BANNED USER: Persistent culture warring and petty antagonism
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
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User ID: 1266
Banned by: @Amadan
Ironically your/Singer's position makes more sense to me than the ones claiming a baby is just a morally valueless "clump of cells" until it magically becomes fully human the second it's out of the womb. Like either of us could be wrong, but at least both positions are coherent.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Isn't that more for designing circuit boards than house wiring circuits?
They all seemed pretty shit last time I checked. Just drafted everything imitating my dad's old drawings. Make sure to include an elevation page, aka the actually helpful "where are my wire drops hiding behind this fucking drywall" one.
AutoCAD is still the resume building option iirc.
What's going in the kitchen?
my god the lemmy thing was pathetic. Hadn't seen it before.
"We have made our policy clear on this topic, and we are not going to change it. So there is no point arguing about it, fuck off nazibigot!"
"we have changed our policy on this topic, the slur filter is now entirely optional"
Yeah, that's basically what I'm asking.
When you're doing stuff at scale, avoiding constant checks is pretty important. Factorio saves a ton of update time by putting unused entities to sleep and not having them periodically check if it's time to wake up; they go completely inactive in updates until an active entity connected to them pings them to do something.
When you have 55,000 robot arms not checking if they need to move every tick, the performance savings are measurable.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Funding an underground/samizdat group seems like a good use of money. Seattle is reaching a critical point where the regime can't paper over the dysfunction any longer, and a group of smart people still moored to reality could find themselves having outsized influence.
Friedman's "keep sanity alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable," basically.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
I'm glad to see there are still true heroes out there, even on a site as awful as twitch
What's the term for scheduling events in a program loop to avoid constant iteration?
For example: there are objects that get updated every 6000 game ticks after they first appear. Say there are currently 4000 of them. To avoid having 4000 separate timers iterating every tick, they are all on a single array with their id# and time of their next update. The game checks the first item of the array each tick to see if it needs updating. When an object is updated or a new one is created, it gets 6000 ticks added to its update time and moved to the end of the array (or removed if the object had been deleted since its last update).
Is there any way to avoid running the update clock every tick to check if tick# >= next_update_tick# ?
One way to do it would be to have a global tick counter for all similar processes, but it feels like there should be a better way than having the program ask "are we there yet?" every tick for up to 6000 ticks. (Unless you're coding Minecraft, in which case every frog scans every block within jumping range every tick because fuck you.)
Lots of sim games do their update processes on tick multiples: modulo every 5, 10, 100 ticks, etc. That way if you have 50 "every 100 ticks" updates you only need 1 check to see if it's time to run them all, instead of 50.
I guess you could have an array of scheduled updates: if updateX is scheduled for tick 20300, and updateY is scheduled for tick 32000, the global clock just makes one check each tick to see if it's 20300 yet, and if not then it's not 32000 either.
Obviously just the first step got us down from 4000 checks per tick to 1, which is probably more than good enough. But like I said it feels like I'm missing some smarter way of doing this.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
I would buy your Indian cookbook in a second. Hell, I'd appreciate any blogging or instagramming you do on the topic.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Yes, they do. The "grid storage" does no good because they can't keep the grid up, and the fund serves mostly as a handout to politically connected leftist "nonprofits" and party members.
You know, how it always works and how you seem to want it to work.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
I was looking at Omaha and a few others towards the end of the line, and realized it'd take an enormous amount of dredging to get the river straight and deep enough. From the numbers I found it sounds like rail has gotten competitive with all but deep draft high volume barges.
I think you could get away without barge shipping for a non-industrial city, given that it seems to be used mostly for coal, ore, and other bulk stuff these days, but water supply would be a huge limiting factor.
So the spinach, kale, chard, and even broccoli in my garden is all putting on new growth, which is incredible given that it was all under a foot of snow in 10F temps over Christmas, and the chard was literally a liquefied rotting mess.
I was about to tear out some flowering broccoli when a humming bird flew up and started slurping on it. In January!
Think I'm going to start my spring planting this weekend. Temps in the high 40s to low 50s. Should be able to throw enough cold frames together ahead of any freezing spells, which will probably happen in Feb after the la Nina stops pulling all this hot wind up from the south east.
