magicalhippo

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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
> The most constricted setting you can keep spooled up with very little effort. Guess I've used different ones. The ones I've used seems to not spool up when going slowly, you need a certain pulling speed to get it to spool up
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
> The only truthful reading of this claim is that there have been dozens of years that some oil has been released. And that's a problem if the system hasn't been designed for such an operating regime, which the article indicate
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
I've always found rowing machines difficult. I guess I got what many have when starting with bikes, where I'd rather go slower at higher resistance, and hence I don't really spool up the resistance fan.
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
Lively discussion of the original article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298035
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
> When was the last time a new PRNG helped you clearly identify a performance bottleneck? While not a bottleneck as such, I contributed to a photorealistic path tracer using the Metropolis algorithm[1], and we got a 10-15% increase in sa
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
That's kinda the point though, no? Wayland creators threw out the baby with the bath water, and thus it's taken ages to get fairly basic functionality, like what RustDesk announced here, working on the Linux Desktop.
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
> They really need to find a better name than "Ploopy" though. The name reminded me of Kooky Plops, the fictional band from the brilliant animated skit[1] by David Firth (of Salad Fingers fame) about the state of pop music in 2
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
Windows NT4 (1998) had officially support for Terminal Services, so RDP[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Protocol
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
Seems funnier if it was a picture of Farage...
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
Systemd is touted as being highly modular. So it should be easy enough to replace the logging module journald. Why hasn't this been done if it's that terrible?
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
To be fair it was quite a long time ago, and as I recall the person guiding and asking questions was from the market research company. The web designers and whatnot was not in the room, but viewed the session remotely and could tell the per
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
I was asked to test the redesigned web page of a large bank. They had eye tracking cameras and such hooked up to study how I used the web page. They ran through some scenarios, and one was how to get a car loan. I studied the homepage and f
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
> Interesting, what happens if you just don't, and do it yourself? A fine I presume, if someone figures out. You'd have to get the unit second hand or similar, all stores are required to ensure you've ordered an installati
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
> What's the point of asking a question like this? Obviously he is not going to answer! I see this all the time with journalists. I've been assuming they're asking the questions with obvious answers for those eho don'
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
Here in Norway you must use a certified installer. That said, it wasn't horribly expensive, unless you have some weird constraint. I paid $600 for installing the last minisplit, which included some electrical work and a slightly more e
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
I've seen some YouTuber taste test both US and European Snickers, and he claimed they were quite different. Ingredients list backed him up. EU had more peanuts, not so sweet and nougat was different, IIRC.
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
But the article said he used existing ductwork, and yet it ended up at $14k. The new heat pump system cost roughly $14,500 and provides heating and cooling via ductwork that was already in place.
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
Yes but it's also about 13 years old in LLM-years and 3.8 drops in a few days.
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
I'm always amazed at how much these costs in the US. Wild prices even for a Norwegian. We have a two-story home half his size, but one minisplit upstairs and one downstairs would be $3-4000 installed, combined, and that's upper or
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
The point was the leverage can't be simple, like in a traditional trebuchet. Tom ended up with a rope pulling on a cone, with the arm being accelerated over many revolutions before the projectile is let go. Tom explained it much more s
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
It's a bit clumsily written, but I'm pretty sure that's a reference to what Tom mentions in his video, that since g = 9.81m/s^2 you're not getting close to the speed of sound just from falling from a reasonable heig
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
I too found myself most productive after 9 pm. But when I moved on my own I found that it shifted quite naturally. I'd wake up earlier and go to bed earlier, and then productive peak shifted to be during working hours. I think for me t
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by magicalhippo 2mo ago
There's not a lot to do. They have enough hydrazine left to keep them pointing back at earth until 2040 or so[1]. So you could perhaps make them point in different directions for a bit, but that is risky as if something goes wrong we m
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by magicalhippo 3mo ago
Yeah my 80 year old mom uses the "pink busses"[1], basically a multi-passenger taxi where she books a trip in advance and they go from A to B, but also the other's trips. So takes a bit longer but it doesn't cost more th
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by magicalhippo 3mo ago
Here in Oslo, Norway they've also been ripping up roads to make bike lanes, make streets one-way to accommodate the bike lane and so on. And yeah, initially not a lot of bikers. But it's been a few years, and in the meantime good
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by magicalhippo 3mo ago
As an employee hell no. I've done a couple of crunches, but efficiency tanks. Plan better, be more agile, solve the immediate issues rather than getting fancy, so much one can do instead.
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by magicalhippo 3mo ago
I guess I should have mentioned we're in EU and not US, and we're small (~100) so we don't really do contracts but full-time employees. I guess for short-term contract work, fully remote might not be a big deal, but we do not
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by magicalhippo 3mo ago
We have some workers in other countries, and we have local companies for each of them due to all the legal stuff. We also want to meet them fairly regularly, about once a month. There's just something about actual face to face that scr
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by magicalhippo 3mo ago
I admit I'm not fully attuned to the cyberpunk genre, but I loved playing Mean Streets[1] as a kid and feels it should get a mention. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Streets_(video_game)
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by magicalhippo 3mo ago
If you compare the code using the presented framework to code using say immediate mode library like ImGui[1][2] for example, the presented framework does indeed seem to be exposing a retained mode API. [1]: https://pthom.github.i

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