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  • bow chicka bow wow...when I pour one into the other for some bedroom water

  • Alibaba's Qwen team releases open-source image model

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  • Technicality, but open weights is not open source until QKV hidden layers for alignment is fully disclosed and documented.

  • What type of approach is possible for my Arduino program?

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  • I think you are at a similar place where I got stuck before. One, do not hesitate to toss all of your code and redo it from scratch a few times. I do this in CAD naturally all the time, but struggle to do the same in code, and it leaves me with unfinished projects, many, very many, just like this one. So my advice is to first get a minimum functional version where you are at now, and archive it. At least you can finish the project that way.

    Second, learn about schedulers. There are many types of schedulers, for example in the Linux kernel. The CPU scheduler is probably the best place to get started learning. This is a thing you need to have in mind from the very start of the project. You write the CPU scheduler to be your main loop. Then you use interrupts and processes with priorities. You may never need to halt one process/function to run another, like saving the registers states to RAM and loading some other process thread. This allows you to break stuff up into more manageable chunks so you might load some characters into the LCD's custom character buffer, then service the RTC fetch routine, then display those characters in the next time slot.

    The scheduler is a periodic interrupt loop that check what wants to run in the next time slot, picks the most important priority code, and runs it. If your code completes before the scheduler time slot ends, it may call the scheduler to run or you might keep it simple and and just wait until the next scheduler interrupt triggers the proceeding time slot. the scheduler has a high priority interrupt so that it preempts whatever code you may be running. The reset and external I/O still have higher level interrupts and short routines. With any external button interrupts, these would enable a high priority function/process that the scheduler then loads code to execute in the next cycle.

    At first this seems inefficient or a waste, and it is overhead, but it is a structure that exists everywhere under the surface if you go looking for it. When exploring this, stick to retro microcomputer spaces for info and examples to start out. These ran systems very similar to a microcontroller where all of the code was scheduled and threaded on a single root layer. In more modern hardware, kernel space is separate from user space and the abstraction layers critical to scheduling with this separation will make it unnecessarily complicated to understand from a practical and useful perspective.

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    Do you think people will live to the year 2100?

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  • Overall? Of course.People born today? Of course.Most of us 30-50 year olds here? Probably not.

    you are not likely to want to continue past a certain point. With my physical disability from the two SUVs that crashed into me on a bicycle commute to work, I was in a room waiting for a doctor to come in around a decade ago. This guy came in and asked me my name and information to verify my identity. He explained he was the x-ray tech and was sure there must have been a mix up. You see, I did not have any remarkable damage occur in one spot. I had damage occur down the entire length of my spine. The x-ray tech said my images looked exactly like the spine of an eighty year old person but the identity was for a thirty year old.

    Most people degrade slowly in health to where it is nearly imperceptible to them. I experienced that change in an instant. I feel every bit as slow and stiff as I see the worst 80-90 year olds shuffling around. I cannot sit upright or stand for more than a few minutes at a time. The rest of me is in great shape, but the constant pain wears the mind down in subtle unspeakable ways. The white noise of pain eventually starts to drown out your thoughts. You will reach a point where you just want to rest, to stop the endurance race. Continuing becomes a cantankerous quarrel against the relentless maledictions of death. Extending that tormentuous race is more symbolic that practical. The part to extent is youth and middle age. Some people like running a double Marathon, and I have nothing against their sport, but for most of us, that type of hell is an unspeakable torture, so be careful what you wish for.

    Live a classical Epicurean lifestyle as much as possible, and appreciate the sun rose for you today. It is the only today you will ever have. If you live for tomorrow, your life will pass you by before it ever arrives, and you find yourself living for the lost cause of yesterday.

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  • Greatly depends on the person and their state of mind.

    For me, no. Something about loyalty and trust is too strong for me to deal with. I need a clean break and to part ways.

  • Ignoring the internet bill itself, how many paid online services do you have?

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  • Write a story you will never forget about whatever service. Like 'when h is Y and won I; I would rather die than use google as a service.' = "1wouldratYerd1etYanusegoogleasaserv1ce."

    I used to do that with Buying for bike shops where I had a bunch of accounts all over the place. I kept mental track of the starting key so that I knew my password rotation and history. I kept a hints book, but did not need it.

  • Indian Government developed UPI app not allowing me to use the app w/o turning off Adguard.

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  • You have multiple devices and networks.

  • Indian Government developed UPI app not allowing me to use the app w/o turning off Adguard.

