rolenthedeep

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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
Part of the culture of mastodon is that most people consider posts to be ephemeral. There's built in (default off) tools that automatically delete posts after X time unless they meet conditions like Y boosts or Z favorites. I was on .l
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
Yeah, but it's crypto nonsense
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
Due to a lack of "The Algorithm" you actually get much more reach on mastodon with fewer followers. Users who follow you will always get your posts, period. There is no mechanism which will randomly or otherwise restrict the
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
That's step 4. Generally (for me, anyway) the insight is still pretty unformed. Peer input helps refine that idea into something more concise and actionable. It's not always required, but it is always beneficial.
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
I have an older house and cold cellars are common here. It's a room outside of the foundation in the basement and the roof is the floor of my porch. It was originally intended to keep preserved food cold passively. So I threw a 32 core
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
The guy claims the FBI is trying to get out of paying him a few million in finder's fees. The evidence he's presenting has some pretty suspicious gaps, the government has clearly redacted a lot of his FOIA requests. They are withh
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
Yikes, that's just begging to get knocked over
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
This is the graphical equivalent of a PR fixing a typo in a comment
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
I'm an American but I lived in Europe for a while, and it hurts me every day that we don't have public transit. When I was in Europe, my daily routine was get up, grab a donut from the corner shop connected to my flat, walk one bl
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
Disclaimer: I don't know shit about jack. Taiwan is in a bad spot because they're unique and valuable. China is apparently willing to risk war with the US over Taiwan. It would be in Taiwan's interest for another player to
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
Unless you're talking about an entirely different story with the same title, it's about an individual person trying to survive alone somewhere with very limited resources. At no point is his situation sustainable, and he only bare
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
Not yet but I'm starting one!
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
Can't wait to see someone hook this into an AI that plays the levels and put it on Twitch
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
BOINC has been running compute tasks in exactly this fashion for 20 years.
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
I'm deeply amused that Bing AI was cool for about a day during Google's AI launch, but now everyone is horrified. Will anything change? Will we learn anything from this experiment? Absolutely not.
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
I think, eventually, this is where we end up. In not too many years, our job is going to be reviewing and debugging machine generated code. A few years after that, we're mostly caretakers and just keeping a human behind the wheel until
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
...huh. Can't say I would have ever thought to run ChromeOS of all things on a microcontroller but I guess that's neat.
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
'oh, no, those accidents don't count'
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
A very long time ago I took over a FOSS project under GPL. It had pretty good support for plugins, a lot of demand for plugins, and exactly zero third-party plugins that were even remotely maintained. I don't think we ever got many dir
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
Yellowstone is extremely far inland, on the west side of the country. A hypothetical attacker would have to cross the entire pacific ocean and somehow sneak across a third of the continent just to get to Yellowstone. It's all but imp
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
It's the aerial equivalent of a shooting range. Does firing a gun at a static target teach you anything about shooting?
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
Physics only tells us that galaxies don't move the way we think they should. There are two explanations: there is extra mass in galactic systems that we can't detect, or our understanding of gravity is more incorrect than previous
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
Sabine's explanation is the most compelling I've ever seen, but I still can't get past the very obvious and much simpler explanation that we just don't understand gravity. We very famously don't have a model of grav
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
Reframing your argument to avoid accepting new information is not arguing in "good faith" You're in the wrong here, it's time to walk away.
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
Because we very famously shot down a balloon and everyone is talking about the balloon that we shot down from the air and now there's more objects being shot down from the air and everyone is talking about it. The government is apparen
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
Something I want to point out about this: Nathan has been harassed and bullied as the only moderator on a server with 50-100k users. He's very clearly been burnt out for a while and has been struggling to cope. A lot of people are tryi
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
If you were to convert gas stations to hydrogen stations, you'd have to change out all the tanks and fluid handling equipment. Equipment to handle fluid at atmospheric pressure is very different from that which handles high pressure ga
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
I'd love to see an in depth exploration of exactly how float imprecision happens. Why is the error at 4e-10 and not 3? What binary magic is causing these spurious results? We've all been told about float imprecision in a very ha
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
> If you are constantly recording your life, and sharing it with a third party Which is why the very first sentence of my post includes the phrase "self-hosted"
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by rolenthedeep 4y ago
Battleship New Jersey recently did a video about the (possibly apocryphal) method of detecting steam leaks with a broom. I wonder if NASA got the idea from old sailor lore.

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