extragood

Even more extreme.

'Antisocial' means against others. "Antagonistic, hostile, or unfriendly toward others; menacing"

'Asocial' means reclusive or unwilling to be social, but isn't necessarily antagonistic

Qbasic was also my first language too. A friend and I spent the evening drawing a face on the screen then updating it so it moved back and forth. No formal training or anything, just childhood curiosity and experimentation. It is very approachable language for a novice.

I had my S22 upside down in my pocket and happened to splash water directly into the USB port and nowhere else. The precision was honestly kind of impressive. I only knew about it because my phone freaked out. I let it dry overnight rather than charge it, and everything has been good since then.

I've been running TrueNAS for years on commodity hardware that's been upcycled from my personal workstation after major upgrades.

Current iteration is: a skylake era CPU, 16 gb ddr4, 4x 14TB WD Reds, 2x 512 GB SSD, and a m.2 boot drive

Used primarily for shared storage, backups, media serving, and lightweight docker containers (home assistant, git tea, etc) in an Ubuntu VM.

It's been super stable (paired with a UPS) and was surprisingly economical for what it is. I've also learned a lot in the process.

I do wish my CPU had a few more cores though.

I have to say that is precisely the opposite of my experience.

I held on to a 2012 4 GB MacBook Air until fairly recently as my casual web browsing machine. With such low system memory, I had to be extremely economical with my open tabs; no more than 3 or 4 at a time. The great suspender plugin helped until it became malware infested, and with that no longer an option, I moved to Firefox. The resource utlization improvement was immediately apparent and I haven't looked back, even after I finally updated my machine.

I had a similar revelation at work recently.

I've lead a team for the past several years. Our productivity and the quality of the work never was never questioned for the first ~4 years. We consistently met or exceeded expectations, and everyone was happy.

In the past year of belt tightening, my leadership and methods have come under scrutiny by our executives. I've spent many hours defending my decisions, especially team structure. The thing which finally got them (mostly) off my back was sharing the name of the methodology that most resembled what I had built. Suddenly my explanations check out.

While I'm happy to have a lot of that pressure relieved, it's also been a frustrating experience. My credibility relied on someone else giving a name to a methodology that I devised independently, and that was more important than any of the results of the previous 4 years.

I have a similar feeling.

My team builds out a lot of one-off projects for customers, and a lot of them don't need to be especially performant. That has always been the case for reporting/analytical projects.

You know what does make a difference though? Amount of development effort spent on the solution. The most performant solution can very easily cost the company much more in terms of development time spent. So in that sense, it's sub-optimal

That's (b)ananas

My favorite teacher in high school was my calculus teacher.

He would regularly ask a student to solve a problem or answer a question. Students would often ask for confirmation as they worked through, and his response invariably was "what do you think?" - whether they were right or wrong.

His explanation for that was "if I tell you you're right, then you'll stop thinking about the problem". And that's stuck with me for many years.

I see that as a major issue we will face as software becomes more capable/intelligent: we'll stop thinking because it can be assumed that the machine always has the right answer. And it's a quick regression from there.

I'm far from an expert, but I'm pretty sure they're referring to Spectre and Meltdown exploits: https://meltdownattack.com/

Fair enough. I have a few gripes with the channel, particularly how they title videos and the thumbnails are usually cheesy. The content can be hit or miss, but the smart house series is especially relevant to me as I'm going through something similar a smaller scale.

The thing that I find so interesting is that they - for better or worse - essentially live stream their business decisions, challenges, and aspirations. Whether their endeavors are successful or not, I agree with their decision to try and move beyond Youtube and create their own video platform via Floatplane. They've also found success in alternative revenue streams via sponsorships from reputable brands and merchandising and are very open about their metrics.

Lastly, I really respect that they are 100% bootstrapped. I've only ever worked for companies that rely on investor funding for growth, and their influence often feels intrusive and counterproductive.

Actually, no - their thing for the past few years has been to build out the most comprehensive test bench across all PC hardware components. "LTT Labs." They are aiming to become the authority on hardware performance and reliability, and have invested heavily in the tools and industry experts required to do that. Linus doesn't do any testing himself; he is just bankrolling it with the proceeds from his main channel and other media properties.

I find this whole thing super fascinating, coming from the perspective of Silicon Valley startups.

I went to a talk by PayPal founders - Peter Thiel and Max Levchin - more than a decade ago (before I had any opinions about the former), and they essentially said the same thing.

And from what I see in the comments here, a lot of people are misunderstanding the point.

If Jensen, Thiel, or Levchin fully understood the challenges they'd face to get their companies off the ground, they would never have pursued it. That's not to say they regret the results.

For better or worse, they all persevered, and so it's easy for us to say, well yeah, obviously that was the right move. Because PayPal and Nvidia are obvious slam dunks in retrospect. But none of us have been there, as pioneers of the unproven, and it's the height of arrogance to contradict that.

I'm surprised that there weren't any sinusoidal representations mentioned.

Scandinavians traditionally celebrate both the summer and winter solstices, and the change in light over the course of the year is dramatic at that latitude. To me, that would best be illustrated with a sine wave.

Super interesting - thanks for sharing! Glad to hear that there is so much momentum pushing this forward. I'm with the presenter: I desperately want this to happen in my.. I mean our.. lifetimes.

