johncalvinyoung

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by johncalvinyoung 2mo ago
Yeah. I know what DMARC does, I run a mail server, but I thought it might be an interesting blog post nonetheless. It was very very obviously generated text, and not particularly information-dense or insightful. Gave up on reading it halfwa
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by johncalvinyoung 3mo ago
Isn't Deepseek V4 Flash still like 150+ GB even at Q4?
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by johncalvinyoung 1y ago
I was going to say, sounds like my college experience decades later. Still a very congested laser link, and I had a headless minitower instead of a rack (though I wasn't a CS student).
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by johncalvinyoung 1y ago
> I could write a lot about why you don’t want to use Catmull-Rom splines for roads. I would read this essay, and share it with my friends.
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by johncalvinyoung 1y ago
The lack of a black iPhone 17 Pro... has me dumbfounded. I might skip this year. I'm really happy with the camera features, but there's less differentiation between base iPhone 17 and 17 Pro this go-round. Probably enough for me t
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by johncalvinyoung 1y ago
For those like me who wanted to hunt down the linkrotted article: https://web.archive.org/web/20201108182313/http://atomicdeli...
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by johncalvinyoung 1y ago
Whoa, I had that card (or one very much like it). I remember that cursed not-PS2 port especially.
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by johncalvinyoung 1y ago
Ugh, I wish I could read it but as I'm working in this space professionally reading GPLv3 code is... risky. Been working in 2D with bezier implementation for our in-house CAD kernel. 3D parametric is limited at the moment, though.
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by johncalvinyoung 1y ago
I wish this article recognized that there is a cost to maintaining the grid, both in transmission infrastructure, but also in maintaining the dispatchable generation capacity to smooth out solar's variability. As frustrating as this po
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by johncalvinyoung 1y ago
This was my immediate thought when I saw the ring light. Very very likely a CRI of 90 or below, which doesn’t even weight much in red shades. Not uncommon to see 92 CRI with a R9 (red) score below 50% of sunlight or tungsten illumination.
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by johncalvinyoung 1y ago
Not a typical orange. “Sumo Citrus” / dekopon / shiranui is a hybrid tangor/tangerine cross. Very fragile, specialty fruit, only recently available at scale in the eastern US. This is on the high end per-fruit but I’ve seen h
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by johncalvinyoung 2y ago
As I deployed Starlink in an extremely obstructed spot last year for a few weeks, where multi-second dropouts were quite common... it impressed me JUST HOW MANY satellites they have up there, and just how usable my dish was despite only hav
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by johncalvinyoung 2y ago
less specifically like OP's, but a really great product that I and a bunch of my coworkers use: the 'Ultimate Hacking Keyboard' 60 (typically referred to as a UHK). I have mine with the palmrest and the recent riser accessory
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by johncalvinyoung 2y ago
I have two UHKs, one at work and one in my home office, and I got my second one with blank keycaps. It's very satisfying. At this point I'm very happy with UHK's layout and features, but every once in a while I wonder if a lo
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by johncalvinyoung 2y ago
They haven't updated those predictions publicly in a little while. Definitely a huge setback from Rolls-Royce dropping out, and putting together the coalition that's developing the Symphony engine. Latest I've seen on Twitter
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by johncalvinyoung 2y ago
Probably optimism talking, but I'd put Boom's chances of bringing to market an airliner capable of supersonic travel at equal-to-first-class-ticket-prices at 60%. Now I'd put their wilder hopes of eventually taking over the s
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by johncalvinyoung 2y ago
Their business model for a long time has theorized that they can deliver an operating cost that would allow airlines to offer tickets at roughly current business class ticket costs, which would be a fraction of Concorde ticket prices expres
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by johncalvinyoung 2y ago
now if only I could find someone making a similarly bad decision. I've been looking to upgrade to a midrange KEF stereo pair. :)
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by johncalvinyoung 2y ago
I assumed the OP was eliding that high-frequency circuits and interfaces are notorious for EM/RF noise.
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by johncalvinyoung 2y ago
This is my experience as well... I have a very broad music taste but with some main themes. I find Spotify's algorithm (11 years of Premium) to regularly surface things I'll like, whether new music from artists I already know, mus
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by johncalvinyoung 2y ago
Salisbury Cathedral (highest medieval spire surviving in the UK, at 404 feet!) was built on a floodplain close to the river, with shallow foundations only four feet deep. But the prior cathedral had been on a hilltop with much strife over a
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by johncalvinyoung 2y ago
Utterly questionable.
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
I don't love Moist the way I do Sam Vimes, but the last handful of Industrial Revolution-themed Discworld novels are among my favorites. Maybe it's because I'm a software developer who trained in economics, but the discussion
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
The role of ENG video is not precisely the same thing as digital cinema, though there's some overlap. I remember a lot of indie filmmakers in that era struggling to shoot for cinema with ENG-focused cameras and gear, and often struggli
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
5k for an EPIC-X? Wild. Good thing that that's not local to me, or my bank account would be complaining.
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
This is fantastic. I've done some semi-similar things, have a tool I wrote for generating nice documents from Facebook Messenger conversations, for archiving important personal conversations. But I didn't take it so far as to gene
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
Note that this status page is... less than helpful in the face of an obvious outage.
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
Agreed on that. A friend of mine was recently renovating his house on a budget, and I pushed him really hard to put in ethernet. Somewhere on our third discussion, I realized: - he lives on a 5acre tract in the absolute middle of nowhere. H
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
oh I looked into that. Conclusion at the time was resolution was far too low to compete with my 27" 4k display on my desk. (I'd love to be able to travel and work remotely without lugging my big display, but my productivity take
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
not in California, Iceland, or Japan!

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