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jabits commented on John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025 twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack... · Posted by u/tosh

> He then called me to tell me this, rather then call me to come stop by and program the thermostat.

Sounds like AI robbed you of an opportunity to spend some time with your Dad, to me

jabits · 3 months ago

Or maybe instead of spending time with your dad on a bs menial task, you could spent time fishing with him…

jabits commented on Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019) exurbe.com/stoicisms-appe... · Posted by u/Tomte

mjburgess · 6 months ago

I suspect that screaming at a person who has done you wrong, in the vast majority of cases, has both the intended effect and a desirable one.

If you are in an elite position of leadership, and otherwise have more Machiavellian options, then you can always try to calculate revenge instead -- or forgive endlessly and be exploited.

I'd say in the majority of cases, for most adult people with some life experience, shouting when you want to shout is probably a healthy thing.

Though there are always cases of those who shout at the wrong people (displaced agression), or have to little life experience or no composure at all -- I dont think these are any where near the majority of cases. It's very rare. Though a perpetually (literally,) adolescent internet might make it seem so.

Almost no one ever shouts at me, though I'm very shoutable-at.

jabits · 6 months ago

Well now it sounds like you are disagreeing for it's own sake. There may be a name for what you describe, but it's not what is commonly understood as Stoicism.

And in my many years, I have never found shouting at another person to be a healthy thing.

jabits commented on FDA proposes ending use of oral phenylephrine as OTC nasal decongestant fda.gov/news-events/press... · Posted by u/impish9208

wombatpm · 10 months ago

I’ve hearing great things about this new drug called placebo. You can apparently prescribe it for anything and in many cases it’s just as good as existing medications.

jabits · 10 months ago

Well, I guess I’m here because of one of these miracle drugs. My kidneys would have crapped out year ago without it. I guess call me a fan…

jabits commented on Notepad++ is 21 years old learnhub.top/celebrating-... · Posted by u/thunderbong

ruthmarx · 10 months ago

There is still no real equivalent on Linux. Kate seems nice but its session management isn't ideal.

Honestly I want to take Scintilla or whatever and just add in session support, syntax highlighting and spellchecking, and then I'll have my perfect editor.

jabits · 10 months ago

You might take a look at [SciTE](https://scintilla.org/SciTE.html), a light weight wrapper around Scintilla, with lua scripting support. It’s been my non-IDE editor for years on Windows and Linux…

jabits commented on Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian kaeruct.github.io/posts/2... · Posted by u/kaeruct

BenFranklin100 · a year ago

If you’re looking to incorporate markdown into OneNote, you may want to look at the OneMark addin:

https://onemark.neux.studio

jabits · a year ago

Thanks, I’ve been looking for something like this.

jabits commented on Apple Debuts VisionOS 2 techcrunch.com/2024/06/10... · Posted by u/kelthuzad

talldayo · a year ago

The proliferation of dongles and adapters is evidence that not everything will make the jump to wireless. Especially since with Lightning Apple tipped their hand and revealed that their ultimate goal was to license a subset of DRM-encoded USB standards. It feels pretty obvious that Apple's movement towards wireless is mostly about killing the specter of standardized connectivity.

Look at external drives; how is wireless going to replace this anywhere? Bluetooth can't even hit SATA speeds, much less 4k streaming speeds without re-encoding and compressing the source material. You might get somewhere with WiFi Direct, but Apple doesn't support that in the first place and requires people to use their proprietary alternatives.

Seriously, I want you to sit down and ask yourself one question. If Macs went full-wireless tomorrow, do you sincerely believe that the majority of Mac owners wouldn't own new wireless dongles?

jabits · a year ago

Who is going to be schlepping around external drives?

jabits commented on Veo deepmind.google/technolog... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

shwaj · a year ago

That mirrors my experience from when I used to live in northern Canada

jabits · a year ago

Even in Upper Michigan near Lake Superior we sometimes had stunn, colorful Northern Lights. Sometimes it seemed like they were flying overhead within your grasp

jabits commented on GPT-4o openai.com/index/hello-gp... · Posted by u/Lealen

hbn · a year ago

> I noticed that the AI in the demo seems to be very rambly

That's been a major issue for me with LLMs this whole time. They can't just give me an answer, they have to spout a whole preamble that usually includes spitting my query back at me and trying to impress me with how many words it's saying, like it's a requirement. You can tell it e.g. "don't give me anything other than the list" but it's annoying to have to ask it every time.

Every AI chat needs a "no yap mode"

jabits · a year ago

I’m kind of glad it does this so I know that it understood what I asked. A good presenter will do this as well when responding to questions.

jabits commented on US ICBM Launch Center Virtual Tour aerospaceutah.org/virtual... · Posted by u/sklargh

implements · a year ago

(Not speaking for the actual expert) - I think I read that missiles require two separate Launch Control Facilities (LCF) to turn keys for immediate launch, but will eventually launch after a (classified) delay if just one does (unless vetoed by other LCFs in the same group).

jabits · a year ago

This is roughly correct. In addition to the immediate ground launch crew votes (in reality a squadron is 5 launch centers, i.e. capsules, all interconnected to a total of 50 missiles, and as stated two launch control centers need to successfully “vote”), there is always an airborne launch control center flying over ready to provide a second vote after a specific time-out period. In fact one of our primary nuclear safety and control concerns was to keep refreshing the ALCC access timer.

jabits commented on US ICBM Launch Center Virtual Tour aerospaceutah.org/virtual... · Posted by u/sklargh

swozey · a year ago

What's inside of the locked down door? Is that just the main door in? I'm assuming that hallway is the museum.

And what is on the map with the circles? Is that a geographical map or some sort of system map?

And what shock do the Shock Isolators stop? Shock from a launch?

jabits · a year ago

In answer to your first question, in the field that would be the primary blast door, a penetration that went through the capsule to a chamber with another larger blast door out to the elevator. At the other end of this chamber is the passage to the generator room. We were obviously equipped to go quite some time “off-grid”.

I am assuming the view is from one of the training simulators which are used exact, suspended control centers with a viewing window.

We had no maps in the capsule. Any targeting we did was normal 3-d coordinates, technically we really did not have a “need to know” where the coordinates were located.