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ohazi
·19 days ago·discuss
Bender: "I'm 30% [XYZ]"

http://theinfosphere.org/Bender_Bending_Rodriguez#Compositio...
ohazi
·22 days ago·discuss
I miss the old Steve Yegge that actually knew how to write coherently. AI psychosis is apparently a hell of a drug... this is pages and pages of complete dreck.
ohazi
·3 months ago·discuss
They're so much louder now, though.
ohazi
·4 months ago·discuss
I use my own very similar version of this spsc lock-free ring buffer on almost every embedded project I work on that has to stream any sort of sampled data (e.g. audio). You can even have the consumer end be a DMA into something like a uart or USB peripheral so your microcontroller userspace doesn't have to touch the hardware.
ohazi
·6 months ago·discuss
Real, genuinely confused human here: Can someone please clarify whether or not gas town is/was a joke? I've searched repeatedly and can't find anything that looks like an obvious tell, and I'm not sure if this is because it's actually real and people are taking it seriously, or because the pages and pages of discourse surrounding it is AI generated and taking itself literally.

If it's not a joke... I have no words. You've all gone insane.
ohazi
·6 months ago·discuss
> (Sent through Gemini to blur my monitor).

Excuse me, what?
ohazi
·7 months ago·discuss
What a misunderstanding -- glass transition temperature means different things for thermoplastics (i.e. anything that comes out of an FDM printer like the CF-ABS in question) and for thermosetting resins like epoxy that actually undergo molecular cross-linking during the curing phase. Thermoplastics will get soft and can deform without limit, while thermosets get rubbery but still more or less hold their formed shape.
ohazi
·7 months ago·discuss
Actual report: https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/487013

Material was CF-ABS
ohazi
·10 months ago·discuss
Hey, Joe! This is one of my favorite cello pieces -- so hauntingly beautiful. I've probably listened to Janos Starker's performance dozens of times, but I also liked Inbal Segev's version. Parts of it seemed brighter somehow.
ohazi
·last year·discuss
Fuel grade is like 3%. It's exponentially harder to go from 3%-60% (months-years) than 60%-90%(days-weeks). So no, the only reason to enrich that high is to keep your breakout time threateningly short.
ohazi
·3 years ago·discuss
> JSON is basically perfect

Until you realize you can't actually store real integers because every number in js is a float...
ohazi
·4 years ago·discuss
> - all matching socks. No more time spent pairing.

Relatedly, replacing all of my cotton socks with wool socks.
ohazi
·5 years ago·discuss
Parent is not refuting that WSL2 performed better than WSL1, they're arguing that a reasonable response to WSL1 giving you slow build times might have simply been to use a VM instead.

Microsoft being Microsoft, they didn't want people like you to hop to VMware or VirtualBox and use a full, branded instance of Fedora or Ubuntu, because then you would realize that the next hop (moving to Linux entirely) was actually quite reasonable. So they threw away WSL1 and built WSL2. Obviously WSL2 worked better for you than WSL1, but you also did exactly what Microsoft wanted you to do, which is to their benefit, and not necessarily to yours.
ohazi
·5 years ago·discuss
> In the long run though, electric airplanes look far more attractive for the short-haul prop-driven world.

In the interim, the Rotax 912/914 series is a nice, modern, reliable powerplant for smaller/lighter airplanes that will happily burn autogas.
ohazi
·5 years ago·discuss
Indicator recommendations are routinely ignored. There are already color codes for type-A ports, and there's the "lightning bolt" indicator for Thunderbolt USB-C ports, but PC manufacturers ignore them when they want their laptops to have a certain look and feel (e.g. gaming laptops want red or green everything, Apple wants aluminum everything, etc.).

Cable manufacturers are going to do whatever is cheapest.
ohazi
·5 years ago·discuss
I am 100% confident that whatever LinkedIn manages to come up with here will also be trash.
ohazi
·6 years ago·discuss
I think the best way to describe pipes to the uninitiated is in terms of copy & paste.

Copy & paste is the basic, ubiquitous, doesn't-try-to-do-too-much IPC mechanism that allows normal users to shovel data from one program into another. As simple as it is, it's indispensable, and it's difficult to imagine trying to use a computer without this feature.

The same applies to pipes, even though they work a little bit differently and are useful in slightly different situations. They're the "I just need to do this one thing" IPC mechanism for slightly more technical users.
ohazi
·6 years ago·discuss
> The consensus regarding automobiles and touch interfaces is starting to form that they are just a bad idea.

> The benchmarking shows nearly every company is moving to screens.

The fact that everyone is moving to screens because they're flashy and cheap ($/feature) doesn't automatically make them a good idea.

GP is correct. The consensus from a safety and usability perspective is that touchscreens in cars are a bad idea. Fuck the bean counters.
ohazi
·7 years ago·discuss
And then the next generation will have signed firmware that doesn't allow the device to start until the spy packets go out and the response is received.

We need to kill these companies and their business models. As fun as it is for smart people like us to perform one-off lobotomies, it doesn't solve the problem.