cxtinac

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[–] cxtinac 1 points 2 years ago

Good!

People run around with their hair on fire about the quality of LLMs and fake this and that, and take over the world etc, but IME ChatGPT is actually quite useful if you treat it like a search engine on steroids, and treat the "search" results with the same intelligent filtering.

[–] cxtinac 1 points 2 years ago
[–] cxtinac 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I used to do a fair bit of Delphi (pascal) coding and really liked it. I agree with readable, type-safe and oop, I'm not so sure about modern and truly cross-platform. My .02$.

[–] cxtinac 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yikes! Several questions:

  • What do manufacturers say?
  • Are these all from one manufacturer?
  • Is there any monitoring, maintenance & repair that can be done?
  • These are 10-12 year old panels, has the manufacturing process changed at all? viz. Kitec vs PEX

Comment: It's hard to tell from the original pics exactly where these failures are happening, it looks like a stress crack in the frame?

[–] cxtinac 1 points 2 years ago

This is what scares me...

[–] cxtinac 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks, fair enough.

[–] cxtinac 2 points 2 years ago

I had an idea around a new Balfour Declaration for 'right-leaning political parties' and a nice blue home for them. I can think of many candidates.

But I do not want to appear to be trolling. So I won't post it.

[–] cxtinac 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

To be controversial, it's not obvious to me that in private Trudeau has to be nice & polite with Smith:

  • Libs and NDP I think have no federal MPs from AB (someone correct me if I'm wrong please)
  • there are many charts that show Canada's GHG performance to date is absolutely terrible compared to the rest of the G7
  • likewise there's plenty of data that the GHG performance for other than AB is in line with average G7
  • polling across Canada (I believe) shows decent (~60%?) support for decisive action on climate change

So, it seems to me there's a reasonably strong position along the lines of "get with the program Danielle, look at these charts, your private industry is trying to go in the right direction and is held back by you and your fossil interests. Oh, you say 'blah blah blah Alberta sovereignty'? Go ahead, make my day".

On a lighter note, anyone taking bets on whether they will [try to] shake hands?

[–] cxtinac 1 points 2 years ago

These look so good! Have to try them!

[–] cxtinac 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That's great, but one part I don't understand is the compelling advantage of growing drug crystals (from the article) in micro-g. I get that maybe they are larger & maybe fewer defects (?) but why is that important for this application?

[–] cxtinac 2 points 2 years ago

Great idea, it does to be gaining a little momentum. So from your list above so far we know about:

  • Canadian Government
  • Nordstar
  • Quebecor
  • Torstar

(in alpha order anticipating it might grow)

[–] cxtinac 1 points 2 years ago

Hmm... interesting you mention terminal really slow to open up. I still experience this also - the first time I open a terminal (only), and only if I try to open it shortly after I boot the machine. I've tried several times to find out why this is, but without success (without a terminal it's hard to find out what's blocking the terminal...)

The other thing I dumped was the latest Ubuntu Studio Chromium install, because it installs a snap, which is laggy to fire up, which also drove me crazy. I use the Mint chromium build now, which is a real native build, not a snap, and works great.

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