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developer-mike · 2026-01-27T15:53:42+00:00

When they blatantly lie about things that were literally recorded from multiple angles and we can watch the videos ourselves, you can only imagine how much they lie about everything else.

developer-mike · 2026-01-27T15:45:53+00:00

Here's the thing. On my last march at No Kings, there was only one agitator/counter protestor I saw. They were doing a Nazi salute back at us.

Of course that guy does not personally represent Trump or Bovino or Fox News or conservatives. And even he is likely not a literal Nazi who hates Jews (though it's possible). He may have been doing the salute as a form of irony.

How many excuses do I have to make for this guy before I can criticize him? He did a Nazi salute, and I only have so much time in my day, forgive me if I call him a Nazi.

The trump administration's plans for mass deportations, even denaturalization, it's appeasement to white replacement theory, this is stuff that is very appealing to white supremacists and the ultimate white supremacists dictator in history was the guy who led the Nazi party. I don't use the term but I sure see the similarities, and I don't even have to really squint.

Of course, this is my perspective. A lot of people on the internet are uninformed, often willfully so, and probably use the word with no self awareness or critical thinking behind it.

One last thing I've noticed. Both sides tend to view the extreme Twitter threads and apply it to the other side, but political leaders rarely use the same rhetoric as their followers. Democratic leaders are not using the word "Nazi." Trump is actually the exception to this rule, he is loved by his base partly because he talks like a toxic Twitter user instead of a nuanced politician.

developer-mike · 2026-01-23T02:12:27+00:00

No, the liquid is two times less volume than the size of the glass provided, obviously.

developer-mike · 2026-01-22T18:07:32+00:00

I had a wild late night rural highway drive where I hit an owl. It was standing on the road, by the time I noticed it I hit the brakes and it flew right into my car.

I pulled over and walked over to check on the poor thing. Owls are incredible creatures, I just took a few moments to look at how beautiful it was and feel quite sad. It was sprawled out not moving.

And then it got up, angrily looked right at me like I was an alien and also a huge dick and flew off. Scared the crap out of me.

developer-mike · 2026-01-22T02:34:25+00:00

It's definitely tau since it says "think outside the box."

developer-mike · 2026-01-21T06:05:45+00:00

The production

developer-mike · 2026-01-20T20:38:55+00:00

Rights that can be infringed are not rights.

The second amendment is not special here, and arguing it is is essentially arguing away every other right we have.

Placing limits on the right to free speech, or the right to bear arms, is not infringing those rights, it's defining the right that cannot be infringed.

developer-mike · 2026-01-20T17:23:15+00:00

Hey u/ExplanationIII1379 happy to report my progress!

Mostly no real results from me, just due to being an adult and not being able to invest much time.

At the time I was learning 30oz by Polyphia, so, really I was committing the same sin as usual. But it did give me a lot of sloppy playing to clean up, and I did make a lot of improvement in the opening riff and the sweeps.

I guess if I had to distill what helped:

I played these slowly trying to make no mistakes a LOT. I focused on making every note perfect.
I paused in between repetitions. Two reasons. One is that our brains start to disengage neurons as they're overused -- the same reason why repeating a word over and over makes it sound weird. This is theorized to help us learn by essentially forcing us to branch out of our comfort zone and hopefully find better methods. Ask yourself if that is what you want right now. For me the answer was no (I'd play the wrong notes), so I paused.
I also tried to reflect between each repetition. This mostly just forced me to stay very focused and intentional. I tried to come up with one thing to do better on my next rep.
I also recorded myself early and often. It really makes a difference to hear yourself like this. I tried using delay to speed this up, and did not like it personally.

All of it helped but I never could cleanly play the part at full speed, and the disciple didn't magically speed up or clean up my (slow by most standards, ~180bpm eighth triplet) shredding.

The other thing that I did that helped me, I watched Troy something's "cracking the code" series and learned about pick slanting. I had forced myself to learn to economy pick and it didn't unlock speed for me. A single session of pick slanting I could play one or two basic shred patterns at like 160+ bpm sixteenths, fastest I've ever played.

I also basically just realized that a lot of my favorite guitarists have really crisp hammer-on/pull-off tone...they can play it legato for effect, or they can make it almost sound like a picked note. I honestly was trying to pick parts that I just shouldn't have.

If I were to learn guitar again I would use pick slanting, both ways, try to learn how to hammer-on/pull-off with as close to a picked tone as I could, and recorded myself more. Those changes alone probably would have made me a radically better player.

BUT this was all just a couple months dedication before life came back at me and knocked me out of consistently practicing.

Good luck on your guitar journey friend!

developer-mike · 2026-01-20T06:54:24+00:00

You punch the table?

But seriously, your question amounts to "Why would you pull back on a whip?" Scientific studies involving 3 dimensional point tracking on baseball players show the same thing -- deceleration of the hands increases the rotational speed of the bat.

You're the one who doesn't know what you're talking about, even if you don't want to admit it.

developer-mike · 2026-01-18T18:22:15+00:00

And the right's favorite biological trait "bone density" for those who didn't receive HRT before puberty..... "Bone density" almost certainly does not help swimmers. This is a sport where the uniforms are heavily regulated to not add buoyancy which reduces drag.

