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skinwill
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Not if my firewall blocks it from accessing the outside world. (But allows HomeAssistant to control it)
skinwill
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Brominated flame retardant?
skinwill
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
You need some filler for the space at the bottom. Something like ads from the 1800's for quack medical devices or Radium Therapy. Maybe something wildly misogynistic advertising laudanum.
skinwill
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
They use the same image on their mini pc's page. https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/byte
skinwill
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
The phrase "sufficient test suite" is doing a LOT of work here. You would need to know what the data from every sensor is supposed to be along with how every piece of the machine is supposed to perform. AI isn't going to be able to iterate into those parameters over night.
skinwill
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
This is way over simplifying here but I always understood it as: our eyes can see red with very little power needed. But our eyes can differentiate more detail with green.
skinwill
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
Speaking mostly from personal experience here, if a kid gets a suped-up liver from their dad's smoking habits, cool. But how many kids fathers stopped smoking when the kid was born? My point, the father's smoking habits may have passed down a strong liver but his continued use damaged the child's lungs and possibly more.

These mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance or whatever need much more study. It is far too early to draw any conclusions other than we need to keep researching.
skinwill
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Better yet, instead of positioning it as an institutional-style research. You should frame it as an information hub for bovine castration techniques.
skinwill
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
"The core-and most-critical component-was left-out." Jesus-h-cluster-fucking-catastra-christ. If one of these data centers ever catches fire I will show up and make smores.
skinwill
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
How deep down the rabbit hole did you go with hardware optimization?

In an ideal world, would it be better to compile this on a processor more RISC-y?
skinwill
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Viewing the page with Safari 26.1 the questions stopped showing up after the second challenge. I was left with only Learn and View Solutions, which was not very fun since both showed a form of the answer.

TL;DR: The page stopped loading properly.
skinwill
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
Jeff, it's very cool to hear from you as I have enjoyed your videos for some time. I would like to make one request though. Next time you do a project like "How I almost broke MrBeast's Ages 1-100 video" that involves setting up interactive electronics for an event, you should really call me. I managed interactive technology deployments for the automotive marketing industry for over a decade. It's a niche that has unique challenges which you fell face first into. I would be happy to help make things go much smoother should you ever do something similar. Proof: https://imgur.com/a/5z5JrwT I'm also on Reddit, same screen name if you want to dm me there.
skinwill
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
I worked at a television station years back that was designed in such a way that the lights going up the tower were powered by the separate phases of three phase AC with the one at the top powered from all three combined. This was pretty normal but what the engineer had done was rotate them at every level so that if a phase was dropped you could count the lights and quickly see from a distance that the power wasn't right. 4 lights was good, 3 meant you dropped a phase, and so on. I thought it was a pretty clever way of keeping light on all sides of the tower while being able to tell from a distance that a phase was out.
skinwill
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
There is an error on that page. src="https://www.media.snipettemag.com/wp-uploads/2019/09/cheese-..." should be src="https://media.snipettemag.com/wp-uploads/2019/09/cheese-stre..."

There is an extra "www." which breaks the link.
skinwill
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
Can someone explain to me how this is different than a simple noise generator based on a PN junction? As in, isn't this just amplifying noise and aren't there less sensational ways of doing nearly the same thing? Does measuring a photon with this method actually get you better randomness? I have some serious gaps in my understanding here and an ELI5 would be neat.
skinwill
·11 miesięcy temu·discuss
Around here we have Epic. If you want a good scare, look up their corporate Willy Wonka-esq jail/campus and their policy of zero remote work.