marmakoide

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by marmakoide 3y ago
Reminds me of days of cycling across North Vietnam during the summer : 40c, tropical levels of humidity, very steep hills. I was young, stupid and stubborn. One stop every 2 hours to chuck 500ml of beer (Bia Hanoi, pretty nice light blond),
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by marmakoide 3y ago
Maybe people were permanently drunk because the daily reality was hard, booze made it more bearable. As a parent, I think of those parents with 7 kids, 4 of which would before reaching adulthood. Add terrible working condition, medicine bei
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by marmakoide 3y ago
I can explain to a 35 years old in tech. A modern generalist CPU is made of many smaller, simpler, specialized CPUs : there's a whole orchestra inside. Amongst those smaller CPUs, there's a master : it'll see to decoding of i
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by marmakoide 3y ago
It depends, maybe ? I live in a country where energy come from 69% nuclear power, and about 10% hydro, 10% solar/wind, 10% gas. The nuclear plants are evenly spread over the populated area.
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by marmakoide 3y ago
Will a prompt that enables a prompt that enables GPT-4 to solve easy Sudoku puzzles be found ? I don't know how much meta-prompting have been explored. Maybe it's where The Singularity is at ?
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by marmakoide 3y ago
Sure, we don't have computers hooked to TVs and tape recorders anymore. But we have other entry points to programming, which are as addictive. More often than not, it's people who were exposed to programming at a young age, and fo
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by marmakoide 3y ago
If you do a lot of math code (linear algebra), operator overloading helps a lots to maintain readability.
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by marmakoide 3y ago
Even Uncle Bumblefuck alone in his garage need some regulation. Imagine him deciding to build a solid fuel rocket, he might send shrapnel all around the block.
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by marmakoide 3y ago
It's a mass produced controller, cheaper and as good as anything made in a small workshop. That's really not the issue here.
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by marmakoide 3y ago
I have a hard time to let people throwing themselves into danger with a "I don't need a nanny" attitude, and then see a state-run, massive and costly rescue effort when things go wrong.
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by marmakoide 3y ago
In the early 2000's, it was believed that the topology of a neuron network was a major factor to get it to work well, and that throwing more neurons and computing power alone would not suffice. In a sense it was not wrong : convolution
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by marmakoide 3y ago
After a few years trying to maintain a 80's like lawn without pest and weed control (2nd hand home, previous owner), I learned the way of your dad : I just remove things I don't like, favor what I like. My garden is not the 80&#x2
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by marmakoide 3y ago
So a big spring would be enough to send one out from Phobos, that's neat. You can literally boink people to space.
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by marmakoide 4y ago
There was some code allowing 12 bits RGB display on 8 bits palette screen mode, using very simple temporal dithering (PWM). For example, a demo for old versions of Allegro library. This blog post shows a way to improve on that.
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by marmakoide 4y ago
I just installed it and followed the tutorial. After an hour, I was able to model things, paint them and animate them. I never felt angry, to the contrary. My battery didn't take a big hit. Excellent job.
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by marmakoide 4y ago
Giant hogweed. That thing is scary, also known as Stalin's Revenge. It requires a protective suit to be worked with, impossible to eradicate, inedible.
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by marmakoide 4y ago
I saw parts of an interview where he openly states,in substance, that a Ponzi scheme is a valid investment, the new way of doing things. I was puzzled and took a mental note to check on how he fares I once in a while. I had no idea the sums
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by marmakoide 4y ago
If using the Sun as a lens is practical for us, it's likely to be practical for them. They can manage radio transmission, so it's a matter of time before they image Earth as well : relativity, rocket science and electronics is not
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by marmakoide 4y ago
Having access to a single pixel of a rotating object is enough to get an image. It's more or less the 3d equivalent of an inverse Radon transform
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by marmakoide 4y ago
I learned to use Flask with this tutorial, which complemented the already good Flask documentation. This allowed me to spin-up web interfaces to make monitors, remote control panels and so on very easily. Than you very much Miguel, it was a
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by marmakoide 5y ago
The previous owner of my house was maintening a picture perfect green. With the kids and the jobs, I didn't want to follow that practice. Too much time for a soil not made for this, lots of fertilizer, various chemicals... I fix the de
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by marmakoide 5y ago
European trucks cross multiple countries during a trip with the same driver. In France, by looking at the vehicle plate, trucks come from Spain, Portugal, Lituania, Poland, Germany, etc Those are 2 to 3 days trips.
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by marmakoide 5y ago
Romania was in full crunch mode in the 80's to reimburse quickly it debts. It was at the expense of most Romanians
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by marmakoide 5y ago
TL;DR your comment for 1. applies to 3. All organic matters are not all made equal. I have potassium in mind : mined potassium is essential to the high yields of industrial agriculture. You don't strictly need it and you can rely on lo
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by marmakoide 5y ago
Ha, JEdit, good memories ! I used it for all my Java development from around mid 2000's to early 2010's. Then I didn't touch Java much, stuck to Python and C. I was very comfortable with JEdit, it was never on my way to bothe
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by marmakoide 5y ago
I seat the office next to the team of people who designed it and who are currently producing it. Cost is mostly because of the current low production volume : they can't buy full containers of screws, bearings, motors, they can;t order
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by marmakoide 5y ago
A portable kite turbine, tested on the field and that is a finished product, not a prototype. 24V DC, 100 watts guaranteed with 25 km/h winds, a very conservative estimate https://kitewinder.fr/