jerrysievert

why were you using 2 remotes? did you have other systems attached to the television, such as a game console, or cable?

the Apple TV provides hdmi cec, which should control your television through the hdmi cable.

they're really not. they're generally not a pressure vessel, and even when I've had leaks of ethanol, the fire went out immediately after being removed from heat.

today's home stills are usually plug-in resistance heated chambers with a still head, and are very high quality. my flame-out was from a pot still that was sealed with flour and water, not a modern still.

another eurorack rabbit hole is patch.init() - prototyping module. I have 4 and have built:

- an amazing crazy chorus module based on one I built for vcvrack

- a pad synth using the PADSynth algorithm

- a pulsar module

- a fun pitch shifting heavy reverb

endless hours of fun!

actually, the US Copyright Act does in fact allow restrictions on photographs of architectural works that are visible from public spaces:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portlandia_(statue)

the Portlandia statue is one such architectural work - and its creator is fairly litigious.

still mad that when discovery took over hbo, they axed that amazing show.

and all of the motor standards that keep coming and going. I have 4 different power and motor systems from lego, but still wasn't able to power my new lego Christmas train this year because the latest "Powered Up" seem to be discontinued (or at least have been "temporarily out of stock" for a year now.

not to mention that if you visit lego's site in safari desktop, it defaults to the mobile version, and checkouts are broken!

I'm not sure I trust lego with technology.

I remember being flabbergasted when I worked at the open source development lab and we got our first itanium system in, a multi-core, multi-rack nec system, with its own windows pc to boot up in order to get to linux.

if you're into MUD history, I ported the latest source I could find from SillyMUD to work on modern systems: https://github.com/jerrysievert/sillymud

it was quite a bit of fun, and the 3rd or 4th MUD I worked on.

while I haven't seen them at parks (I just don't make it to any), I have seen them at Star Wars events at my local MiLB team - BB-8 in the size of your video, somewhat interactive and autonomous, same with R2D2. there's usually a human nearby to monitor it, but they're definitely around.

that was one of the unfortunate rebrandings. datsun was an amazing brand, and I understand in hindsight the focus on Nissan, but they had such opportunity!

datsun had 5 speed manual transmissions in 70-71.

heck ya!

I often have electric minivans come up next to me that have the "nod".

I typically snort back and let them take off the line - they're a ton faster than me, but I'm the one enjoying the drive!

when I became old enough to drive, my parents decided (in the family tradition) to purchase me a car. apparently, the options that my father chose from were a 1982 Honda, or a 1978 datsun f10. he settled on the less reliable f10. it was a wonder-car, it was a 5 speed that started at reverse:

  R 2 4
  1 3 5

it was a hell car, but I'm still nostalgic for it, likely more than I would have been for the honda that would probably have been much more reliable.

I still have an affinity for Japanese small cars, and am glad it was in my life.

datsun, I miss you.

given that it’s parquet, deletes are nice, but what about inserts?

beyond the other explanations that some have given, lego direct order releases ship from more than one warehouse, even in the US - my bricklink western train set shipped from Vegas, and others I had chatted with either got them 3-4 days earlier than me or 3-4 days later, depending on how close they were to the warehouse and the order of the orders going out.

just logistics, or luck as some of us call it?

a random orange pi board with Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B at Q3_K_XL (~12.9GB)

fantastic! what are you using to run it, llama.cpp? I have a few extra opi5's sitting around that would love some extra usage

I've always wondered if Baskin Robbins is a front, I used to see them everywhere in Oregon, where they were always empty even during the summer made me wonder how they stayed in business. as a kid I always thought it was a mob front.

for me, the end of handwriting wasn't where/when I learned it, I learned cursive in kindergarten, and continued it for many years. it wasn't until I ran into teachers who valued time over accuracy that I faulted (it's not defaulted) and started writing scratch (which I can't even read!), and then typing.

now, while I have decent typing skills, I can't write a sentence in cursive, let alone in non-cursive - my goto is "please excuse my handwriting, I can't read it either".

