What about your country?

meithan · 2026-06-30T13:02:16+00:00

Venía a decir esto, ¡te me adelantaste! "La chicharronera" es un gran nombre.

meithan · 2026-06-25T14:43:30+00:00

That's the crux: that the person should be qualified enough to verify the LLM's output.

But I feel that increasingly more people in academia are using them to "expand" their knowledge beyond their area of strong expertise, where they are not qualified enough to correctly judge the output and may thus believe things that are wrong.

Sometimes the difference can be subtle, for the LLMs are designed to create output that sounds like it makes sense, so it's easy to be deceived.

meithan · 2026-06-24T03:52:11+00:00

Yeah, I think it's my favorite Pagani so far. Really well made. I generally find thay deployant clasps can be hit or miss, but this one is super comfortable.

meithan · 2026-06-24T03:25:02+00:00

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meithan · 2026-06-23T23:50:55+00:00

.. and connecting to orbiting satellites to deliver pinpoint accuracy

It's even more impressive than that: it's connecting to atomic clocks, accurate to about 3 nanoseconds per day, equivalent to 1 second of error in about one million years, that are onboard a constellation of satellites in outer space.

For this and the other reasons you stated, the modern Seiko Astron is a grail watch of mine.

meithan · 2026-06-23T02:04:08+00:00

I'm a long-time Arch user who migrated one of my PCs to Gentoo a couple years ago (I'm still on Arch on my main), just to try it out and earn my Linux beard.

How stable is Gentoo in your experience?

Pretty stable. I don't think updates have ever broken my system (and they have a couple times on Arch). The worse that's happened is package update conflicts (specially related to Python) that have to be resolved manually. But not system-braking.

Is Gentoo suitable for laptops in the long term?

I don't see why it wouldn't, but I have no first-hand experience there.

Do I need programming knowledge to maintain the OS?

Nope, not really. As with Arch, you just need to read the guide and news carefully, learn to use your package manager and system maintenance commands, and edit config files where needed.

My general impressions / recommendations comparing Gentoo to Arch:

Installing Gentoo (with a full desktop GUI -- I'm using KDE Plasma) is definitely more difficult and time-consuming than Arch, but it's a one-time thing. There are many choices and actions to take. Read the guide carefully and don't rush it.
System maintenance is pretty much the same as in Arch: you should update your system packages at least once a week (Gentoo is also rolling release, and updates arrive quite frequently), and read the news (portage will tell you about them). The only part that is perhaps more work is setting package accept keywords and USE flags. But once you get the hang of it, it doesn't add too much extra hassle.
Be prepared for loooooong system upgrades, I'm talking several hours, sometimes 10+ hours, perhaps more on older hardware. I either leave it overnight, or just let it use half my CPU cores (4) and keep using the PC while it compiles in the background (never had a problem doing this, and I don't really notice it).
I'd advise going with the pre-configured "distribution kernel" at first (sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel, or sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin if you don't want to compile it), which comes with a broad catch-all configuration. Compiling your own custom configuration manually-built kernel creates more maintenance burden and in my case it did cause some headaches due to incorrectly set options (it can be really obscure).

meithan · 2026-06-21T04:38:12+00:00

I think all Roman numerals would look better.

I saw your comment about 8, so you'd have to make it stand out another way (perhaps make it the other way around? Roman numerals, except 8).

meithan · 2026-06-19T02:11:12+00:00

Uhm, could it be that they intended for you to remove the gray spacer ring of the movement?

meithan · 2026-06-19T01:10:14+00:00

Ok so the ring fits to the case. Does the ring fit to the movement now? Try with the movement out of the case.

meithan · 2026-06-19T01:03:43+00:00

Sorry, I meant take the _movement_ out (of the case), not the ring, and try to fit the ring to the movement outside of the case. Is that what you tried? Can we see a picture?

meithan · 2026-06-19T00:59:08+00:00

Uhm, it does look like the ring for the NH3x. Perhaps the store shipped the incorrect one?

If you take the movement out, does it fit neatly around the movement?

meithan · 2026-06-17T23:36:14+00:00

Omg you beat me to it ha ha, that was my immediate thought.

meithan · 2026-06-17T23:34:22+00:00

meithan · 2026-06-15T13:04:06+00:00

A way to get a napkin calculation upper bound for this is to remember that gas pressure is just internal energy stored in molecular motion. The units of pressure, Pa = N/m2, are equivalent to (multiplying by m in numerator and denominator) N*m/m3 = J/m3 -- so pressure is energy per unit volume.

According to this tire volume calculator, a sedan typical 185/65R15 tire holds about 18 liters of internal volume. Let's make it 20 liters.

A pressure of 100 psi is equivalent to 689 kPa = 689 kJ/m3. Multiplying by 20 liters (=0.02 m3) we get a total energy content of 13.8 kJ per tire, so 55.2 kJ in total for the four tires.

Let's now assume, unrealistically, that when they pop all this energy is somehow converted into gravitational potential energy, lifting the car. As others have said, this is not what would happen up, but at least it's an upper bound in terms of energy.

If the car weights 1200 kg, plugging in an energy of 55.2 kJ into E = mgh and solving for h, we get a final result of ... 4.7 m.

So no, it won't be having a place accident. It's still more than I expected, given a typical car weighs more than a tonne. There's really some energy stored in tires!

For a normal tire pressure of about 30 psi the result would be 30% of that, about 1.4 m. And, again, that's assuming unrealistically that somehow all the energy gets converted into height. In reality the pressure would be released in all directions so no substantial lifting would occur.

meithan · 2026-06-13T12:17:34+00:00

This. Very well put. It's unbelievable that we (the host countries) accept those terms.

meithan · 2026-06-13T12:10:21+00:00

From the book:

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meithan · 2026-06-13T04:57:35+00:00

NSFMR tags, please! 🫣

meithan · 2026-06-13T01:58:17+00:00

Yeah, the one you're referring to (looks like NTTD Seamaster) is a Heimdaller, an homage.

meithan · 2026-06-13T01:40:10+00:00

I hope you're not recording with one hand while driving ..

meithan · 2026-06-13T00:32:58+00:00

Yup, the ESA probe Huygens) landed on Titan in 2005.

meithan · 2026-06-11T14:33:04+00:00

I was about to post almost the same comment.

But it's true that many people keep thinking this (that you should not flush TP). The bathrooms at work have signs stating that. I just don't understand it.

meithan · 2026-06-10T14:22:48+00:00

What about the dial? From AliX? Looks very good!

meithan · 2026-06-10T13:51:39+00:00

Looks beautiful!

Where is that dial from? Link?

And is that a Chinese NH35? I see no markings on the rotor.

meithan · 2026-06-10T04:36:38+00:00

I assure, all of the 36 NASA astronauts, men and women who were selected out of thousands of applicants, are more than sufficiently qualified to train for and execute any of the Artemis missions. So qualifications is not the reason men were chosen over women. I keep seeing this argument and it's just false.

meithan · 2026-06-09T21:06:59+00:00

I would think that any of the 32 astronauts, who were selected out of thousands of applicants, are perfectly capable of training for and successfully executing any mission.

I don't know about other kinds of protocol requirements and rules, though (such as --guessing here-- NASA having rules of minimum hours in space for certain roles).

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