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by bigiain 7mo ago
Stock dark pattern verbiage... I'm a little surprised the options aren't "Enable" and "Ask me later".
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by bigiain 7mo ago
Somehow I simultaneously desperately want to be in that club, and never want to be responsible for an event that would let me join that club...
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by bigiain 7mo ago
See also (as posted elsethread): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoGbrgOhPes
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by bigiain 7mo ago
I would read that book...
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by bigiain 7mo ago
You're _so_ right! I'm pretty sure you have my delivery address from when I bought sorted Lego from you about 10 years back. Let me know when to expect the 100,000Amp test equipment! I shall make sure I wear better PPE than just m
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by bigiain 7mo ago
Well, it'd still vaporise, but it'd sound smoother and more musical as it did it, and the soundstage from the plasma arc would be _stunning!_
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by bigiain 7mo ago
Yep. Super super lucky. I suspect my reading glasses are the only reason I can still see anything.
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by bigiain 7mo ago
If you could get that 100,000Amps flowing through your speaker wire, the vaporised copper and the plasma channel would probably keep your 100MW flowing, at least until your building caught fire.
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by bigiain 7mo ago
> I realized I may be talking to a serious audiophile, didn't mean to disrespect your Monster cables. I am a recovering audiophool. I do own a pair of 2m long Monster Cable speaker cables (with locking gold plated banana plugs). I a
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by bigiain 7mo ago
I think there'a a regulatory "Low Voltage" definition of "below 50V", which has implications around whether you need to be a licensed electrician to install it or not. Anything above that is - for at least some purp
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by bigiain 7mo ago
That's traded off against the increase efficiency of LED lighting, at least compared to incandescent lighting. An LED "equivalent replacement" for a typical incandescent globe is down around 1/10th of the power. A 7Watt
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by bigiain 7mo ago
Heh - I vaporised a fairly large soldering iron tip (probably 4mm copper cylindrical bar?), when I fucked up soldering a connector to a big 7 cell ~6000mAHr LiPo battery and shorted the terminals. Quite how I didn't end up blind or in
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by bigiain 7mo ago
Sure, maybe? If your house gets 800V DC you're still gonna need "bricks" to convert that to 5VDC of 12VDC (or maybe 19VDC) that most of the things that currently have "bricks" need. And if your house gets lower volt
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by bigiain 7mo ago
"So God created mankind in his own image" I wonder if that made it into the training set intentionally, or just as an unexpected side effect of stealing every character of text available on the internet with absolutely no curation
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by bigiain 7mo ago
Hasn't the US already minimised the cost of all the construction work that are "the parts that don't require discernment" to minimum wage who-cares-if-they're-documented-or-not day workers?
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by bigiain 7mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474255 Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2 related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805 "A
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by bigiain 7mo ago
I assume you mean this "Prescient Assurance? As detailed in this section of the post? 6.7 Misled auditor - Prescient With this conclusion: Looking at that report, there are clear signs that Delve either knowingly misled Prescient, or t
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by bigiain 7mo ago
Presumably meaning nobody under 30 understands "I'm on a boat" as anything other than ancient history or boomer-speak (or more accurately perhaps millienal-speak?).
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by bigiain 7mo ago
Is it worth removing the led from the board? Wont help with any other decisions by the designer that draw excess current, but maybe that's the only or largest one?
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by bigiain 7mo ago
Goddamn this is awful. Well done, whoever built this! #hashtagsomefuckingthing #hashtagsomeotherfuckingthing #hashtagjustkillmenow
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by bigiain 7mo ago
> AAA batteries don't have the current. Triple As might not, but back in the day plenty of rc planes flew just fine for an hour or three using 4 AA batteries to run the receiver and servos..
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by bigiain 7mo ago
I suspect the reason for the difference here may be specific use case and the implications there on the size of the files? The author's use case is Lua files to run in Minecraft, and I strongly suspect their example file at 327KB is ve
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by bigiain 7mo ago
They could probably fairly easily identify all the authors of the opensource software the hoovered up and used in their training set. But them even admitting that was possible is a little bit to close to being able to be held accountable...
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by bigiain 7mo ago
> if you believe quantum computing will ever happen. ... and you don't believe that everything will be totally fucked when it does happen. If there is a global passive observer, and they get quantum computing, a huge amount of suppo
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by bigiain 7mo ago
I can think of at least a couple of dozen fairly technical friends who'd be capable enough to set this up themselves, and who're at least adjacently interested in recreational paranoia. And probably another dozen or two who'r
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by bigiain 7mo ago
I think a lot of even not very technical people have gotten used to TOTP QRCodes, and being able to store screenshots of them in password managers. (And having experience in losing 2FA keys that they'll go to some lengths to not repeat
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by bigiain 7mo ago
Sadly, I suspect the rate of generation of AI "everyones" vastly exceeds the community's capacity to teach culture.
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by bigiain 7mo ago
> 2. github.com/qwibitai/nanoclaw which looks like a ripoff? That is literally the GitHub repo the original article shows as being "real".
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by bigiain 7mo ago
Yep. SEO spam has been a thing for decades. LLMs have supercharged it though, it's so much easier to create dozens or hundreds or thousands of ultra low effort LLM written webpages and websites that it ever was before LLMs.
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Four months of Ruby Central moving Ruby backward(andre.arko.net)
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