Kualk
@Kualk@lemm.ee
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
We always have to ask what language is it auto-completing for? If it is a strictly typed language, then existing tooling is already doing everything possible and I see no need for additional improvement. If it is non-strictly typed language, then I can see how it can get a little more helpful, but without knowledge of actual context I am not sure if it can get a lot more accurate.
I recall co-pilot demo people using Python. Same demo with GO, C#, Rust would have less impact.
- Comment on Biden moves to crack down on Shein and Temu, slow shipments into US 2 months ago:
I bought 2 nice queen size beds for about $300. There’s no way local furniture store would produce the same prices.
Temu cuts out entire US retail chain including Amazon shop.
- Comment on Pilot killed after Western-donated F-16 fighter jet crash in Ukraine 2 months ago:
Sweet story that omits more than tells
How did the pilot die during the missile strike?
It is a sweet story that forgets to mention that this missile strike shut off electricity in multiple regions despite report of 80% interception rate.
On that day the were multiple leaks of fireballs on the ground. Odessa, for starters.
Ukraine moved significant amounts of anti-air to protect its Kursk invasion of Russia. The result was a successful missile attack against military assets in Ukraine. One of the losses was F-16 with the pilot. How did he die? Was it long range anti-air hit at an impossible distance even for long range missiles? Or was it a hit on the ground? How far away from front lines?
Is it that acknowledging hit on the ground is revealing a successful hit of military airfield used to arm F-16? What about all those sweet intercept numbers?
The way article is written makes reader to think that F-16 was in the air, when it was hit. It is all about the way story was written. However, there’s no actual statement of how or were it was hit.
Russian unofficial telegram channels reported that F-16 was hit on the ground. F-16 is not stationed in Ukraine, but it gets armed in Ukraine to avoid accusation of direct NATO involvement. So, Russians managed to hit a highly missile protected the furthest away airfield in a time window of short F-16 armament.
Suddenly the story has a completely different meaning. That’s why it is a sweet story, that omitted more, than told us.
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Update: today’s telegram says F-16 was shutdown by friendly anti-air fire. Was it western supplied weapons that don’t have friendlies identification?
- Comment on Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat 2 months ago:
Is ceramic tint different from ordinary tint?
- Comment on A unique aquaponics system to produce more fish and vegetables with less energy 2 months ago:
It is cheaper to produce fish and greens of manufacturing is combining the production.
The synergy of manufacturing processes increases profits and can be sold to consumers as reduction of energy consumption.
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 2 months ago:
Current AI is good at compressing knowledge.
Best job role: information assistant or virtual secretary.
- Comment on ISS astronauts on eight-day mission may be stuck until 2025, Nasa says 3 months ago:
Remarkable US space program failure.
- Comment on World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage 4 months ago:
Check UK stories.
People leaving next to turbines hate them due to noise pollution.
- Comment on World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage 4 months ago:
Lol,
Batteries are perfect for load balancing.
Please, know your facts
- Comment on Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler 4 months ago:
Total is $398 bundle with lower end fan. It is comparable.
The choice will be driven by hardware characteristics for me. Power vs performance questions. If performance is roughly the same, then I will prefer lower power consumption.
- Comment on Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler 4 months ago:
A few years from now we may be seeing US tariffs on these just like EVs today.
China is developing fast and it took US trade war seriously.
- Comment on Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler 4 months ago:
A couple generations don’t mean much anymore.
Performance gains have been slow.
I’d rather understand where exactly is its performance in comparison to AMD and Intel.
Then I can make a call if it is worth it.
After all there’s plenty of Raspberry Pi level performance and people are happy with it as long as price is right.
- Comment on Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler 4 months ago:
Does it run Linux?
- Comment on Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler 4 months ago:
Give us some links for combo of motherboard, CPU and fan. I assume it needs a fan.
- Comment on Putin hints Russia to start making previously banned missiles 4 months ago:
World is on path of escalation.
- Comment on Using The Wind And Magnets To Make Heat 4 months ago:
If you read comments to the original article, it is far from new idea and some farmers have used for a long time.
- Comment on Moscow stock exchange stops trading in dollars and euros 5 months ago:
They held 8.5 to 9.5 range for just about 1 year. Before and after it was 16-20% range.
Source: base.garant.ru/10180094/
- Comment on Moscow stock exchange stops trading in dollars and euros 5 months ago:
There are valid concerns of economic overheating from huge internal investments.
Russia is experiencing standard consequences of rapid economic expansion: salaries are rising up, labor market is constrained.
