georgefrowny

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by georgefrowny 5d ago
The thin line between them is also really tenacious (only the punk one dropped it)
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by georgefrowny 9d ago
I wondered to what extent they know the size and shape of the cavern at any given time and what they use to monitor it. The answer is apparently sonar, and there are some pretty pictures here: https://digital.library.unt.edu&#x2F
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Boox Picco micro e-reader full specs confirmed(readme.club)
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by georgefrowny 9d ago
I tried browsing bookstores on the mainland but found basically all the books are shrinkwrapped in plastic. Very boring indeed (but the covers are nice I guess). Is Taiwan similar?
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by georgefrowny 11d ago
I do actually like the "concrete jungle" style like the Barbican and Salk Institute (by all accounts a pleasantly human place to work despite the famously stark-looking courtyard). I think the biggest problem with them is that the
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by georgefrowny 11d ago
My theory is they end up preferring buildings that are easy to draw in AutoCAD. Akin's Law 38: "Capabilities drive requirements, regardless of what the systems engineering textbooks say."
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by georgefrowny 11d ago
Good, I'm not buying an X4 without either USB-C or a backlight, and it might already be too late relative to the Boox Picco (but CrossPoint support can pull it back).
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by georgefrowny 11d ago
Prosperity gospel for the non-religious, basically.
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by georgefrowny 12d ago
Why do the AliExpress ones lock the firmware? They have analytics in it or something?
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by georgefrowny 14d ago
Yep. Someone is surely going to do something at some point if we continue on this course. Hand-wringing from relative safety of above-sea level places at high latitude is cheap. If you're in charge of millions of people in peril, even
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by georgefrowny 19d ago
And is on PNAS Nexus.
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by georgefrowny 19d ago
I dunno, I think there's one better use and that's funding a federated framework for this so any transport network can just plug into the system as a source and any client can plug in as a consumer.
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by georgefrowny 22d ago
That's basically @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark). However, we should go a step further and provide a framework of UI elements that can be used consistently to create a uniform and accessible interface and they could even be pre-com
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by georgefrowny 22d ago
> Despite spending hours a day looking at her phone, she literally had to check it to find out what her default color theme is; it’s that invisible to her. Sounds like a good reason to make it automatic then, because if users have to fin
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by georgefrowny 23d ago
Kaitai Struct is also pretty good and will generate code in several languages.
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by georgefrowny 25d ago
Reminds me of a Cylon hybrid.
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by georgefrowny 29d ago
Yes, indeed all are far below the next one (hydro, 1.3, dam failures, I imagine). And brown coal is sitting pretty at 36+, i.e. ONE THOUSAND times worse than nuclear.
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by georgefrowny 29d ago
Solar and nuclear are comparable: 0.02 vs 0.03 deaths/TWh ( https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p... ) Depending on what kind of solar, it can have quite a high death/TWh ratio because pe
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by georgefrowny 29d ago
If a general-purpose humanoid robot has the strength to perform human actions at human speed, it will have that much torque in the motors. If it didn't, it can only move very slowly and/or jerkily. You need fast, high-torque feedb
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by georgefrowny 1mo ago
Giving out control of industrial machinery that interacts in the human environment without the physical interlocks (i.e. humanoid robots in a house) to random internet people seems like a problem. I can imagine a carefully orchestrated plot
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by georgefrowny 1mo ago
They call it "goal orientation". I think there's a reason they fret so much about the paperclip optimisers, because they recognise them.
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by georgefrowny 1mo ago
I thought CXMT is selling DDR5 now?
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by georgefrowny 1mo ago
I've literally heard someone say that we should remove the protection circuits because it's two dollars of parts protecting under a dollar of amplifiers. Yes, the amplifiers are cheap, but the rest of the board isn't and if t
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by georgefrowny 1mo ago
There's a whole class of software people who think the rest of the world is a bunch of pitiful and sadly ignorant apes stuck in the past who just need the loving administration of the clarity, vision and genius of the software engineer
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by georgefrowny 2mo ago
Just another reminder of the absolutely massive public benefit that the Internet Archive represents. Just wish they'd make the metadata crowd-sourced, maybe a tie-up with Wikidata.
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by georgefrowny 2mo ago
> Great, now calm down and go build stuff, and show me the stuff. Also sounds like Reddit where there are whole communities around what seem like part of the process - keyboards, knife sharpening, etc, rather than what you actually used
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by georgefrowny 2mo ago
Returning the sample would be flexier and moving onto a comet afterward more so.
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by georgefrowny 3mo ago
> it should be to break them into smaller pieces so they actually have to compete with each other. I wonder what the world would look like if you just prohibited any single organisation or controlling group over a certain size. Say you c
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by georgefrowny 3mo ago
They were right that economics is a dismal science, but to me these days it's not only about the ugly Moloch-like consequences, but also because these utter wierdos are in charge of it, and the medium of economic domination is a PowerP
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by georgefrowny 4mo ago
How is that extension compared to, say, DS4 via OpenRouter and the usual VSCode Copilot panel?

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