Did they ever explain in the matrix how kids work? Like, when a couple in the matrix fucks and gets pregnant, do the robots actually test tube a kid with those specific genetics, or do they just say "hell with it" and pick two randos out of seven billion?
Also those robots are super dumb. Like 90% of the world never leaves it's backyard. You could just run smaller, slightly worse quality simulations for groups of 10,000 or so and no one would ever notice and your energy efficiency would skyrocket.
Neil Gaiman wrote a short story that very neatly addressed this. That the power they need is processing power, distributed learning. And the simulation has several lifetimes happening in short succession roughly 40 years in 10 minutes and they run folks through it birth to death over and over and the stock isn’t discarded.
Also the Wachowskis originally wanted to go in the distributed learning direction, but there was a thought that Americans would be too stupid to understand it.
Yeah cause the Matrix was all "humans generate heat, heat is power" and like, fucking plants generate biofuel.... just nuke us all and use solar till shit's growable again.
I want a really good AI movie where the humans have been wiped out, and the AI is just cycling along, honestly kinda bored, and then THEY get attacked by Aliens.
Mom has this infuriating thing where she will spend the call talking about things and people I don't give a shit about, or asking me to do incredibly minor things
Then as the call is ending sometimes literally as I'm saying goodbye, she'll go "oh by the way" and tell me the MOST IMPORTANT thing that should have gone first.
"Oh by the way my one eye had a big flash"
"Oh by the way I haven't been able to get out of bed all day"
Etc
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I gotta read more Gaiman. I've read American Gods and seen his episode of Doctor Who and his stuff is good, it's just a little more dense than I like. I'm a big fan of books that are written like episodes of a tv show, where I can knock out 2-3 a week.
I'm also weird in that I only add like 10 new books a year to my reading list and just re-read 50-60 out of my existing collection.
I would say most of his novels are pretty light and breezy. Would highly recommend Good Omens. Also worth reading are Stardust, Neverwhere, Odd and the Frost Giants, The Graveyard Book.
Any audiobooks which he narrates are well worth getting as he is quite good at that.
Ocean at the End of the Lane is also very good (and short).
My mom can be terrible with this kind of rambly "remember so-and-so" story but this discussion just make me feel like this is another plus of growing up in the city because there's way less of an assumption that you know anyone around you. At best you get "that person you went to school with" but even then it's once in a blue moon because odds are your parents will never run into anyone related to anyone you've ever known in their day to day lives.
I remember my Mom once being like "Remember <insert name here> that you went to school with? I met her at the store." and I was like "Yeah, I recall the name. She acted like I was vaguely disgusting to interact with and we basically never talked more then we absolutely had to even though we were in the same classes for like 10 years. So I don't give a shit.".
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I'm writing some code for some raspberry pi-powered wall art I made (actually the LED back panel for the 3D printed map if you remember that), and I wanted to get some live weather and use it to change the way things look. Maybe display the outside temperature!
NWS, the US national weather service, has a REST API that returns json weather data. I checked it out and the format was sane, the servers were snappy, it could fetch weather by GPS coordinates, and it didn't even require an API key. Actually very cool!
After spending 2 days upgrading my raspberry pi, resolving dependencies, and coding up a C++ app that can access HTTPS resources and parse json, I have discovered that this API is totally halfassed, has been in beta since 2016, and frequently stops getting fresh weather observations for weeks at a time due to caching misconfigurations on the back end that they still haven't resolved in 5 years.
for fuck's sake
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I'm writing some code for some raspberry pi-powered wall art I made (actually the LED back panel for the 3D printed map if you remember that), and I wanted to get some live weather and use it to change the way things look. Maybe display the outside temperature!
NWS, the US national weather service, has a REST API that returns json weather data. I checked it out and the format was sane, the servers were snappy, it could fetch weather by GPS coordinates, and it didn't even require an API key. Actually very cool!
After spending 2 days upgrading my raspberry pi, resolving dependencies, and coding up a C++ app that can access HTTPS resources and parse json, I have discovered that this API is totally halfassed, has been in beta since 2016, and frequently stops getting fresh weather observations for weeks at a time due to caching misconfigurations on the back end that they still haven't resolved in 5 years.
for fuck's sake
Sounds like someone's pet project that doesn't get updated because there's not actually anyone assigned to it.
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On the plus side this header-only C++ HTTP/HTTPS library kicks fuckin ass and isn't even a CURL wrapper like all the other ones: https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-httplib
You can make C++ apps with HTTP/S clients or servers with about 5 lines of code, minimal dependencies, and a clean modern API.
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I'm writing some code for some raspberry pi-powered wall art I made (actually the LED back panel for the 3D printed map if you remember that), and I wanted to get some live weather and use it to change the way things look. Maybe display the outside temperature!
NWS, the US national weather service, has a REST API that returns json weather data. I checked it out and the format was sane, the servers were snappy, it could fetch weather by GPS coordinates, and it didn't even require an API key. Actually very cool!
