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by walrus01 1mo ago
The bouncing is more a metaphor, the refraction of light bending at an angle is sort of like how if you as an exterior observer look at a person who is standing waist deep in a very calm and clear swimming pool, their legs appear to be at a
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by walrus01 1mo ago
The remote looks like something that belongs to a $50 fan purchase on Amazon with a brand name like LXGYMONCEON
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by walrus01 1mo ago
> Every planet is 'different', every site on the planets are 'different', but not different in any meaningful way. This is also the problem with the procedurally generated planets and moons in Starfield. Yeah, there&
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Right, and it varies with what type of glass, google "refractive index of glass". If you google image search "refraction fiber optics" you'll get some decent pictorial examples of what I meant by photons bouncing of
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by walrus01 1mo ago
It's not actually that the speed of light in a singlemode fiber optic cable is slower, but that the photons aren't travelling in a direct path down the fiber like water down a pipe. They're bouncing off the interior walls of
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by walrus01 1mo ago
> as they all seem to be run by assholes. Wait until you learn how many other SaaS and web 2.0 and cloud based things are also run by assholes. You know this metaphor? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_w
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Simplemachinesforum is a BSD licensed php bulletin board software that is very amenable to modification by a smart LLM. You can add just about anything you want into it. Most of it is divided up into a large number of medium-sized discrete
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Now imagine the token/s rate decline after context fill at 200,000+ context.
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Sacca was not doing anything like 'radio on the internet' in the 1994-2000 dotcom 1.0 boom era... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Do they still do it if they've never been connected to a network? So they don't even know what date/time it is relative to their current updates/firmware? Do they display the warning based on a cumulative power-on ti
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I own a single English language dictionary word .net domain that is a common word related to lawsuits/legal activity and have been offered money to sell it. If I sell it, it will almost certainly become the front page of somebody'
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Mark Cuban posting about a sense of arrogance and entitlement is certainly something . There's a reason behind the character of HBO Silicon Valley's Russ Hanneman... [spiderman pointing at spiderman.gif]
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I am sure it won't be long until some rando from /r/wallstreetbets/ turns something like this loose without considering the ramifications and loses $250k.
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by walrus01 1mo ago
> Will old domains resell for premiums like low-background-radiation steel? This has been a thing for a long time in domain name resale for speculation or link farming or similar, domains that are aged with "backlinks" sell for
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by walrus01 1mo ago
That's actually a valid choice in an extremely watt-hour per day (or week, or month) constrained environment. Like a relatively small to mid sized sailboat crossing a whole ocean. If you have very limited solar power, for instance, and
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I've done it for small scale off grid telecom projects in the 10 to 20kW class of total quantity of panels at one site, not actually at my home (which is surrounded by trees on all sides in the pacific northwest, I'd need to build
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I have to say I'm a bit perplexed as to why a person who is living in a small camping trailer would not want a normally functioning laptop with a screen. https://mm-dev.rocks/posts/my-working-environment/int
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I would blame whatever team of figurative rocket scientists decided that putting something with many dozens of tiny discrete electrical connectors in a flat aesthetically pleasing format on a roof, exposed to rain/snow/ice. There&
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Blame both the warehouse and their insurance company and personal injury lawyers in general, they probably live in fear of lawsuits from a methed up forklift driver knocking over a pallet rack and killing several people.
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I am not aware of any smart TV that actively solicits a DHCP lease and default route outbound from anything it's plugged into by the 100M ethernet built into a current gen HDMI link. At least not yet. And since I think the default beha
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by walrus01 1mo ago
Aerial drone delivery services creating a fleet of flying lawnmower noises over my house is entirely a different thing than quiet electric based ground delivery vehicles... At least theoretical ground based delivery vehicles without humans
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I think if you take enough Ketamine, it probably does seem like time ceases to matter.
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I think the long term plan is for the automated vehicles and last mile robots to defend themselves. We're already living in some form of a post-modern cyberpunk dystopia, it just isn't full distributed yet.
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by walrus01 1mo ago
By googling wholesale solar panel dealers, one example would be https://krannich-solar.com/us-en/ Assuming you're in the US 48 states there should be plenty of companies that'll take your money for a factory
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by walrus01 1mo ago
You forgot the "XAI LLM service powered by 60 gas turbines in Memphis running the grok CSAM generator"
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I recently had reason to implement something using xterm.js and node-pty for a CLI environment in a browser, so I think that it would be possible to re-implement actual IRC live chat inside a html/html5/TLS1.3 session in a browser
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by walrus01 1mo ago
It's extremely labor intensive and costly to put stuff up on the roof, and problematic in terms of electrical connector, electrical safety, and being proprietary for mounting and roof repair. Big ass PV panels that are 2.0 x 1.0 meter
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by walrus01 1mo ago
As I recall from the original post when it was going around, it was related to the xbox one (before it was released at the end of 2013) being online only and blocking the resale/trade of physical disc based games, google "xbox one
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by walrus01 1mo ago
I have seen a bit of a resurgence in your classic 2005-era type interface php bulletin board in a browser, as people relegate their facebook/instagram/whatever accounts to only keeping up with family stuff posted by boomers who wo
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by walrus01 1mo ago
On the other hand , this is Hacker news, so my first inclination of a response was going to be something like this: "Get some small amount of bitcoin and pay a VPS hosting provider in Moldova for a year's service on a $15-per-m

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