errantspark

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by errantspark 1y ago
I will not have an operating system that shows me ads. This is my computer. It will do what I want.
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by errantspark 1y ago
Nice! I did one of these ages and ages ago copying the win 3.1 pattern editor (which doubtless is a ripoff of the mac one anyway) https://errantspark.github.io/3.1/#0056755500caaeaa
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by errantspark 2y ago
I get a lot of use out of the PRUs on the BeagleboneBlack, I would absolutely get use out of an FPGA in a laptop.
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by errantspark 2y ago
Wait sorry back up a bit here. I can buy a laptop that has a daughter FPGA in it? Does it have GPIO??? Are we seriously building hardware worth buying again in 2024? Do you have a link?
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by errantspark 2y ago
wat, we have plenty of aerospace companies, Boeing is the only one making consumer air travel jets right now, but they're far from the only aerospace company in the US
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by errantspark 2y ago
The claim is that llama is "lobotomized" because it was trained with safety in mind. You can't untrain that by finetuning. For what it's worth the non-instruct llama generally seems better at reasoning than instruct llam
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by errantspark 2y ago
I tried to use buttplug years ago but I found it to be difficult to work with and introduce too much latency into play. My partner and I have replaced it with 37 lines of javascript that give us more realtime control of our toys (albeit onl
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by errantspark 3y ago
Mostly bad take. The long term solution is to remove the incentives for criminal behavior and enact laws that prevent power concentration, authoritarianism is not stable. That being said I can see the value in an authoritarian clamp down as
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by errantspark 3y ago
Fun fact: I took the photo she used as a cover for one of her books, she asked me if she could use it and I said I'd like to be compensated and her response was something akin to "oh I was just asking assuming you'd say yes,
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by errantspark 5y ago
> So don't pay the engineers that built the product and continue to maintain it? Saas isn't the only way to pay people. > most software is living and breathing and requires continual investment Is it though? or is this broa
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by errantspark 5y ago
The real reason for the software as a service model is that it makes it easier to extract/capture value. Many SaaS offerings would be better at providing value to customers with non-SaaS architectures, unfortunately providing value to
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by errantspark 5y ago
Oh yeah this is absolutely fucking stupid, my dad put solar on his roof recently and if this shit goes through he may end up with a bigger monthly energy bill than pre-solar. Make that make sense to me. Where's the fucking equity when
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by errantspark 5y ago
Ranked matchmaking is worse at delivering a competitive experience than a community of people who want to have a competitive experience. Don't kid yourself, competitive gaming existed long before ranked matchmaking.
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by errantspark 5y ago
This wasn't near as much an issue when you had actual servers run by actual people. Too bad the technology to implement a server browser has been lost to time. : ( Perhaps one day we will rediscover it.
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by errantspark 5y ago
I don't think it's always been that way, not exactly, the distribution gets less flat as people are able to make more optimized choices. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27089-8
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by errantspark 5y ago
No, it's not. Java and C++, hell even Java and C# are much more relevantly dissimilar than setting A at 440 vs 432. I'd love to see a citation on Vivaldi's love for 432, he wasn't even playing in 12-TET was he? He'd
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by errantspark 5y ago
Ahh yeah, magnitude vs. power, my mistake on the terms.
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by errantspark 5y ago
Is "dropping the phase" the same thing as computing the spectral power distribution? P.S. A4 = 432Hz is a stupid fad that can't die soon enough.
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by errantspark 5y ago
This is such cool content but the way it's presented is so fucking frustrating to me. I wish the narrative wasn't so intrinsically tied to the actual data. I hate that I can't blow up and rotate the models side by side, the w
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by errantspark 5y ago
:waves: You can cite me for one! I didn't even grow up on it, it was honestly a more recent thing for me to pick up seriously, I wrote significant amounts of JavaScript, Ruby, Go, Rust and various LISPS before I seriously used C in ang
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by errantspark 5y ago
What would be awesome is if instead of this we gave a fuck ton of money to the post office and tried to solve this problem for everyone and also eroded amazon's competitive advantage. That's the sort of infra we need, it's fr
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by errantspark 5y ago
> Drivers are mostly not too hard Except when they are, which is anytime something is poorly documented, which is pretty much all the time. Let's not even get started on vendors who don't WANT you to write drivers for their h
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by errantspark 5y ago
Next to impossible to kill a starlink satellite and there are thousands of them, I don't think any country has the capability to to take starlink satellites down en masse by force. The US, russia and china could probably take down a fe
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by errantspark 5y ago
I was mostly quoting it to reference it's context. The full quote (by Stewart Brand) is: “On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life
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by errantspark 5y ago
As some guy once said, "Info wants to be free, but it also wants to be expensive" IP ownership as it exists today is fundamentally broken from the underlying reality. We need a culture where coming up with something new is compens
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by errantspark 5y ago
I think most people assume it's okay to for example, use the office printer to print a return slip for a package you're going to mail back on your lunch break. If the volume for your line of work is tens of thousands of pages, may
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by errantspark 5y ago
> In any case, it's still not cheaper than a box fan and a HEPA filter, which ought to be the baseline you'd test against if you were providing value to your readers. Don't dismiss this as a cantankerous rant. This is an e
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by errantspark 5y ago
I think there's truth to the nostalgia-goggles view here. I think the early internet: - was a more distinctly bounded subset of individuals - now it's closer to a random sampling of humans - had less "background monetary radi
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by errantspark 5y ago
For real? Is there a citation you've got for this? That seems crazy low.
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by errantspark 5y ago
This is the fundamental truth that creates the isomorphism between cash and crypto, something a younger me didn't understand. Fundamentally there is no hard "truth" in a crypto system anymore than there is one in a fiat syste

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