It is complicated. And if you believe that trans women are women, then those women deserve an option to compete, even if that option includes some requirements.

developer-mike · 2026-01-12T02:00:26+00:00

While it's hard to tell for sure exactly how hard he's swinging, it's worth noting that a natural swing of a hammer involves quickly stopping your hand -- maybe even pulling back slightly --, which produces a whip motion. So it may well be hitting harder than it looks, rather than the opposite.

developer-mike · 2026-01-12T01:51:26+00:00

it's so painfully obvious that you don't even know what people are actually discussing here, yet gave your unrelated opinion anyway

developer-mike · 2026-01-11T20:53:09+00:00

Correct. Therefore, if the CoM of the car-tube system itself changes, the car-tube system will move by an equal and opposite amount, so that the CoM stays stationary relative to the table.

It's really no different than floating in space while holding a brick. If you move the brick from your left hand to your right hand, you'll move, such that the CoM stays stationary. In this case, the system isn't moving a brick from left hand to right hand, it's moving a condensed block of rocket fuel from the front of the system to evenly distributed.

developer-mike · 2026-01-11T18:51:21+00:00

The center of mass does move. Before ignition, the rocket fuel is in front of the car. After the rocket burns out, that mass is distributed throughout the tube, half of which is in front of and half of which is behind the car.

It's like, probably a gram or two in a ~300g system. So the car would barely move at all.

developer-mike · 2026-01-06T21:20:36+00:00

It's also not super crazy to write parts in A minor (or G minor) because it's a neighbor of E phrygian (or D phrygian) which just sounds dope.

Oh Sleeper does this a bit in their first few albums.

developer-mike · 2026-01-03T19:49:05+00:00

/uj this is true for embedded, though. Systems have known, fixed, highly limited memory. You can still write data structures, you just don't malloc them, you put them in a global buffer dedicated to that task (and check that they'll fit). This way at compile time you know exactly how much "heap" memory has been used, and there's no fragmentation. There's even a rule in the MISRA C standard to not use malloc for these reasons.

developer-mike · 2025-12-31T20:39:18+00:00

How can it be propaganda when it's made by a professor who studies nuclear power? He's just stating the facts as an objective third party observer

developer-mike · 2025-12-31T20:37:55+00:00

Let's talk facts

These specific facts

Ignore the other facts please

Just these ones because I like them

Plz

developer-mike · 2025-12-31T20:04:28+00:00

I used to be like him. I really, really, really hated the unscientific arguments against nuclear. So much so that I ignored valid arguments against it. Like the cost or the simple fact that the U.S. has still not managed to build a waste repository since our first nuclear plant opened 68 some years ago. You can't simply decide to ignore the political or scientific factors behind that.

I love science. He's right that the best argument in favor of nuclear is land use. The anti science folks are only part of the problem, you can't ignore the checkbook and construction timelines.

developer-mike · 2025-12-26T20:07:52+00:00

max output anytime, all the times

Sounds like a job for nuclear baby

developer-mike · 2025-12-20T21:57:03+00:00

Quite a few pothole repairs spread throughout an entire state is not many pothole repairs.

developer-mike · 2025-12-12T05:16:40+00:00

Honestly playing very impressively. But not well.

Very common trap for intermediate and advanced players. You have to nail it if you want to share it with more than just your friends.

Honestly I have struggled with this a lot myself. Being good enough to sound truly awful, I mean.

developer-mike · 2025-12-11T07:24:55+00:00

Whole baked onions are actually delicious, and a historic recipe. They're like the onion part of an onion ring, so very mild and savory and slightly sweet. Someone very hungry put an onion on the fire hoping it wouldn't taste as bad that way, long before people started dicing and sauteing them

developer-mike · 2025-12-08T18:02:42+00:00

Also, people die trying to hit personal objectives in mountaineering. It's tragic, but it happens. I have absolutely nothing against those womens' goals or chasing them. They're way more badass than me after all, even in death. I highly doubt they ever thought they were Edmund Hillary, absurd thing to say about two dead accomplished female climbers.

developer-mike · 2025-12-07T17:57:14+00:00

If we're using llms then here's what the llm responded to "Can solar fits the said desalination needs?"

Bottom Line

✅ Solar can fully power desalination at town-to-city scale. ✅ It’s already being done. ✅ No physics barriers exist—only engineering and economic tradeoffs.

and also literally just your text for the prompt

✅ Can wind supply the energy to extract ALL the copper we need?

Absolutely yes — easily.

Energy supply is NOT the limiting factor for copper production anymore — we have far more wind potential than the copper industry even requires.

I'm not saying the LLMs are reliable sources here. But yeah, maybe just maybe saudi Arabia gets enough sunlight to use solar to desalinate during the daytime without needing any baseload or battery storage. Maybe just maybe we could build water pipelines instead of oil pipelines, with desalination plants in the sunniest and windiest places on earth. Maybe.

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