Hard to land if no land.
It sead.
Readit Newsalmostarockstar commented on Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico twitter.com/SpaceX/status... · Posted by u/thepasswordis
almostarockstar commented on Notes on my Remarkable tablet tomcritchlow.com/2024/02/... · Posted by u/topcat31
I got mine (recently) for two reasons:
1- My desk was always covered in paper and I hated the mess. On this point, I am 110% satisfied. My desk is super clean.
2- I found it very hard to keep track of multiple projects, or discussions across notebooks, or pages in a notebook. On this I am still not quite there. It's better for sure but I really want to search for people, dates, or keywords, rather than being super careful and organised with folders and notebooks for every conversation, which then gets too messy.
The benefit of root access to the device be default is that I can build what I need. In the two weeks I've had the device, I've been able to automate finding my device on the network, syncing my notes, converting them to non-proprietary files and OCRing them. The next step is to implement nicer search and discovery UI which admittedly is a bigger challenge.
almostarockstar commented on Another Roman dodecahedron has been unearthed in England smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
Would the royal household also have decorative brass stone masons' chisels, carpenters' planes, doctors' scalpels, and farmers' sickles?
I don't really buy that theory. Do we have any other examples of fancy decorative versions of working class tools?
Anecdotally, I have seen decorative plates hanging on walls, spinning wheels, ships wheels, oil lamps, etc all used decoratively in contemporary settings.
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What are some examples? I am English but I know nothing about the maritime world, so I likely know the words as slang/vernacular terms but not what they mean on a ship.
Leeway: The "lee" is the area downwind of a vessel. A lee-shore is a shoreline that the wind blows on to, as opposed to a windward shore that the wind blows off. To give leeway is to allow enough room for a vessel to be blown off course by the wind and avoid danger.
Rig (noun): The mast and supporting stays on a boat. (oil rigs, "big rig" come from this I think).
Rig (verb): To put the sails up and tie on the sheets and other lines that control sails. ("Let's rig this up." == "Let's set this up.")
Posh (my favourite, though I doubt it's actually true): Port Out Starboard Home. When travelling from England to India around the tip of Africa, it was favourable to have a cabin on the port side on the way to India and starboard on the way back as it would be in the shade most of the time and a little cooler in the sun, with a view of the land.
See also: Change tack / try a different tack, right the ship, stay the course, (to be) swamped, "At a rate of knots" (very fast), keep an even keel, keel over.
I hear people use "at the helm" and "change tack" to mean being in charge of something and changing direction or approach, respectively. People also "hitch themselves" to things, although I'm not sure that comes directly from the nautical usage.
A "hitch" knot is typically used to fasten around a fixed object. So you might use a hitch to tie the boat to the shore, or tie a line around a wooden (or these days aluminium or carbon fibre) boom. I'm not sure if it's purely nautical.
almostarockstar commented on Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442... · Posted by u/mmq
I kid you not, I literally started making something like this yesterday. My plans were smaller, only trying to simulate politics, but still. Living in this moment of AI is sometimes very demoralizing. Whatever you try to make has been made by someone last week. /rant
You should still do that. And you should read the paper and pick the bits you think might be useful and iterate on them. The cutting edge isn't like a knife, it's more like a rotating barrel of blades that take little chunks out of the impossible, and come around again.
almostarockstar commented on Show HN: Generate startup ideas based on HN comments hn-ideas.tjcx.me/... · Posted by u/tjcx
This is great! The few prompts I tried provided reasonable ideas. Bookmarked!
Looks like you could do some damage with those bolts on the chair if you caught on them.
But this is a cool concept.
IMO, fears of companies leaving are unfounded. We’re still the only native English speaking country in the EU and from a business sense, our culture most closely matches that of the US. The Irish government knows where the bread is buttered. There will always be attractive incentives for multinationals to be HQd here.