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I'm glad Hackspace culture is still very much alive in the UK. It feels like people are starting to become interested in such things again. I'm hoping the growing right-to-repair/m…

Joining a hackspace/makerspace suddenly introduced me to a high quality real-life social network. It's an excuse to engage with your hobbies but also hangout with like minds and pi…

This is really bluring the line between implementation and specification. You may think you're writing the implementation but it is really a proxy for the specification. In other w…

Bellard strikes again... Are we almost converting music to MIDI at this point? As I understand it the model is learning the landscape of sound combinations that are interesting to …

I wonder if you might have a microbiome problem, i.e. you lack the microorganisms necessary to break down certain foods such as fibres. There are now treatments which have been dem…

You may benefit from speaking to a nutritional therapist. You might have a biofilm problem at specific points along your digestive tract but I would let them make that determinatio…

I have also read that our gut doesn't like being in constant operation. Our ancestors didn't have access to food 24/7 and it makes sense our bodies adapted to take advantage of thi…

Thank you for taking the time to reply and not just downvoting me. That is enlightening and I'm glad your relative is in better health now. I'm certainly not suggesting there is a …

I initially wrote this as a reply to a comment by "NotGMan" mentioning fasting/paleo that got flagged. They could have approached the subject more delicately but I believe they hav…

The "buildroot" project is perfect for your embedded system. Build a custom minimal Linux system with tiny image sizes that are read-only by default. Pick exactly which services yo…

I'm going to be "that guy"... I used to distro hop and discovered that every distro has its strengths and weaknesses. Then 2 months ago someone told me about NixOS. I was skeptical…

It's an interesting metaphor. Electron shells are sometimes described as a cloud of probabilistic density, as in the shade is an indication of the probability of finding an electro…

I thought the industry was already experimenting with the idea that you have another LLM observing the output of the primary LLM which is trained more towards safety than creativit…

I have an original Pi 2012 running buildroot. It's a perfect fit. Need just enough to run a Linux kernel and ser2net for doing RS485 stuff with solar inverters. I think the image s…

Is this similar to "transformer action"?

Thanks for taking the time to answer these. The thing you say about the display is interesting. I guess that means subpixel rendering (ClearType) will be suboptimal when in "laptop…

Seriously want. Few questions if I may: - Have tried a Linux distro on it? - What is battery life like (especially under Linux)? - How is the keyboard generally? (Not expecting mir…

The Godot IDE itself is a "game" as in it is entirely built using Godot APIs. Makes me wonder if it would actually be a good environment to build portable business apps, sort of li…

Would that not just be something like a Raspberry Pi Compute Module running an emulator full screen and a custom IO breakout host board?

Voting with your wallet is a thing. It's the only feedback that matters to these people.

I'm very impressed with my N100 mini PC (fits in your palm) that I bought from AliExpress. Takes between 2-8W and uses just a plain old 12V plug-style power supply with a DC barrel…

For me, Phillips Hue has been the only bulb to have NOT done this, despite being the oldest. But the cheaper bulbs I've bought on Amazon have all started flickering or just out rig…

I didn't know DuckDuckGo could find me results about a particular person's preferences. Yes you can Google pretty much anything that you can have a conversation about and never spe…

Any in particular that you're a fan of? (Genuinely curious)