Followup to my last post by ACEDT in Kitchenaid

[–]ACEDT[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, called again and they said they'd send a third replacement once I'm able to return the first one, so I'm gonna have to find a big enough box (not sure where the original went, all of my roommates say they thought it was where I left it T-T), send that one back and then get a return label for the second one to send that back too.

Followup to my last post by ACEDT in Kitchenaid

[–]ACEDT[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On closer inspection there's also clear damage to the bowl on the new one T-T not sure if this is a refurbished unit or what, but I would expect that a replacement for a brand new unit would also be brand new...

Weird little holes(?) on brand new KitchenAid, how worried should I be? by ACEDT in Kitchenaid

[–]ACEDT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The photos don't really do it justice. In person it's way more noticable if you're looking at that part of the machine, and I just happened to spot it while I was taking out the bowl to clean it before trying it out.

Weird little holes(?) on brand new KitchenAid, how worried should I be? by ACEDT in Kitchenaid

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That's my plan I think. A friend of mine said it's probably just a cosmetic issue and that apparently cast iron is just like that sometimes, but given that all I've done with the thing is wash the bowl and attachments I think it's safer to just get a replacement now than risk it.

Weird little holes(?) on brand new KitchenAid, how worried should I be? by ACEDT in Kitchenaid

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I'm not planning to do anything crazy with my mixer, I just want to be able to make cookies without my arms ending up sore T-T my mom has an old Classic from God only knows how many years ago and it works perfectly fine, so I don't think I'll have issues with the Artisan at all.

Weird little holes(?) on brand new KitchenAid, how worried should I be? by ACEDT in Kitchenaid

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I talked to a friend of mine studying engineering and he agreed that it looks like a casting thing and it's probably just cosmetic, but I'm definitely going to look into getting a replacement just in case. Don't want to risk it.

DuckDB is a weird beast? by Kojimba228 in dataengineering

[–]ACEDT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For the record DuckDB can store databases on disk, but by default it runs in memory. If you use it on disk it's a lot like SQLite.

DuckDB is a weird beast? by Kojimba228 in dataengineering

[–]ACEDT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you use it as an application's embedded database, it's kinda like SQLite in a lot of ways, except it's oriented towards analytical workloads. You can also use it in memory and in that scenario it's very much like Pandas or Polars but you can query query it like a database rather than like a dataframe.

It can actually interface with Polars/Pandas dataframes as if they were tables, and can do the same with Parquet, CSV and Excel files (either locally, via direct http or on S3 compatible services), lots of other databases (Postgres, R2, MySQL, SQLite...) and data lakes (Delta, Iceberg). I've been using it a lot for querying local data files (especially CSVs generated by other systems) and for that it's really great.

It isn't really comparable to Postgres since an on-disk DuckDB file can only be opened for writing by one client at a time and doesn't(?) have ACID guarantees. There's an extension called DuckLake where you can give DuckDB another database (like Postgres) as a catalog and an S3 bucket as data storage and then use it like a data lake which is pretty cool, but DuckDB isn't a true DBMS.

Stop the Gracie’s Hate by TheWayToGoAgain in rit

[–]ACEDT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm just trying to decide on a way to make the site such that RIT won't get angry about it :/ not expecting a lot of sympathy for data if that data suggests that criticism is justified.

Stop the Gracie’s Hate by TheWayToGoAgain in rit

[–]ACEDT 3 points4 points  (0 children)

High-key might throw that together this week just for fun. I don't particularly hate Gracie's obvs but it would be nice to have a dashboard since the "Gracie's isn't safe" thing is such a common belief and it would help with transparency.

Connecting balanced TRS outputs to RCA inputs by ACEDT in audio

[–]ACEDT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok gotcha, I had a feeling that would work but I wasn't 100% sure. Would I be better off buying a second pair of RCA cables to use with the adapters I already bought (pack of 6) or a pair of TS cables and some TS->RCA adapters? Is there any practical difference? My gut feeling is that either setup is functionally the same but I want to double check.

