BuildTheRobots

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by BuildTheRobots 1mo ago
> I do not understand the true goals of Signal, but their actions are inconsistent with their stated ones. I've been annoyed and suspicious since they stopped being TextSecure and dropped support for SMS messages, and still don&#x27
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by BuildTheRobots 1mo ago
Interesting you're the first person to mention this. I had chronic insomnia for >25 years (my entire life) making it extremely difficult to hold down a job or generally interact with society. I've since been on Mirtazipine for
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by BuildTheRobots 2mo ago
I wonder if the render resolution was actually determined by the output resolution of the film recorder being used to get the sfx out onto film for display? I can't obviously find a film recorder that offers more than 8k on 65mm/1
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by BuildTheRobots 3mo ago
I can't edit my previous comment (which incorrectly implied that the 3 stations at Droitwitch are going out of the same antenna), but I've done more research and have more information. Droitwitch LW's antenna uses a T-aerial
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by BuildTheRobots 3mo ago
You're absolutely right and I was flagrantly wrong - Droitwich does use different antennas for the different LW and MF services (though still has to combine the output of two transmitters for the same service to increase the power and
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by BuildTheRobots 3mo ago
Also bear in mind that Droitwitch is radiating 3 different services. Talk Sport (1053 kHz), Radio 4 (198 kHz) and Radio Five Live (693 kHz). My suspicion is that this means an exciter and a stack of amps per service, which then go through a
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by BuildTheRobots 3mo ago
> Anything in space is more expensive and way harder to do, for a datacenter there is no benefit. If we pick an extremely fast orbit, then relativity means the hardware will age out (slightly) slower, so I'm sure that'll help w
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by BuildTheRobots 3mo ago
> I think in general the ability to spoof numbers should be banned / controlled. This has absolutely nothing to do with burner phones and the proposed changes won't do anything to change that. ~5 years ago there was a big push
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by BuildTheRobots 3mo ago
Out of curiosity, why were you using a >50gb file on a dataset as as iSCSI target rather than a zvol or did I misunderstand?
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by BuildTheRobots 3mo ago
I don't know how much better modern drives (and SSDs) have gotten[1], but as someone who started digital hoarding in the mid 90's, on-disk bitrot used to be a massive problem. The amount of my video, audio and pictures that suffer
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by BuildTheRobots 4mo ago
> ...before you'd want to change your subscription... For anyone not in the know, Resolve has an exceptionally capable and feature rich free version. A lot of the AI features (and >4k editing) are locked to the Studio licence whi
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by BuildTheRobots 4mo ago
iirc, the OpenFirmware boot image was larger than the equivalent BIOS image - I've got half a memory of resoldering ROM chips on ATi cards so they could be cross-flashed to work in G3/G4 PoweMacs.
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by BuildTheRobots 4mo ago
You underestimate the laziness. "Can you paint them gold? And how about custom packaging and drop-shipping as well?"
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by BuildTheRobots 4mo ago
If you enjoy this age of SciFi and don't mind radio drama rather than film, then X-1 is well worth checking out. It's a 1955- radio drama with a different short story each episode, quite a few stories from well recognised authors.
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by BuildTheRobots 4mo ago
WinCE had a load of weird issues (and looked consistently awful), but moving onto PDAs and even phones running it from a world of Psion and Palm was like stepping forward a century. This might be rose tinted recollections - and helps that i
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by BuildTheRobots 4mo ago
I've watched my work laptop reboot in the middle of installing Windows Updates without prompting me for a Bitlocker key. It seems obvious to even the casual observer that the pin isn't always required. I don't remember which
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by BuildTheRobots 4mo ago
There's also a gent in Horsham who's recently been planting flowers in potholes to draw attention to them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mgjklmzwvo
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by BuildTheRobots 4mo ago
Is it possible to connect it to your wifi but block it talking to the internet? I'd be curious to know if that stops the built in SSID.
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by BuildTheRobots 5mo ago
I don't worry about bandwidth or constant CPU use, but the one thing that will kill my mac is burning out the SSD. The calculator gives numbers for nearly everything, but I can't obviously see how much space it needs for model sto
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by BuildTheRobots 5mo ago
The linux kernel traffic control (tc) can do network emulation with qdisc to simulate bad network connections. Add latency, jitter, bandwidth limits, and settable levels of traffic loss to your network interface. If you're testing hard
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by BuildTheRobots 6mo ago
This probably isn't the point either, but I get an almost perverse level of calm knowing that for my most favourite albums, I own a physical representation of the waveform trapped in a medium. I very rarely listen to them in that form,
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by BuildTheRobots 7mo ago
I've also been searching for that double-bong for years. Last time I asked, user hackmiester pointed me to https://goughlui.com/2016/05/03/project-the-definitive-colle... The "Texas Instruments DSP
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by BuildTheRobots 7mo ago
I've been using Win+R to paste it in the windows run box. Amazingly still works on Win 11 and still seems to keep it local (bypassing the windows search), so I'm pleased to report consistent results for 30 ish years. Of course, no
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by BuildTheRobots 7mo ago
I don't suppose you could point to any resources on where I could get started. I have a M2 with 64gb of unified memory and it'd be nice to make it work rather than burning Github credits.
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by BuildTheRobots 8mo ago
If we're playing actually, then it's a speed not a quota, so whatever the correct value it should be suffixed with "per second".
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by BuildTheRobots 9mo ago
It works exceptionally well for Slack as we've seen over the years. Someone in your $group uses signs up for the free tier, gets people using it and then you've got to pay through the nose to access any history.
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by BuildTheRobots 9mo ago
> Syncing networked clients to play audio at exactly the same time is a solved problem. I was going to point out that with the variance in FM demodulation chips, using a pile of FM receivers probably wouldn't get you perfectly synce
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by BuildTheRobots 9mo ago
Having been brought up on pictures of Stonehenge, I felt a little twang of confused letdown the first time I visited Thornborough. This passes quickly though, and if you're vaguely near North Yorkshire it's well worth a visit. I&#
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by BuildTheRobots 9mo ago
It's a good question, and I wondered the same. I don't know, but I'd postulate: As it stands at the minute, the clocks are a mere 5 microseconds out and will slowly get better over time. This isn't even in the error meas
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by BuildTheRobots 10mo ago
> The boss doesn't see that you can't properly paste a piece of code in the chat Of all my many gripes with Teams, it usually handles code surprisingly well. Single `inline` and triple backtick blocks usually render as you&#x27

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