I feel as though you probably want sand for this…

Also, scipy/MPL, R or GNU Octave if you want pretty things.

If you’re on a chalkboard you can just draw the 2D shape and then use topographical contours.

I thought about it for a while and decided, nah. It’s easy to dismiss offhand that these people are just stupid, but if you think about it a bit longer, these people aren’t just stupid, they are really, really, really, stupid. The model architecture is bad, the data is poisoned, improvement is O(data^2), and performance gains stalled in 2024. No AGI in sight or even a viable method of getting there.

They looked at these charts and thought, the others spent a lot of money, then made a lot of money. If we spend a LOT of money, we’ll make EVEN MORE!

Why don’t we put up the WeWork or MoviePass charts hmmm?

Chemicals in this case is another one of those vague amorphous things to be scared of, right up until you know what it is… Could be anything really, baking soda, 5G mind control powder, dusted Bin Laden, your aunties fingernails.

Everything in the world is chemical, including all your natural GMO free organic foods, got that adenosine triphosphate, cellulose, chlorophyll, dihydrogen monoxide.

Gonna go around scaring people by telling them I’ve been buying skewered avian carcasses to eat instead of beef, and showing them a rotisserie chicken.

Too hard. Have an LLM summarize each comment in an old comment chain so that it obliterates any meaning and burries any real engagement. (I have no evidence, but I think Reddit is scraping external sites and turning posts into comment chains)

Urban sprawl, &_&

jkjk as long as they include mixed use residential

Good luck adding drm to a microwave to prevent it from microwaving “fish and fish adjacent shapes”. 3d printers consist of a couple of motors and a hot bit. No computer in there, unless you go for the high end stuff and even then they can’t run that sort of software. MCUs are clocked in MHz, but even a 10 year old computer is clocked in GHz. Even with a cloud connections, how much money have companies poured into “AI” only to have it still get things wrong? Do lawmakers expect a podunk garage team to figure out what Google, Meta, Apple, and literal billions of R&D haven’t?

Since this is effectively a ban, it would result in “healthcare CEO shot by wooden ghost gun” if gun kits are still sold, because 3d printers don’t print guns. They print the “lower” that has the serial number, which is legally, but not practically, defined to be the “gun”. Any gun that doesn’t have a serial is a ghost gun, but the point is moot.

More realistically, it would result in: “healthcare CEO shot by a 2026 special edition 9mm VEHHFU746582 on sale for 1984$, get it before it is banned” because for some reason the legislature is running on rich people feelings, and this shooting is special because of the gun, and not because of EVERYTHING ELSE.

Not super into guns but I’m a bit frustrated with the technical ineptitude of some of these lawmakers. Gun control existed before 3d printers did, this is just half assed. Feel free to correct me if I missed something.

1. Exploiting children needs to be a full time 996 position not just seasonal. Hiring for seasonal production means low skill labor. Better to run your existing workers ragged, especially due to holiday mismatch in Asian culture.
2. Exploiting children doesn’t stop when they become adults, they turn into exploited adults. At that point, why hire children? This process would be better served by adults. In contrast, mining in tight spaces makes children have a profit advantage, hence child labor in the congo. (Cobalt anyone?)
3. Why are they making toys? This process is so efficient that exploiting children is wasting money. Slavery cost money, robots cost electricity. They should be making clothes, which are hard to automate due to changing designs and flexible materials, which is year round. (Bangladesh, India, China) This would make the comic less “seasonal”, unfortunately.
4. No specificity in its criticism. Toys? Who are these children?

TLDR. Under capitalism, there comes a point where you cannot exploit someone hard enough to make money. Why not downsize and automate the process with two robo arms and an operator?

Don’t buy Nike, avoid fast fashion whoever possible. Reuse (and repair) Reduce (Consumption). RECYCLE COMES LAST AND THESE CORPORATE

Hi. Head of production here. My position has been eliminated in favor of increasing investment in AI. While this comes as a shock to none, I will be lying flat for a while.

https://www.npr.org/2016/09/20/494700850/taste-the-outrage-donald-trump-jr-s-tweet-compares-refugees-to-skittles

More smooth sailor q anon bullshit.

… 4 Chan leaking again I see.

