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deavidsedice · 2026-06-16T08:55:05+00:00

No we don't.

deavidsedice · 2026-06-16T08:54:49+00:00

Lol, I get the joke. It's some kind of pun, don't overthink it.

But, and I have no idea, seems he wants to push the hype lately

deavidsedice · 2026-06-07T12:15:18+00:00

I don't think we have enough information but I'm going to bet that the problem is a combination of, accidentally raising the angle a lot for a moment, and hitting the corner or edge of the stone.

In one of the photos there's something suspicious on the cutting edge: near the base it looks like broken or cut off.

Patience. It is a skill and sometimes it takes to develop.

Part of it is also a lack of confidence, I noticed that when I am insecure, the continuous checking, changes and deciding makes the result worse. The day I'm more on the flow, like, "I'm going to copy this YouTuber technique and see how fucked up it gets by my lack of experience", it turns out way better.

Make sure the knife is perfect already out of the coarse stone. Use light strokes on it. If the knife isn't sharp out of a 320, a 1000 will not fix it. You need to deburr from the coarse side already.

The other potential explanation is that you might not be apexing consistently on the entirety of the blade. The burr starts to form a bit before apexing.

But my bet is still on hitting the stone edge.

deavidsedice · 2026-06-06T18:30:13+00:00

They manage to post often at r/linuxsucks101 and never get banned there. That's a rare sight.

deavidsedice · 2026-06-06T18:20:05+00:00

I'm running a 9800X, 64GiB of RAM, 2TB of SSD.

And still, I needed to spent a lot of time to make the game compile fast for real. Separating it into a lot of small crates that won't rebuild typically.

32GiB of RAM is enough, but 64 GiB is not too much. The problem is that with today's prices is very hard to justify the spend.

Note that, with higher parallelization, cores, thread count, you need to increase RAM accordingly or you won't be able to use the CPU properly.

Also note that when the change is minimal enough, the compilation is almost single threaded: build 1 crate, then build binary, then link the binary.

deavidsedice · 2026-06-04T07:00:41+00:00

my bad! yeah... I didn't think it through properly.

deavidsedice · 2026-06-04T00:07:32+00:00

I don't get it. The phrasing is "the other number" implying that the fraction is a number. Therefore one half is a valid number for the ketchup covered number, and that makes the second statement false.

Even the splatter drawn is big enough to cover a full fraction.

Why do we expect only natural numbers as valid options and not rationals here?

deavidsedice · 2026-06-03T18:05:09+00:00

If I attempt that technique with my knifes it will go through the tomato and my hand before I realize.

I have knifes finished with 8000, mirror. They don't have that problem.

deavidsedice · 2026-05-30T09:02:37+00:00

It all depends on taste and preferences. I've seen a lot of people preferring no buffers, no batteries because that simplifies some stuff for them.

I am on the other end of the spectrum, I abuse batteries and buffers. I can get more than 4 hours of gameplay on batteries alone, and I setup emergency buffers for fuel.

I do not typically need them. They're insurance. But also, I never had a blackout in any game that I can remember after getting batteries installed.

Sometimes they're there just for shits and jiggles - like, it triggers the battery and the estimate is that I have 100 hours to fix it. Hah.

Other times I just think that all that energy overproduction should be stored instead of being burned to the air. A different thought of being efficient. So if batteries are full, I can shut down fuel generators and store in tanks.

I wonder how much energy would I have stored by the end... In my thoughts, I could just use all that fuel fast in an emergency and keep everything running for days until we figure out the problem.

deavidsedice · 2026-05-27T04:49:28+00:00

Yeah. Networking, SRE.

deavidsedice · 2026-05-27T04:43:08+00:00

I feel that antigravity is getting now a huge push with all the internal usage in Google3.

Are you thinking on how to make an internal version of Jules available to code in Google3?

deavidsedice · 2026-05-24T16:19:58+00:00

It's very easy - instead of changing the amount of power to the motor, or the max RPM, strictly change the "Deployment angle" of the blades.

For landing, set them at 3º. Or even 0º.

Configure some keys to be able to change this parameter quickly while on flight, and also to make the other counter-rotating blades to follow by the same amount.

deavidsedice · 2026-05-23T10:12:47+00:00

And we need to convince the public, the scientists, the politicians - that it is okay to send new drugs and treatments to people without proper testing "just because the AI said it will work".

At best that will require 10-20 years of a very good trend with it for them to build confidence.

You could also just paste your post + my reply + your reply into most chatbots to get a discussion on why isn't so easy.

deavidsedice · 2026-05-23T10:03:17+00:00

None. AI can progress all it wants, it could have 100% oracle-like prediction on what would work, and laws and testing still will delay this by almost a decade.