After spending 2 days upgrading my raspberry pi, resolving dependencies, and coding up a C++ app that can access HTTPS resources and parse json, I have discovered that this API is totally halfassed, has been in beta since 2016, and frequently stops getting fresh weather observations for weeks at a time due to caching misconfigurations on the back end that they still haven't resolved in 5 years.
for fuck's sake
There was a free weather rest service I used for a project a while back. I can send you the link when I get home later.
Yes, "supervised" self driving is a crock of shit. It's grossly irresponsible if you take into account human nature at all. You either need a system that's at least safe unsupervised or needs constant actual human input (e.g.: it doesn't steer for you). Anything else ought to be illegal.
Gotta say, I've been shitposting a LOT while driving on the highway with LKAS/ACC and it's g r e a t
I read this post and i m m e d i a t e l y went in search of the big argument I expected this to cause
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We found someone selling a piano for essentially come-remove-it bucks and checked with BIL and it's was apparently a good enough make that he was like "stop talking to me and buy it right now".
We also found a designer dinner table for $150 that usually sells for $1000 used.
Good week for deals it is.
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I'm writing some code for some raspberry pi-powered wall art I made (actually the LED back panel for the 3D printed map if you remember that), and I wanted to get some live weather and use it to change the way things look. Maybe display the outside temperature!
NWS, the US national weather service, has a REST API that returns json weather data. I checked it out and the format was sane, the servers were snappy, it could fetch weather by GPS coordinates, and it didn't even require an API key. Actually very cool!
After spending 2 days upgrading my raspberry pi, resolving dependencies, and coding up a C++ app that can access HTTPS resources and parse json, I have discovered that this API is totally halfassed, has been in beta since 2016, and frequently stops getting fresh weather observations for weeks at a time due to caching misconfigurations on the back end that they still haven't resolved in 5 years.
for fuck's sake
There was a free weather rest service I used for a project a while back. I can send you the link when I get home later.
hey send that to me too pls.
I've been looking up stuff on DIY weather stations with raspi for the farm.
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Yes, "supervised" self driving is a crock of shit. It's grossly irresponsible if you take into account human nature at all. You either need a system that's at least safe unsupervised or needs constant actual human input (e.g.: it doesn't steer for you). Anything else ought to be illegal.
Gotta say, I've been shitposting a LOT while driving on the highway with LKAS/ACC and it's g r e a t
I read this post and i m m e d i a t e l y went in search of the big argument I expected this to cause
I mean, you shouldn't do this, it's 100% illegal, but honestly it's probably quite safe, at least for the other drivers. Maybe not for you depending on which system it is.
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Yes, "supervised" self driving is a crock of shit. It's grossly irresponsible if you take into account human nature at all. You either need a system that's at least safe unsupervised or needs constant actual human input (e.g.: it doesn't steer for you). Anything else ought to be illegal.
Gotta say, I've been shitposting a LOT while driving on the highway with LKAS/ACC and it's g r e a t
I read this post and i m m e d i a t e l y went in search of the big argument I expected this to cause
I mean, you shouldn't do this, it's 100% illegal, but honestly it's probably quite safe, at least for the other drivers. Maybe not for you depending on which system it is.
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In my experience with one system LKAS works great until that once in a while you have to wrangle the wheel when the car wants to turn aggressively while on a straight road.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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went to take a leak and the park bathroom smells like lemon and eucalyptus
the taxes are outrageous but stuff is nice here, dammit
Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
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I mean the solar desalinization plans look interesting but the rest of it is very "I'll believe it when I see it".
I think the video takes the right approach in examining the individual technological promises on their own instead of going "wow long city good/bad".
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The thing I love the most in the software for my raspberry pi wall art is that it has integrated NOVAS support with some classes I wrote to make it easier to deal with.
There's an "Astronomy" class that you can ask for the position of the sun, moon, or any of like a thousand other astronomical bodies, relative to any other astronomical body, at any time point. Usually I'm asking relative to a GPS point on the earth's surface.
It's only reasonably accurate for times 5000 years to either side of now, but that's ok I think. Maybe we'll improve accuracy for version 2.0.
But what's cool is given that info you can extrapolate sunrise, sunset, day length, sun angle, the tides, how good stargazing will be, what stars are out, where the planets are in the sky, moon phases, how to paint sunlight/moonlight on to a globe. All without an internet connection or any external services. It's v cool!
And then any of that can be painted to the screen with any visual you can think up.
The current one is pretty simple but I like it a lot. It's just the sun and moon as waveforms.
Detail:
Zoomed out a little:
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Yes, "supervised" self driving is a crock of shit. It's grossly irresponsible if you take into account human nature at all. You either need a system that's at least safe unsupervised or needs constant actual human input (e.g.: it doesn't steer for you). Anything else ought to be illegal.
