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The Analog anthology from 1994 is still one of the best collections I've ever read.

06.02.2026 04:05 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Achewood panel, Roast Beef Kazenzakis thinking to himself, "Oh my god that is the worst possible answer in the universe".

Achewood panel, Roast Beef Kazenzakis thinking to himself, "Oh my god that is the worst possible answer in the universe".

31.01.2026 19:06 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I once found my left sneaker in the recycling bin. The outdoor bin.

21.01.2026 04:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the Guess Who suck, the Jets were lousy anyway

07.11.2025 06:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love how Republicans just make stuff up about cities their audience will never go to. Portland burned to the ground. London is largely Muslim. San Francisco is overrun by muskoxen. In Tokyo, dogs walk people. Boston's gravity is at a 45° angle.

30.10.2025 01:31 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

remember the whale

24.08.2025 05:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fiasco is an all-time name for a cat.

15.08.2025 22:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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wash marmot

07.08.2025 01:15 👍 1447 🔁 322 💬 55 📌 61

we're gonna be all right

06.08.2025 06:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the word "skedaddle" was invented for exactly this shot

04.08.2025 05:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm kind of hoping that's their point, otherwise...

31.07.2025 06:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm a communications engineer and information theory absolutely has directly useful engineering insights. It applies in dozens of different engineering fields. Just not, so far as I can tell, to LLMs.

19.06.2025 21:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"See information theory" is not a useful citation, and Shannon's theory says nothing useful about the training or operation of LLMs.

19.06.2025 19:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

we don't get these in California! I miss seeing that thin green oyster lip on the horizon as a huge storm rolls in.

18.06.2025 05:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

on a work trip to Chicago, standing in a parking lot soaking up a ripper of a thunderstorm like a normal human

18.06.2025 05:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

like fuck the Dodgers, of course, but is that a totenkopf serape?

18.06.2025 02:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's not how current, or USB, work. If you draw more than half an amp, the USB outlet will cut off the power, not current-regulate it. So you know the device won't draw more than half an amp at 5V. So if the eBay one works, then a 2A supply is fine.

17.06.2025 00:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It cannot consume more than 0.5A while charging, or it would trigger the overcurrent protection in a USB circuit. So if the eBay cord works, a 5V/2A supply will work fine as well.

17.06.2025 00:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The USB-to-light cord could not include an integrated charger, either.

16.06.2025 23:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The photo of the replacement supply she found was a standard voltage-regulated 5V supply, which implies the charging circuitry is in the device.

16.06.2025 23:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That should work.

16.06.2025 23:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The important part is there is nothing special or specific about that power supply except the connector, which is called a coaxial or barrel plug. Any 5V power supply rated to 0.5A or more will work.

16.06.2025 23:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You can use any 5V power supply, or a USB phone charger with an appropriate adapter. I can't tell the plug size, but Amazon sells cheap adapter kits with a whole array of them.

16.06.2025 23:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

This was wave soldered, not reflowed. Probably best to remove and inspect for cold joints, and just hit any suspicious joints with an iron.

10.06.2025 00:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Person dressed as a knight with a trans flag and a cape with a trans flag shield that says “Trans Knights are human Knights”

Person dressed as a knight with a trans flag and a cape with a trans flag shield that says “Trans Knights are human Knights”

This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

07.06.2025 12:18 👍 16921 🔁 5222 💬 75 📌 119

Leave it to a lawyer to conflate legal with ethical.

06.06.2025 17:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

check ur insurance, lot of times they'll do it for free

04.06.2025 11:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

How could you possibly make this argument without essentially misunderstanding Smith's own in this essay? Is your understanding of writing's value limited only to the elegance of its style?

02.06.2025 13:14 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

flawless, zero notes

02.06.2025 00:29 👍 215 🔁 22 💬 13 📌 0

Not to mention that $40bn expense is all predicated on the next administration (or this one, since it changes its mind every three weeks) maintaining the same policies. Remove the tariffs and your investment is gone.

23.05.2025 22:27 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0