penguin42

penguin42, 5 days ago to random

What a weird election - in our seat we've got candidates from the Workers Party, English Democrats, Reform UK, an independent and the Communists all standing - and normal parties as well.
(And weird, there's different Communist groupings in different seats)

penguin42, 6 days ago to random

Tl;DR; mooooore bandwidth.
This talk from a Meta guy on optics needs for AI is scary; basically the model sizes are getting bigger faster than they can keep up, and they'll take as much IO bandwidth as anyone can give them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uCgUj1_PJo

mjg59, 6 days ago to random

Brands stop being weirdly horny challenge difficulty impossible

azonenberg, 6 days ago to random

Here's the first draft of my "SCPI API design guidance for instrument vendors" writeup.

Anyone have suggestions or other things to add?

https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scopehal/wiki/SCPI-API-design

penguin42, 6 days ago to xfce

Right, back on #xfce today after yesterdays play with #kde wayland; it's getting better, I did hit a few annoying minor bugs, but rendering worked fine and the only thing that really made life painful was the lack of keyboard/mouse sharing, which should be fixed in the next KDE release and might already be in other wayland DE's; I'd still like something a bit lighter weight than KDE.

johncarlosbaez, 6 days ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

If you could watch an individual water molecule, about once in 10 hours you'd see it do this!

As it bounces around, every so often it hits another water molecule hard enough enough for one to steal a hydrogen nucleus - that is, a proton - from the other!

The water molecule with the missing proton is called a hydroxide ion, OH⁻. The one with an extra proton is called a hydronium ion, H₃O⁺.

This process is called the 'autoionization' of water. Thanks to this, roughly one in ten million molecules in a glass of water are actually OH⁻ or H₃O⁺, not the H₂O you expect.

And this gives a cool way for protons to move through water. Let's watch it!

(1/n)

penguin42, 7 days ago to space

#NASA starting off a tour of #Starliner by reminding the astronauts to make sure the SD card is in the camera, and not to film open laptops:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnRdIMklPow

penguin42, 7 days ago to retrocomputing

Well, I got into our loft; and in between more valves, ancient capacitors, huge speakers, my dads university notes, yet more slides to scan, I found my pile of yet more keyboards.
I see a Sun 3, Sun 4, and maybe 5, 2 archimedes keyboards and some others - that'll be a job to clean up.
(I was hoping my dad might have kept an FX-80 but I don't see it, or his pile of Nixie tubes)

#retrocomputing

penguin42, 7 days ago to random

I'm trying KDE 6 Wayland today rather than my normal xfce.
Other than getting my keybindings going it's not too bad; the graphics corruptions I've had on previous wayland attempts seem to have gone so far; I've hit a few KDE GUI bugs relating to monitor placement which are a bit weird, but eventually work.
I could do with finding a replacement for my normal synergy-like vnc based keyboard/mouse sharing hack.

penguin42, 8 days ago to random

Victrola: Ah, I finally found out what a Victrola is ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Orthophonic_Victrola ) - it's mentioned near the start of the great song Black Velvet 'Jimmy Rodgers on the Victrola up high'
so I had assumed it was a record player or similar; but it had taken until I'd seen a reference to it in an article in alarm tones in Medical equipment that made me find it ( https://th.id.au/alarms/ 'Falling pitch as when the power has run down on an old Victrola ' ).
Anyway, go listen to Black Velvet, it's nice.

juliank, 8 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

Nutella, arguably the most prominent Italian product on the planet, will get a vegan version in autumn. 👀

juliank, 10 days ago to random

FWIW, this is the confusion matrix of characters that APT hashes the same.