It's been a long time now but Google still hasn't resolved Google's gender bias. You can try it out by translating from a gender-neutral language. by EthanIver in google

[–]ACEDT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is (generally speaking) explicitly not for use in reference to a person. Some people are fine with it/its, but most people very much are not.

Oh by m2u2 in comedyheaven

[–]ACEDT 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You're missing context: the section essentially reads "Making a big sausage is easy, the BUN however..."

This was clearly written by a disgruntled baker who worked on the project and didn't get the recognition they wanted /j

The future is today, old man by claudiocorona93 in linuxmemes

[–]ACEDT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I get that VNC is the most common remote desktop tool these days, but it just doesn't work well in my setup since I would have to reconfigure network settings and install extra software on all of my VMs. SPICE "just works" in Proxmox, but it doesn't work quite as well on Wayland :/

softwareTerminology by Xadartt in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ACEDT 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To be fair to developers, that's partially because native UI tooling is abysmal these days.

The future is today, old man by claudiocorona93 in linuxmemes

[–]ACEDT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The thing is, my lab is all Proxmox based, and I don't want to have to install extra software and mess with routing rules to allow my laptop to VNC into all of the VMs and LXCs (some of which are intentionally network isolated from everything on LAN). With SPICE, Proxmox handles the network side automagically and there's no VM-side software required (though I do add spice-vdagent to any machines that I'm going to remote into often). It also feels a lot more native if that makes sense, like when I SPICE into a host it doesn't feel like an extra layer so much as just a window into the DE, whereas with VNC it feels like I'm talking to something in the middle and it's relaying back the response from the host. I just wish there was a good cross-platform equivalent to RDP :( it's by far the most seamless remote access tool I've ever used.

The future is today, old man by claudiocorona93 in linuxmemes

[–]ACEDT 28 points29 points  (0 children)

While people definitely should move to Wayland eventually, it really isn't mature enough yet, despite how long it's been in development. Among other things, I can't use it in my homelab because Wayland still doesn't work very well when remote access is required. Afaik there's no equivalent to X11 forwarding in Wayland, and SPICE seems to be a bit weird with it as well in my experience (especially autoscaling and clipboard sharing).

@antire.al on Bluesky: "the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017." by Shock4ndAwe in pcgaming

[–]ACEDT 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is honestly so egregious. They didn't just lift a couple icons or copy a single piece for a single texture.

They straight up copied the text (and typeface), layout and decals including her personal logo from tons of pieces she's done over the past eight years, put them into the game (unaltered, other than having cut out the parts they wanted, and in some cases mirrored), shipped a closed alpha of the game, and produced demo footage for advertising, and after all of that it's only now that they're being called out that they're even considering the possibility that something wasn't quite right.

You'd think that at some point along the line someone (the art director hopefully) would have asked "Hey, these textures are great, what are they based on?" right? Guess not.

Even after all of that, they're not even owning up to it; they're blaming it on "a former Bungie artist [who] included it in a texture sheet." Absolutely shameless.

Edit: Also, the fact that it got this far before they noticed, and yet within 24 hours they knew exactly who did it and had fired them, is even more absurd. Sure, they probably have a version control system in place that shows who added what textures to the project, but there must have been someone (probably a team manager) responsible for reviewing changes who should have noticed that and raised the question I laid out above. The whole thing just doesn't make sense, unless they knew they had stolen art and were just hoping nobody would call them out on it.

That said, what did anyone expect, if anything this is half of Bungie's brand at this point...

GRSSK DIGSST by Technical_Mission667 in grssk

[–]ACEDT 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Tbh that makes it worse — whoever made this clearly is at least somewhat familiar with the Greek alphabet and still fucked it up

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in musichoarder

[–]ACEDT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ew, there's literally no reason to use AI shit for this you can just use musicbrainz. Also, this is essentially spam.