georgefrowny

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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
The spiky H with head logo? Reminds me more of "make all the things" meme then an angel.
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
> A company making an integrated experience would inevitably provide a better experience/performance than a company asked to build for 100s of devices with different spec This isn't given. For example the company that makes sma
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
You don't "write off" the full value, you fiddle the amortization so they go to zero accounting value exactly when you want them to. They're playing this exact game with datacentre GPUs right now. You can still have a ta
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
Panasonic left the MLCC market and yet you can still buy capacitors.
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
Man, I remember playing UT GOTYE back in the 00s and the graphics blew us away when we fired it up and then Return to Castle Wolfenstein made my brother cry from the "realistic" zombies (on a CRT even!). It's amazing what you
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
> This is an insane thing to say. I don't think it's insane. In that hypothetical case, it would be a slightly painful experience for some people that the top end is a bit curtailed for a few years while game developers learn t
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
One wonders what would happen in a SHtF situation or someone stubs their toe on the demolition charges switch at TSMC and all the TwinScans get minced. Would there be a huge drive towards debloating software to run again on random old compu
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
And you can make very shiny out-of-the-box finishes even in quite shitty materials that will decay quite quickly: soft plastics going gooey, white plastics yellowing, all plastics becoming brittle, poor anti-rust coatings, soft paintwork, e
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
> Guess eventually people will buy the cheapest car It looks like lots of people choose to lease very expensive cars, and give them back after 3 years for a new one, dropping a obsolescence time-bomb onto the second-hand market and provi
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
If in Europe, they're going to "fix" that with a €3 flat fee per item to cover "import duty" under €150 in July (on top of VAT which is already charged since 2021). Which a huge scam, because there's no way tha
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
It's also basically impossible to have any EV that isn't an iPad on wheels. I'm not even opposed to the mod-cons, it's just the irreparability, lock-in, touchscreen-centrism and planned obsolescence they basically all sh
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
I may not agree with China's control of the internet, but it was never only about censorship. They now have an increasingly complete domestic ecosystem and they would 100% not have had that if Google, Microsoft, AWS and friends had set
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
I was quite surprised to find the software backing this isn't open source: https://www.lend-engine.com/ I had expected it to be an open source with paid hosting/support model. But at 25 USD/month for 500 item
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
Not the first product to do this. Jura coffee machines also have their own oval-ish fasteners. In fact, it's really quite amazing that car manufacturers, generational artisans of the vendor lock-in have not been doing this at a far gre
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Letchworth Garden Shed – Borrowing Catalogue(borrow.letchworthgardenshed.com)
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
The eternal fate of the Googlewhack.
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
I think if someone is going be gotten out of bed that would be a critical rather then error. Generally I'd say in a large "live" system, errors end up raising Jira tickets, criticals end up ringing phones.
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
One difference is that the early internet was heavily composed of enthusiastic individuals. AI is almost entirely corporate and money-focused. Even most hobby AI projects mostly seem to have an eye on being a side hustle or CV buffing. Perh
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
> Much more important also is that LLMs don't try to scam you, don't try to fool you, don't look out for their own interests. When the appreciable-fraction-of-GDP money tap turns off, there going to be enormous pressure to
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
Easy to say, but there's "yes we know this is wrong but this will have to do for now" and "we don't expect to see this in real life unless something has gone sideways".
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
It is a bit relevant because if the air was warm enough you would be better building huge air source heat pumps. And if it was really warm enough you wouldn't need heating in the first place.
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
The opposite effect is also why thermal stations (including but not only nuclear) are usually on the coast or near large rivers: you can dump a lot of water heat into water and have it carried away. Not always good for the local ecosystem w
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
> when you space out and need to figure out what's happening Ok it's not just me that gets to the end of a page and it's like the page didn't exist. On the other hand the times I use the search function on the ereader
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
Brutal on the crest factor though, you'll definitely get a snotty phone call from your power company if you keep that up.
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
Even if the end result ends up being a net positive, even by a wide margin, I think any project that goes over budget by 100% and lands 10 years late does reasonably merit the clusterfuck tag. The Space Shuttle was one too and that was a ma
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
I'd like to know what Monopoly knock-off is partly in the shot here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebA8X4HChJM PSA: if you have family meltdowns playing Monopoly, try following the rules and allowing auctions of un-b
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
Yes, and the Austrian route is mostly in that category under the Koralpe Massif rather then the very politically awkward Home Counties (NIMBY Central, and very rich NIMBYs at that). Hence why tunneling does not necessarily mean a stunning
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
One exception: with the stamp cost rise, I think this might be the year even the staunchest card senders may be reconsidering! I remember my mum sending out 20 or 30 cards all with first class stamps. I don't see many millennials and d
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
Not necessarily because no one lives underground and there are probably no existing things like property, gas lines, electricity lines, sewers, pipelines, roads, etc to avoid or reroute. And very little in the way of habitat. The longest ro
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by georgefrowny 10mo ago
One day I aspire to make a 5 stage geometric chuck and outdo the Science Museum's 4 stage model: https://theartinscience.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-original-sp...

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