troyunrau

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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

Or desert islands

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 days ago

Probably the money paid for whomever Alex Jones lost lawsuits against -- so like Sandy Hook victims.

 
[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

Generally speaking, I like duck typing for function inputs, but not as much for function outputs (unless the functions are pure mathematics).

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

All I'm hearing is complaining. It's open source. Fix mate then so it does what you want.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Duck typing is the best if fully embraced. But it also means you have to worry just a little bit about clean failures once the project grows a little. I like this better than type checking relentlessly.

It also means that your test suite or doctests or whatever should throw some unexpected types around now and again to check how it handles ducks and chickens and such :)

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Well, that's on mate then. In KDE you could remap to a combo of your choice with ease

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

The ideal result? LLMs are just early versions of much better things that come later.

The unlikely result: we develop a separate human curated internet somewhere, complete with verification that a human wrote every bit. Basically verifiable digital id and signing on everything. Maybe.

The probable result: the internet turns to shit as AIs are trained on content created by AIs.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I don't use mate, but assuming that it has a file manager and that file manager has hotkeys that conform to the muscle memory that is built using other file managers... Try it and see what happens?

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (7 children)
[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Shakes magic 8-ball

 
[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

They'd probably gerrymander them, sadly

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Have a wiki rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_secession_movements

But perhaps more interesting, the annexation of Texas to the US initially allowed Texas to be split into four additional states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_divisionism -- imagine all those extra senators popping up today if Texas decided to execute on that agreement.

 
 
 

We maintain a small fleet of RTK GPS systems (Emlid Reach RS+ units or similar). But sometimes they sit too long on the shelf and parasitic drain kicks in. The manufacturer recommends recharging every three months, but ooops, this one went too long. If the batteries are too low, the battery management system (BMS) won't charge the batteries at all when you attach the USB charger cable. In this case, the batteries were testing at 0.9V rather than the desired 3.4V.

Solution: open the device, expose a tiny bit of conductor on the battery harness, and attach 3V worth of alkaline batteries for a short period. Once the lithium batteries are up a little, you can then charge with the normal USB charger again.

The manufacturer does not recommend opening the sealed unit, as it voids the IP67 rating. And this is not a best practice. But it works. The above photos were taken in April and the unit has been trucking along ever since. Saved a few thousand dollars :)

 
 
 

Instrument is a Geonics EM16 VLF receiver, using in the mineral exploration industry to find buried linear conductors.

 
 
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