SirNuke

joined 1 year ago
[–] SirNuke@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

Might be onto something, I've been finding delicious brisket sandwiches outside my house. Even found a knish the other day.

[–] SirNuke@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's super awkward but I can get to it from inside the house (between insulation and hole). Going to have to move my workbench but so be it.

Any direction on the type/brand of foam I should use? I have a can of fireblock to seal ethernet runs from my basement to main floor, though it's probably seized up by now.

[–] SirNuke@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

For context, this is leading to my AC unit. While hanging a light above my workbench, I noticed daylight coming in from the wall where there shouldn't be any. It appears a previous owner had pulled back the insulation and forgot to put it back - shudder to think how much money that's costed me over the last two years. Would like a hardier seal than insulation to stop water and mice, but not sure what is required.

[–] SirNuke@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This reinforces my belief that online advertising produces a lot of objective data ("how many times was my ad viewed? clicked?") but benefits from not being able to tie that to outcomes companies are actually interested in ("are the ads expanding business?").

A number of years ago I read an analysis on how some large social media site had changed the order of a few important buttons out of the blue. This was likely from A/B testing showing increased engagement, but it was probably just confused users clicking on it. I bet similar things happen all the time in ads, possibly inadvertently. If an A/B change shows increased ad clicks, it's unlikely not to be adopted, even if it's not intentional clicks.

[–] SirNuke@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there any actual analysis this went down as written? This sets off two eyebrow alarms for me: 1. AI doing something revolutionary without serious issues and 2. clean cut police work, which never happens (at least not anymore).

Honestly I'd put money down the police caught him by chance and went backwards to find a good explanation for how. I'd also be highly skeptical of an AI system that actually catching drug dealers without also catching like everyone else.

[–] SirNuke@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

It was never properly contained in the first place.

[–] SirNuke@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Only issue I had with a similar setup is turns out the old HP desktop I bought didn't support VT-d on the chipset, only on the CPU. Had do some crazy hacks to get it to forward a 10gbe NIC plugged into the x16 slot.

Then I discovered the NIC I had was just old enough (ConnectX-3) that getting it to properly forward was finicky, so I had to buy a much more expensive ConnectX-4. My next task is to see if I can give it a virtual NIC, have OPNsense only listen to web requests on that interface, and use the host's Nginx reverse proxy container for SSL.

[–] SirNuke@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might interested in the slowcore genre, notably the band Low.

[–] SirNuke@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'd say the distinction is the definitely not ADHD variant of the scene has Hal finishing replacing the bulb, and then working on the fixing the shelf, and so on. But that wouldn't be funny.

Also I just noticed that he gets a screwdriver out of the drawer, but the shelf support appears to have a loose nail.

[–] SirNuke@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think you are broadly correct in that we can't snap our fingers and simply change the amount of money flowing back to the coffee bean growers. However, I'm highly skeptical there's any inherent reason why markets should spread the profits this unevenly. If no one was growing coffee beans there wouldn't be any coffee shops either.

The questions you should be thinking about is why are the profits so unevenly distributed? Market forces, of course, but how much are these forces inherent or created? If they were created, what caused it to be the way it is? Would a system born out of powerful countries trying to advance their own interests (cheaper materials) and willing to exploit power imbalances to do so be an explanation?

[–] SirNuke@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FYI the scene this is from. If you "so bad it's good" media I highly recommend Danger 5. It's one of the very few things to initially try that and pull it off.

You might know it from this gif.

[–] SirNuke@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you live by a major university, they likely have property disposition where you can pick up slightly older equipment, sometimes for super cheap.

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