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New comment by R0b0t1 in "Online art communities begin banning AI-generated images"

R0b0t1 — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 05:25:51 +0000

Yeah, give me a second, singularity exists.

New comment by R0b0t1 in "Feather: A Minecraft server implementation in Rust"

R0b0t1 — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 22:02:33 +0000

Here to verify, there's a fair bit of software where the state of the art is in Rust. How it happened so quick is a little surprising, but here we are.

New comment by R0b0t1 in "Old school Linux administration – my next homelab generation"

R0b0t1 — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 17:55:38 +0000

Quick to repair is also a lot more versatile. Unfortunately, I had to work in a lot of environments with proprietary, vendor-locked software and hardware. Usually all you can do is make sure you design the system so that you can chuck entire parts of it (possibly for rework, but sometimes not) if it breaks or gets compromised.

Definitely relevant for, say, SCADA controls with terrible security.

New comment by R0b0t1 in "High difficulty computer vision cluster munition detection"

R0b0t1 — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 01:53:39 +0000

The answer is yes, now quit guessing so accurately

New comment by R0b0t1 in "Will young Americans want to work in semiconductor manufacturing? [video]"

R0b0t1 — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 17:52:38 +0000

You don't think I'm qualified? Why? Because what I said made you feel bad for some reason? Well jackass, you're definitely not qualified, keep reading. Or maybe don't, because what people put in books must also be wrong because you're a special snowflake.

Sigh. There's another conversation I had on here that went similar to this one. Basically, a guy was saying, "the tough road I took to get to my position is what made me who I am" which is perhaps literally true but also trash. There is always a way you could have gotten to where you are today, or indeed even a better place, with less hardship. If you rubbed a lamp and a genie asked if you wanted to change anything about your past, saying "no I'm perfectly happy with who I am today" is a brazen lie and about the stupidest thing you could do. You have no regrets? You don't want to be a better person? The hell is wrong with you?

Likewise, why want hardship for your children just for the sake of hardship? They could learn without hardship just as well, though you may not be smart enough to figure out how.

New comment by R0b0t1 in "Designing a coherent set of keyboard shortcuts"

R0b0t1 — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 21:58:31 +0000

The first step of consistency is determining and agreeing on what you want the computer to do. I don't see this happening, and it kind of removes the point of having multiple DEs, etc, for experimentation. Though perhaps after investigating in this direction, one might understand how users want to interact with the system key bindings, if at all, and be able to break down user interaction into digestible chunks.

Everyone has heard (or... most people) about a lot of the clever Apple shortcuts, but they are intensely not discoverable. People still need to go out of their way to learn them. It's just it's Apple, so no one cares.

New comment by R0b0t1 in "11 18 25 13 19 11 1 2 1 22 15 22 14 1"

R0b0t1 — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 19:18:01 +0000

Feint - Mirror signal

IC3PEAK - Зеркало (Mirror)

Feint - Stairway to Heaven (You Are Slaves)

FACE - Коттон (Cotton)

The Russian Futurists - Let's Get Ready To Crumble

Scarcity of Tanks (band)

New comment by R0b0t1 in "Will young Americans want to work in semiconductor manufacturing? [video]"

R0b0t1 — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 18:08:54 +0000

If the work is repetitive I'm not sure you can say it was good experience. Your time would have been better spent learning or creating, I assume. No reason to want your children to work.

New comment by R0b0t1 in "The Manual for the Mass Surveillance Tool Cops Use to Track Phones"

R0b0t1 — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 16:19:55 +0000

This is how it's supposed to work in the US.

New comment by R0b0t1 in "1 in 4 Gen Z-ers plan to become social media influencers"

R0b0t1 — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:16:03 +0000

You're right however what he is saying I suspect is more about the perception of leading as opposed to actually leading.

New comment by R0b0t1 in "1 in 4 Gen Z-ers plan to become social media influencers"

R0b0t1 — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:14:13 +0000

I don't think it's objective badness but more the perceived and probably real lack of social mobility.

New comment by R0b0t1 in "Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers"

R0b0t1 — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:11:31 +0000

> EDIT: oh, and heart disease is the #1 cause of death in the US, while heart surgery is one of the most difficult specialties to get in to. They are absolutely never short on patients, lol.

This is still relevant to his concern, but from the other end. They might be making the labor artificially scarce to increase pay.

New comment by R0b0t1 in "An acoustic study of domestic cat meows in 6 contexts and 4 mental states"

R0b0t1 — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 07:57:52 +0000

That's unfair to the cat. I trained mine (possibly halfway by accident) to fake bite hands. They tend to run away if they don't know you still, but if it's someone they know they can tell them they don't want pets without moving.

He also missed #4. Cat bites you because it wants pets.

New comment by R0b0t1 in "The dictatorship of the articulate"

R0b0t1 — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 07:48:36 +0000

There are plenty of areas with too much red tape.

New comment by R0b0t1 in "Holier Than Thou: Precision Holes by Drilling, Boring, and Reaming (2021)"

R0b0t1 — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 23:12:13 +0000

listen here you little shit

New comment by R0b0t1 in "Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years"

R0b0t1 — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 20:48:17 +0000

This is true only for some designs. It's possible you could have a power island that doesn't get discharged and also has no connection to any buttons when the board is nominally off, and that the things in that power island refuse to reset properly.

There's a whole area of electronics design related to this (unfortunately).

New comment by R0b0t1 in "The Missing Chinese Machine Revolution"

R0b0t1 — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 15:51:54 +0000

I've thought about this a fair bit and despite my initial conclusions I am no longer certain that the two alphabet styles are similar. It seems to me that ideagraphic systems have a tendency to evolve in a highly stratified society where it is useful to have knowledge of the symbols serve as ingroup signalling.

New comment by R0b0t1 in "SSH commit verification now supported"

R0b0t1 — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 20:50:03 +0000

> but imagine you put your handwritten signature on every single step of your work

In most engineering or engineering adjacent fields you are doing this, btw. Yes, in software too.

New comment by R0b0t1 in "Outdoor Sound Propagation in the U.S. Civil War (1999)"

R0b0t1 — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 21:24:11 +0000

Seems plausible base on my experiences outdoors, but it heavily depends on ambient conditions. Over such large distances I think the unlikely part is you do that trick twice, but even that is plausible merely by looking at seasonal changes.

New comment by R0b0t1 in "There’s no speed limit (2009)"

R0b0t1 — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 04:30:24 +0000

The lack of homework, I think. It's not a natural thing to do. Apart from an explicitly pedagogical environment I have found the best thing to suggest people is to try to work their learning into a project. For math this can be hard unless you also have relevant engineering experience to make something with your math you are learning.