fubarx

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[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Because ice packs are so damn inconvenient.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Video summary of Iliad: https://youtu.be/T7iVwJb0BfE

Precursor to The Odyssey. Explains why certain things happen later. You can watch it sped up. Video summary of The Odyssey: https://youtu.be/OuGeoq_uVts

To go even deeper: https://youtu.be/BgSiijz-bKM

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

vLLM.

It's slower to start, but once it gets going, pretty solid.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

There was little mention of it at the last Apple Developer Conference in June. They haven't given up, but it's not on the iPhone/Mac hardware upgrade cadence.

Face-based computing has been around for a while. It's got a lot to overcome.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Three or more large satellites or used rocket stages burn up in Earth’s atmosphere every day, according to the European Space Agency’s Space Environment Report published last year. Every year, hundreds of tons of human-made objects reenter the atmosphere and evaporate, leaving behind clouds of microscopic ash along with some fragments that happen to fall all the way to the ground.

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Meanwhile, the amount of space rocks today entering the atmosphere, to be clear, outstrips the amount of reentering space junk. An estimated 44 tonnes of space rock enters the atmosphere per day, most of which burns up.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Congrats! Hope it went well.

It's a bit too late now, but for anyone else, make sure someone packs you both a takeaway food box, as well as beverages.

When we got married, we spent the whole time going around talking to people and neither one of us got a chance to really eat. Fortunately, someone with experience had thought ahead. We ended up back at our place super late, tired, happy, starving, and grateful to discover the goodie bag.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Thanks for this. Read both books back in college. Just watched an hour long YT synopsis of each book. Have tickets to see the IMAX 70mm version in a couple weeks. May be enough time to re-read the book.

Will keep an eye out for the differences you point out. Thanks again.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Wonder how many of those repos contain AI-generated code?

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

May want to also check out Project Ray: https://github.com/ray-project/ray

Sits on top of vLLM. What the big guys use.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Given how many are out there, anyone making a compostable RFID chip should get a prize.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

They're just there for a three hour tour. A three hour tour.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Don't EVER use any public wifi without a proper VPN. As soon as you connect, launch the VPN. Hotels, museums, conferences, coffeshop, busses and trains, and library wifis are the worst. Even homes of friends.

I've seen wireshark traffic that would make your blood curl.

 
 

Archive link: https://archive.ph/NaK7K

 

Try a random startup from the Spring 2025 batch of Y-Combinator VC: https://www.extruct.ai/data-room/ycombinator-companies-x25/

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Cosmas Indicopleustes, a 6th Century traveler and author of Christian Topography, believed the world was not only flat, but that it fit inside a 'box' with a curved lid. It was surrounded by water routes (the ocean), and contained the tallest mountain peak that went up to heavens.

Having to figure out how 'night' and 'day' worked, he came up with the explanation that 'angels' moved the sun behind and in front of the mountain.

His world was bounded by the coast of East Africa, northern Mediterranean, Central Asia, and present-day Sri Lanka (hence, the box).

It turned out this was because these were the only places he had ever gone through his travels.

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