watmough

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Can we and should we give LLMs a sense of Whimsy?
1 points by watmough 1y ago|0 comments
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by watmough 2y ago
Good stuff. One rule I like, is to ensure that, as well as validation, all validated information is dumped in a convenient format prior to running the rest of the script. This is super helpful, assuming that some downstream process will nee
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by watmough 2y ago
Here's a comparison of the J4125 (Radxa X2L/Palmshell) vs EliteBook 8560w i7-2820QM vs Radxa X4 N100. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/3667vs5157vs885/Intel-Celeron-J4125-vs-Intel-N100-vs-Intel-i
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by watmough 2y ago
I kinda wondered my my Windows 11 based work laptop had rebooted... I guess I should go check if it's still working right.
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by watmough 3y ago
Excellent rant! I don't use DarkTable but ... I've been there.
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by watmough 3y ago
I know this. I’ll dig up the reference in the am. It’s diode rom graphics. Atari GranTrak 10 used it for graphics, but the then new rom chips for code/data. https://edfries.wordpress.com/2017/06/14/fi
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by watmough 3y ago
Yeah, and they can be very scratchy. :D me: "(apologetic) A small amount of urine escaped. The rat was not to blame." wife: "(sternly) The rat was *totally* to blame!" Just woken up and seen this after picking
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by watmough 3y ago
Funny that this should come up, 30 minutes afer I put our mischief of 3 young girl rats back in their habitat, but yeah, a few concrete examples: * Pudding rat plans escapes to the top of the habitat, whenever the door is open, * Rat
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by watmough 3y ago
Beware, this is kind of a deep rabbithole. I suggest to look up his trip up from Mexico, following the migrant route. For a different view of the same trip, his travelling companion (automous something) has his own channel. RanOutOnARail is
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by watmough 3y ago
As a pet owner, rather than using insecticides, I use a couple gallons of hot water mixed with washing-up liquid to eliminate fire ant nests in my yard. The hot soapy water washes away the structue of the nest, and quickly kills the inhabit
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by watmough 3y ago
I have no doubt that Jeff Minter will be right on that ... https://www.polygon.com/23613576/jeff-minter-profile-akka-ar...
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Show HN: Adjust – dynamic adjustment for system parameters(github.com)
1 points by watmough 3y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: adjust – dynamic adjustment for system parameters(github.com)
3 points by watmough 3y ago|0 comments
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by watmough 3y ago
Arguably, fusion energy has given us power "too cheap to meter". [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter
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by watmough 3y ago
Interesting that on that basis, $3500 is probably about on a par with a really nice OLED big-screen TV and surround sound system. One person only though, not a shareable experience. Like others, I'm waiting for this to come to a specta
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My number one tip for improving the Firefox address bar(twitter.com)
2 points by watmough 3y ago|0 comments
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by watmough 3y ago
Yep my 13 year old will often pop her head round the door wondering about how dad is listening to a song she's heard sampled on TikTok or some crazy video. Apparently, there's a bunch of The Smiths songs living multiple lives in t
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by watmough 3y ago
Seems like someone could use some corrective lenses.
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by watmough 3y ago
So Elementary OS is one example of Linux that already runs very happily on my 2012 MacBook Air. Surely most of the required support is there already?
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by watmough 3y ago
> edit: or the time I got around their EXE blocking by changing a bunch of strings in UnrealTournament.exe to look like Norton Anti-virus. Got a couple weeks' suspension for that! OMG That's awesome!
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by watmough 3y ago
Yeah, hanging onto mine! Awesome desk. They used to crop up on craigslist occasionally for $100-$200. not checked in a while.
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by watmough 3y ago
Yep, just posted about this. Late 90's right? I think it was Ygdrassil, or maybe a free distro off of a CD. Great investment of time as it got me into the oilfield doing tech support. Running Rocky 8 on a P1 Gen4 now, so come a long wa
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by watmough 3y ago
Back in the day, and I mean like mid-late 90's, you could actually install the Linux kernel, files etc., straight onto a Windows FAT partition and boot into it. Not exactly what was being asked for, but a weird old fact I'd forgot
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by watmough 4y ago
My reading of the diagram says that 5 different exposures were needed to establish a 5+1 level gray scale. Note that each picture is scanned simultaneously, and contributes to whether 0 - 5 holes are made in the tape. At the receiving end,
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by watmough 4y ago
Sweet game! Near-perfect landing, super smooth Score: 95.5 point landing Speed: 1.9mph Angle: 0.1° Time: 57 seconds Flips: 0 Max speed: 31.6mph Max height: 147ft Engine used: 82 times Boosters used: 33 times https:&
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by watmough 4y ago
Probably worth changing the submission to point here, as the source should be readily findable if needed.
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by watmough 4y ago
You mean like this? https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11
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by watmough 4y ago
Totally describes what I do. Last couple jobs have been heavily legacy C++ in the energy sector. Lots of maintenance, but also opportunities to overhaul and build new objects. Funnest project right now is porting some supercool Science code
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by watmough 4y ago
Sadly the killer app of Facebook is to meet and enable precisely the kinds of local community the author is suggesting. In a sense, Marketplace is the new Facebook. A buddy is just swinging by with some Rx-7 TII brakes for my NA. We have be
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by watmough 4y ago
Really interesting question. As primarily a maintenance programmer by inclination, I'd not ever given the possibility of self-employment a thought. However, if you need to be paid, you need to create value. So the answer to your questi

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