Badabinski

@Badabinski@kbin.earth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think it'd be a pretty silly thing for us to ever try to do. My goal was to take their stupid idea, provide a slightly less stupid idea, and then say "or just don't do space power at all and keep everything terrestrial." Orbital solar power stations were lots of fun in science fiction, but panels are cheap, there's plenty of land, and giant death masers that cook any birds flying into the beam are, uh, suboptimal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We've had the template for this for decades. Put the solar panels in space where the thick soupy gunky spunky atmosphere doesn't stop the little energy things from the sun. Collect the power in orbit. You just do that up there up in orbit okay? And then you fucking beam the power down to the surface you numpty fucks. Use a maser to send the power down to the surface and you can pick a frequency that isn't affected by the gunky spunky and then the receivers on the ground can pick it up and they send the power through these things called wires to a building that uses the power and the building can use this neat little thing called CONVECTION to more efficiently remove the heat from the things using the electricity wow.

  Or just, y'know, use less power and make use of ground based solar. We don't need fucking AI data centers in space. Don't get me wrong, I think it might be useful to, say, have some compute up in geostationary orbit that other satellites could punt some data to for computation. You could have an evenly spaced ring of the fuckers so the users up there can get some data crunching done with a RTT of like 50ms instead of 700ms. That seems like a hard sell, but it at least seems a bit tenable if you needed to reduce the data you're sending back to the earth down to a more manageable amount. That is still not fuckass gigawatt AI data centers. Fuck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This script is why I ended up learning how to use OnShape. It's probably much better nowadays, but I could not get it working a few years ago. I needed CAD and OnShape was close enough to Inventor that it was almost frictionless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh god, please don't use it for Bash. LLM-generated Bash is such a fucking pot of horse shit bad practices. Regular people have a hard enough time writing good Bash, and something trained on all the fucking crap on StackOverflow and GitHub is inevitably going to be so bad...

  Signed, a senior dev who is the "Bash guy" for a very large team.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's depressing, man⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure they got hacked, their comment history was perfectly normal beforehand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung brings ads to US fridges⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yo, I think your shit got hacked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CATL says next-gen sodium-ion battery supports 500 km range, readies for 2026 mass production⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK, LFP thermal runaway can't start fires. NMC or other lithium chemistries can and they scare me, but LFPs are pretty damn safe. That being said, I'm still stoked for sodium chemistries to be developed. If the round trip efficiency issues can be solved, then I think it'll be a great solution for residential power storage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung brings ads to US fridges⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I made the mistake of buying a Samsung washer/dryer set in 2017. The washer actually still works and the seal has held up well, but the dryer drum jumped its tracks within the first year, and both have been plagued with gremlins.

  Fuck Samsung appliances and honestly most things Samsung sells.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Invest⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  26 years later and it's still a fucking banger of an article: https://theonion.com/new-e-toilet-to-revolutionize-online-shitting-1819565332/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Y'all lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Out of 10. Be specific!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  backscratcher/10

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it was a form from Google soliciting feedback on the thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lovely, thank you for this. I've left my feedback, and I hope many, many other people do as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Left to Right Programming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I'll agree that list comprehensions can be a bit annoying to write because your IDE can't help you until the basic loop is done, but you solve that by just doing [thing for thing in things] and then add whatever conditions and attr access/function calls you need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have any sources for the 10x memory thing? I've seen people who have made memory usage claims, but I haven't seen benchmarks demonstrating this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Debian is superior for server tasks. musl is designed to optimize for smaller binaries on disk. Memory is a secondary goal, and cpu time is a non-goal. musl isn't meant to be fast, it's meant to be small and easily embedded. Those are great things if you need to run in a network/disk constrained environment, but for a server? Why waste CPU cycles using a libc that is, by design, less time efficient?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it? I thought the thing that musl optimized for was disk usage, not memory usage or CPU time. It's been my experience that alpine containers are worse than their glibc counterparts because glibc is damn good. It's definitely faster in many cases. I think this is fixed now, but I remember when musl made the python interpreter run like 50-100x slower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coding students whose jobs were taken by AI forced to find work at Chipotle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The one where every LLM-generated shell script I read is another deep splinter in my fingernail quick that I have to rip out and destroy because it's a godfucked mess of bad practices that we can never ever ever ever EVER train out of an LLM at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember to dry your filament kids⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When the filament goes through the hotend, any moisture in the filament will boil and make the filament all bubbly and not extrude well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a new GPL needs to be created to account for this. Like, "any generative system using this as an input which can ever replicate this code base (even in part), must be bound to this license." People could then run overfitting analysis to see if they ever get their copyleft code out of the model. If they do, then they have grounds to sue. I'm fine with an LLM being trained on my code, but I want the four freedoms to be preserved if it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  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).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  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?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Speed Loader For Your 3D Printer Filament⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm archiving Picocrypt · Issue #134 · Picocrypt/Picocrypt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anywhere but lemmygrad or hexbear, really. lemmy.dbzer0.com, lemmy.world, lemmy.zip, or lemmy.blahaj.zone are all good ones. I'm quite partial to kbin.earth (although you'd need a different app), and there's also piefed instances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't like them because they took games that were perfectly functional on Linux and MacOS and made them not function anymore. I paid for Rocket League with the understanding that I'd be able to play it, and now I can't.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funny how that works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd be fine if property taxes were also tied to household income, with no exceptions being made for rentals. Like, raise my taxes and make my income bracket pay 100%, but reduce the property tax rate for households with lower incomes so they can stay in their homes. All taxes should be fair and progressive.