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I will not have an operating system that shows me ads. This is my computer. It will do what I want.

Nice! I did one of these ages and ages ago copying the win 3.1 pattern editor (which doubtless is a ripoff of the mac one anyway) https://errantspark.github.io/3.1/#0056755500caaea…

I get a lot of use out of the PRUs on the BeagleboneBlack, I would absolutely get use out of an FPGA in a laptop.

Wait sorry back up a bit here. I can buy a laptop that has a daughter FPGA in it? Does it have GPIO??? Are we seriously building hardware worth buying again in 2024? Do you have a …

wat, we have plenty of aerospace companies, Boeing is the only one making consumer air travel jets right now, but they're far from the only aerospace company in the US

The claim is that llama is "lobotomized" because it was trained with safety in mind. You can't untrain that by finetuning. For what it's worth the non-instruct llama generally seem…

I tried to use buttplug years ago but I found it to be difficult to work with and introduce too much latency into play. My partner and I have replaced it with 37 lines of javascrip…

Mostly bad take. The long term solution is to remove the incentives for criminal behavior and enact laws that prevent power concentration, authoritarianism is not stable. That bein…

Fun fact: I took the photo she used as a cover for one of her books, she asked me if she could use it and I said I'd like to be compensated and her response was something akin to "…

> So don't pay the engineers that built the product and continue to maintain it? Saas isn't the only way to pay people. > most software is living and breathing and requires continu…

The real reason for the software as a service model is that it makes it easier to extract/capture value. Many SaaS offerings would be better at providing value to customers with no…

Oh yeah this is absolutely fucking stupid, my dad put solar on his roof recently and if this shit goes through he may end up with a bigger monthly energy bill than pre-solar. Make …

Ranked matchmaking is worse at delivering a competitive experience than a community of people who want to have a competitive experience. Don't kid yourself, competitive gaming exis…

This wasn't near as much an issue when you had actual servers run by actual people. Too bad the technology to implement a server browser has been lost to time. : ( Perhaps one day …

I don't think it's always been that way, not exactly, the distribution gets less flat as people are able to make more optimized choices. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-…

No, it's not. Java and C++, hell even Java and C# are much more relevantly dissimilar than setting A at 440 vs 432. I'd love to see a citation on Vivaldi's love for 432, he wasn't …

Ahh yeah, magnitude vs. power, my mistake on the terms.

Is "dropping the phase" the same thing as computing the spectral power distribution? P.S. A4 = 432Hz is a stupid fad that can't die soon enough.

This is such cool content but the way it's presented is so fucking frustrating to me. I wish the narrative wasn't so intrinsically tied to the actual data. I hate that I can't blow…

:waves: You can cite me for one! I didn't even grow up on it, it was honestly a more recent thing for me to pick up seriously, I wrote significant amounts of JavaScript, Ruby, Go, …

What would be awesome is if instead of this we gave a fuck ton of money to the post office and tried to solve this problem for everyone and also eroded amazon's competitive advanta…

> Drivers are mostly not too hard Except when they are, which is anytime something is poorly documented, which is pretty much all the time. Let's not even get started on vendors wh…

Next to impossible to kill a starlink satellite and there are thousands of them, I don't think any country has the capability to to take starlink satellites down en masse by force.…

I was mostly quoting it to reference it's context. The full quote (by Stewart Brand) is: “On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right inf…