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Re: CrankGPT

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Post by lukan »

alansaber wrote: post #58
zahlman wrote: post #48

The webpage linked is an example of everything I wish people would stop doing in web design. Fortunately, at the bottom there is a link to the "technical documentation" ( https://squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/ ) which is vastly improved (aside from being light-mode-only and linked from a dark-mode-only marketing page). It also gives me much more interesting information (specifically: models that can apparently run a…

Why can't technical people appreciate that us, the silent majority, love having our scroll hijacked? I can't remember the last time I used a scroll bar to navigate a website, but using it to navigate between choppy javascript keyframes fills me with joy.

"love having our scroll hijacked? "

You are the silent majority?

No doubt non technical people have different UX experience than tech nerd, but I have seen plenty of "normal" people curse at artsy fluffy design, that made known navigation skills useless and nobody likes their time wasted.

Re: CrankGPT

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Post by forlorn_mammoth »

Theodores wrote: post #82
andy_ppp wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can get a dynamo hub front wheel for push bikes: https://bikepacking.com/plan/dynamo-hubs-lighting-charging-g... However you can expect around only 3 watts of output at normal speeds and you will need to put in around 5-7 watts of power for the same speed. This is barely enough to trickle charge modern phones.

Annoying. Blame the Germans and their lighting laws for bicycles. I want human powered USB-C with enough oomph to power a modest sound system or lights, whilst charging my phone. The allure of USB-C is what interests me, but 3W is not much to work with. Also annoying, no rear dynamo for my bike, so I can't even double up to 6W. I will probably end up with no sound system and just expensive dynamo lights, using a USB…

> power a modest sound system

please don't inflict your music on everyone around you.

Re: CrankGPT

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Post by icantevenhold »

bko wrote: post #150
jszymborski wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a bit of a difference between population control and reaching a sustainable equilibrium. One can also argue the death of all life on earth is a pretty evil logical conclusion of infinite growth on a finite planet.

What does "sustainable equilibrium" mean? What are you balancing if not human growth? And how do you plan to do that?

Doesn't it kind of work itself out?

If it’s unsustainable population growth there will eventually be some catastrophic environmental effects and the population will be reduced to a sustainable level. Of course living during that reduction could be a rather unpleasant experience but it probably also won’t last too long.

If it’s already sustainable everything is fine.

Re: CrankGPT

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Post by rwoerz »

Now I have that image in mind, where some Morlock finds that thing 100000 years after we have blown up our civilization and can actually make use of it.

Re: CrankGPT

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Post by dktoao »

Theodores wrote: post #82
andy_ppp wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can get a dynamo hub front wheel for push bikes: https://bikepacking.com/plan/dynamo-hubs-lighting-charging-g... However you can expect around only 3 watts of output at normal speeds and you will need to put in around 5-7 watts of power for the same speed. This is barely enough to trickle charge modern phones.

Annoying. Blame the Germans and their lighting laws for bicycles. I want human powered USB-C with enough oomph to power a modest sound system or lights, whilst charging my phone. The allure of USB-C is what interests me, but 3W is not much to work with. Also annoying, no rear dynamo for my bike, so I can't even double up to 6W. I will probably end up with no sound system and just expensive dynamo lights, using a USB…

Some of the bottle style ones claim to go up to 6W, they would also be easier to double or triple up. They are not nearly as nice and efficient as the hub dynamos though

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Post by trueno »

zahlman wrote: post #48

The webpage linked is an example of everything I wish people would stop doing in web design. Fortunately, at the bottom there is a link to the "technical documentation" ( https://squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/ ) which is vastly improved (aside from being light-mode-only and linked from a dark-mode-only marketing page). It also gives me much more interesting information (specifically: models that can apparently run a…

yea i can't stand this. im not so boomer i want every webpage to be like. times new roman white background and just using

and bulleted lists, but idk i cant even put a finger on what im not enjoying here. think it's possibly using scrolling as a way to try and force me to read through stuff. jokes on them, i can't read. not giving me the agency to click around into info that interests me drives me nuts, chances are im just gonna keep scrolling at 1000mph and eye scan until i see what im looking for virtually zero chance im going to sit through the experience of every carefully designed scroll-slide they've tried to present to me here.

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Post by overfeed »

eks391 wrote: post #84
meindnoch wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For reference, this is what 700W cycling looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ

I took several biomechanics classes as electives back in my undergrad, and in one assignment I remember comparing the energy outputs between the human and robot equivalents of different tasks, whether or not the robot was humanoid in how it was designed. The most impressive think that stuck with me is that humans are incredibly efficient , from an energy perspective, in anything we do, compared to machines. Every tim…

> The most impressive think that stuck with me is that humans are incredibly efficient, from an energy perspective, in anything we do, compared to machines.

Humans are efficient, but not across the board. Trivial counterexample: walking is incredibly energy inefficient vs a bicycle or other wheeled conveyances whose primary dissipater is rolling resistance.

Re: CrankGPT

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Post by cj »

lelandfe wrote: post #67
alansaber wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why can't technical people appreciate that us, the silent majority, love having our scroll hijacked? I can't remember the last time I used a scroll bar to navigate a website, but using it to navigate between choppy javascript keyframes fills me with joy.

This isn’t scroll hijacking You can scroll normally, with all your favorite keys, or go super fast to the bottom It’s just scroll animations. Bad ones, admittedly.

> You can scroll normally

Except you can’t.

I scroll down, and the content of the page doesn’t move as expected.

Re: CrankGPT

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Post by joe_the_user »

I was hoping for a parody LLM that produced answers of increasing craziness until you stopped using it. Can someone point me to something like this?
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