taneq

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by taneq 11mo ago
Imprint, maybe?
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by taneq 11mo ago
Yep, my 2019ish Dell XPS 13 makes hissy static noises on its speakers, even when system audio is muted. I remember the BBC Micro doing the same thing when I was a little kid during certain operations, it always sounded to me like it was &qu
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by taneq 11mo ago
To be clear, this server is very lightly loaded, it's just running our internal network services (file server, VPN/DNS, various web apps, SVN etc.) so it's not like we're flogging a room full of GeForce 1080Ti cards inst
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by taneq 11mo ago
Same, the bang for buck on a 5yo server is insane. I got an old Dell a year ago (to replace our 15yo one that finally died) and it was $1200 AUD for a maxed out recently-retired server with 72TB of hard drives and something like 292GB of RA
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by taneq 11mo ago
I feel like your edited-in point is glossed over FAR too often. We talk about inflation like it’s some objective measure when it’s arbitrary as f@$k and mostly only reflects what the current arbiters of inflation want it to reflect. A great
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by taneq 11mo ago
It also means that pi could be equal to 3 if you world is small enough.
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by taneq 11mo ago
Clearly you’re ending “um, it literally doesn’t” halfway through a word.
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by taneq 11mo ago
Is this a good point to mention that simple solar heating circuits work better if you use diodes in series (for a fairly constant voltage drop across the solar cells) than if you just use a resistive element? :)
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by taneq 11mo ago
How much more niche can you get than a personal blog? It’s literally about the smallest number of people you can get.
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by taneq 11mo ago
> Why is any restriction on adult content so fiercely defended? If you mean “why do people protest age verification” then the answer is that the only effective way to do age verification is by mandating login with government verified ID,
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by taneq 11mo ago
Teach your kids to code, build electronics or tune engines, and they won’t have time for porn.
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by taneq 11mo ago
I think the scenario of childlike wonder and limitless ambition is a little different to the scenario of embraced ignorance and wilful misrepresentation of any surviving facts in furtherance of the agenda du jour.
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by taneq 11mo ago
Often the biggest thing holding you back from doing something is the sensible, mature understanding that it’s impossible.
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by taneq 11mo ago
The free tier is non-commercial only, and makes anything you design available publicly, so it might not be suitable for some users. It's also pricey, the first paid tier is $1500/year (compared with Fusion which is $680/year)
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by taneq 11mo ago
When you say 'stable' here, do you mean 'periodic' or are these solutions actually stable in the face of small perturbations (as opposed to the sensitive dependence on initial conditions that we'd expect from a chao
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by taneq 11mo ago
Ultimately all monopolies are defended with guns.
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by taneq 11mo ago
Turns out made-up money is as good as real money at motivating people to do things, and people who aren’t living hand-to-mouth are naturally interested in longer term investments. …what’s that? All money these days is made up?!
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by taneq 11mo ago
Aw man, how dare this affect me personally? :P (Tried to get to openstreetmap.org which is behind cloudflare.)
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by taneq 11mo ago
Huh, I'd never thought about it like that but yeah, the vaccine should depend on the targeted illness, not the recipient.
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by taneq 11mo ago
They're deliberately avoiding spoilers, you can decode the answer by pasting YXBwbGU= into https://www.base64decode.org/
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by taneq 11mo ago
> - Oh did you remember to flub the flabnabber? echo "1" > /dev/i2c5 then restart the flabnabber-daemon Ah dammit I always forget the flabnabber. 10/10 authentic embedded development experience.
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by taneq 1y ago
Au contraire! Almost all the time you spend doing the thing is actually doing the things required before the final completion of the thing. I've taken to calling this "the work before the work" and it's at least 90% of t
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by taneq 1y ago
OK, but by that definition, how many human software developers ever develop something "novel"? Of course, the "functionally equivalent" term is doing a lot of heavy lifting here: How equivalent? How many differences are
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by taneq 1y ago
Tell us more about how Microsoft Bob was a user agent LLM? :P
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by taneq 1y ago
There are dozens of us!
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by taneq 1y ago
This is the essence of enshittification. The good fast useful free offering is the bait, and this... stuff... is the switch.
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by taneq 1y ago
On the plus side, Frogstar Fighters are purple!
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by taneq 1y ago
Just to be clear, 'fang doctor' doesn't actually refer to a medical werewolf. :D
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by taneq 1y ago
I probably have this, I've had several specialists take my blood pressure during consultations and express concern. I was prescribed a 24 hour ABMS (ambulatory blood pressure monitoring system, ie. wearable monitor) test, and came back
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by taneq 1y ago
Yeah, that was the big takeaway from the social experiment that was 4chan. If you ironically pretend too long to be trash, you will gradually become trash.

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