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The silver bus bars in the magnetic separators were kind of a stunt, if that's what you're thinking of.

Can't buy those opensticks any more. They were from 2022.

I got a notification email about this from mxroute.com (email host) yesterday.

Wasn't it about gamers not all that long ago? Is it kthxbai to gamers now?

Required reading, "Things Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than", https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html

And: "A Personal History of Compilation Speed, Part 2" https://prog21.dadgum.com/47.html

I have a dead UV-5R, not sure exactly which variant. It stopped powering on. If anyone wants it for free (pickup in SF or you pay shipping) let me know. It might be useful for extracting firmware without risk of bricking, since it's already a brick.

Yeah there are plenty of metal filters if you're ok with not having a paper filter. If you do want a paper filter (for health reasons or because you prefer cleaner coffee) there aren't that many choices.

I should have said, I like to make large batches, and wanted an alternative to a drip machine. Drip machines are typically 12 or 14 cups. I had a 13 cup Chemex but it broke (my fault). I might get a 10 cup one sometime. I'm currently using a Melitta 10 cup pourover pot, which has a plastic filter cone. I'm not yet dead from it, but I do want to move away from it.

I've never liked cold brew, though of course that's just me. Blecch.

I hate substack. I'll hold my nose and click a substack link if I expect it to be especially informative, but I mostly pass them over.

Added: it's not really the distasteful stuff that substack users sometimes publish on the platform (I'm not big on guilt by association in that regard). I hate the substack software and the expectation that anything on their domain will be somebody's brain fart behind a paywall.

I have some personal static web pages, no blog per se, but some bloggers use Lemmy to federate comments. That seems like a reasonable approach for static blogs if the content isn't too edgy. If you're worried about long term archiving of the comments, you can always archive them yourself with an automated client behind the scenes.

namecrane.com is a good host for shared web hosting if you don't want to use a VPS and run a HTTPD yourself. It starts at $8 per year (bring your own domain). They support tons of existing blogging engines among other things. It's a spin-off from buyvm.net which some of you might be familiar with.

I hope they keep the archived site open for read-only.

It's hard to find plastic-free normal paper filter coffee makers. A few exist but mostly only for small batches. Also, the porcelain or glass ones are breakable just like the Chemex. I'm a bit suspicious of copper (Hario makes one of those). Kalita has a stainless steel one but it's small and expensive. I'd be interested if you know of anything else.

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French press coffee isn't so healthy either because of stuff like cafestols in the fines (small diameter grounds) that slip through the french press screen. To get rid of those you want a brewing scheme with a paper filter. The simplest no-plastic approach is a Chemex. They have a history and they also look cool as heck. Unfortunately, since they are made of glass, they can break if you're not careful. https://chemexcoffeemaker.com/

Yes, static checking when available will have to figure into the toolchain so the compiler knows what to do. It's similar with Ada right now.

Alvin's Secret Code by Clifford B. Hicks. That's the one that got me started. I think I read it in 3rd grade (age 8).

I don't understand the controversy or objections, though maybe I'm missing something. This looks like Ada-2012 contracts which evolved from SPARK Ada going back to near-ancient times. They're well accepted I thought. The idea is to standardize the syntax so that static analyzers can check the contracts, like in Ada. I think Rust is getting something similar. It seems important. Maybe the DIS was rejected because there are still disagreements about some details, ok fine. But rejecting the whole feature sounds counterproductive to keeping C++ relevant. Assuming that last is a good thing, of course.

This doesn't seem to be the same person as The Great Carlini from the Coffee Chess youtube channel, but that's ok, the hacking he did on these chess engines was interesting and he seems to know what he's doing.

I'd have liked to see a backport of something more like Leela, i.e. more human-like evaluation with less search. Leela's neural net is bigger than Stockfish's NNUE but it's slower and static. I heard years ago that Leela searching 35 nodes per move was around equal to a human GM, and it should be much better now that they've redone Leela's NN architecture. My 4-core i5-3570S ran Leela at around 40 nodes/second but I unfortunately don't remember if that used all 4 cores or just one (Leela normally runs on a GPU at 1000s of nps). If the i5 is 100x faster than Carlini's Pentium Pro then that means around 0.4 nps, putting it above GM strength at classical time controls of around 2 minutes per move.

Cute but these things are always too small and too slow. Let's have a full page (14 inch) one that can redraw the screen in say 1 second, for e-reading. Being fast enough for video would be great but is not required.

Fwiw I wrote a bunch of my college papers on a version of Roff originally written by Col. G. L. Sicherman for CP/M, which I ported to Turbo C for the obsolete-when-I-got-it MSDOS laptop that I had back then. I ran that program under x64 Linux much more recently and it still worked after I ripped out some DOS stuff, despite some C anachronisms. The CP/M program is still around in old code archive sites.

I also remember writing a crude HTML to text renderer for an old Linux box because lynx -dump was too slow then. I wonder if the code I wrote is still around anywhere. Lynx on today's hardware is extremely fast.

Is this even a good idea? I've had lucid dreams (not by intention) a few times but mostly I thought dreaming was a GC process for your brain, so trying to constrain or control it could interfere with its function.

Spoiler. The question was "What would Steve Jobs do?".

There's a version he described in a video where all the matter and energy in the universe is eventually eaten by black holes, so (not sure why) there is no more spacetime. Just black holes. Then unimaginably slowly (if that means anything in the absence of spacetime), the BH's decay through Hawking radiation and this creates a new universe. I like the imagery which is, as you say, poetic.

Penrose also wrote a book proposing that the human brain is a quantum computer and its thought processes couldn't be simulated on a classical computer. I don't think that one has worked out.

Wow! I wonder if it can start programming itself soon.

Thanks, that's interesting, I hoped maybe it would use pytorch or something. But what I'm wondering is whether the result would run at usable speed. I don't currently use anything like opus and only want to use open weight models, and at the moment I don't have a GPU machine, though I guess I can spin up an hourly VM with one sometime.

ASR = automatic speech recognition. I think this is the same as STT, speech to text?

It seems to want an NVidia GPU. I didn't look closely to find out if it can run usably without one. For me, usable might mean 10% of realtime, i.e. an overnight run on my old x86 box for 1 hour of transcription. Of course faster is always nice. YMMV.

I was subjected to one of those once. I nominated it for deletion myself. I'm glad it's gone.

I don't see the need for an even more powerful Pi Zero. I'd say just have a modernized version of the original $5 single core Pi Zero, or ok the wireless version was good too. Maybe even have a 128MB config (original one was 512MB before the DRAM shortage) to keep the price down. Model A same same, who needs it if it's not a lot cheaper than the B.

I do like the Pico series and it would be cool to have one of those with memory protection.

Don't they mean focus and disconnect?

It's because of IP reputation and spam blocking. You can't start with a "clean" address and send mail. You need to spend some time on "address warming" to build reputation for the address before the big providers will accept mail from it.