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At the time I was there we hadn't made it all the way to NixOS on the targets, so it was an Ubuntu "base" + Nix managing the app workspace as a kind of pseudo container, though abl…

This was a talk geared specifically at a ROS audience so it's lighter from a general infra point of view but there may still be something useful: https://vimeo.com/767139940 At the…

In my personal life, I also like Nix for small projects, especially where you're crossing multiple ecosystems so that any one system's tooling/lockfiles aren't really enough to "en…

The way I set it up at my shop was that everything would build on your PR, and so by the time it merged, everything was already cached and no one should see a rebuild... at most a …

I was lead on a Nix adoption effort for a few years that was kind of like that: it solved real problems, unlocked far faster, smaller, and cheaper builds than would have been possi…

I think games that are heavily reliant on online pvp are just always going to struggle with being more niche appeal. Matchmaking is hard to do well and consistently, and managing t…

Indeed. Owning the streaming box lets you loose on whatever network it's on, but it doesn't actually get you inside the content gardens; those are separately managed by teams of pe…

I mostly got it to play Arc Raiders tbh, but I did kind of have in mind that it was worth stretching for 16GB so that local models would be on the table.

IR blasters are rough because there's no feedback. You're literally just shouting out commands into the void, and heaven forbid if it's something that's a toggle where you don't kn…

Okay interesting, so maybe openclaw does a lot less than I thought it did; really I have no excuse not to be just trying it myself regardless, given that I'm sitting on a 9070 XT. …

I'm very interested in this kind of thing as a kind of ADHD brain augment, like it's monitoring my slack, github, email, calendar, active terminals, etc, and helps me prioritize wh…

I'm mostly very happy with my LG C4 as a home theatre centerpiece, and I did have it online so that I could use the apps for YouTube and Jellyfin. However, the lack of support for …

I'm not knocking the devs for the choice to target open hardware, only remarking that that choice signals the project is for hackers, not regular consumers.

I've never heard of any of them; I guess it's geared toward build-it-yourself or kit-type devices? I can't imagine a serious aftermarket FW not supporting a single Kindle or Kobo d…

Wide angle lenses have been a thing in real estate photography since forever, but you would always have the reference of the furniture to ground your perception. Having furniture b…

I've started to see this on Etsy and Wayfair too, where there will be a listing that is clearly just MDF flatpack being resold from China, but the AI-generated images wildly exagge…

I run the crafty controller Docker container on my unraid machine and it's easy and pretty hands off.

Earth is 12700 km in diameter, so such an image would be 688 pixels across. Basically you won't be reading license plates but you'd see enough to identify evidence of very large sc…

Even without the rebar rusting, I think you can still have issues with the steel and concrete having difference thermal expansion properties, particularly for outdoor strucutures w…

Blah, so you're right. I was just looking for a link with some representative reference pictures, but I should have done more diligence. Thanks for pointing it out.

To build without tension you have to build structures that basically look like Roman structures [1]: a bunch of tightly spaces arches so that the entire thing is in compression, wi…

The tablets in my OTC jar are 10mg, and they're pretty small already, not easily divisible, and certainly not to 1/100th of a dose as the sibling comment is suggesting. This is an …

While that's true, editions are more about leaving legacy decisions behind while keeping the backward compatibility promise. Even if you're in one of those unconventional settings …

Key phrases make sense to put in place, but another easy safeguard is: "Before you send anything to anyone, ever, call them back. Doesn't matter if it's me, the bank, a lawyer, wha…

I take melatonin to sleep on a redeye, but otherwise don't use it. I find the effect is similar to taking a weed edible to fall asleep— basically, my wearable registers a lengthy p…