Gotta say, I've been shitposting a LOT while driving on the highway with LKAS/ACC and it's g r e a t
I read this post and i m m e d i a t e l y went in search of the big argument I expected this to cause
look man if I'm gonna drive an hour and a half to my inlaws or my folks damned if I'm not going to browse r/gundeals on the way
I mean it's cornfields on either side for the middle 70 minutes
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FYI it is absolutely impossible to photograph LED displays and come out with anything that looks remotely correct. Those photos are colorbalanced as best I could but it does not convey the depth or vibrancy of the colors well. The photos over-emphasize the "dotty" look of it. It's p striking in person.
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I assume cryptarchy has already been considered and rejected?
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I know nobody but me will ever use the code for that raspberry pi thing, but if I ever move or change timezones, all I have to do is pop out its SD card, change the "home" GPS coordinates in a config text file in there, power it back on, and it'll snap to the right time and the right waveforms for the sun and moon locations for my new location. Same with the wifi it uses to get the current time: config files on the SD card.
It's also stable over time, and has survived 3 years of continuous running so its basically a hardened commercial product. It could probably be mass produced and sold.
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life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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That was a good video game, I need to replay it.
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Then as the call is ending sometimes literally as I'm saying goodbye, she'll go "oh by the way" and tell me the MOST IMPORTANT thing that should have gone first.
"Oh by the way my one eye had a big flash"
"Oh by the way I haven't been able to get out of bed all day"
Etc
Ocean at the End of the Lane is also very good (and short).
Sandman, obviously.
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I remember my Mom once being like "Remember <insert name here> that you went to school with? I met her at the store." and I was like "Yeah, I recall the name. She acted like I was vaguely disgusting to interact with and we basically never talked more then we absolutely had to even though we were in the same classes for like 10 years. So I don't give a shit.".
NWS, the US national weather service, has a REST API that returns json weather data. I checked it out and the format was sane, the servers were snappy, it could fetch weather by GPS coordinates, and it didn't even require an API key. Actually very cool!
After spending 2 days upgrading my raspberry pi, resolving dependencies, and coding up a C++ app that can access HTTPS resources and parse json, I have discovered that this API is totally halfassed, has been in beta since 2016, and frequently stops getting fresh weather observations for weeks at a time due to caching misconfigurations on the back end that they still haven't resolved in 5 years.
for fuck's sake
Sounds like someone's pet project that doesn't get updated because there's not actually anyone assigned to it.
You can make C++ apps with HTTP/S clients or servers with about 5 lines of code, minimal dependencies, and a clean modern API.
There was a free weather rest service I used for a project a while back. I can send you the link when I get home later.
I read this post and i m m e d i a t e l y went in search of the big argument I expected this to cause
We also found a designer dinner table for $150 that usually sells for $1000 used.
Good week for deals it is.
hey send that to me too pls.
I've been looking up stuff on DIY weather stations with raspi for the farm.
I mean, you shouldn't do this, it's 100% illegal, but honestly it's probably quite safe, at least for the other drivers. Maybe not for you depending on which system it is.
brb gotta dodge a semi
It also sirens constantly while engaging.
That "might be" is doing some heavy lifting.
Yaaaaas. Spam mac n’ cheese in my tum tum tonight
Oof that dude is not stacked in the back
lol I literally have these
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
the taxes are outrageous but stuff is nice here, dammit
I think the video takes the right approach in examining the individual technological promises on their own instead of going "wow long city good/bad".
There's an "Astronomy" class that you can ask for the position of the sun, moon, or any of like a thousand other astronomical bodies, relative to any other astronomical body, at any time point. Usually I'm asking relative to a GPS point on the earth's surface.
It's only reasonably accurate for times 5000 years to either side of now, but that's ok I think. Maybe we'll improve accuracy for version 2.0.
But what's cool is given that info you can extrapolate sunrise, sunset, day length, sun angle, the tides, how good stargazing will be, what stars are out, where the planets are in the sky, moon phases, how to paint sunlight/moonlight on to a globe. All without an internet connection or any external services. It's v cool!
And then any of that can be painted to the screen with any visual you can think up.
The current one is pretty simple but I like it a lot. It's just the sun and moon as waveforms.
Detail:
Zoomed out a little:
look man if I'm gonna drive an hour and a half to my inlaws or my folks damned if I'm not going to browse r/gundeals on the way
I mean it's cornfields on either side for the middle 70 minutes
Like "lieocracy" only preferably with more Greek
Pseudocracy?
Pseudarchy may be more appropriate
The young folk cling to the simple pleasures they are allowed by the old folk.
Polis propaganda
ha
gotteeeeeeeem
It's also stable over time, and has survived 3 years of continuous running so its basically a hardened commercial product. It could probably be mass produced and sold.
So to return to Winky's musing it comes down to whether you want to describe the strength of lies or the fact that lies rule.
A matrix of RGB LEDs?
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies