroom design. At a small apartment in Tokyo the "bathroom" was in fact three separate spaces: a nook where the washer and sink lived which opened into the li
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by MisterTea 16d ago
> How Do We Defend Against This? How about not using Windows in Industrial production environments. It is one of the biggest failings of the modern industrial automation industry. I am vocal about this with vendors and explain the headac

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