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  • Maybe I do not understand the vector here, but I think you should be able to use a DNS filter log, like a whitelist firewall. Use the log to see what servers are blocked when you try to open the app. Then just whitelist those servers.

    The proper argument is not for Ad Block. That is just a lazy hack. The proper argument is that you have a right to a front door on your home – a digital front door, a right to lock it, and a right to decide who may enter your home. This is what a DNS whitelist filter does. If you are not allowed to use a DNS whitelist, your home has had the door ripped off and are being forced to allow stalkers, thieves, and slavers into your home to manipulate and exploit you. Never talk about ad block. That is politically irrelevant. I do not care if the lock on your front door in the real world has great pick resistance. It is just as much a symbol as it is a device. The primary reason for losing rights is from people failing to argue well, and understand their rights like this. I am one of the few people that does DNS the hard way and run a whitelist filter.

  • 2026 is THE year of the linux desktop

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  • Like every year

  • Beans

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  • 3 black foot pads and one black toe bean... finger print found

  • Those who have moved residences, do you still remember all the places you've been, do you feel anything about it when remembering it or looking at street views? Do you feel sentinmental about it?

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  • I made the mistake of feeling sentimental about places and thinking I could go back. I even did it, by myself, moving 2k miles away from family to return. Everywhere and everyone is constantly evolving. If you are not present and evolving with them, the sentiment is a cruel fallacy. The nostalgia is for a place AND time. Failure to see the role of time leads to a rough lesson.

    But yeah I remember. The funny thing for me was driving the old roads. Even in places I was too young and never drove around myself, I have a knack for mapping places in my head. Driving those old roads brings back wild memories especially when I was only very young initially. I recall the map, but I feel oversized in a world intended for little people. It is the only time I have experienced that size dichotomy.

  • Where Should Advertisers Advertise?

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  • Reputation and word of mouth. Fire the marketers and use that money to make a better product. Stop wasting everyone's time. Spend time making stuff available through distribution channels. Ads waste everyone's time and money. When I see any ad, it tells me your competitor is likely a better quality product I should seek out. No one has a right to waste my time.

  • Whats the most Fediverse "Thing" you know of?

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  • Real people with well policed and purged bigotry.

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • I have a right to a page with all configurable options. A simplified interface is great but I shouldn't need to hunt for ages in a terminal or read source to find a config option.

  • What is your "great I am an old person now" complaint?

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  • I notice more stupid kids nuances and realize it is not a cantankerous perspective, but rather the naïveté of adolescent minds with dichotomous scopes of self awareness regardless of age.

  • What mediocre game, show, or movie has an incredible soundtrack?

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  • I liked Stealth's soundtrack when it came out. Radio had gotten quite corporate-stale at the time, and the tracks had a upbeat rock personality I did not know I wanted to explore. I'm no audiophile, and it is not something I actually pursued. It was just something I noticed at the time. I rarely take notice of stuff like that.

    In terms of movie music in general, anything from John Williams is amazing to me. I think it is because John has a knack for communicating logical empathy and emotions in music that tells a parallel story within the scenes of the movie. He is not creating a simple background soundscape or echoing the emotions the visual storytelling. Instead, he is sneaking in behind you from the shadows and taking on a staring role in your experience without ever announcing himself or allowing you to see how he expands the performing stage. After that initial experience of the film, when you hear any small part of John's score, that entity he conjured comes to life again, reminding you of his unspoken staring role in ways no one else I know of is capable. Some others certainly create beautiful backgrounds and soundscapes, but I have never experienced anyone else that conjures a presence in the same way as John Williams.

  • China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed

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  • Better than a million feral humans sent back to live as animals in urban nature and corrupt wage slavery for pirate banker commodity housing, not to mention the Flock-You surveillance state that is stealing citizenship and democracy right now. When Citizen is functionally equivalent to Slave, China looks far better. "You will own nothing and be happy about it." -because slaves that speak up find themselves dead. I'll take a sweatshop over this corruption any day.

  • China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed

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  • Awesome. As an American consumer, China is doing far more for me than the corrupt USA.

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  • I was 22. Sucked, but mostly because of being raised in cult like nonsense and having limited social exposure. Plus LA is expensive. Then recession tanked my job, so I moved cross country where I knew no one. That is when my entire social support network and beliefs structure fell apart. Living in a motel for six months sucked, and didn't get much better with a house. I owned my own business, as a partner, then independent, but I was a slave to it.

    Treasure and save every contact you make before you turn ~25, because you will not get the chance to connect with people later in life on the same level.