saulrh

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by saulrh 11mo ago
I think one obvious approach would be to assign "roles" - one person is "operations" and is the only one allowed to read the instructions to you, one person is "research" and has access to the list of ingredien
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by saulrh 11mo ago
You know, looking back at this eight hours later, I realize that this post sounds way worse than I intended. I was attempting to signal my own epistemic uncertainty, not imply sarcastic dismissal. Sorry. :/
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by saulrh 11mo ago
I believe the search keyword for what you're looking for is probably "IP KVM".
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by saulrh 11mo ago
Raspberry Pi definitely works! I have a project you can take a look at; you'll have to modify it slightly since you want a keyboard rather than a joystick, but they're both HID so the majority of it should work pretty much out of
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by saulrh 11mo ago
If you're starting over with a new backing store using jj's pluggable backends, can you give us a native lazily-materialized store for megarepos? It's a tragedy that the open-source world has no answer to piper.
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by saulrh 1y ago
I know someone who uses a Twiddler full-time, and I used mine for about a month when I broke my dominant hand about a decade ago. Works very well if your hand is the right size for it. I have a tap strap, but I use it mostly as a remote con
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by saulrh 1y ago
I had those speakers for a few years before someone else noticed it, lol. The other tweeter worked just fine, and the speakers as a whole were so good that even without the dedicated hardware for higher frequencies it was still better in
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by saulrh 1y ago
Works even if you're not in a college town. I once pulled a $4000 set of speakers out of my building's trash room - Boston Dynamics floor speakers, Polk Audio subwoofer - and I was just in a random apartment building in the bay ar
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by saulrh 2y ago
I'll point out some higher order impacts of this, since the article doesn't: Losing these forecasts will be catastrophic for American farmers. Crops literally live and die on weather forecasts; forecasts tell farmers what to plant
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by saulrh 2y ago
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy and tax deductions, as far as I can tell.
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by saulrh 2y ago
Tramp is perfectly able to write, it's just that it does it by writing a temp file locally and then using ssh to transfer the file to the remote, rather than installing a copy of itself on the remote and acting through that. It only us
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by saulrh 2y ago
The alternative is suggested by tramp, which from what I know treats the remote as a network filesystem instead of an execution host. I don't believe that tramp deploys any binaries: it reads and writes bytes over pipes and all meaning
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by saulrh 2y ago
I guess I was thinking in terms of the patches you push up to github. `jj` is a joy to use and it absolutely enables me to implement workflows that I wouldn't even vaguely consider without it helping me; the big one I think of is the o
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by saulrh 2y ago
The thing about jj is that it doesn't actually enable any new capabilities . I tell people to use emacs or vim or vscode or whatever instead of notepad because it gives them new capabilities , things that are simply unavailable unles
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by saulrh 2y ago
You didn't die of dysentery, for one.
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by saulrh 2y ago
Buy a $20 RC car off Amazon and replace the radio receiver with a raspberry pi for a quick and dirty driverless car platform. Might have to do some surgery to reuse the motor drivers or you might have to add your own, but it's generall
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by saulrh 2y ago
Laundry is kind of the perfect demo for advanced motion planning systems. Fabric is, for all intents and purposes, completely intractable in classic motion planning paradigms; it's wildly non-rigid, which means that predicting its beha
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by saulrh 2y ago
Thermoworks is absolutely the established name brand. Their thermapens defined the market segment, but their other offerings (DOT) are also very high quality.
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by saulrh 2y ago
Still not "tens of millions", don't motte-and-bailey me. Also, I thought competition was good and that we needed more of it. That's the usual fiscal-conservative line, right? I'll further note that there are more jo
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by saulrh 2y ago
Okay. Sure. Mexico only has 120m people. You think that a third of their population walked into Texas and bought a house in Dallas? A quarter ? Hell, ten percent ? Fine. I'll bring some of my own statistics. There might be ten mi
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by saulrh 2y ago
"Tens of millions" "coming in over the border"? Mexico only even has 120m people in the first place. What, you think that half of their population walked into Texas and bought a house in Dallas?
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by saulrh 2y ago
The only relevant sentence is the one where they announce that they're shutting down, though. They buried the lede as hard as they could. I think pulling the single sentence that summarizes the post, rather than the irrelevant "wo
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by saulrh 2y ago
Wouldn't it be even better to explicitly funnel our money to R&D, rather than hoping that it gets there eventually after insurers and paperwork maximizers and intentionally-inefficient providers all take their cuts?
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by saulrh 2y ago
It did host a successful and substantially-satisfying human civilization, at least until it let a couple of presumptuous self-important anarchoprimitivists kill it and genocide its subjects. Even if it was only a temporary and unstable illu
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by saulrh 2y ago
> Prime Intellect Ah, yes, Prime Intellect, the AGI that went foom and genocided the universe because it was commanded to preserve human civilization without regard for human values. A strong contender for the least evil hostile superint
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by saulrh 2y ago
I mean, if there's no mechanism for deploying firmware updates, they took off the jtag headers or burned some fuses or blew a programmable-once ROM, there may be no way to deploy updates short of dismantling the car and swapping out a
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by saulrh 2y ago
It's probably way more complicated than that. Ever seen the cold start disaster recovery procedure for a big system with identity and encryption-at-rest and message busses involved? You might be lucky if the bring-up doesnt have any i
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by saulrh 2y ago
If you use the disc lock the storage facility sells, you'll likely pay an additional markup on it, but it's also guaranteed to be acceptable to their partner insurance company. I'm surprised - I'd have
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by saulrh 2y ago
I totally forgot one! A really important one! * Pound the Table ( https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/pound-the-tabl... ): X-men courtroom drama, written by a practicing attorney who brings the reader along wit
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by saulrh 2y ago
Every time I hear about the review processes for browser extensions I'm shocked that the it involves humans having to read your README and manually plumb together the build process. Sometimes I hear that reviewers are even reusing VMs

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