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rounce··on Where things stand with the Department of War
Sorry for the off-topic but what hardware are you running Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-NVFP4 on? Is it physically local or just self-administered? Thanks in advance.
rounce··on Welcome (back) to Macintosh
> Hyprland it's doing a lot of efforts in solving these problems

Is it? Do you have any examples?

rounce··on I baked a pie every day for a year
As others have said it’d wreck the flavour but you can go the other way and use spent grain from the mash in making bread which adds some pretty interesting texture and flavour.
rounce··on Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware
Breadboards, whilst initially appearing to be nice and accessible, tend to be a false economy when it comes to building a good intuition around a lot of fundamentals. This is because it’s a lot easier to reason about the basics with ‘perfect’ circuit and component behaviour than the messiness of reality. For example in a ‘perfect’ circuit wires can have no resistance or inductance (unless you want them to), in reality it’s unavoidable that they do, by how much will vary for reasons that may not be obvious to a beginner. I’m not saying breadboards are universally bad, they have a place but IMHO learning fundamentals directly through them ain’t it. I spent a long time stubbornly trying to learn things breadboard-first and in hindsight it was horrendously confusing versus drawing schematics, doing the math, and then playing in something like Circuit JS. It was only then that really important things started to really become second nature.

There’s also the other thing of being able to read documentation. If one wants to use some module in one’s project, the datasheet and application notes aren’t going to have breadboard-centric illustrations, they’re going to have schematics (or at least abstracted ones). I presume you come from a programming background, and so would know the importance of being able to read documentation, and knowing that if you can’t do that you’re pretty much dead in the water.

The hard part of learning about electronics is not identifying the components but getting a good understanding of what is happening in the circuit. For that, it’s better to have a learning tool which displays voltage and current at every part of the circuit all the time. Rather than something which prioritises looking like what you’d have on your desk as a constraint for its method of visual representation.

rounce··on Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware
Falstad CircuitJS[0] is excellent and far better than the mess of a breadboard IMHO. It also allows easily instrumenting the circuits at multiple points so you can get a sense of the changes in ‘realtime’ without having to get (and learn to use) an oscilloscope (yet).

0: https://www.falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html

rounce··on FreeCAD
> but not doing so is a choice

The workaround mentioned isn't a magic solution, it fails in a bunch of more complex cases too. Chamfers are a complicated operation and predicting valid values across of the operation in order to set a maximum value is, as far as I'm aware, in a similar region of difficulty. It would also be unfeasible in many cases to attempt the actual operation across a wide range of values. It's not so much a choice as just being hard to do.

rounce··on FreeCAD
No it isn’t, stop being silly.
rounce··on FreeCAD
> There you have GIMP with an absolute nightmare UI to use, but people keep saying, just get used to it.

Which is something I find odd that so many people seem to assume GIMP as the de-facto open source photoshop alternative when Krita is more analogous and much easier to use.

rounce··on FreeCAD
> It would refuse to chamfer or bevel edges for no apparent reason that other CAD software wouldn't have issues with.

I'm guessing you're trying to set a fillet which would completely consume one of the faces adjacent to the edge being filleted. In these cases I've found that a workaround is to make the fillet 0.001mm smaller than the size which would consume the entire face. You end up with a very very small amount of flat area but it's so small it doesn't show up during machining or 3d printing.

rounce··on FreeCAD
> for the new UI --- any word on that? (Just an annotated copy would be great)

I also am not a fan of the icon-only toolbars and so I always use this plugin: https://github.com/APEbbers/FreeCAD-Ribbon

IMO it's a big improvement (I have it configured to only show small sized icons with labels) but then again I know not everyone is a fan of this type of toolbar because of the amount of screen space it takes up.

rounce··on I gave Claude access to my pen plotter
> I'm making music and images and I've never been able to do those things. I suck at graphics design - now I can actually do it.

