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New comment by emarthinsen in "Building a Medieval Castle from Scratch"

emarthinsen — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:27:43 +0000

This is great. We need to keep these building techniques alive - or, at least, documented. There is always going to be a need for restoration reasons, but I'd like to see some of the old techniques become mainstream again. There are century-old structures that we can tour, but in another century, there will be no modern buildings still standing.

New comment by emarthinsen in "Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts"

emarthinsen — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 23:11:12 +0000

I use NixOS as my daily driver. I concur. I wouldn't recommend it for most people (even for me, when I decided to give it a try). I'd probably just go Arch if I were to do it over again.

The concept behind Nix/NixOS is amazing, but it needs to be polished. Flakes are the future, but they are languishing in this experimental status. Even simple things like installing packages from stable and unstable channels are too hard to figure out. The documentation is terse and the community answers are often not enlightening.

A big complaint of mine is that the builds should be reproducible, but I find I sometimes need to run `nixos-rebuild switch` several times to get a successful build. The error messages mysteriously resolve themselves. For me, this doesn't pass the bar for being considered reproducible.

Don't get me started on using an NVIDIA graphics card also. Granted, part of my difficulties is that I was running Wayland, which doesn't have the best NVIDIA support, but I felt like I was just doing an exhaustive search through the potential config settings to see what worked. Ultimately, I found just the right combination of settings to get everything working buttery smooth. I ripped out the NVIDIA card and put an AMD card in.

New comment by emarthinsen in "Infinite Craft"

emarthinsen — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 22:26:56 +0000

Can't believe I was the first to find "boobs". The 12 year-old combined "tomb raider" and "jiggle". LOL. It's actually a useful word. I can change anything male into female.

Lots of other funny combinations: Burger King + Business = McDonalds Disney + Motive = Money Princess + Cleavage = Disney

Plenty of political ones: President + Dictator = Trump White House + Flame = Trump Trump + Bribe = Impeachment Trump + Impeachment = ??? (literally three question marks) Obama + Home = Change

And a few questionable: Slave + Plant = Cannabis Jamaica + Garden = Marijuana

This is actually great fun. I wish I could sort the words alphabetically. I also wish there was a save feature. Oh, and that first discoveries were highlighted in the word list.

New comment by emarthinsen in "“amateur” programmer once used 50 sheets of 1080Ti to fight cancer"

emarthinsen — Sun, 08 May 2022 22:32:35 +0000

Interesting article. The author might want to consider monetizing it with a few ads.

New comment by emarthinsen in "Heatwave in India breaks records, still worsening"

emarthinsen — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:37:20 +0000

I jumped into the comments here to post exactly what you did. Let's hope TMftF remains fiction.

New comment by emarthinsen in "Icons – Google Fonts"

emarthinsen — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 06:17:57 +0000

Maybe. They have a Facebook one and a few for some other social platforms. I'm not sure why there isn't one for Twitter and GitHub. I'm not saying there is any strategy going on, it's just interesting to see what is and isn't included in icon sets.

New comment by emarthinsen in "Icons – Google Fonts"

emarthinsen — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:22:00 +0000

Interesting that they have icons for "nordic walking" and "electric rickshaw", but nothing for twitter or a tweet.

New comment by emarthinsen in "Bolt: An End-To-End Payments Stack with Zero Fraud"

emarthinsen — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:05:04 +0000

So........ did you get a little design inspiration from Stripe's site? Maybe changed that background to a dark color and toned down the nuance a bit?

New comment by emarthinsen in "Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]"

emarthinsen — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:52:28 +0000

This is, actually, a really good book. Don't let the cheesy title throw you off. I learned more in the first few chapters than I did after a semester of calc classes. Highly recommended.