Pasture has already put on 3-4", which is a miracle after a dry fall with no rebound. Was worried I hadn't put away enough hay, but maybe it'll be alright.
My local utility is public and run by leftists, which is why they spend more money on "equity" programs than maintaining the transmission lines, and think that utility solar is a good investment in the region with the lowest winter insolation in the country.
That's why I need to spend money to have grid-independent backups, because as bad as they are at keeping the power on, they're going to get even worse.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Hey, it appears to be down 5% from last year. That's... Measurable, I guess.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Was gonna say, I enjoyed France so much more with several day breaks between big cities. And had a lot more fun in San Marlo than Paris, come to think of it.
Is anyone looking at the warrant? I want to hear about the whole "kidnapping" thing. Regardless, I can't imagine anything that would justify how they did the raid and seizure.
Imo it should be strictly illegal for them to disable monitoring devices unless they're specifically named in the warrant ("the computer with evidence on it is also the NVR for the cameras")
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
What's wrong with upvoting creationists? Do you think upvotes represent some kind of community policy, and if everyone with "unacceptable" views isn't downvoted and hidden something must be done?
I'd be happy to upvote a creationist because I've literally never heard them talk before.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Yeah, I remember seeing a thermodynamic analysis of them and being devastated that such a cool idea didn't really work.
Nah, this is a weird new thing they do where some of the liquid coming out of the condenser is split off to a separate expansion valve, then through a heat exchanger where it subcools the main liquid line like a mechanical subcooler, then gets injected back into the middle of the compressor at medium temp and pressure without going through the evaporator.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=74o3bPemVUU
Good video on it. I understand how extra subcooling increases capacity and that the injected vapor cools(?) the compressor and reduces outlet temps by shifting to a lower isentrope curve(??), but the rest of it is beyond me. Apparently it works out thermodynamically similar to having a two-stage cycle with two separate compressors coupled with a heat exchanger, like they use for the big cold temp industrial stuff.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Oh, they definitely get worse. Even the Mitsubishi has lost 1/3 of its capacity by 12ishF. But the good ones are way overbuilt for their ratings now, and the vapor injection where pre-expanded gas subcools liquid going into the evaporator does a nice job of boosting capacity at lower temps.
(If you can explain how those work, I'd be eternally grateful. Been trying to wrap my head around it for ages--I get how a regenerator heat exchanger works on a steam turbine, but this is way more confusing somehow)
What do you mean by doesn't feel hot? The outlet air from mine is pretty low by furnace standards: 125F on autofan, down to 95 if I turn the fan up to get more airflow over the condenser.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
I only started appreciating this after switching to the heat pump. Airing out the house daily is now mandatory, and it really needs a ventilator fan.
And yeah, I wonder about what it'll do to the wall lifespan. I don't want to have to buy plywood at these prices!
Btw, I would love to see a pic of your stove model. I've been frustrated by my new one being unusable for anything more than warming pots of water, because the top is basically an aluminum duct for hot air flow.
You could cook a steak on my old one if it wasn't so disgustingly coated in soot lol.
The new Mitsubishis will still outperform baseboard down to at least -15F (realistically down to whatever their minimum temp is, usually -22-25ish), but since baseboard is so ridiculously expensive it's rarely a good metric unless electric is your only option. See the graph in that post for all the stuff that would also outperform baseboard lol.
It was between 25 and 40F for most of Nov, so basically ideal heat pump conditions as typical for this area. In late Dec it went down to the tweens for a few days, causing the grid to fail several times.(Yeah, the management is that pathetic. I feel pretty vindicated on the "have a backup rather than rely on cold weather performance" argument)
Other people's Mitsubishi FS units kept up fine at that temp (at least when the power was on) but I turned my cheapo unit off and used the wood stove all week instead. Mine would only get a COP of about 1.7 at those temps, vs 2.5ish for a mitsu. And the output on mine would drop to maybe 6kbtu, while the Mitsus were still putting out about 16k, still above their 12k rating.
Wow, nice project. Yeah, I'm starved on 120v amps in the kitchen just for a big kettle and toaster. A 20a circuit dedicated to the big stuff would be awesome, but fuck working with GFCI...
Would love to hear about the swamp cooler sometime. Was thinking of getting one until the mini split went in, and it could still be useful for an office outbuilding.
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