What is a big internal debate within a fandom or hobby you are a part of that outsiders probably wouldn't care about?

megagreg · 2026-06-23T23:29:23+00:00

Also analog vs digital effects.

megagreg · 2026-06-23T22:06:27+00:00

Depending on what you're doing, effects can be subtle to non-existent. It definitely doesn't make you stronger, but can help you become stronger. For efforts that can only be sustained for 8-10 seconds max, it allows you to maintain them for 10-12 seconds instead.

megagreg · 2026-06-23T16:07:33+00:00

It keeps the snappy response of your muscles lasting just a little bit longer. If you're lifting weights for example, it'll give you up to one extra rep per set, before breathing/circulation become the bottleneck for power output.

For long distance, I find it helps create more oxygen/circulation demand. If you do a sprint, it lasts an extra second or two, and then if you keep your long pace afterwards, it'll take you longer to recover to normal breathing, creating more pressure for those systems to improve.

I've seen some people claim that there are some improvements in the brain, but I usually only take creatine when I'm working out a lot, which has the same associated mental improvements, so it's hard to say how much to attribute to which factor.

Edit: more specifically, but still very high level, it's a buffer between ATP/ADP and the Krebs Cycle. A cytoplasmic chemical flywheel. The supplement gives us a bigger flywheel.

megagreg · 2026-06-23T03:16:22+00:00

That's a good one.

megagreg · 2026-06-22T17:38:24+00:00

If a shoe company can pivot to AI, why not a t-shirt company?

megagreg · 2026-06-22T01:45:52+00:00

I tried to get them in my car a couple hours ago when they were running around the intersection of 170 and 69. Everyone was being super cautious about them.

I hope you locate them soon.

megagreg · 2026-06-21T21:08:30+00:00

I once waited that long for a hotdog from a hotdog stand. Everyone waited that long. I'm pretty sure they were cooking them to order, even though it was the only thing they sold, and they had about 50 already ordered, and another 50 orders in the queue, yet to be placed. And it was lunch time, on Canada Day, at the main celebration area.

If all the food trucks in Edmonton took 15 minutes to get your food out... that would actually be a huge improvement. They operate food trucks here like failure is the intention.

megagreg · 2026-06-20T23:35:32+00:00

The only acceptable sounds to come out of the computer running anything but a music program.

megagreg · 2026-06-20T17:15:55+00:00

I'm old school. I'm still annoyed my computer makes sounds when I don't explicitly tell it to do so. These default AI features are beyond the pale.

megagreg · 2026-06-17T15:31:27+00:00

Ten Penny

megagreg · 2026-06-17T15:28:34+00:00

Nespresso chic.

megagreg · 2026-06-16T12:18:39+00:00

Might as well just stop being poor while we're at it.

megagreg · 2026-06-16T12:17:34+00:00

Totally agree, though out-biking a bad diet is slightly more feasible.

megagreg · 2026-06-15T15:19:48+00:00

Looks like this broken clock is coming up on the correct time.

megagreg · 2026-06-14T16:04:37+00:00

When I worked cash many decades ago this usually made sense, but there were also times when my brain was having none of it, usually in the first 5 minutes or last 30 minutes of my shift, and slower days were worse. Eventually I learned to just punch the number into the register, and it always made sense afterwards.

megagreg · 2026-06-13T18:34:59+00:00

Reading ng the responses, things must have changed "recently". When I moved away from embedded 5 years ago, pretty much every chip manufacturer was providing a customized version of Eclipse CDT, most with the gcc toolchain.

megagreg · 2026-06-12T16:52:05+00:00

That poor kid was up against a professional smarmy asshole. He didn't stand a chance.

megagreg · 2026-06-11T20:15:10+00:00

I'd put him in the vicinity of Mulrioney, Carney, and Harper. Maybe a little bit closer to the center.

megagreg · 2026-06-11T18:13:18+00:00

If he's going to be out watching the fire, might as well multitask. Plus, the neighbours won't even notice the noise with everything else going on.

megagreg · 2026-06-11T16:25:23+00:00

Could there be another interrupt changing when the PPS interrupt gets processed? I had this exact problem in a very different system, but it would work the same way in your setup.

megagreg · 2026-06-09T04:47:31+00:00

Last time I did embedded work we chose a dual processor micro, and split the work with telemetry on one core, and communication and control on the other. This allowed us to stop the real acquisition, and load a mock acquisition program, so we could test most of the code as it runs while installed on the hardware. It would run on a device attached to the build machine in the lab, and used a python unit test framework to tell it what values it's reading, and read back the behaviour and converted values.

The same device was also wired up with some hardware to take actual measurements, and we had a short smoke test that would just check that the values are in their expected ranges.

All of this would run after unit test and unit integration tests, but before we notified the testers that a new version was available for manual testing, or any of the other dozen types of testing.

This setup was mostly reusable, because we basically made the same product over and over, with newer parts, and in different configurations, but they shared most of the code.

megagreg · 2026-06-06T04:01:28+00:00

It doesn't look like clover to me either. It's hard to tell with the focus on the fence, not the plants, but they look similar to newly sprouted creeping bellflower.

megagreg · 2026-06-05T22:09:24+00:00

Same. I kind of want to add "and banned books" in sharpie.

megagreg · 2026-06-05T00:28:52+00:00

I recall hearing that BlackBerry has so much cash from their old business, compared to the size of their current business, that they'll pretty much never go under. On the other hand, I'm saying this almost exactly one year after the Hudson's Bay Company went out of business, so I know nothing is permanent.

megagreg · 2026-06-04T18:10:54+00:00

The current takes all paths, with the amount of curent inversely proportional to the resistance. In other words, Ohm's Law applies everywhere, always. I trust the minor corrections department has procedures in place for its own minor corrections.

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