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New comment by yummypaint in "Who Needs DRAM? We Have Fiber"

yummypaint — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:37:03 +0000

Reminiscent of acoustic memory on early calculators

New comment by yummypaint in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

yummypaint — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:43:42 +0000

In NC there is a state rule that bans HOAs and local authorities from stopping people building cisterns to catch and store rainwater

New comment by yummypaint in "Cyberdecks, going analog, and convivial technology"

yummypaint — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:59:23 +0000

For general compute they will lose to a laptop, but that isn't supposed to be their purpose. I think the best use cases require extra hardware that would make a laptop too bulky or awkward. For example a deck with a VNA, SDR, scope, and arbitrary waveform generator for field work with radio equipment. The traditional computer capabilities are sort of extra. Any sort of diagnostic "cart" with a dedicated computer and a bunch of test equipment could be a candidate for miniaturization.

New comment by yummypaint in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

yummypaint — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:23:17 +0000

That's what I'm asking... Why not? I'm alluding to what seems to be a culturally self-imposed refusal to seek legal remedies among makers and hackers. We have Jeff Geerling (who I generally like and agree with) disappointingly referring to the GPL as a "social contract," as though it can have no legal force behind it.

The biggest companies in the world use licenses to weild power over people, but heaven forbid people use the same body of law to their benefit.

New comment by yummypaint in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

yummypaint — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:19:15 +0000

Where is the lawyer involvement? Why has no TRO been filed to prevent Bambu from selling in the US? This is a problem with a legal solution, yet we collectively just wring our hands and wish for a technological solution.

New comment by yummypaint in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

yummypaint — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:55:48 +0000

This is exactly the business model of Poor Richards in Colorado Springs. They have a pizzarea, book store, and toy store. It's been around for decades and is a local institution.

New comment by yummypaint in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

yummypaint — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:51:27 +0000

Because the procedure for changing the constitution is in the constitution. That would have to be followed at least once.

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/full-text

New comment by yummypaint in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

yummypaint — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:37:45 +0000

There is something about the asymmetry of effort that is particularly galling. If a person couldn't be bothered to write something, then I can't be bothered to read it.

If someone contributes a software component, they are responsible for it whether they developed it properly or slop coded. The difference is that I will refuse to look at the slop, much less debug it or help with troubleshooting.

People who blindly copy paste from agents are completely replaceable, and should be at the top of the list when layoff season hits. They drag the whole org down.

New comment by yummypaint in "Microsoft to stop sending SMS codes for personal accounts"

yummypaint — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:15:04 +0000

Recent updates to Microsoft account sign-in now support passkeys with device biometric authentication, making phishing virtually impossible.

So according to Microsoft biometric authentication will make people immune to being tricked. Pretty ironic stance.

New comment by yummypaint in "'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'"

yummypaint — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:39:08 +0000

I have dozens of volunteer red maple trees about shoulder to head height in my yard. I have been trying to find information about training them at this size. Do bonsai methods for Japanese maples work? Can two red maples be joined together to make an arch? I need to learn more about plants

New comment by yummypaint in "Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?"

yummypaint — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:04:22 +0000

That seems like a very expensive way to crawl the internet

New comment by yummypaint in "If you thought the code writing speed was your problem; you have bigger problems"

yummypaint — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:18:38 +0000

Just because an LLM can turn high level instructions into low level instructions does not make it a compiler

New comment by yummypaint in "LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in"

yummypaint — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:41:08 +0000

I'm also a Libreoffice user and have been since its inception. It's good software and I recommend it to people. The fact is just that gnumeric is better than calc. Not just in terms of features or feel either. I have personally lost data in calc spreadsheets that gnumeric handles without issue.

New comment by yummypaint in "LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in"

yummypaint — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:29:17 +0000

I think I've tried every spreadsheet program still being maintained at this point. Try gnumeric, it's a clear cut above everything else.

Mandatory Excel rant: Excel can't be trusted with data destined for publication. It's bloated, buggy as hell, user hostile, and has set genetics research back with its utterly braindead autocorrect. The default plot options are the exact polar opposite of how data are presented in science, and almost impossible to make serviceable. Everything Excel touches ends up looking like a hastily thrown together 6th grade science project. Libreoffice is also riddled with serious bugs and also loses data, but hey it's free and not a decades old flagship product from a multi billion dollar tech company.

New comment by yummypaint in "Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking"

yummypaint — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:54:18 +0000

The fact that Edison is pervasively over-credited is really another example of the highly visible executive claiming personal credit for the labors of employees.

New comment by yummypaint in "The Waymo World Model"

yummypaint — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:03:28 +0000

By leveraging Genie’s immense world knowledge, it can simulate exceedingly rare events—from a tornado to a casual encounter with an elephant—that are almost impossible to capture at scale in reality. The model’s architecture offers high controllability, allowing our engineers to modify simulations with simple language prompts, driving inputs, and scene layouts. Notably, the Waymo World Model generates high-fidelity, multi-sensor outputs that include both camera and lidar data.

How do you know the generated outputs are correct? Especially for unusual circumstances?

Say the scenario is a patch of road is densely covered with 5 mm ball bearings. I'm sure the model will happily spit out numbers, but are they reasonable? How do we know they are reasonable? Even if the prediction is ok, how do we fundamentally know that the prediction for 4 mm ball bearings won't be completely wrong?

There seems to be a lot of critical information missing.

New comment by yummypaint in "ICE expands power of agents to arrest people without warrants"

yummypaint — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 03:16:31 +0000

It's not too late for a political solution. If Congress stopped abdicating it's constitutional duty all these problems could be solved quickly. If you're in the US, visit your representatives offices IN PERSON, calling is a distant second best.

New comment by yummypaint in "Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US"

yummypaint — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:14:17 +0000

These people aren't temporarily insane, they have always been this way. The same hatred and stupidity have been prevalent in US dinnertable discussions for decades, but much less in the actual halls of power because we used to have more collective sense to not grant people like that authority over others in general. If the rest of American society regains its agency, the toxic %25 will just go back to corroding the country as they were before. They are secure in knowing they will not be treated in the way they would treat others if given the opportunity.

New comment by yummypaint in "How to make a damn website (2024)"

yummypaint — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:58:55 +0000

I found it odd they specifically said not to make a git repo for the page, GitHub is one of the easiest ways I know to publish a website. It just can't be commercial etc

New comment by yummypaint in "Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’ (2022)"

yummypaint — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 10:58:39 +0000

A key property of QCD is that unlike electrodynamics, the forces between interacting objects increase with distance (quark confinement). This is what breaks the usual style of expansions used to simplify problems. It's hard to overstate how important this is.

One of the implications is that there are many interactions where most possible Feynman diagrams contribute non-negligibly. The advances in theory arguably have much more to do with improvements in techniques and the applied math used, such as in lattice QCD and Dean Lee's group for instance.