towerful

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Oh, no kidding.
I always thought immutable required the declarative installs.
I guess, immutable is more "containerised userland"?

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I had a huge rant about this, but ditched it.

Steve is the actual politician, but will vote according to crowd sourced opinions on the topics.
And that's where AI Steve comes in. AI Steve helps generate policy ideas, and they are voted on by the approved community members. Parliamentary topics are also voted on by approved community members.
So AI Steve is the lube, but it's essentially direct democracy for the approved community members.

So, very cool idea (the direct democracy).
No idea if it would work on a wider/country scale.
Of course it's a Tory doing it.
Pretty sure this could be done just with an online voting/polling platform and 1 or 2 people doing data entry/gathering.

However, the "better than the past few PMs" is a dangerous rhetoric. Cause all it needs is also a "both sides the same, labour is Tory lite, etc", and suddenly a bunch of voters will vote disruptively and we get Brexit 2.0 (whatever that might be).
Voting disruptively is absolutely fine, but I'm fairly sure it's the easiest method for foreign influences to meddle in elections

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeh, immutable distros... You can install software, it's just you have to declaratively define what software you want, then apply that as a patch.
You don't just apt install cowsay, you have to create a file that defines the installation of cowsay.
This way, if you have to change how cowsay is installed, you tweak that patch file and reapply it.
If you have to wipe & reinstall (or get a new computer or whatever) you just apply all your patches, and the system is the same again.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I was kinda hoping the UK was past exploiting the ill-informed, idiots and reckless. Especially after the wild wild success of Brexit.

But no, apparently not.
Exploit the AI hype that a lot of people probably don't understand.
Somehow argue that a computer is more human than a human.
Put this absolute garbage of a solution on the ballet, and watch everyone go "well, politicians aren't working, let's try breaking the system" and vote for some untested hallucinating predictive text algorithm to lead a country, while employing twice as many staff to fix/feed/spin/manipulate/fake the results of the AI.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

Ah, yes good point

[–] towerful@programming.dev 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

But it is a fixed ratio.
If it was in pounds, metric tons, moles or atomic mass units... It doesn't change the ratio, the actual number.

Would it be acceptable to drop the unit all together?
"Lethal dose is 0.000000012 : 1 (substance : bodyweight)" (I made up the number).
I'm not sure if there is a better way of writing the ratio.

Could a fraction be more applicable?
"lethal dose is 1/600000 of bodyweight"

I'm sure it's written as ng/kg to show the base units are the same, and the rest is just "fiddling" scientific notation

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sparkling water, on tap!

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Rinky dink little websites should use federated logins, imo.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The last one is the best

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You obviously haven't seen the platformio extension.
It's a beast, turns VSCode into an embedded IDE and programmer for loads of different microchips

[–] towerful@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I wish there was a way to see what the default values in a config file are for a given distro.
I'm guessing there probably is, and I just don't know it.

Maybe I should just make / a git repo...

[–] towerful@programming.dev 9 points 5 months ago

Ear buds where the cost goes to quality and isolation as opposed to gimmicks/Bluetooth/functionality.
Airpods are amazing for casual use.
IEMs (with a cable, of course) are amazing for music.

It's what musicians use on stage to hear what everyone is doing (iems and individual mixes are so accessible these days, used to be super $$$$ per iem mix).
They range from budget (1 driver per bud) to decent (3-5 drivers per bud) to esoteric (like 16 drivers per bud).
Most have modular cables that disconnect at the earbud (so when the cable breaks you are paying thousands for a new set. Or to get custom cable lengths).
And all decent brands can be custom moulded to your ear, so you go to a hearing specialist, they will cast your ear, and you send that to the manufacturers and they will send you moulded IEMs. They are very comfy.
Some brands have a DIY moulding process, but I wouldn't trust myself!

If you are into live music & loud gigs, even loud clubs, I really strongly recommend you get a moulded set of earplugs with 10db attenuation. They are for musicians and have as flat a response as is possible, and will take the edge off any hearing damage.

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