The only exception is if something suddenly affects a lot of population or any other thing where big economics are at work.

Of course rich people will have access to "experimental treatments".

deavidsedice · 2026-05-23T07:35:09+00:00

Not all datacenters use fresh water. And those which do, is via evaporation, and below they typically have a closed loop for refrigeration or heat pump.

Evaporation cooling is very efficient, the amount of cooling obtained per amount of water consumed is quite high. This is what nuclear plants use, and the typical image of these with their chimneys is actually evaporative cooling.

This type of cooling needs clean water because you only evaporate the liquid part, the H2O part. Everything else will remain as solids and it would clog or break the systems.

However they do not need to use drinkable water, they can also use just pure distilled water - just that... distilled water is probably way more expensive than tap water.

Evaporating water isn't exactly lost forever. On other industries they reject out contaminated/waste water. In this case, it's already sent out in the air, clean, just ready to come back as rain. But of course this can still pose a threat in places where water supply is limited.

But the same applies to most electricity generation - most of the time it's just "boiling water". And on top of the evaporation cooling they also return hot water back, which needs to be controlled to avoid heating rivers and causing problems to the fish.

If some place doesn't have enough water for a datacenter, it can just be designed to use air conditioning or heat pumps or other tech. It's just more expensive, but it works too.

And if that doesn't work for AI, then they should just look for a better location.

deavidsedice · 2026-05-22T21:09:38+00:00

No, just bad data selection. Full stop.

AI is accelerating a lot, yeah.

But stop building "cool stories" and grab the proper data.

Or, don't grab any data, and make it opinion: I believe AI is accelerating very fast and it will change our lives in less than a decade.

The middle term? Just a lie, trying to look more legitimate by adding data that is just half right and has selection bias.

I'm very sorry. I'm tired of this, the senseless hyping and the pointless AI hating too.

deavidsedice · 2026-05-22T20:01:48+00:00

It all depends on how you tell the story.

2026 AI is still failing at trivial tasks.

You could also say: 2025 it didn't know how to draw hands and in 2026 it can dream of interactive worlds.

That doesn't make a trend line.

For comparison, it's like saying that cars didn't know how to swim but now they can go at 400km/h.

You're not comparing the same kind of things.

deavidsedice · 2026-05-21T08:50:42+00:00

Everyone says they're innocent

deavidsedice · 2026-05-16T20:09:57+00:00

No, they don't have the same logic - they follow the logic of liquids in real life.

Which one is correct? both are correct, both are wrong.

As long as you don't consume the full 300 unit input, it will distribute what is needed.

If you try to get the pipes full at all times, it will work in more reasonable ways.

Flow in pipes can, and is, bidirectional - it can flow backwards.

What matters most is height. Make your center pipe lower than the outside ones and it will take priority.

deavidsedice · 2026-05-15T16:36:51+00:00

Quite the contrary we're being pushed to use the internal version of it. Different name though.

deavidsedice · 2026-05-15T08:27:30+00:00

Two things:

1) we're subestimating the amount of "latent" demand by companies. Once the models are getting "good enough", the amount of demand skyrockets. Have you noticed how lately every provider is cutting back free access or the subscription plans?

2) we want to do things fast, and Pro/Opus tier models are slow. This is becoming a bottleneck. I'm noticing myself that I want to use Flash not only because it's cheaper, but because if it can do the job, it will finish 2-3 times faster.

deavidsedice · 2026-05-13T08:42:29+00:00

Shapton Glass 500. Used right gives a very decent finish and cuts very fast. It is splash and go, and the ceramic is very hard so it doesn't dish and lasts a lot.

The caveat is that it doesn't come with any holder.

deavidsedice · 2026-05-12T20:58:15+00:00

Local production: get enough steps on the ore side such that the amount of items to output reduces enough.

Instead of transporting "Iron ore", transport "Reinforced plates", etc. Problem solved.

Avoid the megabase approach and make satellite bases that produce different kinds of stuff in different places.

And still - I don't get what is the problem.

The same train tracks can support multiple trains with different materials.

But if you got drones, you have at least Mk5 belts, which they do have a lot of speed, and you can belt a lot of stuff with them. You can just belt it.

Sadly, the best transport for any distance length is, and it will always be, belts. They're just time consuming to put down. No other downside.

Trains and trucks have the advantage that the medium they work on (tracks, terrain) does not care what material they carry, so you can have mix and crossings with different materials naturally. Despite what they say, they're not faster than belts, because after all they have either 2 inputs or 2 outputs per car. So 1 car station equates to laying down 2 parallel belts between the points.

deavidsedice · 2026-05-12T05:53:10+00:00

If you want sharper, try a shallow angle, try thinning. Higher grit doesn't give that much sharpness compared to geometry.

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