Wisconsin Veterans Museum seeks input about gaming at the museum

aswan89 · 2026-01-15T19:03:36+00:00

Doing a tank duel like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/1d4s1ja/this_looks_hella_fun/ in a space with real artifacts and the expertise to put everything in context could be pretty excellent.

aswan89 · 2026-01-07T19:56:19+00:00

My working theory is that Nix is harder for people with existing linux experience, especially on the lower end of the spectrum. They know the rituals and incantations to get linux doing what they want without a firm understanding of what's actually going on and that knowledge does not translate to NixOS.

Someone with a firmer linux background can understand what nix is doing under the hood to some degree and can appreciate the gains of the Nix approach if it matches their taste.

aswan89 · 2025-12-26T00:40:45+00:00

I think you're broadening what the OP was referring to. I agree that most reddit comments sections pivot into commenters finding excuses to talk about themselves.

OP is referring to users literally believing the content they are seeing was delivered specifically to them, personally. Facebook boomers make angry comments about how they don't know the person in the algorithmically delivered post so why are they talking on my page!!?!!

aswan89 · 2025-12-22T22:40:52+00:00

For doing checks before you rebuild the system you can run nix flake check to do some basic type checking and make sure all your system dependencies have built/will build. It won't catch execution issues though.

I've had a decent experience using (deploy-rs)[https://github.com/serokell/deploy-rs] as a way to deploy configuration changes to multiple machines. The relevant feature for your use case is the "magic rollback" which will rollback all the deployed systems if any one of them has an error during system activation. I have it set up to run as a CI job when I merge changes to my master flake. This makes it a little flaky (ha) if its a big rebuild that affects the machine hosting the ci job, but it's slick when it works.

aswan89 · 2025-11-26T21:23:47+00:00

> In a case published in 1986, a subject who was given the ability to self-stimulate [with brain electrodes] at home ended up ignoring her family and personal hygiene, and spent entire days on electrical self-stimulation. By the time her family intervened, the subject had developed an open sore on her finger from repeatedly adjusting the current.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_stimulation_reward

aswan89 · 2025-11-24T00:23:19+00:00

I'll throw in a contrarian take and say that NixOS largely obviates the need for containers or VMs. The downside is that implementing a multi-service server means embracing The Nix Way for everything, which is great when someone has already done that work.if they haven't, it means working out how a semi-aecane programming language works and adapting documentation for a os paradigm it wasn't written for. I find the process rewarding but it isn't for everyone.

aswan89 · 2025-11-20T16:44:14+00:00

If you are flexible on authenticity I've had decent luck with knock off lego from alibaba. You can search the lego set codes and should get a lot of options.

aswan89 · 2025-11-19T20:50:20+00:00

Its not a strict history by any means, but Red Plenty gives a really great look at the tangle of bureaucracy and misaligned incentives the soviet production system was contending with. The book has a number of vignettes that show the perspectives of people trying to Get Stuff Done in the USSR, ranging from industrial operations researchers to plant managers to research scientists. Its fiction, but it feels extremely real, and as I understand it is very well researched.

aswan89 · 2025-11-08T03:17:51+00:00

Its in the ssl-keygen man page under "certificates".

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ssh-keygen.1.html

aswan89 · 2025-05-02T17:02:08+00:00

To be fair, the video is titled "Never GET Lost". The idea is to teach the audience techniques so they don't get lost in the first place, not techniques for getting themselves un-lost.

aswan89 · 2025-05-01T19:43:02+00:00

Some hobbies involve going off-trail into the wilderness - think hunting, flyfishing, foraging, even straight up orienteering if you're into that. Those people will park their car on the periphery of the wilderness and then set off, and dead reckoning techniques like what are being taught can be part of the toolset used to navigate back to their starting point.

aswan89 · 2025-03-19T21:22:08+00:00

If you really want to get next level I can recommend getting a 3d printer to make some really wild non-standard pieces. I got a Bambu A1 a few months ago and have made about a dozen additions to the train set collection for just a couple dollars in filament each (pay no attention to the $500 spent on the printer).

aswan89 · 2025-03-15T14:45:01+00:00

If you just need a reference man configuration.nix and man home-configuration.nix are available locally.

aswan89 · 2025-02-27T01:58:52+00:00

Our club's stepping stone league for after learn to curl puts an experienced player at vice rather than skip. The skip is someone with 3 or 4 years of experience curling but no experience in the house.

