lightedman

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by lightedman 3mo ago
As someone that just got done doing a legal dig in a national park (inholding from the 1800s owned by a mining company, preparing to trade that land to the park for another mineral patent elsewhere) before you think of recycling you should
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by lightedman 3mo ago
Depends on the material that is being used and application. I could see this being highly useful for tents and similar fabric structures. I probably would not build a satellite solar panel structure/frame with them (atomic oxygen is a
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by lightedman 3mo ago
Uhh, you do not need an accelerator to generate EUV. It's literally just molten tin hit with a laser.
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by lightedman 3mo ago
"All this problem of the computers without ECC memory has been created by some evil Intel employees, who have conceived around 1994 a scheme for market segmentation between "Pentium" and "Pentium Pro"." I hate
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by lightedman 3mo ago
"Ideally we would have some government action to force this given the ongoing cost to society in corrupted data" Why is it so often Australia with the "We must force unnecessary things upon people" attitude?
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by lightedman 3mo ago
I've ridden in Waymos. I've ridden in Teslas. Waymos do WAY BETTER. I work in LA so I have quite a lot of experience with them.
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by lightedman 3mo ago
"offroad, you simply cannot run a gps app on a phone" I almost exclusively use GaiaGPS as my offroad GPS navigation app on my phone. It works perfectly fine and it has for a long time, roughly speaking 1/7th of my life.
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by lightedman 3mo ago
Literal basic fucking math, Amazon. You don't need hours to recalculate billing. You need to go back to basic algebra. Anyone using Amazon and dealing with this should be moving away from their services because something this basic goi
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by lightedman 3mo ago
No, I'm going off the timbral differences - same way I identify which pickup position is being used. There's a specific 'thickness' I cue in on to determine pickup and specific note placement.
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by lightedman 3mo ago
"You can always sample the real instrument." This doesn't really work on instruments like guitars. Open D sounds way different than fretted D on the E string. Timbre changes with position and it's one of the ways I deter
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by lightedman 3mo ago
"Differing builds and drivers are not really a concern in the console world" Let me tell you, as someone that repairs a TON of XBox 360s, this comment is very, VERY wrong. The GPU isn't even the same revision between the same
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by lightedman 3mo ago
"That's not something a website can do, even with fantastic UX." Actually, I used to have a live-updating website AS MY BACKGROUND. Windows 98 and Me, website used AJAX and Comet to make it happen. You used to be able to set
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by lightedman 3mo ago
"Like FFS, it's just fucking noise" Okay, let me blast 110dB into your ears and you tell me how the fuck you like it.
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by lightedman 3mo ago
"Every company you mentioned has made more progress in those spaces than anyone else" Lies. Waymo beats Tesla in FSD. Optimus is nothing while China has full fucking martial arts robots. It's 2026 where's that 2025 manne
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by lightedman 3mo ago
"Especially in competitive gaming, I often see people targeting frame rates way beyond their display’s refresh rate. I’m not sure whether this actually provides a real benefit or whether they’re chasing a placebo effect." Depends
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by lightedman 3mo ago
Try musicians that are used to playing extremely high speed semihemidemisemiquavers. We notice latency. Neil Peart could almost get sample-precise timing, he was so godlike.
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by lightedman 3mo ago
Spamstack? The site where people can just sign you up without you knowing until you get your inbox flooded with garbage? Yea there's a reason I bin everything that comes from that site to my spam folder.
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by lightedman 3mo ago
"Somebody on the forums posted a tool that converts generic joystick axes to keypresses, but not sure how well that works." Joy2Key has been a staple for many a gamer for a while, and reliable. I've used it to control my mous
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by lightedman 3mo ago
"The glass tube contains a wire-mesh anode and multiple cathodes," - per Wiki That's filament. A construction of filaments, but a filament nonetheless.
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by lightedman 3mo ago
"I'm going to predict right now that this will boil down to "automobiles are not individuals"" A vehicle is literally considered an extension of your body, and this has been held up many times, starting with Carroll
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by lightedman 3mo ago
Multiple types of gas discharge vacuum tubes use a filament of some sort for excitation, be it a coil or grid.
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by lightedman 3mo ago
"The blackbody equilibrium temperature at 1AU from the sun is about 278K. All satellite materials are fine at 278K because that's within the expected range of storage and atmospheric launch temperatures." But that is NOT the
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by lightedman 3mo ago
As someone in this field, I don't really think this is a good idea. We already have issues maintaining proper thermals without turning the satellite into a giant light-absorbing thermal mass. Painting it black is just asking for additi
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by lightedman 3mo ago
I scored a 68 on the VVIQ and I can watch my pupils dilate in response to me 'seeing' something in my mind. It doesn't have to be a bright light in my mind's eye, I can imagine something that would trigger a fight or fli
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by lightedman 3mo ago
"That's interesting, how did you get that to work?" Lots of registry modifications and .ini file modifications, and a huge chunk of help from someone who is currently making modern browsers and various modern software bits wo
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by lightedman 3mo ago
"What do people use XP for these days?" Hacking. I currently have DX12 operating on XP-x64 (basically consumer 64-bit Win Server 2k3) with some minor hardware recognition issues. I have many modern games running this way. Many of
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by lightedman 3mo ago
Still doesn't beat a natively-coded emulator. I got several that run faster on a 166MHz non-MMX Pentium than this emulator does on my Core Ultra i9.
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by lightedman 3mo ago
"Every gas station on a corner has the same price because it's a highly competitive market not because of collusion." Huh? I can go to most any gas station-occupied intersection and you will always find two that match and one
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by lightedman 3mo ago
If your main model is inherently-busted does validation actually matter?
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by lightedman 3mo ago
Anyone want to bet that much like speculative execution, speculative decoding is going to introduce a whole slew of vulnerabilities in the ways LLMs work?

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