gia_ferrari

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by gia_ferrari 3mo ago
For most people, waste -> filament recycling is a red herring (cost and time). Happy to see people thinking more laterally. I use an old toaster oven ($5 used) to fabricate round stock (fill old aluminum drink cans with waste, melt it do
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by gia_ferrari 9mo ago
Audio synthesis speed is one thing, but is the output _intelligible to a human_ at 1,000wpm? That's the sort of thing Eloquence is being used for, according to the article.
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by gia_ferrari 1y ago
There are current efforts along these lines! For example, permitting is a huge bottleneck - software could be part of the solution (carefully and thoughtfully integrated, of course). Disclosure: I work at govstream.ai - we work in this spac
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by gia_ferrari 1y ago
I recently bought a really cheap Android Auto screen for my car. It had a USB-C power input. Suspicious, I opened up the supplied cigarette power adapter. The USB power pins were hooked straight to the car battery rail. On most vehicles tha
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by gia_ferrari 1y ago
For full open source, there's Speeduino and FOME (newer). I've used both for my cars. https://speeduino.com/home/ https://wiki.fome.tech/
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by gia_ferrari 1y ago
+1. My basic structure is a big share/ directory that is mounted on all my machines (over sshfs + tailscale if need be). There's some basic top-level organization (Projects, Financial Documents, Photos) but other than that, the ke
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by gia_ferrari 1y ago
Not op, but in my bubble: - DRM. - Owner-unfriendly device locks (such as manufacturer-controlled secure boot or locked-down OSes). - Inability to audit network traffic from one's own devices, i.e. an IoT device. - Remote attestation,
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by gia_ferrari 1y ago
On a whim a few years ago I wrote an engineering proposal on my Pentium MMX using Word 2003. It opened within 2 seconds via the aging hard disk. Today even LibreOffice feels a bit overwrought. I've found AbiWord delightful recently - i
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by gia_ferrari 1y ago
Super, I'll check it out. I'm on Firefox in Linux (Kubuntu) using a plain old mouse - pretty sure I tried a right click pan. I tried again and it still didn't work. Also- clicking around on the canvas I get: Uncaught Referenc
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by gia_ferrari 1y ago
Thanks for the reply! If this information were available on the landing page, I'd have felt a lot more comfortable investing the time to try the tool out. I do appreciate how far you can explore even without an account. Couple more ide
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by gia_ferrari 1y ago
Separately from the software itself, I'm left with questions about the context in which this tool is provided. - Is this a passion project? Commercial? Is it free? Will it always be free? What's the pricing model? - How do I get i
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by gia_ferrari 1y ago
They specify different things. The wire side of a bulkhead connector may be male or female. Some connectors (i.e. the Molex ones you used to see at Radio Shack) are even designed so you can make a custom arrangement of male/female cont
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by gia_ferrari 1y ago
Or unplugging the internal antennas. Only on equipment you own, of course.
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by gia_ferrari 1y ago
If you're on a cheaper lower speed subscription, you can often find compatible modems at thrift stores for a couple dollars. People upgrade to faster tiers and unload their old perfectly serviceable equipment good for a couple hundred
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by gia_ferrari 1y ago
I just rigged up something similar: a DBUS listener for PulseAudio mic activity that publishes MQTT events to Home Assistant via discovery. No device config needed. I use hallway RGB lights to signal status ("purple = I'm in a mee
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by gia_ferrari 2y ago
I use it indirectly via Tube Archivist to get vastly better search. I've mirrored most technical stuff I've seen, and I can do fine-grained text search over video descriptions, audio transcripts, and even comments. This happens li
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by gia_ferrari 2y ago
I trained a Markov chain on a rushed project's JIRA backlog and created a game for our team celebration. The game, playable on a Zipit Z2 handheld (think GameBoy SP with a keyboard, ran Debian), challenged players to distinguish real t
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by gia_ferrari 2y ago
There are photos in the article references! I didn't find one of the kitchen. https://curlytales.com/this-was-the-worlds-longest-bus-route... https://www.techtraveleat.com/story-of-london-culcutta-bus-s
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by gia_ferrari 2y ago
I run a local Tube Archivist mirror and having live, predictable full-text search of descriptions, transcripts, and user comments has been a breath of fresh air (it's backed by ElasticSearch, so you can go full-contact if needed). I ap
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by gia_ferrari 3y ago
They're also a cheap and easy source of tape heads for projects/replacements.
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by gia_ferrari 3y ago
I've noticed that here as well, specifically with Proton. Some sort of cultural quirk I suppose. I'll keep using their service, until I see some more tangible criticism on their security. I've had positive experiences overall
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by gia_ferrari 3y ago
I really don't follow. Define programming in your context? Is it distinct from encoding physical structures like wings? Is it meaningful to separate physical structures and structures invoking physical behavior? A column of rock erodes
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by gia_ferrari 3y ago
True. It still hurts though. I _want_ to care. I do my best work, with least effort, when I'm solving a real problem with people I care about. I enjoy thinking back about stuff I made, knowing it's out there doing its job. I can s
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by gia_ferrari 3y ago
Are you suggesting they had a data loss? Or is this a quip?
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by gia_ferrari 3y ago
Could also be that privacy-conscious users are not easy to make money from with a free service. Ten gigs of email is a lot of email. I wonder what the percentage of paying users was.
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by gia_ferrari 3y ago
Was it an aspect of Proton that made you switch? Seeing it get mentioned negatively all over this comment section is making me a little concerned.
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by gia_ferrari 3y ago
Sorry, what's the news on Proton?
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by gia_ferrari 3y ago
This kind of music speaks to me in ways beyond what I feel from most "mainstream" music. Not liking it is fine, but please don't denigrate my enjoyment of it. It kills curious discussion. What is your definition of "actu
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by gia_ferrari 3y ago
You're referring to the visualization in this article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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by gia_ferrari 3y ago
My mom's iphone was dropped somewhere in the alps and found a year later by a hiker. Still worked after a charge, in fact the phone itself gave the hiker enough info to get it returned. My sister's phone fell out of a bike basket

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