cynar

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[–] cynar 7 points 21 hours ago

He's likely trying to throw down as many speed bumps as possible. Individually, they won't do much. Each will act as a distraction, a slight delay. Against most people in his position, they would be useless. Trump isn't most people however. He will bite and get distracted by the chew toy. It's likely about all Biden can do to limit the damage a little.

[–] cynar 3 points 1 week ago

It doesn't need to be overly insulated, just loose. My martial arts dobok used to have a similar effect (though for cold air, rather than hot). A dressing gown would work fine. It just needs to be open under the table, with enough room for air to circulate. The warm air will rise and vent out the neck and hand holes.

[–] cynar 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The pyramids were built by skilled labour. One of the options for paying taxes was to work on public works. It was also seen as a religious event, akin to modern missionaries.

[–] cynar 9 points 1 week ago

Mathematically clean and tidy would be a better description. This system is particularly close to the natural harmonics that either occur when planets form, or that planetary systems tend towards.

It's akin to watching a group of metronomes move into sync. Mathematically, it's not that special. To us monkeys, that particular pattern feels a lot better and cleaner.

Scientifically, it's quite useful. By judging the age of the system, we can tell a lot about early formation and planetary movements. As the article mentions, it's likely that planets form in such a resonance, then get knocked into chaotic orbits. However that's not been tested. This system would let us test some of our models against reality.

[–] cynar 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not quite what you're looking for, but a Japanese kotatsu type setup might be worth looking into. It's highly efficient at delivering heat where needed. It basically uses your clothing as a chimney, to funnel heat over your body. This includes your hands, via the sleeves.

[–] cynar 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The book makes it make a lot more sense. He actually reasons through what he is doing, and why. The line "I'm going g to science the shit out of it" is practically the mantra, and demonstrated again and again.

The film basically takes this and strips out all the 'boring science' stuff. What's left, while still a good film, is a shadow of the source material.

[–] cynar 3 points 1 week ago

The initial incident was this one.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-15520279

Unfortunately I got the inter governmental spat details from people involved. I work with big drones, and I've heard bits of it from both sides.

I'll see if I can track down about the fine itself.

[–] cynar 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's likely a scale thing. A satellite gives full coverage, but it's working at a large scale, with a long time lag. A plane is more local, with less time lag, but still quite a large scale. A drone is hyper local, with almost no time lag. Depending who is asking, all 3 can be extremely useful.

I can unfortunately see where communication could break down. Local firefighters wanted hyper local information. They didn't coordinate with the larger effort, and so the accident could have happened.

[–] cynar 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't know about the states, but in the UK. A police force decided to operate a drone for their own use. The CAA tried to politely educate them on the rules, and were, effectively told to eff off. A £35,000 ($43,000) fine was quite an effective slap on the wrist.

[–] cynar 11 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Detailed fire tracking. From the ground, it's difficult to tell if the fires is wrapping around you etc. By getting a bit of altitude, you can see what's going on, and act accordingly.

[–] cynar 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Check if you have a local makerspace or hackspace. They tend to attract a similar crowd. My local one is definitely majority neurospicy.

[–] cynar 4 points 1 week ago

I've got 1 dream check, that's fairly reliable, when I need it. I check my back pocket for "heavy weapons". Basically, think cartoon "hammer space". It's an almost unnoticeable check when awake, that doesn't do anything. In a dream state however, an ak47, or a bazooka is to hand.

This is particularly effective against nightmares. My subconscious happily accepts that I can pull whatever cartoon doodad I need out of my back pocket. This let's me jam nightmares. I've not had one since I trained myself to do this a couple of decades back.

The 1 trick to note, you need to "believe" on some level that it will work. It's akin to accepting a film. You know they are just actors and CGI, but you accept it as real. This belief gives it power in your dreams.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by cynar to c/asklemmy
 

My daughter is 5 now. She's discovered the joy of telling jokes. Unfortunately, her repertoire is painfully small. I've also realised most of my jokes are either not age appropriate or too situational.

What are best/worst kids jokes? Extra points for any that would make her teacher groan. Apparently she LOVES jokes. 😁

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submitted 11 months ago by cynar to c/android
 

I need some advice, and the amount of marketing spam had made sorting the wheat from the chaff annoyingly difficult. Hopefully you can help.

