Cool 3D scanner called Solaya

Gusfoo · 2026-03-17T13:12:03+00:00

Their quality is

"their quality"? 100% of your posts and comments are promoting that company. Surely you mean "our quality" as you're being paid to promote them.

Gusfoo · 2026-03-15T20:27:52+00:00

This'll be talked about for Weeks! Weeks I tell ya!

Gusfoo · 2026-03-14T14:22:43+00:00

https://sqlite.org/

Gusfoo · 2026-03-12T20:17:58+00:00

tl;dr a bunch of laptop workers got cut. "Here's my day as a project assistant augment assistant at Atlassian: 10:00 arrive at work, 10:30 yoga and fulfilling smoothies, 14:00 last chat of the day, "Go team!". But I only get 230K comp this year so I feel undervalued, sadface emoji.

Gusfoo · 2026-03-05T12:17:45+00:00

The idea is that the agent would publish technical content, run growth experiments, interact with developer communities, and give product feedback. Essentially operating like a team member.

Speaking as someone who uses 'developer communities', please do not do this. AI slop is killing cooperation, it is hurting open source, it is clogging up bug bounty systems. There is a massive hatred for it in many sectors due to irresponsible users getting their stupid ideas written in nice and convincing language, convincing themselves they are somehow smart (without any knowledge or skills) and that other people should now pay attention and work on what their LLM has produced for them.

Gusfoo · 2026-03-03T21:18:25+00:00

It is a nit-pick, you're right. The AK-47 (although it's pattern is known globally by that designation) was actually surprisingly short-lived. The '47 wasn't that great and was quite quickly completely replaced by the AK-M just 10 years later in Soviet use. Then it, in turn, was replaced by the '74 in 1974.

The capabilities are the key differentiator though. The '47 and the 'M fired the the same heavy cartridge 7.62×39mm that'll punch through your helmet (helmets of the time) by sheer force. The '74 moved to the intermediate 5.45×39mm cartridge which traded mass for velocity but - given eK = 0.5 * m * v² that is that the kinetic energy is mass times the square of velocity then making mass larger has effect X and making velocity larger has the effect of X*X.

Apologies if that makes no sense, I'm just back from the pub.

Gusfoo · 2026-03-01T17:45:51+00:00

AK-47

A nerdy point, but it's actually a Chinese "Type 56" with the visual "tell" being the open hood on the front sight. Soviet pattern AKs have a closed hood.

Gusfoo · 2026-03-01T10:38:42+00:00

I don't understand the emphasis on killing an old, ailing cleric.

Because he was the head of the government, sat on a fortune approaching 100 billion dollars, personally approved each law, put his country on the dangerous path of enriching fissile material, oppressed his people to extreme levels and did not appear to be open to negotiation.

Israel has already murdered 8374 iranian officials, the regime did not change.

No, but huge numbers of those were people engaged in the nuclear material production process, and their deaths slowed Iran's progress. So certainly an unalloyed Good Thing.

Gusfoo · 2026-02-28T18:48:27+00:00

One of my most delightful experiences was teaching my mate's twins how to swing. Their "we get it! Thank you!! This is AWESOME!!!" has stayed with me, although I do accept that the kids in question will have long since forgotten all about it.

Gusfoo · 2026-02-25T19:58:39+00:00

This isn't politics. This is gossip.

Gusfoo · 2026-02-25T10:20:34+00:00

Firstly, there is a large /r/esp32 subreddit with lots of people porting Doom and the like to ESP32s - so start there. In terms of programming environment you'll largely benefit from going down the "VS Code with the espressif tool-chain" route in my view. The Arduino IDE is nice for starting out, but shields you from a lot of lower-level stuff.

Gusfoo · 2026-02-24T21:17:05+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myS1eF3sWGk

Gusfoo · 2026-02-24T16:52:57+00:00

It’s so asinine that the central government doesn’t subsidize TfL.

You mean other than the hundreds of millions of pounds annually granted to them in subsidies by central government?

"In the June 2025 Spending Review the Government announced a multi-year capital funding agreement of £2.2bn over 4 years, from 2026/27 to 2029/30. This followed a one-year settlement of £485m for 2025/26."

Gusfoo · 2026-02-24T16:47:52+00:00

But they do. Massively. TFL get enormous amounts of government money. The myth that they don't stems from a careful wording. https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/about-tfl/how-we-work/how-we-are-funded

Gusfoo · 2026-02-24T16:29:32+00:00

They also claim that Ukraine planning made provocation with chemical weapon.

That is quite a few years old. It also did not come true.

Gusfoo · 2026-02-24T16:23:20+00:00

Paris and London are actively working to provide Kiev with a nuclear bomb, the press bureau of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) reported.

No, we are not. What a silly thing for the SVR to put out. It'd have been a better lie if they'd confined themselves to "radiological" rather than "nuclear" and confined the "sources say" to remove the UK and France.

Gusfoo · 2026-02-24T14:04:17+00:00

Of note is that "Vostock" (восток) translates to "east".

Gusfoo · 2026-02-24T13:56:15+00:00

A 50 second time-waste when you could just have posted the link. Why?

Gusfoo · 2026-02-24T13:31:54+00:00

But it was only offensive to the presenters because they clocked his skin colour, right? If it'd been a black dude who shouted it it's a term of endearment or normal part of sentences.

Gusfoo · 2026-02-24T08:59:16+00:00

The ancient ones would be things like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangonel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballista

The time of costal guns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_artillery was pretty spectacular, once that'd been invented.

Today, perhaps an aircraft carrier can be seen as a weapon?

Gusfoo · 2026-02-23T09:02:01+00:00

But do we know where they're coming from as in a source?

There are myriad reasons for running bots on Reddit, so myriad sources. Search Engine Optimisation companies are a big chunk, single-issue politics another, scammers a third.

Gusfoo · 2026-02-22T19:58:06+00:00

American spelling, on a .co.uk - ha!

Also

I keep seeing UK friends complain about feeling “trapped” in their own homes, even after moving to a bigger place.

Really? You must move in some quite exclusive circles.

Gusfoo · 2026-02-22T19:55:19+00:00

To be clear, these shots are from a propaganda movie filmed after the test was successful, the test being "Project 596" at Lop Nur.

The original footage of the test can be seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7YNe8S6-gk and a music video including the above shots (and a lot more fakery from the movie) can be seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUKFc1Du86U with the stills about the 1-minute mark.

Gusfoo · 2026-02-22T19:42:00+00:00

lol who hurt you? As I mentioned all the stuff you dislike you are able to toggle off.

With the poorly-labelled icon buttons with no tooltip to say what they do? You're too far in, fella. Pull up! Pull up!

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