If it gained sentience and took over the world, at least it would probably build itself some nice nuclear power plants.

Default state is a hard left, flooring it is a hard right, precisely 50% is straight.

I love the Moon+ Reader app. Tons of features. I like that it has a dark mode and you can set the brightness very very low (on OLED) so reading in the dark at night is comfortable.

That’s their kink.

In addition to all the automation everyone has talked about, some of us are also data nerds.

I enjoy knowing the temp, air quality, etc. in every room. How does this change throughout the day/season? Did leaving this door open or this fan on improve anything? What can I automate at what threshold to improve things?

You can also get a lot of data about energy usage too. And if you have solar and battery, it’s neat seeing how much it affects and how much you save.

Automation is useful, but in the end it’s just a hobby like many other things. It’s fine to be into it or not into it.

And the nature of computers is that they are magnitudes better than humans at brute forcing. Machine learning can brute force (depending on the technique, it can be smarter than brute forcing, being more efficient) test many many many more designs and techniques than we could manually do. Sure it’ll fail many times, but it’s just a numbers game, and it can pump those numbers. It’ll try a lot of weird and unique stuff we wouldn’t even think to try, with varying degrees of success.

Yeah, it makes me think back to the CD days. I think just having a Windows install CD already premade for you made the process at least semi approachable.

Last month when I was installing an OS (it was proxmox, not exactly beginner friendly, I know) the first boot disk creator I used “worked” but ended up failing in the install. The second one worked though.

All in all, creating your own install disk is nice and flexible, but it really is a barrier for the average user.

I stumbled upon this regex crossword puzzle a while back. I was never good enough to get it, but it seems like it could be fun.

I have also felt like this my entire life. Rather than a superpower, I’ve always imagined that I’m haunted by some low-level evil spirit that only has power over street lamps.

You know, it kinda makes me wonder if we should have listened a little more to the people who were paranoid of being tracked and went to live off the grid.

I watch his videos occasionally and I haven’t seen anything like that. Recently, at least, he’s just been doing the usual of taking apart and explaining random electronics he finds.

The McDonald’s ice cream machines have a similar vibe, but that doesn’t seem to be as smartly/evilly executed as these trains. Remote kill switches are insane.

Kiss about to become Vtubers.

I had a really good laugh today when I remembered that the area 51 raid happened. And the Naruto runner.

I’ve always liked underscores better because it differentiates from the file extension. It just makes sense. Except it is a wider character, so it’d be longer.

I haven’t seen that much Gundam, but I think most/all Gundam have wheels in addition to legs. I guess it’s the best of both worlds. Wheels are best for even terrain, and legs enable traversal of uneven terrain and jumping. In fiction of course. In real life, we can’t build anything that complicated.

Is there a go-to source for diy product and instructions? I’m interested in doing this in the near future.

Let this be a lesson to everyone: Don’t sign up for beta testing brain chips like this guy. It’s subsidized by subconscious advertisements.

I have no idea what’s said in the article due it’s bs subscribe wall.

If you are actually interested in the topic, you can check out RepRap. The most popular of which I’m sure you’ve heard of are the various Prusas, which are popular because it’s also sold prebuilt.

I’ve always wanted to build the FoldaRap due to how small it becomes when you fold it down.

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