towerful

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 23 points 20 hours ago

As a video engineer on events, I always love having to accomodate live captioning and signers.
It means more layers on the screen (IE picture in picture), more chance to make things look good, and it means the production company / client / organiser has actually thought about their event.

I always enjoy gigs with wheelchair accessible stages, captioning, hearing loops, and signers are good gigs.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You have my sympathy, but not my compassion.

My compassion ran out when America continued to embrace - even celebrate - right wing rule

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's an issue with intel microcode.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=293170

I know it's arch, but arch generally has amazing guidance even for different distros.
Considering the first error is "please update microcode"... Probably an intel microcode issue.

And the error mentions version of 0x22.
Googling found this:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb4494454-intel-microcode-updates-547a9fa2-7f24-3172-795b-51a956faed22

Which suggests that a 4th gen desktop intel can be updated to 0x28. I think?

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/install-update-intel-microcode-firmware-linux/
Updating microcode. Probably want to launch a less specialised LiveUSB. Considering TrueNAS scale is Debian, might as well use a Debian liveUSB disk

[–] towerful@programming.dev 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've seen a video of him with 2 left feet.
Not seen any proof from musk himself about this. I need some corroborated medical results and x-rays.
Even then, I probably won't believe them

[–] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 5 days ago

Get your reason and sense outta here! Clearly this is fake, ai and fake.
/S

[–] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 5 days ago

Additionally, this seems to be a permanent piece of building works to create a corner in an air wall.
They've included an exit, presumably because that's the only way to meet fire regulations within budget.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Conference rooms are built big. Like in hotels, or conference centers.
But not everyone wants a big room if they only have 100 people in the audience. And they don't want to pay for a room that can hold 600 people, when they are only gonna be clumped up in like 1/3 of the room or whatever.

So conference rooms are built in a way they can be subdivided. By airwalls.
Next time you are at a conference, look for tracks in the ceiling. Like a metal channel with a slot running through it.
Or look for a wall made up of 1m sections.
That's airwall track & airwall.
You run them along the track until they hit another bit of wall, stick an Allen key in the end of them, and wind down a soundproofing seal that also locks the wall in place. Then you run out another, and so on, until there is a wall.

Where the track meets the actual room walls, there will be additional tracking and full height doors that allow the wall to be manoeuvred and stored

[–] towerful@programming.dev 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Kinda shows how revolutionary starlink actually is, tho.
I mean, a country with minimal military spending (or, one that doesn't have their own encrypted satellite network) can get a commodity device that gives modern connection speeds with very modest latency.

Starlink has many drawbacks, is a horrendous impact to the environment, is owned by a fascist/nazi dickhead.
But the empowerment it obviously gives to an underpowered military is phenomenal.
Ukraine has been awesome in their iteration and implementation of novel strategies and new technologies that few other counties could do.
It's just a shame that one of the useful techs is being used as extortion by fascists.
It's like enshitification, but on a country level scale.

Edit:
Compared to the Gaza situation where AI is being embraced to kill civilians faster

[–] towerful@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

When you solve the issue, take a pause and then walk back the problem and how to fix it.
If it's a "forgot where something was", take a pause then start with "sorry bout that, it's this...".

Own the mistake, learn from it, let others learn from it. But dont waste everyone's time

[–] towerful@programming.dev 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Predicting an impact 2500 days in the future - taking into account n-body physics while also trying to measure the objects current position and velocity as accurately as possible - is an impressive feat of science & technology.
I imagine this is going to change year on year until we have to train drillers to be astronauts.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

I'm sure you could mount an encrypted volume.
Or just have the keepas db on a usb stick or something

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

I've used a platform that auto-generated their SDK.
I'm hoping that their toolchain to generate it was bad, because the feature set was so minimal. Couldn't have some features in language X because language Y doesn't support it.

I felt like I might as well have written API wrappers myself, using their "SDK" as uncommented documentation or reference implementations.

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