0 '\x00' ' '
1 '\x01' !
2 '\x02' "
3 '\x03' #
4 '\x04' $
5 '\x05' %
6 '\x06' &
7 '\x07' '
8 '\x08' (
9 '\t' )
10 '\n' *
11 '\x0b' +
12 '\x0c' ,
13 '\r' -
14 '\x0e' .
15 '\x0f' /
16 '\x10' 0
17 '\x11' 1
18 '\x12' 2
19 '\x13' 3
20 '\x14' 4
21 '\x15' 5
22 '\x16' 6
23 '\x17' 7
24 '\x18' 8
25 '\x19' 9
26 '\x1a' :
27 '\x1b' ;
28 '\x1c' <
29 '\x1d' =
30 '\x1e' >
31 '\x1f' ?
64 @ `
91 [ {
92 \ |
93 ] }
94 ^ ~
95 _ '\x7f'

penguin42, 10 days ago to random

OK, who managed to get that line of hats on the Starliner status screen 🙂

regehr, 10 days ago to random

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_fruit

I was digging potatoes at my parents’ place and one of the plants had fruits and I lived more than 50 years on this planet without having known that potatoes grow fruits

mjg59, 11 days ago to random

The "Recall can't record DRMed video content" thing is because DRMed video content is entirely invisible to the OS. The OS passes the encrypted content to your GPU and tells it where to draw it, and the GPU decrypts it and displays it there. It's not a policy decision on the Recall side, it's just how computers work.

penguin42, 12 days ago to random

Just spent an hour going through 4 years of statements from a company that notified me that they'd miscalculated some tax statements for 3 years but didn't bother to highlight the differences. The discrepancy is just over £3; which I think sometime means I paid about £1 too much tax.
<sigh>

mjd, 12 days ago to random

I loved this:

1. How many photons does Voyager send per bit transmitted?
2. Many photons are received per bit received?
3. How close are we to the theoretic lower limit of what we need to receive

https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/816710/9062

penguin42, 12 days ago to linux

Righty, first full struct deletion pass on the #linux kernel done; 712 lines of deadcode deleted in 101 patches; 11 patches in 6.10, 18 in -next; 26 more reviewed (some queued for next), heck I guess quite a few that need poking....

attilakinali, 13 days ago to random

What's with the obsession of USians to measure thicknesses in ounces?

I can kind of understand measuring copper thickness of a PCB in oz/ft^2, as that is easier to measure than actual thickness in the µm range. Especially if you don't care about the thickness being even.

But who the f*** came up with the idea of measuring leather thickness in oz? What thickness is an 5oz leather? And does that change with each leather type or do you just pretend it's some ideal animal hide of known density?

penguin42, 15 days ago to random

I reckon this TODO is from 2003,
'2003/07/12 22:22:12-07:00 wensong
[NET]: Merge in IPVS layer.'
it's even got a BK rev:
BKrev: 3f10f84eaUp7Pb5VOASbNyu4pO6NEw

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_ah_esp.c#n22

strangeparts, 15 days ago to random

NEW VIDEO! Is it possible to turn pollution into clothing? I spoke with Zara Summers from LanzaTech about their groundbreaking process for converting industrial emissions from steel plants into high-quality polyester using specially modified bacteria. Go watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoPA6OLkvNQ

santiago, 16 days ago to retrocomputing

Me: I have too many computers

Also me: Come on a 12” sony vaio from 2004 for the equivalent of 44$ ? This thing could run 32 bit #HaikuOS . 1.5GHz and 1GB RAM should be enough for everybody.

clicks

#retrocomputing #addiction #gerontophiliaForComputers

The exact model PCG-V505ECP
Specs for model of this brand. This one is 1.5 GHz and has 1 GB RAM

mansr, 16 days ago to random

Were Greenpeace always twats, or did they gradually turn into promoters of famine and climate change?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/25/greenpeace-blocks-planting-of-lifesaving-golden-rice-philippines

codewiz, 16 days ago to rust

Got #DeepSeek Coder 33B running on my desktop's #AMDGPU card with #ollama.

First off, I tested its ability to generate and understand #Rust code. Unfortunately, it falls into the same confusion of the smaller 6.7B model.

https://gist.github.com/codewiz/c6bd627ec38c9bc0f615f4a32da0490e
#ollama #llm #deepseek

datarama, 18 days ago to random

I make fonts as a hobby. I've been using this one as my terminal daily driver for a while, and it's pretty much come to be just "what the terminal looks like" for me now.

Should I put it up in public somewhere?

(It will, of course, be scraped so someone can use it to make an AI font generator and extinguish a little bit more joy from life.)