I have it turned off on my MacBook Pro, but on for my phone and iPad. my 4 year old macbook pro's battery is doing great, my iPad is still holding on (but it spends a lot of time unplugged or powered down), but my poor phone is hurting badly (4-6 hours of charge per day, claiming it's at 80% battery life).

my MacBook Pro still thinks its battery is awesome, even plugged in all the time.

system settings -> battery -> battery health (i)

choose "Optimized Battery Charging". seems to be exactly what you're looking for

iPad OS on recent iPads has a dead simple "limit charge to 80%" option in system settings. MacOS should just have the same feature.

is the optimized battery charging option in settings that tells you that it will charge to 80% and learn when it needs to charge to 100% not that? it seems to be exactly what you're looking for? it's pretty consistent across all 4 platforms: macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS, they all offer the same feature

most of the 80's and 90's?

around 1998, I was working at a regional ISP, my main workstation was a sparc 5, but I had picked up a conversion box from ps-2 to sparc so I could use a Microsoft natural keyboard. emacs was still considered "eight megs and constantly swapping", but I had 96mb of memory in my sparc, and was able to run it.

Microsoft paid a visit to our isp, trying to make a deal, saw no windows anywhere but were excited to see my Microsoft keyboard. they asked about my computer, I told them I was running solaris on a sparc, and they were excited to ask me if I had run internet explorer, that they had just released for solaris. I looked at them horrified, and said, "I only have 96mb of ram in this, I can't run internet explorer!" - but I was able to run multiple windows of emacs, many terminals, a window manager, and netscape (just not the web server, because we ran apache)

my first emacs experience was emacs over 2400 baud - it was amazing for what it was, but painful at that rate, plus the resources it was taking on the host, even though I was running in a terminal, were crazy, but the experience was magnificent!

later, I ran memacs on my amiga locally, which was a better experience, had most of what I used, and seemed to work well - that was my introduction to writing code that would run on unix, locally (dcc).

enter a world of unix and x11, real life emacs, and xemacs became my thing (xemacs mostly, later), but jove was still useful: lighter weight on my sparc, seemed to just work, but I'll be darned if I didn't return back to emacs.

now, don't use emacs, when connected to a *nix box I drop back to vi (happy if vim is present), but since the advent of modern ide's that don't suck, I haven't opened emacs. I still miss zippy, Eliza, and the Hanoi towers though.

I loved dat. I actually had that particular deck, but i had rack rails for it as well. sold it and replaced it with a Panasonic sv-3800, which I still have but it's seen better days and needs a cleaning/alignment badly.

amusingly, I won a contest for widmer brewing in the 90's when they were looking for interesting toasts to put as phrases under their bottle caps: "To Disc and DAT".

unfortunately, I have a bunch of masters and backups of a digital 4-track on dat, and am unable to access them due to the unhappy deck.

quickjs is fairly easy to embed, give it a try, it should be similar to embedding lua.

I too was surprised about the slower startup and am planning on spending a lot of time in the quickjs repo to try to improve it. Thankfully most use cases use a connection pooler, which removes startup costs from the equation, leaving conversion speed much more important. I was able to speed up conversion of jsonb by writing a custom conversion from jsonb to quickjs and back, but feel there is still a lot of room for improvements.

As for quickjs vs quickjs-ng: ng is a fantastic project and I’m really hoping it pulls an egcs and ends up canonical, but when this project was started, it did not exist, so quickjs was chosen as the starting point. As for why it has not been adopted yet by this project, it comes down to a few things that helped make the decision:

  * quickjs is still having releases
  * as learned from plv8, when there are constant changes it becomes much harder to maintain, so a steady target is easier to deal with (this is constantly being evaluated)
  * the build system change from make to cmake adds friction to Postgres embedding, I already have to patch quickjs, and would need more complicated patches for quickjs-ng. I have a good working relationship with Ben Noordhuis, but it’s still a source of friction that isn’t needed now.

PLV8 (the predecessor to this project) was released in June of 2012. It provided JavaScript as a trusted language extension to Postgres 9.2.

PLJS is a newer generation.

related, sadly the Jello Biafra phone booth is no more (Portland, not SF, but west coast) - I used to drive by there and sadly nod as I passed.

oh. neat! thanks for the link! happily bopping my head to negativland now, will investigate tomorrow - I love it when HN devolves into fun new discoveries, a perfect use for these discussions.

I'm sorry you're offended by a song title by the band that we were discussing that is directly related to the article, but this is a direct response to what dr Demento was playing, not a religious or political response.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNR4PHyvXeQ for a randomly searched YouTube video. perhaps you'd also be interested in the _other_ reference, where the artist was sued and an album destroyed because of heavy copyright enforcement against parody: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/ep-u2-sued-out-of-existence/