MollieTheMare
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MollieTheMare
21hr ago
Nice, custom loop or AIO? If custom loop what are people using nowadays for water-blocks on their GPU, did EK survive their 'try just not paying their suppliers and employees' experiment?
What's your workload like, mostly gaming? I feel like the sweet spot for AIO cooling of CPUs is something like 30s to 10 minute saturation workloads. Shorter than that and you're not producing enough heat for your cooling system to matter. Longer than that you're saturating the liquid anyway. But for some GPU limited games and some workstation tasks even a "cheap" AIO has way better peak noise normalized performance than even pretty premium air coolers.
MollieTheMare
5d ago
Yeah... Though I guess non-devs might feel most comfortable composing in Word, or google docs now? I assume a google doc has "good enough" versioning you wouldn't need to keep 12 distinct versions.
For someone who is moderately technically inclined but who needs to do custom formatting in Word, for a class or whatever, there are two options that come to mind for using git. Both slightly janky.
The first is to unzip the .docx file, and version control that in git. Gitignore docx files themselves in the repo. Without unzipping git (at least used to) treat docx containers as binary files, so you won't be able to look at diffs. Microsoft doesn't supper love you unzipping office files, so unzipping requires extra steps.
The second option that comes to mind is to compose in markdown. Maybe GitHub flavored markdown, even editing a gist on girhub from your preferred browser. Or whatever your favorite markdown editor is. Then convert the markdown file to a .docx via pandoc. You're not done yet though, because the docx is probably a "web document" format, so you still need to apply your paged formatting and re-save as a "regular" word doc. This biggest advantage of this to me is not the versioning using git, it's being able to make comments to myself while composing. You do have to be careful though, different flavors and versions of markdown parsers treat comments differently.
MollieTheMare
10d ago
If a SAD lamp is not enough, you can try also tuning your lighting even more. The Rationalists™ version is sometimes called a lumenator.
MollieTheMare
15d ago
I always thought the main problems with just scaling up a cube were:
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People will complain about the lack of natural light in the interior rooms. For example Munger Hall. I personally think this is way overblown, especially for college students staying out until 4 AM and waking up at 11 AM. Or people in Minneapolis with no sun for normal at home hours in the winter, and the sun waking you up at 4 AM in the summer. With high CRI, high intensity, fresnel lens adjusted, power efficient LEDs atifical lighting can be better than the sun. Completely controllable timing and intensity, no unwanted solar heating, controlled glare, controlled color temperature, etc.
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The mechanical integrations eat up much of the cost savings of the structure. Isolating and running the HVAC for that many units requires a bunch of ducting runs, eating up interior volume. Additional expensive and loud air handling units are required to over come the static resistance of all the ducting. Times 2 for the plumbing. This is why it's so hard to convert a space designed for a cube farm to residential use. You can feed an open space with a single giant plenum, but individual dwelling units require individual ducting for air quality.
Of course, you can overcome these by only scaling on the z-axis, but then you lose much of your scaling law advantage. You also run into other scaling problems, for example The Mile-High Illinois, where you would have eaten up most of the lower floor space with elevators.
MollieTheMare
25d ago
Were you searching from a clean browser over a VPN? If not, it's likely that your hit was due to Google Personalized Search. Where a site you have visited in the past that contains a rare keyword is much more likely to be promoted to the top of the results it returns. I'm not sure it's confirmed, but it's possible they use browser fingerprinting for "personalization" as well now. So even on a fresh IP with no cookies, their browsing history linker is able to determine the "user" to personalize for.
MollieTheMare
26d ago
Low-calorie does limit your options. Not necessarily for dipping and in no particular order:
- Malt Vinegar, possibly with some amount of "brown sauce." If it works for fish and chips, it probably works with just chips
- Tomato Chutney or salsa, especially with larger home fries
- Mustard, stone ground or whole grain. According to the totally unbiased National Mustard Museum, superior in every way to using ketchup. Particularly for the calorie conscious.
- Nutritional yeast. I guess a topping not a sauce, but still another option to complement fries. IMO, needs salt too. Low calorie and low sodium sounds very miserable. Kind of a funky cheesy flavor with way fewer calories than cheese sauce.
- Hot sauce. Frank's RedHot reminds me the most of using ketchup. Melinda's is available pretty broadly, and has a bunch of flavors of varying spiciness.
- Gochujang. Depending on what you're having the fries with, but surprisingly versatile as a sauce for something so strongly associated with Korian food.
- Crema. Can be lower calorie if made with yogurt or fat free sour cream, less tasty that way of course.
Personally, I don't worry too much about the calories from a table spoon of sauce. I typically go for Ketchup, BBQ, or 1:1 fry sauce (as apposed to 2:1 of Mayochup, as a concession that mayo does have appreciable calories, even at the table spoon level). If squeezed from a fine tip condiment food service bottle, you can "cover" a pretty large area with relatively little sauce.
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
Glad it mostly worked out fine.
The lack of a proper place to mount extinguishers is a major flaw in the residential building code, IMO. Like the IBC spent the last three revisions updating the spacing of outlets on a kitchen island, but there's no standard place to mount an extinguisher.