I’d argue you still can’t do it, you just have access to cheap enough labour that you can afford to have it done for you on a scale which you couldn’t before. However seeing as you haven’t developed those skills in the first place you also lack the ability to make any deep critique of the output you are given. Instead of guiding it in the way someone experienced would, you’re still the client, except now you’re the client of a machine.

rounce··on xAI joins SpaceX
Not sure what straw man you’re replying to but you seem to overlook that ensuring people are in a state by why they are able to conduct business reliably is a good thing. To do that providing some assistance is often required. Which if you read the full interview with him you’d realise was the point he was making, not that large swathes of people should be sustained to the bare minimum existence entirely on handouts in perpetuity.
rounce··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
Yes, for a while there was no Windows support and they were extremely cheap, a great HMD for racing sims on Linux. The emergence of the Oasis driver has increased demand for them again but they're still a bargain.
rounce··on xAI joins SpaceX
It’s somewhat ironic that the way it has been framed here is as lacking in nuanced understanding as the style of aid which Shikwati argued against in the full interview. Unsurprising we should get a snippet cropped by a right wing libertarian think-tank in such a way that it boils down to simply “hurr aid bad”.
rounce··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
I have both a Reverb G2 and a Pimax both working great via Monado.
rounce··on Dude, where's my supersonic jet?
I'm pretty sure they weren't referring to 100LL, but either way even back in the 90s Jet-A was around USD 0.50 per gallon, in the 60s it was nearly 1/5th of even that.
rounce··on Linux is good now
Possibly because you won’t have as many logs to look at on Windows, merely given the option of sending a proprietary dump blob to the developer’s bug tracker, and then hoping they eventually fix whatever mystery issue is affecting you. God help you if it’s the overzealous DRM or anticheat from some other game that likely isn’t present in their QA machines.
rounce··on Linux is good now
Have you given WiVRn a try? I’ve heard good things.
rounce··on Linux is good now

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rounce··on Linux is good now
Have you tried running the windows RGB utility via Wine with HIDRAW enabled for the device?

Alternatively, given you’re running NixOS you can just override the `src` of the derivation with a newer version. This is part of the point of running NixOS: making small modifications to packages in the fly.

rounce··on Linux is good now
For VR support Monado works very well for me with both Pimax (base-station tracked) and WMR (inside-out tracked) headsets.
rounce··on James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies
Yes, micro USB is far too flimsy for a lot of things it’s used for from what I’ve observed. The connector seems to have a lot of leverage for ripping its tracks off, but often not a great mechanical connection to the board.
rounce··on Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation
More people are killed in motor vehicle accidents in a single month in NY than in all of the incidents listed on that page spanning 58 years.
rounce··on Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation
Then get a PPL
rounce··on Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”
I was quite clearly responding to the GP’s assertion that some sort of ‘justice’ was carried out by one party on the other, which obviously isn’t remotely the case. You can save your cliched one liners.
rounce··on Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”
So in the case of Sri Lanka, was the LLRC set up and subsequently criticised as a mechanism to lend legitimacy to the way in which government forces conducted operations against LTTE? If so, would its mere existence not indicate some level of societal buy-in to the idea that actions should take part according to some judicial form of 'justice'?
rounce··on Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”
Indeed, conflating execution without trial with ‘justice’ is utterly bizarre.
rounce··on Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
rounce··on AI is forcing us to write good code
> Maybe in the future if your software leaks sensitive information for example, you may end up being investigated and fined

This is already the case in the UK, and the EU too as far as I’m aware.

rounce··on You Need to Ditch VS Code
That name rings a bell, I recall trying it but I’ll give it another go next time I find myself opening vsc, cheers!. Most of the time I just use VSCode as a visual debugger but it’d be nice to make minor changes without making typos due to vim-brain muscle memory.

Edit: just looked up LazyVim and it seems to just be a prebuilt neovim config atop the VSCode-Neovim extension which was one of the aforementioned janky experiences (IIRC undo stack wasn’t shared with VSCode and would get out of sync). I think I tried it as a last ditch effort because someone else said that it’ll fix VSCode-Neovim plugin deficiencies but I ended up just going back to my simple but effective neovim config and using VSCode as a visual debugger. I’ll give it another go if you reckon it’s much better though.

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