One negative point is high interest rates, which are held high to slow down economic expansion.
Sanctions have impact, but the impact is falling very far from expectations.
- Comment on Moscow stock exchange stops trading in dollars and euros 5 months ago:
Chinese currency took 53.6% of all Russian trade in May of this year.
Compare this with just 1% 2 and a half years ago in the beginning of 2022.
Russian financial system is already prepared for this scenario and absolutely no serious impact is expected to occur.
These events (sanctions and switch in trade) will simply accelerate transition of Russian economy away from dollar in the trade.
Russia and China already use each other’s currency to settle trade between each other. World manufacturing and world resource store are now exclusively connected and now fully control internal inflationary pressures.
EU and US are not able to control price inflation and are forced to guard their economies through additional tariffs. For example, recent introduction of tariffs on Chinese made electric cars demonstrates loss of competitiveness of western economies. Cars are complex products that require a lot of energy to produce. As a result they are a good subject to aggregate economic efficiency.
In other words if this continues China and Russia will be able to dictate the rate of currency inflation in the non-dollar space (read BRICS future currency control).
At the same time dollars that used to work inside Russia-China trade space, is continuing to get pushed out into the dollar space and causing upward inflationary pressure on the dollar. This forces US Fed to keep pumping freed up dollars from the dollar system to keep inflation down in the dollar space.
There are 1st signs of economic slowdown in US and fed is currently unable to react quickly due to the need to pump excess liquidity from the dollar system.
So, all this impact on the dollar for questionable impact on Russia.
- Comment on Men over 30, anyone use a toupee/"hair system"? 7 months ago:
I agree with others that best policy is to shave bold or very short. I do #1, because i find it most convenient.
If you really want to check the product it is best to go to product website (they usually promote and sell). Read their legal statements. Most of them will point there that product makes no claims of medical use, it is just a supplement, it is not FDA approved. It is for entertainment purposes only.
The legal small print on the website itself will tell you if you should buy or not. It protects website from liability and they gamble that most people don’t read it.
You will spend less time going through legal statements than looking for “other people’s unbiased opinion“ on internet. The latter may not even exist as products can be rebranded every 6 months.
- Comment on Men over 30, anyone use a toupee/"hair system"? 7 months ago:
I don’t have problem with hair, but I like shaving to #1.
- Comment on I broke nextcloud and i cant fix it 9 months ago:
This is a major reason to use simpler technology.
I can’t help you, but i had a similar experience with similar technology. I spent lots of time recovering content. I succeeded, but i have software development experience. I didn’t want a repeat of that.
In the end I picked windows file sharing for home networking and filebrowser for occasional access to data files from outside of home networking.
Web dav is a very good alternative. Apache web server will be easier, but nginx can be made to work.
Joplin is another good alternative, which is based on web dav.
You can pay around $2-$3 a month to shared services provider for hosted web dav.
- Comment on I am tired of corporatist technology and I need help to get away from it. 11 months ago:
You can pay for dreamhost, namecheap or any other shared hosting plan that provides WebDAV. Some provide unlimited storage. I am not sure how realy unlimited it is.
Buy domain and host empty website. Turn on ssl using hosting tools. Dreamhost provides you with free certificate for that. Namecheap charges after 1st year.
Create directory on the website using hosting tools and turn on webdav on that directory. It can be password protected. Turn on password protection and disable public access using hosting tools.
That will give you a disk that can be mounted on Windows, Linux or mac. From home or coffee shop. It will act as your remote storage and you can access it using Explorer or Finder. Most tools will read content of remote disk without any restrictions.
Create another directory and leave public access to have public sharing directory only you can change (keep passwords).
Create another directory or use one of your private subdirectory with application Joplin and you get free and open source notes and todo system. That system can encrypt all your notes with master password. I recommend it: joplinapp.org
The might be other apps…
- Comment on Request for browser based podcast player 1 year ago:
I can’t figure out how this is better than jellyfin I already use.
- Comment on Request for browser based podcast player 1 year ago:
Podgrab looks interesting.
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
You are best served by NixOS.
Normally Arch or Debian is a great option, but not this time.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Gnome web is not usable. It crashes.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5: available now! 1 year ago:
The bridge is free, but underlying software is paid service subscription.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5: available now! 1 year ago:
Hi, can someone point me to a good resource where I can ask for DIY solution of home speaker.
I need home speakers that can play music and messages from home machine.
Target music is something like jellyfin, messaging is not decided.
Goal is to have a speaker per room like Apple speaker, but controllable from Linux.