For those who are not renting, I highly recommend just buying a vent cleaning kit. Online or at the home center. Apparently you are supposed to clean your dryer vent every year, and if you already own a drill and vacuum, a cleaning kit is less than the cost of calling a chimney sweep out. Once you're set up, the additional time per vent is pretty small.
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
USB specifications are an absolute clusterfuck.
At least they have counting down to a science:
- USB 1.0 (A, B)
- USB 1.1 (A, B)
- USB 2.0 (A, B, Mini-A, Mini-AB, Mini-B)
- USB 2.0 Revised (A, B, Micro-A, Micro-AB, Micro-B)
- USB
3.0,3.1 Gen 1, 3.2 Gen1x1 (A SuperSpeed, B SuperSpeed, Micro-A SuperSpeed, Micro-AB SuperSpeed, Micro-B SuperSpeed) - USB
3.1 Gen 2, 3.2 Gen 2x1 (A SuperSpeed, B SuperSpeed, ... , Type-C) - USB
3.2, 3.2 Gen 2x2 (Type-C) - USB4 (Type-C)
- USB4 2.0 (Type-C)
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
In reference to the prime 137:
When I die my first question to the Devil will be: What is the meaning of the fine structure constant?
- Wolfgang Pauli
Primes are pretty freaky.
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
Really shows how easy it is to mine out a one in a thousand result.
By my calculation the raw probability, assuming 50/50 odds per trial, is about equivalent to a z-score of 3. As a heuristic for correcting for mining and p-hacking effects, there is a tongue in cheek expression that's something like "50% of all 3-z results are wrong."
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
Yeah, especially since a decent fraction of votes remaining are in the central time pan handle, not remote votes like in other states. I interpreted the comment as implying Nate Silver took the margin greater than 8 points side. But then the comment also implied he was wrong?
I think 56-43 gives a +13 spread. Was OP interpreting it as +13/2 or +6.5?
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
I thought about just using a USB stick with the file(s), but that would make the user navigate the file system and play it through the TV's media player - a bit more friction for the user than I'd like.
Given this, the exact use case probably matters. What is the use case where the users can figure out the right HDMI port to select with their TV remote, but can't figure out how to play a video off a USB drive? Or plug in both HDMI and USB for that matter.
Do you also have control of the TV that will be installed? If it's a permanent instillation on a TV you select, you might be able to fined one where you can flip it to demo mode or some sort of auto play. In the former case I wonder if there is a way to overwrite the demo footage built into the TV. Then it should just play when the TV is powered.
For a mobile application, could a battery bank to power a fire stick or similar work? That would save the need to plug into the TV USB for power.
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
unsophisticated random number generators
Do linear congruential generators count as unsophisticated? RANDU was particularly infamous for being able to see the periodicity. Apparently one of the hyperplanes is along the Harris dimension. You would think they would use some sort of elliptic curves over Galois fields for simulating the election. Seems more apt.
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
so an OoM less than trillions
In case anyone really cares about the technical definitions of order of magnitude. The numbers 175x10^9 and 10^12, might correctly be said to be of different orders, but the former is not an order of magnitude less than the latter.
To differ by an order of magnitude two numbers X and Y must satisfy abs(log10(X) - log10(Y)) >= 1. In this case log10(1000) - log10(175) ~ 0.76. It did seem a bit hyperbolic to say trillions, but it's not technically an OoM less.
On the other hand, to express the order of magnitude of each number individually, the conventional range for the significand is [1/sqrt(10), sqrt(10)). In this case 1.75x10^11 and 1x10^12. So the first has an order of magnitude of 11 and the second 12.
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
This is exactly what I think every time I see the
24+ hours in a row
argument. It seems pretty likely it's easier to select three people who can competently work 8 hour shifts than one person who can competently work after being awake for 24 hours.
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
Specialized coaching in math barely even happens at the undergrad level.
This exists at both the elite and "pretty-good" level. There's the MOP and AoPS respectively. With similar programs to MOP internationally, and AoPS being accessible from anywhere with an internet connection now. Back in the 90's if you were not at the elite level you needed someone in your area with pretty specialized skill to help you through the book version of AoPS, but now they have a huge roster of highly qualified tutors/coaches that work online.
I'm very certain that the 100th best math undergraduate in the US has access to high level Putnam coaching. The problem is not as far out on the distribution. It's the 300 person survey Calc 1 classes at mediocre institutions that churn out incompetent engineers.
MollieTheMare
2mo ago
As someone who did not attend what would currently be considered one of the top tier football schools, I used to think some of the appeal was the team acted as a sort of martial manifestation of your Alma mater. Before the transfer portal, there was at least a thin veneer of the players being students and future alumni of your school. I guess supper fans, and people at schools that are perennial contenders, care about national championships but in the BCS and earlier eras every game mattered for the quality of bowl your team could hope for an invite to. As @Rov_Scam pointed out there are far more schools that consider themselves top tier than can truly contend for a national championship in any given year. A far more reasonable standard for a good year would be to have a strong enough regular season to get invited to a decent quality bowl, and to win that bowl game.
