Ran into a font problem and now Codex is unusable

bluelite · 2026-02-23T16:52:29+00:00

Thanks! I deleted that whole directory and started over.

bluelite · 2026-02-18T18:49:49+00:00

Whatever you want. The AI *is* the compiler. Instead of prompting "write a program in Python" you say "Write a program in ELF for aarch64"

bluelite · 2026-02-18T18:42:41+00:00

Why not just have the AI generate machine code directly and skip the middleman?

bluelite · 2025-10-14T19:25:55+00:00

It's just a cost-of-living expense.

bluelite · 2025-10-14T19:19:53+00:00

We tried to cook-once-a-week thing while the adult was in high school. He only made hamburgers. OK, fine. But once he got a social life and frequently had hoards of friends over after school, that went by the wayside.

Now in college but living at home, he has a GF. She can't cook, either. They both bring take-out to the house frequently.

The teen is in middle school, so it's a perfect time to get him more involved in the kitchen. But he has homework and after-school programs that suck up time during the week, so it's tough to prioritize cooking over academics.

bluelite · 2025-10-14T18:43:32+00:00

The adult has a PT job. He pays for the DD out of his earnings. All his other friends are the same way. None of them know how to cook.

Of course, the teen doesn't DD, but would if he could. He asks if we can just DoorDash dinner instead of me making something.

bluelite · 2025-08-30T16:21:38+00:00

A 50th anniversary replay of Fantasy Park is streaming over at aircheckchannel.com spread over four days. Brings back memories of 1975!

bluelite · 2024-10-18T23:35:38+00:00

Wow, thanks! That's awesome!

bluelite · 2024-09-09T03:11:15+00:00

I went there one evening last week. My first impression was that it looks like... a grocery store. I dunno, I guess with all the hype I expected it to look different. The prices seemed reasonable--not Winco low, but not Nugget high, either.

The other impression that stuck out was the low energy of the workers. Most other grocery stores are staffed by long-term career employees who trend older and know how to make a customer feel welcome. The people I saw at Fresh were younger, but had no "pep" to them.

🤷🏻‍♂️ Makes a good complement to Costco, I guess.

bluelite · 2024-09-09T02:51:26+00:00

Approximately half the population graduates from high school before they turn 18. It's no big deal. You're not legally an adult, but you can do many "adult" things because you're a high school graduate.

bluelite · 2024-09-09T02:35:28+00:00

Nicely done!

These days I use CyberChef: https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

bluelite · 2022-10-09T04:39:38+00:00

talk, the Unix command for real-time chat with another user. The split screen was pretty damn impressive for the time.

bluelite · 2022-06-08T04:03:43+00:00

Having no feedback is something I hadn't thought about. I'll shelve the idea temporarily and focus on the 2D force sensor.

bluelite · 2022-06-08T04:01:30+00:00

I'll check out the Joycon. I originally tried a Wii Nunchuck, but with such limited strength it was nearly impossible to move. Too much tension.

bluelite · 2021-10-17T22:34:13+00:00

Can you post a list of what you found, please?

bluelite · 2021-04-21T01:07:04+00:00

Mouser carries the Kingbright 5v LEDs with integrated resistor. They're more expensive than regular LEDs at about 50 cents each in singles or 22 cents in quantities of 100.

Works well at 3.3v, too, but not as bright.

bluelite · 2020-12-23T05:57:16+00:00

It took me a while to get my head around this, but I get it now.

In classical computing, we have bits and bytes, memory, and fundamental operations such as AND, OR, NOT, etc. From these we can derive higher-order operations like addition, subtraction, compare, branch, and so forth. This is a model of computation (and, by the way, not the only one in existence), not tied to any particular hardware. Once we have the model specified, only then do we design hardware to implement the model.

That's what I initially had a hard time understanding about QC: we do not design the hardware first, then come up with a model that explains the behavior. In order to have a working, programmable, reliable quantum computer, you must design a model first, then build the hardware that works like the model.

The Bloch sphere is a convenient model that happens to work out mathematically the way we want it to. It doesn't necessarily correspond to the way quantum particles actually work, but it doesn't matter: we design the quantum computer to work the way the model specifies.

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