Fox with a box, accordionist, singer, synthesist, and social 🎮 videos on Twitch/YT. Bringing accordion weirdness to a furry or pony con near you! By day I write software in Cambridge, GB.
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Last Notes npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…4hp5 The chimney effect used to be a design feature in most UK schools. Classrooms were ventilated into tall hallways, so the warm air would rise to the top of the hallway and be ventilated out. Two problems with this model: npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…qjyt first cryptic I've done in a while and I enjoyed it. I will have a trawl through your back catalogue on the site too! npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…8eua My best one of these was the day I noticed we have an uncommon word "don" for putting on an item of clothing and "doff" for taking off an item of clothing, and they look like opposites. Turns out they are both contractions of "do on" resp "do off". npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…3rn2 Because in 1955 when the term AI was first used, nobody would have understood the pun, as the great train robbery wasn't until 1963. npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…zgml The real question here for people who want to blame "not handling errors properly" is: what should the code have done instead of .unwrap()? If a service fails to load its security configuration on startup, is there a more appropriate behaviour than refusing to start? Arguably, better error reporting might have let them resolve the outage faster, and it's worth looking at for that alone, but there still would have been an outage. npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…stct I think your cherry-picked example is an outlier against a backdrop of stories that take for granted that computers will explode if you ask them a paradox, or what love is. And for all the funny examples of LLMs "melting down" from asking about the seahorse emoji or what date it is today, I haven't seen one explode yet. npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…8eua "there's no way something of one charge can turn into something of another charge without changing the charge of something else" vs "you can turn one [angular momentum] into the other just by rotating it" Yes, that's exactly the bias I had before reading your toots, but both angular momentum and charge are conserved quantities. Just like charge, npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…8eua I think this last bit is interesting, because we tend to think of spin as a "state" of the electron while other things like its charge are a fixed "property" - at least, that's the mental model I came out of first-year undergrad physics with. But it seems like in part that comes from how those things were discovered: at first it looks like all electrons are negative but they can have either spin, so then when positrons are discovered, they feel like a fundamentally different particle. We say the weak interaction "changes a down quark into an up quark" but would it make more sense to say it "changes the quark from the down state to the up state"? npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…stct It's fine, that hot water system would never have got past Building Control in the UK npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…stct Nope, the current limit is 15 A, so you can only get 1.8 kW out of a regular socket - sorry, receptacle. So your US kettle would take more than 75% longer to boil! The electrical system as a whole can deliver more power, as it's two-phase, but that's the max for a regular socket. npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…stct "why is this so difficult?" 120V, that's why. npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…csvl Nice, and that's a big array too npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…csvl Be aware that the ones you linked to are ceiling anchors, and the certificate won't be valid for wall anchoring because the load is in a different direction. Wall anchors are a different product. Also, on many anchors, the safety rating is only valid if you install with a torque wrench at the spec'ed torque, which nobody does. npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…fe8t You can fine-tune your own LLM to act like that, and then answer your own question. For science! npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…fe8t blaming the bogeyman for everything bad that happens, without troubling yourself to find out if it's true or not, is why we left the EU 😢 npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…fe8t Nobody mines ethereum any more: they switched from a proof-of-work to a proof-of-stake system years ago. npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 Welcome to #FursuitFriday! Would you like to check in now for your weekend of floofs and fun? npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 Half my feed is people cheering that the AI bubble "has finally burst" and the other half is people complaining that everything around them is made with generative AI. npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…fe8t I don't really know what a techbro is any more. Is it just the tech billionaires like Musk, who can make shit sometimes but have economic power out of proportion to their skill? Is it managers or investors who make product decisions like putting AI features into software, but aren't technologists themselves? Is it the whole software industry? Is it global or do you have to be in Silicon Valley to be a techbro? Is Mark Shuttleworth a techbro? Is Tim Cook? Is Eben Upton? npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…fe8t I'm surprised they even include the tablet. All the ones I've seen have an app and either no physical controls or a basic on/off button. npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…fe8t it would still be 1/3 to 1/4 the power draw of resistive heating... npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…fe8t @nprofile…fe8t That's ridiculous. My team at work has trained AI models to predict daylighting and thermal performance in architectural designs. Not only does it use less energy than conventional simulation, it allows the architect to optimize their design, saving orders of magnitude more energy in the building's operation than the cost of running the tool. npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 I like how the last five years have flipped the default expectations from "I need to work from home today because I'm expecting a delivery" to "I need to work from the office today because there's building work" npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…59k6 this reminds me a lot of a paper you recommended years ago using finger trees on text to precompute and store transition matrices for regexes so you can efficiently recompute the regex matches when the text changes npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…ucsf They are a lot easier than I would expect. Maybe the setter is really bad at geography so has a biased idea of difficulty? npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…ucsf I think the rugby one is way harder but I know a lot of people get Mexico wrong because they think the USA goes right to the bottom of North America. I definitely know less sportsball than average tho, and the result of the last match is something you might know just from seeing it on the news even if you're not interested in the sport. npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…x759 BRB, off to erotic roleplay via the medium of TXT records npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…fe8t This is where Raspberry Pi has been pretty smart using the Pico as a cheap eval board for the RP20xx MCUs. It's got almost no capabilities but the ecosystem means you can just buy one with a display, sensors, radios, whatever you might need for the application you're thinking of. npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…skc4 Thanks for sharing the story, and props for having the patience to work through the gatekeeper's problems and find a solution that works for everyone. I don't think I have it in me to do the same in your place, but I hope someday I could. npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…fe8t It's a sign of a social problem, but perhaps "people are stealing cheese so they can buy weed" is not the same social problem as "people are stealing cheese because they are starving". The solution of "why not give starving people cheese" doesn't sound nearly as good when it becomes "why not give druggies money to buy drugs?" npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…fe8t I'm sorry to say there are absolutely people out there stealing blocks of cheese to sell for money and drugs. Living above a guy who's in his first home having lived on the streets for years and been in prison, has really opened my eyes to this stuff. npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…m80s The filling in those things is usually grains of wheat, because they contain just enough water to be able to absorb and retain heat from microwaves. npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…m80s I didn't really get the point of Barq. It has a Grindr-like list of people, but it's just their fursonas. If it's for finding hookups, I want to see what they look like. If it's for finding friends, why sort the list by proximity? Just seems like a combination of features that doesn't work together. npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…m80s Is this like "beer then wine, you'll be fine; wine then beer, you'll feel queer"? npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…m80s From what I've heard, you're pretty doomed trying to do it with an off-the-shelf model, you need one that's fine-tuned for ERP. npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @nprofile…m80s Is this in relation to your last toot? npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @npub1vg4…2yt8 Look on the bright side: it sounds like you're getting plenty of practice at debugging! npub14z8qk3wp7pk6alxychjvfyh6f0766xatvwecrygvx8hzsrsvt2nstrka03 Tufty Indigo 🪗 @npub1vg4…2yt8 When you're working mod n, each addition of (n-1) is the same as subtracting 1, so x*10 ≡ -x (mod 11). Here x is (a*b). The extra 11 on the right-hand side doesn't change the result at all.
