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"Avoid even audiobooks. Big corporations want to grab your attention by trying to market audiobooks as books for busy people, but don’t fall for the trap." What nonsense. I doubled…

I can tell it's not accurate because it has half the trains marked as on time. Reality is far more depressing. You'd also need to add ghostly white for cancelled and bus icons for …

What a strange person, from the same author: https://www.thran.uk/writ/yarn/2025/03/road-rage-maxxing-or-... I don't understand how you can feel morally superior by blocking the ov…

Can we subtract the number of dollars that it would cost not to start a war?

The speed of improvement of tts models reminds me of early days of Stable Diffusion. Can't wait until I can generate audiobooks without infinite pain. If I was an investor I'd shor…

All the models I tried have similar problems. When trying to batch a whole audiobook, the only way is to run it, then run a model to transcribe and check you get the same text.

Most drivers here don't adjust the light angle based on loading of the car (if you have passengers in the back in a small car that is enough to move your lights completely out of w…

How about making the arseholes who dumped that rubbish clean it up.

There are traffic management cameras literally everywhere in the UK. It's impossible to drive up to that spot without passing by hundreds of them. The fact that they didn't charge …

20 years ago it was a chore but nowadays it's faster than baking a cake. 10 minutes prep time (configure os and add drives), 10 minutes bake time (installation) (or 10+ hours bake …

I read the article and I really don't understand. Linux already buffers files into RAM if there's any unused, why would you do this?

Found the name: Fractal node 804.

Any of those cube gaming ones I think are great. I got a dual chamber one which makes shuffling drives and cabling easy. Can't remember the name but it was 90 pounds, way more than…

I ran my own NAS for over two decades in some old 4U I got for cheap, using whatever discarded consumer HW I got for free and I never got the point of Synology. Colleague who has o…

Since the server is overloaded apparently and people can't see what this is without connecting: Connection to clearsky.dev (155.133.22.147) 29438 port [tcp/*] succeeded! AXR2KPxr20…

Are you telling me a country is more constrained by space than a spaceship? As for democracy "These sorts of societies propagated for hundreds or even thousands of years in antiqui…

I love that most of those designs give bigger houses to people in a spaceship than modern houses in the UK on planet earth. Love the designs, doubt democracy would get them through…

That includes women, children and elderly. If you count fighting age men only, 1M becomes significant. If you count men actually available for draft, you're already at 10% loss.

Does anyone know a game where 2d sprites sit on 3d chairs? This is something this engine will have to tackle.