georgefrowny

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by georgefrowny 5d ago
Yep. Someone is surely going to do something at some point if we continue on this course. Hand-wringing from relative safety of above-sea level places at high latitude is cheap. If you're in charge of millions of people in peril, even
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by georgefrowny 10d ago
And is on PNAS Nexus.
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by georgefrowny 10d ago
I dunno, I think there's one better use and that's funding a federated framework for this so any transport network can just plug into the system as a source and any client can plug in as a consumer.
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by georgefrowny 13d ago
That's basically @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark). However, we should go a step further and provide a framework of UI elements that can be used consistently to create a uniform and accessible interface and they could even be pre-com
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by georgefrowny 13d ago
> Despite spending hours a day looking at her phone, she literally had to check it to find out what her default color theme is; it’s that invisible to her. Sounds like a good reason to make it automatic then, because if users have to fin
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by georgefrowny 14d ago
Kaitai Struct is also pretty good and will generate code in several languages.
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by georgefrowny 15d ago
Reminds me of a Cylon hybrid.
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by georgefrowny 20d ago
Yes, indeed all are far below the next one (hydro, 1.3, dam failures, I imagine). And brown coal is sitting pretty at 36+, i.e. ONE THOUSAND times worse than nuclear.
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by georgefrowny 20d ago
Solar and nuclear are comparable: 0.02 vs 0.03 deaths/TWh ( https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p... ) Depending on what kind of solar, it can have quite a high death/TWh ratio because pe
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by georgefrowny 20d ago
If a general-purpose humanoid robot has the strength to perform human actions at human speed, it will have that much torque in the motors. If it didn't, it can only move very slowly and/or jerkily. You need fast, high-torque feedb
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by georgefrowny 21d ago
Giving out control of industrial machinery that interacts in the human environment without the physical interlocks (i.e. humanoid robots in a house) to random internet people seems like a problem. I can imagine a carefully orchestrated plot
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by georgefrowny 24d ago
They call it "goal orientation". I think there's a reason they fret so much about the paperclip optimisers, because they recognise them.
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by georgefrowny 29d ago
I thought CXMT is selling DDR5 now?
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by georgefrowny 1mo ago
I've literally heard someone say that we should remove the protection circuits because it's two dollars of parts protecting under a dollar of amplifiers. Yes, the amplifiers are cheap, but the rest of the board isn't and if t
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by georgefrowny 1mo ago
There's a whole class of software people who think the rest of the world is a bunch of pitiful and sadly ignorant apes stuck in the past who just need the loving administration of the clarity, vision and genius of the software engineer
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by georgefrowny 1mo ago
Just another reminder of the absolutely massive public benefit that the Internet Archive represents. Just wish they'd make the metadata crowd-sourced, maybe a tie-up with Wikidata.
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by georgefrowny 1mo ago
> Great, now calm down and go build stuff, and show me the stuff. Also sounds like Reddit where there are whole communities around what seem like part of the process - keyboards, knife sharpening, etc, rather than what you actually used
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by georgefrowny 2mo ago
Returning the sample would be flexier and moving onto a comet afterward more so.
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by georgefrowny 2mo ago
> it should be to break them into smaller pieces so they actually have to compete with each other. I wonder what the world would look like if you just prohibited any single organisation or controlling group over a certain size. Say you c
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by georgefrowny 3mo ago
They were right that economics is a dismal science, but to me these days it's not only about the ugly Moloch-like consequences, but also because these utter wierdos are in charge of it, and the medium of economic domination is a PowerP
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by georgefrowny 4mo ago
How is that extension compared to, say, DS4 via OpenRouter and the usual VSCode Copilot panel?
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by georgefrowny 5mo ago
For the reader, Kobos are a solid choice that can run open source software (and the software exists, it's not theoretical). My problem with physical books is mostly the physical storage space. I have to be really careful not to fill th
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by georgefrowny 5mo ago
Also if you can get away with it, all drug traffickers would soon have an online order for their package so if stopped they can just say they're an innocent courier.
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by georgefrowny 5mo ago
You can also SSH into it because it's just running Linux. So you could even just git push.
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by georgefrowny 6mo ago
I remember when Google promised Gmail storage would increase (quote) "forever". A mind blowing at the time 1GB at launch in 2004 to 2GB only a year later. Then 4 GB in 2007. This was prime Google doing cool stuff constantly time.
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by georgefrowny 6mo ago
This is where China has it right. You can pay 1 yuan by WeChat no problem. Scan the QR code, enter "1", the shop terminal says "1 yuan paid" out loud, job done. And yes some things are 1 yuan, for example picking up a pa
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by georgefrowny 6mo ago
I really don't know why EVs necessitate a new software platform. Car makers are shit at software. Actually nearly everyone is shit at software. I know they want to turn their cars into mobile subscription-based analytics platforms for
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by georgefrowny 6mo ago
He's talking about schematic editor though. Personally I don't drag single parts with the mouse because it's two clicks for the same thing, so it's irrelevant which action that does. KiCad's best usability innovatio
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by georgefrowny 6mo ago
Drag with connections is the default in KiCad 9?
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by georgefrowny 6mo ago
Binary Cadence import is a big one. You no longer need Allegro Viewer for looking at dev board design files and no more license for exporting either.

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