I've a young daughter, who uses an old tablet of mine to watch netflix etc. unfortunately, it was old in the tooth when she was born, and it's now become extremely annoying to use.

She currently has a Samsung Galaxy Tab A (2016). The size (10") works well, but it's gotten slow as sin, and only has 16Gb of internal memory.

Preferences wise:

  • 10" screen (±2")

  • 64Gb+ storage.

  • Long expected lifespan (inc security updates).

  • Headphone socket (adapters are asking to get broken, Bluetooth go flat)

  • Decent WiFi (more than just 2.4Ghz).

  • USB C charging preferred.

  • Wireless charging would be very helpful but not required.

  • Lower budget preferred (£200 range).

What would people recommend?

 

For those of you in the UK, IKEA currently has a steep discount on their GU10 bulbs. I've just picked up several dimmable, colour temperature controlled bulbs for £5 each.

They play nicely with HA via a sonoff dongle and ZigBee2MQTT, even down to firmware updates.

 

For those who haven't tried it. Gingerbread houses are both a lot easier to make, and great fun. My 4 year old and I had a wonderful evening together baking, building and decorating ours.

Has anyone else tried making one this year?

 

I've been using Ubuntu as my daily driver for a good few years now. Unfortunately I don't like the direction they seem to be heading.

I've also just ordered a new computer, so it seems like the best time to change over. While I'm sure it will start a heated debate, what variant would people recommend?

I'm not after a bleeding edge, do it all yourself OS it will be my daily driver, so don't want to have to get elbow deep in configs every 5 minutes. My default would be to go back to Debian. However, I know the steam deck is arch based. With steam developing proton so hard, is it worth the additional learning curve to change to arch, or something else?

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Custom Spec Laptop (self.buildapc)
submitted 1 year ago by cynar to c/buildapc
 

I'm upgrading to a new laptop (unfortunately, a desktop is not viable for me right now). It's a VR gaming machine, with some potential work with machine learning (me learning about it). I've got a system option, but it's into price flinching territory, and wanted a once over, from those more in the know.

Are there any obvious flaws in it, and is it reasonable for the price?

  • Display: 1 x 16.0" IPS | 2560×1600 px (16:10) | 240 Hz | G-SYNC | 95 % sRGB

  • Graphic Card: 1 x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop | 12 GB GDDR6

  • Processor: 1 x Intel Core i9-13900HX

  • Ram: 2 x 16 GB (32 GB) DDR5-5600 Samsung

  • SSD (M.2): 1 x 1 TB M.2 Samsung 990 PRO | PCIe 4.0 x4 | NVMe

  • Keyboard: 1 x Mechanical keyboard with CHERRY MX ULP Tactile switches

  • WLAN: 1 x Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX211 | Bluetooth 5.3

It prices up at €2,809.31 (£2,484.57 or $3,130.80) including shipping and taxes.

It's worth noting the system comes with an optional external water cooling system, so the CPU and GFX are less thermally limit, when it's plugged in. It also has a proper keyboard, not the normal membrane ones.

What are people's opinions? It is a reasonable price, or am I way too far up the diminishing returns slope?

https://bestware.com/en/xmg-neo-16-e23.html

 

My Google-fu has completely failed me. I've got an RGB addressable led curtain. It has 20 strings of 20 LEDs in a square arrangement. I initially assumed it had a wire feeding led data back up, to go to the next drop. On checking however, they are T jointed.

Apparently the address is hard coded into the RGB controller in the LED. I've found a few places where others have talked about them. I've also found that adafruit had some available,, unfortunately they lacked any info on how they are programmed, or where to source them from.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/4917

Anyone got any info on what the chip name of these is? Even better if you have any info on how they are programmed etc!

 

Might not be the best place to ask, but nowhere else reliant seemed alive.

My old laser printer has given up the ghost. What are people's recommendations on a replacement. As far as I'm aware, Brother are about the only company both making reasonably priced printers and not playing stupid games. Beyond that though, I'm not up to date on what's good and what's not.

Requirements.

  • Colour laser.

  • WiFi

  • Works with both windows and Linux

  • No need for scanner etc.

  • CD/ID card printing nice, but not required.

  • Photo quality nice, but not required (we have an ink sublimation printer for photos).

I'm UK based, which can mess with availability.

Thanks in advance.

 

All hail the lemming of Lemmy!

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