urusan

urusan, 1 year ago to random

Fun fact: Since fruit is still alive in your kitchen, whenever you cut up an apple, millions have fallen to your blade.

urusan, 1 year ago to random

The way smartphone notifications work is SUPER sketchy.

I didn't realize this before...

urusan, 11 months ago to random

How would you explain to a toddler that a broken crayon can't be made whole?

urusan, 11 months ago to random

What software library do you use heavily (and preferably know a lot about) which still seems like magic?

urusan, 11 months ago to random

The main downside to having a bidet is that when I need to use the toilet somewhere outside of my house it's awful.

There are no other downsides.

urusan, 10 months ago to random

Prompt: random

But what does it mean?

urusan, 6 months ago to random

Son: Gets to see his baby sister for the first time
Son: Wow! Is this baby REAL?

urusan, 8 months ago to random

What do you wish you had more time to pursue?

urusan, 20 days ago to random

Me: Long story about doing X earlier in my career to great effect in a similar situation So, I would recommend you do X in this situation.
Junior Coworker: Maybe someone like you could do X, but an ordinary person like me couldn't possibly do that.
Me: I assure you...that you are not "ordinary" either.

urusan, 1 month ago to random

Me: Doesn't like beans, cilantro, or spicy food, so pretty much all of Chipotle's menu, but my wife loves it
COVID: Begins
Supply Chains: Falls apart
Me: Wow, when did Chipotle start tasting good?
Eventually...
Supply Chains: I'm back!
Me: Oh, this is Cilantro rice! Now chipotle tastes like soap again...

urusan, 2 months ago to random

What is good, open source video editing software in Linux?

urusan, 4 months ago to random

Me: Realizes that a live event is coming to town that my son would love
Me: Goes online to buy tickets
Me: Discovers that buying tickets for live events has become a dystopian gamified nightmare
Me: :-(

urusan, 7 months ago to random

Is it possible for something to "go viral" on Fedi?

urusan, 6 months ago to random

Me: I wonder if [Kid] will remember when we denied him that airplane toy. He's still remembering it days later. I still remember when my mom refused to buy me Zone 66 on clearance for $5 and I never found it available again.
Me: Man, that was such a great game. I'd love to play it again. I played the **** out of the shareware version.
Me: ...
Me: Hmmm...wait...it is totally within my capabilities now to create a new game just like Zone 66...

Also,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_66

urusan, 5 months ago to random

Kid: Can I check your bones daddy?

urusan, 8 months ago to random

How different from telnet is the modern web anyhow?

urusan, 21 days ago to random

If the rest of your body were conscious too, would you even notice it or just think it's part of your normal consciousness?

urusan, 8 months ago to random

Most of this video is an interesting look into how to blend actual artistic skills with Stable Diffusion.

https://youtu.be/oPcQzhhwsGU

However, one thing that surprised me was that a complete non-programmer was able to make a fully featured application to solve a particular problem that was bothering them (using ChatGPT of course).

urusan, 2 months ago to random

Is there a good, relatively high end ARM or RISC-V laptop available that I could install Linux on?

I'm thinking about something along the lines of the recent ARM-based MacBooks, but not Apple.

urusan, 8 months ago to random

What have physicists been up to in the last 70 years?
https://youtu.be/d_o4k0eLoMI

urusan, 4 months ago to random

What little things do you do for quality of life that you are pretty sure many other people are not doing?

The example that got me thinking of this is that I go out of my way to name directories, functions, and commands so they have little to no overlapping prefix, so I can autocomplete with minimal typing: instead of "downloads" and "documents" I might go for "downloads" and "files". That way instead of "dowTAB" and "docTAB", they're just "dTAB" and "fTAB".

urusan, 8 months ago to random

Me: Hey there Pinebook Pro. It's been a long time. How are you doing?
Pinebook Pro: Pretty good, though I can't seem to find the Internet, I don't see the Wi-Fi I normally connect to.
Me: Oh, let me figure that out.
Pinebook Pro: By the way, it's August 19, 2022, right?

urusan, 5 months ago to random

Post one or more old blog posts (or other articles) that have had a lasting impact on your thinking. (At least about one thing.)

urusan, 8 months ago to random

I was investigating where the tagging data for AI is coming from and it appears that it's already reached a sort of "human escape velocity".

Technologies like CLIP and its successors are good enough to do the job on a massive scale. This is what LAION did, which is what fed into Stable Diffusion.

I guess this also explains the reluctance to use more recent data to train AI, since dataset attacks would be harder to defend against if there's relatively little human intervention in the process.

urusan, 8 months ago to random

For anyone wondering about my odd posting pattern today, I was at the DMV this morning and as soon as I was called I went from having all the time in the world to being super busy.