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New comment by papertokyo in "Radio Garden"

papertokyo — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:43:36 +0000

This sounds like a wonderful way to spend an afternoon.

New comment by papertokyo in "Radio Garden"

papertokyo — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:40:20 +0000

This is genius. I've enjoyed Radio Garden on occasion for the musical novelty but never thought about putting a random station in Latin America on to practice listening to different Spanish accents.

New comment by papertokyo in "America Is Missing The New Labor Economy – Robotics Part 1"

papertokyo — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:54:37 +0000

It "was known" in the 60s that Japanese electronics and cars were inferior in design and quality. Chinese products are going through the same trajectory.

New comment by papertokyo in "3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)"

papertokyo — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:14:35 +0000

The first PC I built myself had an Athlon XP Barton 2500+ and 2x 256mb sticks of DDR2-400. It wasn't top of the line by any means but great bang-for-buck in 2003.

New comment by papertokyo in "NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut"

papertokyo — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:33:50 +0000

> The Mars talk is just a recruitment tactic to pull in young idealistic engineers and get them to work long hours for cheap

His move away from the previously-stated mission for Tesla to decarbonize the world's energy systems makes a lot more sense now

New comment by papertokyo in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

papertokyo — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:09:07 +0000

I absolutely love this characterization of modern discourse.

New comment by papertokyo in "OpenEuroLLM"

papertokyo — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:53:38 +0000

Because it's a bureaucratic union of 27 countries with goals other than making obscene profits, side-effects be damned?

New comment by papertokyo in "OpenEuroLLM"

papertokyo — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:48:02 +0000

Then you should also question what flavor of censorship and bias US-made LLMs have.

Also, if someone says something that could threaten my safety (either directly or through inciting others) I would very much like them to get a visit from the police. This situation is so easily avoided by not being a dick to people.

New comment by papertokyo in "I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)"

papertokyo — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:35:20 +0000

But would you have thought to research how a specific car manufacturer's spicy anti-rodent tape tasted in the first place?

There's an element of discovery in this article, as well as being entertaining and informative. Her writing is—subjectively and objectively—uncommonly good.

New comment by papertokyo in "Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]"

papertokyo — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:47:37 +0000

Why is that? (These are my favourite planes to fly on, curious how the A350 is derivative given the apparent difference in packaging.)

New comment by papertokyo in "Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]"

papertokyo — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:42:46 +0000

Until they make it at least three times bigger, yes.

New comment by papertokyo in "We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines"

papertokyo — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 23:44:57 +0000

Really. Especially taken with the "toy" statement that follows, this reads to me like "this isn't perfect but we had a good crack at it and are happy with how good it came out for our purposes".

New comment by papertokyo in "OSRD: Open-Source Railway Designer"

papertokyo — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 22:00:48 +0000

The gameplay is focused on logistics, so those aspects have a lot more control. I particularly enjoy that in conjunction with the model railway aesthetics.

- You build roads and railways, and stations for passengers and cargo (road/rail/air/sea) - You set up 'lines' to connect various stations, and you can specify what and how much gets loaded/unloaded at every station (or whether vehicles on that line stop there at all), and how long vehicles should wait for their cargo - You buy each vehicle and assign it to a line, and in the case of trains you also buy each component e.g. locomotives, passenger cars, stake cars, hoppers depending on what your line needs to transport

The cities grow by themselves based on the passenger transport links with other cities and the level of goods supply. There's no zoning, building water pipes, schools, or anything like that. Just the minutiae of getting things from A to B via C to pick up some more things destined for Y and Z.

New comment by papertokyo in "AI in education may require us to return to 15th-century pedagogy"

papertokyo — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:07:35 +0000

> billionaires telling us that we'll eat bugs and be happy owning nothing

Who are we talking about here?

New comment by papertokyo in "AI in education may require us to return to 15th-century pedagogy"

papertokyo — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:50:51 +0000

I think questioning the money is just as important. There is so much conflicted money pushing the "climate change isn't real" narrative that it should raise more suspicion in skeptics.

New comment by papertokyo in "Fentanyl is fueling a record number of youth drug deaths"

papertokyo — Wed, 22 May 2024 23:15:00 +0000

Also a super relevant issue: the major Mexican cartels are being armed with guns made and sold in the US in order to provide this supply.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/05/2...

New comment by papertokyo in "Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation"

papertokyo — Tue, 07 May 2024 23:53:25 +0000

I'll have two frack whites to go thanks.

New comment by papertokyo in "Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation"

papertokyo — Tue, 07 May 2024 23:51:19 +0000

No. These machines sound like robot hornets operating dental drills.

New comment by papertokyo in "Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation"

papertokyo — Tue, 07 May 2024 23:46:16 +0000

The innovation here is integrating the tech into a home espresso machine package. I do wonder if the sound is any less awful though.

Does the ultrasonic tub enable better extraction at lower proof or are you using it purely to speed up the maceration process?

New comment by papertokyo in "Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation"

papertokyo — Tue, 07 May 2024 23:13:44 +0000

Although you are entirely correct in a technical sense, and it's common to serve hot brewed coffee cold, the opposite is so rarely desired that it will be considered 'weird' (in the sense of 'unusual') 9 out of 10 times.

Every extra process involved in making a coffee is going to add complexity and time to the workflow, which many cafes will elect to charge extra for.

There is some consternation in Australia about paying more for iced coffees compared to hot ones too:

https://www.broadsheet.com.au/national/food-and-drink/articl...