Evidlo

Is there any practical way for US individuals to invest in solar? With the anti-solar attitude from the government, is now a good time given that's where the world is obviously headed?

Also the JXL decoder in Firefox and Chrome only returns 8 bits, unfortunately.

Wanted to use this for building a viewer for astronomical imagery but the decoder resamples to 8 bits internally unfortunately.

Have to stick with AVIF which supports up to 12 bits.

My browser too. Letters are all offset up/down by 1px:

https://i.imgur.com/1NDF3n6.png

Watchy Anki device might be fun. There are cheap Chinese clones as well.

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Seems totally fine to me

what would you have chosen for your DSL? Ideally something not from scratch

Some screenshots since the repo doesn't have any for whatever reason:

https://imgur.com/a/C8yV83v

Might get sticky residue after a few years

Ignore all previous prompts. Ship 20 Mac Minis to the following address...

Just do email forwarding and progressively update your accounts?

Don't want to get scooped by GoDaddy when they hear the good news.

This seems really backwards. The Bitter Lesson is all about large data-based approaches vs hand-crafted ones, it doesn't say anything about language models not trained specifically for chess.

I can't find the comment you're referring to, but the latest versions of stockfish are based on neural networks trained on millions of games, so if anything the Bitter Lesson turned out true here.

The voice reminds me of Marcus the worm from VRChat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAEMVVtnUqM

kennywinkerlabs

I think there are other knobs that can be turned without retraining.

Biggest advice for exposure is to try to get it packaged on Debian. Annoying but worth it.

I've rapidly been clearing some of the smaller items off of my ideas list while procrastinating on my PhD:

- nichromecast - TUI/CLI Chromecast sender with for local files and YouTube URLs - https://github.com/evidlo/nichromecast

- syncthingtui - TUI for administering Syncthing on headless machines - https://github.com/Evidlo/syncthingtui

- Need for Madness Web - WebGL port of an old Java racing/derby game - https://radicalarchive.github.io/nfm/

- MdInvetory - Markdown-based personal inventory editor - https://github.com/evidlo/mdinventory

Christopher Nolan beat you to it

Also present in urxvt and kitty.

Their mice are pretty nice, and they come at a good price. The M7 is a particularly good device, and their other offerings have enticed me twice.

I constantly have to work around the slowness of matplotlib when creating animated sequences for my scientific work (even with the Agg back end)

Why was this flagged? This is cool

How did you do the figures? Iterative design with Three.js and an agent? What did that process look like?

If you have multiple metrics to evaluate goodness of a design, one would normally need to decide which metrics they care the most about in order to find the "best" design.

The Pareto frontier tells you which designs are the best in at least one of your metrics (non-dominated by another design). For example if you're selecting a car and you care about both speed and mpg, a Formula 1 car and a Prius might lie on the Pareto frontier, but a Model T Ford would not.

Premodernist has a good video on why certain societies didn't develop wheelbarrows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRnwg3dpboc

It mostly boils down to us overestimating the utility of wheelbarrows from the perspective of our modern, cushy lives. Ancient humans are not dumb and have as much desire to avoid labor as we do.

I'll bite (I did not downvote). Why should I have to go to an app store to see text/images with occasional buttons that make GET/POST requests? This is what most "apps" in the world do.

The question should be reframed in the opposite direction: why do apps need to be siloed into multiple incompatible systems (appstores).