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Re:Katamari Damacy but it's The Met collection on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:51AM (#50352719)
ah i guess that could be rolled into the level select: scaling the ball progresses through the collections, making it a linear experience, but one that could be more.... curated :D
Re:Life with Down Syndrome on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:25AM (#50352387)
> I've always felt different

visit new york city's lower east side

everyone here is different :)

Re:DiscImageStudio on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:19AM (#50351086)
there was an inkjet printer that had a special tray for CD/DVDs

the intent was to add artwork to the discs, but if you put a copper-plated board in there, printed on a circuit board, and etched away the area left behind, you'd be almost there :)

drilling holes and thru plating is my least favorite step tho

inflammation _is_ a repair process (part of it)
Re:NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:32PM (#50331966)
> The space agency released a Request For Information (RFI) on Thursday asking commercial companies for ideas on how to reboost, service, or a controlled disposal of Hubble.

send another satellite with a better camera, and use it to knock the old one out of orbit like a pool ball

Re:Voynich Manuscript on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:23PM (#50331906)
i got the Codex Seraphinianus as a gift a while back

its fun to "unfocus" my mind while flipping through the pages, pretending the things inside might even be real. got an idea for a clock design that way once

Re:Retro Gaming Has a Port-Slop Problem on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:12PM (#50331813)
found ape escape on the quiver launcher; its definitely janky compared to an emulator, but still interesting to see if i can have some fun moving code around
Re:People 'Vibe Manufacturing' on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:02PM (#50329850)
i pipe pdfs directly from LLMs to UV printing and laser cutting services for enclosures
> Half of Americans struggle to afford groceries and gas

the other half walk to restaurants

> A companion Roosevelt Institute brief found that some platforms "use data-brokers to determine nurse debt levels and offer lower wages to those with highest debt loads."

thanks free market

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> ... his 6-year-old son has visited the site. “He dreams of being a truck driver. But I told him my job is to replace truck drivers,” Liu said.

such is tech

the US has summoned the ambassador of Seaweed to answer for this

our chocolate shortage is dire!

Re:Radiation Map of the World on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:12AM (#50325887)
watch out for this hotspot in nyc!

https://radiaverse.com/map#15.65/40.782/-73.974

who knew we kept such things just lying around :)

Re:Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018) on Sunday November 01, 2026 @07:52AM (#50325176)
my grandmother used her offline-only computer for solitaire

what are grandmothers even doing on the internet, theres dangerous viruses and worms on there!

is there any other medium where the range of participants in the pool goes from "55 year career professional" to "hardened criminal" to "kindly grandmother"

> How out of touch do you have to be to be to make that call

facebook sends out fake "you just requested this login code" notifications through whatsapp to make you worry, sign in, and bump their MAU count

where do you think it ends :/

Re:Japan's trains are great. Why is booking one so hard? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @07:34AM (#50325029)
it got so bad, even their _free online games_ needed to authenticate using a bespoke popup where you clicked in your pin number

towards the end it shuffled the digits after each click

truly cat and mouse

> lack of push notifications

under-rated feature

same as self-hosting email/webservers though, you dont need world-class hardware for personal projects. frontier models may be more capable but a smaller model can just as easily work through a project you break down for it
i've been running DeepSeekV4 flash but looking at the other models being suggested around, best part is switching to test has 0 cost :)

i felt like commercials LLMs were "good enough" for my needs about 2-3 generations ago, so this clicked into my work/life needs perfectly

i got them right before they went up in price, but honestly, for the ability to know that i wont have my thinking "questioned"... priceless

> Who decides what gets to be reverse engineered and what doesn't?

whoever owns the hardware

currently running 2x DGX Sparks and never thought to use a commercial model again

Re:Shiny Object Syndrome on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:18AM (#50315443)
cant wait till fads are retro again
Re:Trapped in the Technologist Factory on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:12AM (#50315407)
not OP but I once took an entry-level role at a small museum exhibit fabricator as their "tech guy", and many people i worked with there were showing me PLC / ladder logic stuff
until it stops making noise :|
Re:We Took over ChatGPT Accounts on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:02AM (#50315307)
dont click links

250k refresher fee

Re:We Took over ChatGPT Accounts on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:47AM (#50315167)
> able to take over anyone's account simply by sending them a link

dont click links people

that'll be $500k for the security training pls

it gave me an ad for hair regrowth drugs..

guess youtube has a different measure :P

what if we used AI on the climate
wait till you hear how people are made!
i think Steam's biggest moat was always understanding that a $50 refund is a $500+ future customer

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