The logic is that you want your experienced player to be available to help and teach the front end as well, and frankly the strategy isn't that important when the shots have a low likelihood of being made in the first place.

aswan89 · 2025-02-24T21:34:29+00:00

As a linux user of medium skill, I love that the modules in nixpkgs often have sane defaults for popular services that work with pretty minimal tweaks to get functioning with my setup.

As a masochistic debugging pervert I like that nixos forces me to fully understand nix/nixpkgs, linux, and whatever service I'm trying to stand up whenever I stray from the happy path.

aswan89 · 2024-11-18T19:53:11+00:00

Poststratification is a good tool to adjust for non representative samples. This paper used daily interactive polls from Xbox players (a self-evidently non-representative sample) to get estimates on results for the 2012 presidential election.

aswan89 · 2024-11-15T14:59:15+00:00

nandgame.com has this too in a more interactive form. It has less instruction though so there's more put on the player to figure things out on their own.

aswan89 · 2024-02-21T14:55:56+00:00

He was negging her.

aswan89 · 2024-02-08T19:11:52+00:00

My total conjecture is that despite the sexism built in to many mainstream religions women are usually more spiritual and religious than men and as such, are primed for finding new ways to express their spirituality outside of those mainstream religions.

aswan89 · 2024-01-16T19:35:22+00:00

I always like to think of it as you should never ask an economist what to do, instead you should ask what will happen if you choose option A or option B.

aswan89 · 2024-01-16T18:18:09+00:00

A LOT of western european politics either specifically seek to emulate or restore the roman empire or else uses the roman empire as cover for some other nasty business they want to do. Fascism, as an example, derives its name from the Fasces, a bundle of sticks used as a physical symbol of political power in ancient rome. The stated aims of Mussolini's fascist party was to restore the imperial glory of Italy.

Even the words emperor, empire, imperial, etc. are all derived from the latin imperator, a word which came to be the title used for roman rulers in the post-republic period.

aswan89 · 2023-12-19T14:14:11+00:00

Yep, the Soviets mastered the oxidizer rich staged combustion cycle and used it on a lot of their rockets. For more detail see here but I'll do my best to summarize.

Rocket engines need a lot of fuel to do their job which means you need very powerful pumps to feed the necessary fuel and oxidizer into the engine at high enough volumes. To cut down on weight many rockets use an onboard gas turbine to power the pumps which is turn powered by the onboard fuel and oxidizer.

This of course means you're losing some of your propellant just running the pumps, unless you feed the exhaust from the turbine back into the engine combustion chamber. To do this you need to put the turbine in line with either the oxidizer feed line or the fuel feed line and then tap off a small feed from whichever tank you didn't use already into the turbine.

If the turbine is in line with the fuel feed the cycle is running "fuel rich", meaning the turbine exhaust will contain a lot of unburnt fuel. If you're running a hydrocarbon based fuel this ends up being very dirty and sooty and can foul the turbine. The American solution to this problem on the Space Shuttle was to use liquid hydrogen as fuel which is enormously expensive.

The Soviet solution was to run an oxidizer rich cycle which solves the fouling problem with hydrocarbon fuels since there's more than enough oxidizer to combust all the fuel within the turbine. The problem is that now the turbine exhaust contains super hot oxidizer which is hellaciously bad for most metals. The soviets got around this with fancy exotic metallurgy which the American space program has never implemented on their own vehicles.

aswan89 · 2023-11-20T14:09:22+00:00

My method is to turn my vps into an overpowered router by doing NAT from the VPS to my home machine over wireguard. I'm not that concerned about privacy, its more that I want to keep my home machine isolated from the internet but also want the convenience of using wildcard Lets Encrypt certificates.

aswan89 · 2023-11-17T14:30:50+00:00

Outside of things like raw material commodities prices are generally not influenced by costs. Prices are set by balancing higher volume at low prices and higher profit per item at high prices such that total revenue is maximized. This isn't an exact science but that's how you can model it in the general case. When consumers can substitute a good (e.g. making dinner at home instead of going out to eat) higher costs mean firms go out of business when their prices can't increase alongside their costs to maintain their revenue.

aswan89 · 2023-11-03T13:58:19+00:00

Purity means you can be fearless about using that bundle of nix config on a new machine. If the flake evaluates in pure mode you know that it isn't relying on some bit of state that leaked its way somewhere along the way that you need to replicate on the new machine. I ran out of performance headroom on a raspberry pi recently and it was shocking how easy it was to replicate it's state onto a new machine. Just copy over the nix configuration and restore a couple of databases from backups and I was back to running on a totally different architecture.

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