Badabinski

There’s still a place for producing hydrogen via electrolysis (chemical feedstock), but anyone who wants to burn hydrogen is either selling you a rocket (good) or an excuse to keep sucking up that crude. The answer to our energy problems is still just solar, wind, batteries, and other renewables.

Not listed is the best tool:

dd if=path/to/file.iso of=/dev/sd$whatever oflag=sync bs=128M status=progress

Man, I hope Slate trucks sell like fucking hotcakes. The lack of creepy spyware makes that the only new vehicle I’m considering.

Caffeine pills are the way.

I’m positive it has the same issues as any other Windows VM setup. If you’ve got two GPUs, you can probably pass one of them through to the VM and get good graphical performance.

I wish the virtio-gpu stuff hadn’t died on Windows…

EDIT: It might not be dead? That’s cool if so.

True! I just wonder how much energy they’d realistically be able to store for a given amount of resources. Like, does this have the same issues as Lifted Weight Storage? Where the energy density just doesn’t really make sense once you get right down to it. I don’t know the relevant math to determine how much water and at what pressures might be required to scale this up to the 500MWh/1GWh range. It might be perfectly fine.

EDIT: fuck man I’m not writing well today. edited to make me sound like less of a cretin

I wonder if this suffers from the same power density issue as most alternatives to pumped hydro systems. It’s REALLY hard to do better than megatons of water pumped 500 meters up a hill.

here you go

https://archive.ph/GUjLJ

Yep, although using angle grinders can possibly destroy what’s inside. UL does have much more stringent standards. To quote the Wikipedia article on safes:

TL-15 - This is a combination-locked safe that offers limited protection against combinations of common mechanical and electrical tools. The safe will resist abuse for 15 minutes from tools such as hand tools, picking tools, mechanical or electric tools, grinding points, carbide drills and devices that apply pressure. While the UL 687 defines this as a “limited degree” of protection, that standard is used for commercial applications, and the TL-15 rating offers significantly better protection than many unrated safes.

I love LPL, but he tends to focus on mechanical bypasses. I feel pretty sure that the safes mentioned in this article are actually listed by UL as safes. UL, of course, fucked up with the electronic locks themselves by underwriting them, but I have much more confidence in UL’s mechanical expertise. The common bypasses that LPL uses would not be present on one of these safes, and he’d likely consider them to be truly secure (this vuln nonwithstanding, of course).

EDIT: for reference, I don’t think UL considers most gun safes found in American homes to even be “safes.” If they do rate them as a safe, they’re usually considered “Residential Security Containers.” If the Wikipedia article is to be believed, that means the following:

resist for five minutes expert attacks employing tools including screwdrivers, adjustable wrenches, pry bars, punches, chisels and hammers no heavier than 3 lb.

Out of curiosity, do you feel that you would have been able to write that new function without an LLM in less time than you spent fighting GPT5?

If the game uses Unity and the mods are posted on Thunderstore, then Gale works perfectly.

Is it even possible to replace the head units on deeply integrated cars like this?

Smorty just uses this communication style and they’re very nice and sweet and good.

I thought I remembered reading that saltwater electrolysis is far more efficient than freshwater electrolysis. It’s probably not orders of magnitude different, but I imagine it might help a bit.

Idk, they’re probably fine. There are SO many instances out there nowadays, and I’d guess most of them are fine.

I learned to program by shitting out God awful shell scripts that got gently thrashed by senior devs. The only way I’ve ever learned anything is by having a real-world problem that I can solve. You absolutely do NOT need a CS degree to learn software dev or even some of compsci itself, and I agree that tools like Bolt are going to make shit harder. It’s one thing to copy stack overflow code because you have people arguing about it in the comments. You get to hear the pros and cons and it can eventually make sense. It’s something entirely different when an LLM shits out code that it can’t even accurately describe later.

I’ve got a Prusa XL and this is love at first sight for me. My printer is direct drive, but the filament feed tubes are SO long to accommodate the bed size.

kbin lives on via the community fork mbin! Ernest was great, but he got sick and overwhelmed ): hope he’s doing okay.

ngl, I do wish it was still used. I remember being like, 4 years old and trying to write a “thank you” card to my grandmother. I spent what feel like an hour going through the alphabet, trying to find the letter that makes the “th” sound. Apparently my mom found me laying on the floor sobbing and repeating the alphabet, which is both funny and sad lol

Many years have passed, but a tiny grain of resentment at the English language remains. The thorn would have prevented that.