Yall really couldn’t come up with a better idea than the ones from 10 years ago? Your dog whistles like fucking fog horn

ST looming in the background, NXP desperately trying to smash their own kneecaps with a hammer and failing. ESP getting hit with a lightning bolt every time they try to read documentation they printed out but not when its digital…

Cheap. Also, a large part of the tinkering community never moves past soldering or perf board + lack of cheap 2354 boards. 2040 is already good enough for keebs and most projects. 2350 had eratta E9 published (gpio lockup) which killed its initial adoption rate for more advanced projects PicoLogicAnalyzer, protocol emulation, etc.

Not until 1GHz it isn’t :')

I was introduced to homelab by trying to figure out how my uncles setup. It ran for 4 years after he died, 11 years uptime. The estate probate prevented anyone from touching the equipment for the legal fights, and I get a kick out of thinking of how smug he would have been about it.

Poorly shielded inductors in switch mode PSUs/old CRTs for me (Very common in older devices, low current causes the switching frequency to drop into the audible range.)

You can build your own tinnitus inducer with a cheapo 100kHz buck ic, put an air coil inductor on it, and then decrease the current until failure.

Giant blender, everyone gets a sip. Or minimum wage servitor.

TLDR: Take off your pants then.

Spend about 4 hours a day for about 16 years, and then some more. The rest is reference material, which you don’t really “read” but it really does help to have on hand. Some chunks you inherit. CalibreWeb + Genesis for the rest.

… it’s been a journey. TLDR: Wayland is super broken, NVIDIA makes it worse, Ubuntu doesn’t come with the right drivers out of box, UI inconsistency is everywhere (only Mac gets it right, at the cost of everything else) but major feature upgrades in most regular stuff.

I switched to Debian +Plasma X11, which makes most things work out of the box, but KiCAD crashes Plasma and logs you out of you open a large enough file. If I use Wayland, all of the windows open in a giant pile in the center my screen and OrcaSlicer segfaults when opening a webkit embed. Also no 3d views.

NVIDIA breaks all the rendering stuff, so no 3d model previews in your icons :( and the install defaults to unsafe mode on high refresh screens for Kubuntu, which cuts off the top half of your screen. Print previews are broken on Kate (NVIDIA)

Older Unity Engine can’t run controller input natively on linux, so you still play games under proton.

Login screen wallpaper and Wallpaper waking up from sleep and “wallpaper” are three different wallpapers on Debian/Plasma.

Plasma Desktop is not considered an active window so creating a new file and pressing enter doesn’t open it, but rather selects a foreground window, But if no window exists, it will open the file.

Now, the better stuff:

Printer drivers work out of box on basically everything I’ve tested and adding printers is plug and play unlike Windows. Printers on? You’re done!

Separated home and root partitions, I nuked my install 4 times and didn’t need to copy over my data. (Auto partition doesn’t give round numbers to the partitions and this irritates me why 61.73.gb root partitions why not 62???)

Snapshot backups - I no longer care if I accidentally need some older file I deleted, if I ran a backup recently, it’s there. Restic

Updates: I can reinstall and uninstall without rebooting - takes 2 minutes max. (Downloading is the bigger portion of it)

Faster boot times, way better keyboard input support, more customizable, integrated file management zip/rar support (very cool) Files open faster, dark mode everywhere, I can compile C firmware about 6-8 times faster without windows scanning my code every time. Although, is antivirus a thing on Linux?

They fixed rounded corners!!! Firefox still likes to be special and ignore window decorations, not sure what’s up with that.

No Copilot and no “my computer fans suddenly spun up for no reason whatsoever”, although I miss task manager, I have htop now,

… Which is why historically it is used as currency… kinda burying the lede there.

Bottle caps (fallout franchise), cigarettes, ramen packets (prison), sea shells (aka wampun in some Native American Cultures), salt (early scarcity) and gold are “valuable” because they are used as currency, where they are given value in excess of their actual ability to be used.

These attributes are not specific to gold alone, many other metals, jewels also share the same attributes of being able to used as currency due to their ease of division, relative scarcity and not rot aka “ability to store value” as the egg heads say.

Suffice to say, gold isn’t valuable because it is gold (I can eat a ramen packets, smoke a cigarette) it isn’t valuable because it is backed by. the government (we explicitly use it because it isn’t fiat) but rather it is valuable because IT WAS MONEY, because carrying 500 cheese wheels isn’t a thing irl.

I can point you to further reading, but just about all MacroEcon text books will cover this in the first chapter.

Fair enough, though I still worry, ironic as it is.