It may be possible to get much higher resolution images of exoplanets in the not too distant future by taking advantage of gravitational lensing and our own sun [1]. There are a few related advancements required before we can do that, although the thought that it could happen in our lifetimes is really exciting.

[1] https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2022/05/02/gravity-...

While the image quality is better (and the price difference is beyond compare), I've noticed that a lot of channels are still broadcast at 720p.

> In b2b you never say no, always have an option for what they're asking and charge more for it.

This was a somewhat recent revelation for me, and it totally works.

"Well, we don't really want to work on this or agree with the approach, but pay us double our normal rate, and we'll do whatever you want."

Typically that will end the conversation, and in the rare case they do move forward, being paid handsomely is really nice

There was one in '99 - $800 for a whopping 1.2 MP image [1]. It did not do well [2], although to be fair there were a number of issues with that implementation:

> The lack of battery space, the need to open the camera to change ISO, White Balance or any other image setting, and the need to indicate a crop in the viewfinder if anything less than a full frame sensor is used, are all difficult to get around, especially considering that this had to work in more than one model of camera. And that made the large assumption that many modern photographers would be willing to live without a rear LCD to check their images.

[1] https://www.dpreview.com/articles/3149799436/siliconfilm [2] https://www.dpreview.com/articles/4804601936/faded-dream-blo...

I'm sure there are valid reasons for doing that, but whenever I see multiple franchises within spitting distance of one another, I can't help but be reminded of Gob Bluth's "market research" for a 2nd banana stand in Arrested Development:

> Did you know that more frozen bananas are sold right here on this boardwalk than anywhere in the OC?

And of course he goes on to cannibalize the family's original business.

Absolutely. I spent an entire summer writing translation layers for a bunch of different microscopes so that they could interface with the detector software of the company I was interning for. It was tedious work!

I had the same thought. As far as I can tell, they are leaning on the ability to pause recording at any time, meaning that in all-party consent states, it's up to the user to disclose that they are employing a recording device. That seemingly defeats the point of the device in many situations where the default state should be off. I would most benefit from something like this in public situations where I'm meeting a lot of people, but it'd be impractical to use it that way where I live.

The US leads the world in both mass incarceration and recidivism. Jail time is not only not a deterrent, but actively makes the problem worse because incarceration in the US is punitive and is much less focused on rehabilitation. An ex-convict has very few options for employment after they've served their time, so it's unsurprising that many need to steal for their survival. It's a feedback loop that can only get worse without addressing the underlying issues: guaranteeing people's basic needs for survival. Shelter, food, clean water, adequate healthcare.

Reducing incarceration should be the goal, but it needs to achieved by addressing those fundamental requirements.

Copyright doesn't protect style or genre [1], so these suits seem destined to fail. That said, it seems like it is time to reexamine those laws in light of current technology before it kills off creative works.

https://creativecommons.org/2023/03/23/the-complex-world-of-....

My AP Lit teacher in high school encouraged us to read the bible - not for any type of religious reason - but because it is so frequently referenced by western literature, especially in older texts. If you don't pick up on the biblical allegories when reading something like Shakespeare then you'll miss critical details.

I can't imagine the pain you must live with every day. I'm so sorry.

The article does disambiguate between (what they call) "true sadness" and depression:

> Gold dismisses the common idea that depression is medicalised sadness, noting that “true sadness is often associated with cherished, loving memories of, for instance, a lost loved one, combined with grief over their loss, and, at times, a bittersweet feeling encompassing both the bounties of life and the harsh reality that all relationships must come to an end”. Such feelings, he says, are typically unavailable to seriously depressed individuals, whose emotional repertoire is constricted to “a deadening litany of self-excoriation and hopelessness”.

And I think it is an important distinction. "Depression" has been treated as a catch-all term for what turns out to be a myriad of different causes that happen to look the same to an outside observer.

I personally experience chronic inflammation due to Crohn's disease and it does cause depressive symptoms even though there isn't any major external reason that I should feel that way.

And it makes no sense that the same treatment should be used in both of our cases.

First of all: amazing.

Secondly, have you followed Linus Sebastian's ultimate tech/gaming home videos at all? He has a slightly different objective, but he's done some creative things which you may appreciate.

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I think that approach might only work if both locations are directly north/south from each other, unless I'm thinking about this wrong. If the locations are east/west relative to each other, the shortest shadow won't occur at exactly the same moment.

edit: I guess that would still be a problem if you're using the zenith to determine the time of measurement. The best map I can find of the 2 locations used is [here](https://mathigon.org/step/circles/eratosthenes) and seems to indicate that Alexandria and Swenet/the other location are relatively north/south to each other.

edit 2: some more thoughts. If 2 points at the same latitude but on the opposite sides of the world were chosen, Eratosthenes method wouldn't have worked. The sun would have the same position in the sky at the zenith, but they'd be separated by thousands of miles, implying a flat world. Whether by design or luck, it seems that Eratosthenes experiment only works if the same longitude is used for each location, and otherwise he would have arrived at a very different answer for the circumference of the earth.

That is clever! Thanks for sharing these. It's endlessly fascinating to read about how such accurate conclusions were made via simple observation and deduction.