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by blacksmith_tb 10mo ago
And the English word 'algorithm' comes from Al Khwarizmi's name[1]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi#:~:text=His%20nam...
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by blacksmith_tb 10mo ago
It wouldn't (just) be convection, but it would be easy to have a spinner over the top case fan on a PC... though going the other direction, convection off a fanless PC (I have a little Zotac) might be enough to spin a very light spinne
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by blacksmith_tb 10mo ago
Cory Doctorow's _Little Brother_ [1] predicted gait and affect detecting school surveillance all the way back in 2008 [1]. Sad to see that come true. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_(Doctorow_novel.
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by blacksmith_tb 10mo ago
I gave Slate my $50, though since the price is creeping up (not their fault), I may or may not bite. I am hoping the Nio Firefly[1] becomes the EV equivalent of the VW Beetle and conquerors the world, but I am not holding my breath on it ma
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by blacksmith_tb 10mo ago
Likely just to keep the device simpler - on/off switches should last for lots of duty cycles, timers introduce another point of failure.
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by blacksmith_tb 10mo ago
I really like Alfred, it's a worthy descendant of QS for sure. To be fair, it is possible to use Spotlight for the same kind of "invoke, start typing, hit return to launch" workflow (it's just uglier, and not extensible)
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by blacksmith_tb 10mo ago
Though a smaller array (just covering the deck of a current ship) could provide some boost - 25% isn't nothing, though you need clear skies to net that, I suppose we could consider a system when the ship would make a journey more slowl
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by blacksmith_tb 10mo ago
Stirling engines are of course fun, but I wonder if the same approach but with the specially-coated radiator on a Peltier instead would net much - it'd avoid the moving-parts problem, at least.
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by blacksmith_tb 10mo ago
You can always just throw money at them for Pop!_OS[1] (which is what I did when I bought my Framework 13 and installed Pop on it). 1: https://system76.com/donate/
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by blacksmith_tb 11mo ago
I can second the article's recommendation of Samit Basu, I've liked everything of his I've read. I would also recommend Indra Das, and Saad Z. Hossain.
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by blacksmith_tb 11mo ago
Practically, because bicyclists aren't licensed. It is true that in some jurisdictions cyclists have to register or license their bicycles, so potentially failure to do so could get you fined or even have your bike impounded.
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by blacksmith_tb 11mo ago
Ride a bike! I half-kid, but it's interesting to consider that cycling is a right which can't be taken away in the US, while driving is a privilege that can be revoked.
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by blacksmith_tb 11mo ago
What about something like Shoes[1]? I have played with it a little, just to make a simple UI to run some scripts I can run fine in a shell myself, but less-technical people may be too scared to fire up Terminal.app in order to do the same..
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by blacksmith_tb 11mo ago
Well, heat pumps are awesome, but ground-source is overkill for many places where the air temps don't fall too low (and it's a lot harder to drill holes behind your house).
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by blacksmith_tb 11mo ago
Lots of distros should have the bsdgames package, for example Debian (and thus Ubuntu, Pop!_OS etc.): https://packages.debian.org/stable/games/bsdgames
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by blacksmith_tb 11mo ago
Keeping an offline copy of the Wikipedia is fine, but if "the Internet just get[s] shut down" I would think we'll all be more worried more about not being able to use our bank accounts, have medical providers see our records,
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by blacksmith_tb 11mo ago
Self-awareness is a bold claim, as opposed to the illusion of it. LLMs are very good at responding in a way that suggests there's a self, but I am skeptical that proves much about whether they actually have interior states analogous to
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by blacksmith_tb 1y ago
OLEDs are famous for burning in[1], so potentially "yes". 1: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2918628/your-oled-displays-w...
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by blacksmith_tb 1y ago
The trash command for macOS that's being talked about above is native in the OS now, since v14 according to its manpage, though I see it may have really been v15[1] 1: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/08/26&#
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by blacksmith_tb 1y ago
If that worked well though, why pack a large battery in the first place? My suspicion is that pedaling provides a small percentage of the energy needed to move you and the bike and your cargo.
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by blacksmith_tb 1y ago
A typo for NFC seems likely.
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by blacksmith_tb 1y ago
Game over with a dead battery, I would think, though I suppose it's possible that the generator you're pedaling is enough for very slow movement without the battery boost...
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by blacksmith_tb 1y ago
This one[1] shows how the teeth are sewn on, which does look like it would be hard to do by hand (and impossible with a normal sewing machine). 1: https://ykkdigitalshowroom.com/assets/80006b690a9e47db1e62ad...
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by blacksmith_tb 1y ago
I think guilt plays in also, a sizable fraction of the population don't want to hear that the way they live their lives is damaging everyone (even themselves, poignantly enough). To try and put that in a more sympathetic light, they do
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by blacksmith_tb 1y ago
Oh sure, the Left has plenty of irrational but deeply held beliefs. Anti-firearms though... when they kill more people through suicide than homicide... 1: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/new-report-highlights-us-2...
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by blacksmith_tb 1y ago
PV panels are typically angled to catch the sun better, and they're smooth and dark... snow slides off by itself if the sun is shining (and if the sun isn't shining, you aren't losing much by having the panels covered).
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by blacksmith_tb 1y ago
Developers certainly are prey to that impulse, but management tends to want ROI... Rewriting existing apps / services / etc. that work and have been refined over time is usually not a money-maker (unless they can't scale, say
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by blacksmith_tb 1y ago
Well, that's hyperbolic (and shares something with journalism that reports things in useless but colorful units like "massive as a dozen bull elephants"), but if we sidestep the question of how Starbucks compares to small ban
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by blacksmith_tb 1y ago
Well nothing much in hard vacuum is "fiery" - comets in our solar system do get ablated by the solar wind as they orbit the sun more closely; I assume in this case the majority of those billions of years were in deep space where t
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by blacksmith_tb 1y ago
Scale it up, and you have Taara[1] 1: https://x.company/projects/taara/

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