I do think this naturally limits viewership, since you only follow your own school and maybe a few marque rivalry games. On the other hand I do think NCAAF is in extreme danger of becoming NFL B league.
Speaking of which:
Northwestern Illinois Purdue
Never up to the standard of the marque Big Ten teams in the modern era, but all three were at the founding conference for the Big Ten. This predates the NCAA. They have been members of the Big Ten longer than Ohio State, and much much longer than Pen State. I would lament a realignment that destroys some of the history and tradition of college football. Without that it's more or less just professional football at a lower standard of play. This weekends Illinois–Michigan game will be the 100th anniversary of their meeting for the dedication of Memorial Stadium; that is the dedication of the stadium to alumni killed in WWI. For once the game might actually be competitive, it would be a shame if it were never competitive again because Michigan has 5x the NIL money to spend from exclusive TV deals.
MollieTheMare
2mo ago
Completely speculative, but maybe people are more prone to GI distress in the airport?
You have people who are dehydrated because they don't want to get up to urinate on the plane. People who got sloshed because they have anxiety about flying. People who ate things their digestive system isn't used to because that was the only option on the plane, or they came from a place without the food they are accustomed to. There's the factor of holding it because taking an unnecessary dump in an airplane lavatory is both unpleasant and rude. And finally, the possibility on being on your fifth cup of coffee because you had to get up at four AM to catch your flight and still have to go to a meeting this afternoon.
In general, I think you are not supposed to have to push so hard it requires groaning. It seems plausible though, that the selection on people who are so desperate they would use the public toilet also selects for people who are having an irregular bowel movement.
MollieTheMare
2mo ago
The obvious difference between food and other addictions is that you cannot go cold turkey on all food.
It is actually theoretically possible to quit by going cold turkey. At least if you start morbidly obese. To be clear I am not recommending it, but the canonical case was Angus Barbieri. He supposedly lost 276 lbs, and kept most of it off, at least at the five year follow up.
There is some clinical research on protein-sparing modified fasts, which seems to be more sound from a physiological point of view. In early research there was a realitvely high incidence of death, possibly from mismanagement of the amino-acid profile or (preexisting?) heart disease. It seems like it would probably be hard to get an institutional review board to go along with a large scale study now, hard to fund a high quality study, and you would have perpetual problems with compliance.
From the applied side, this is something like what competitive bodybuilders have been doing in the last weeks of contest prep for some time. That is a world known for disordered eating, so I only point this out to say that it works physiologically, not that it's necessarily a good idea.
At my current stage of life, no. But it does look better than the various slum efficiency and sub-basement units I lived in when I was younger.
Is there a particular reason for all the side yard space and front drives? Is it supposed to be generally preferable to row homes or town houses? I would rather have slightly more personal square footage and a small back garden, than a side yard and code minimum sized bedroom. You could have a back alleyway, shared front parking diagonally in the center of a long cul-de-sac, or even resident street parking (parallel or diagonal), if parking is necessary.
Another option that would have similar density, but more interior square footage, for a development would be a n-over-one or "stumpy." It's not cute, but real-estate developers in North America clearly think they offer the best net balance for medium density right now.
I also thought that they were below-code size, but I see now the minimum size requirements were removed from the International Residential Code in 2015. I had no idea. Also did not realize they added appendix AQ, specifically with respect to "tiny homes." I guess that's a win for density.
MollieTheMare
3mo ago
Yeah, I managed to track down some unconfirmed videos of the reported explosions. It does look larger and more violent than you would get with even the most kinetic LiPo fire. In that case thought, the battery must have been significantly below standard capacity or have the dimensions way out of spec. Maybe that's fine though, like having to pull every radio and pager with a pillowly LiPo out of action effectively dismantles the communication network.
MollieTheMare
3mo ago
What I had imagined was that the charge controller was some commercial off the shelf module and you could just compare a binary dump directly from the EPROM to a known good copy. I suppose the battery management could be integrated with the rest of the the devices firmware, and that the firmware is sufficiently localized that you couldn't locate an exact known safe version.
I'm amazed at the sophistication of the infiltration though.
MollieTheMare
3mo ago
If you have stress fractures you need time to heal, and possibly a physician.
In the case of normal shin splints though, have you tried incorporating tibia raises? I have never gotten shin splints after I added a few sets a couple of times a week. You can use a dumbell and a bench if your gym doesn't have a machine for them, which is like 99.9% of gyms. Just sit on the bench and extend your legs like a leg extension, holding the dumbell in your feet. Then lower and extend your feet. It can help to sit further back then you would for a leg extention, and to incline the seat by a notch.
You can also do them against a wall, but I don't feel like that is as effective.
Hopefully that goes away as the bubbles in the loop make it to the top.
With a 360, I wouldn't expect a load any normal user would reasonably run on a computer that's sitting in the same room as them to fully saturate the liquid in the loop. Maybe a supper long session of Cities: Skylines II, if you have literally Linus Torvalds needs for compiling Linux, or if your room needs an electric space heater so you run a synthetic benchmark/mine to keep warm at night.
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