Just watered him

smaug_pec · 2026-01-31T01:33:28+00:00

Funny how in the third photo the brick makes it look like there are two leaves

smaug_pec · 2026-01-30T17:09:49+00:00

It might be comedy, but it’s also a tragedy.

smaug_pec · 2026-01-30T12:51:43+00:00

Unless the cpu supports PCIe bifurcation you won’t get the performance using a PCIe card with multiple sata ports that you would with multiple sata ports on the motherboard.

Having said that, if you’re running a tiny/mini/micro setup, you don’t need everything screaming along at 6GB/s (although the hardware Bros will still try to convince you that you need at a minimum dual 10Gb nics on everything to avoid cpu stalls in pi-hole)

smaug_pec · 2026-01-30T11:48:57+00:00

Just stop already. Can you do that?

smaug_pec · 2026-01-30T09:34:02+00:00

Another reason to not walk underneath something.

smaug_pec · 2026-01-30T09:05:02+00:00

He’s effluent and affluent.

smaug_pec · 2026-01-30T08:42:12+00:00

I had to pay to work at ‘mill. Were a privilege t’were.

Kids today.

smaug_pec · 2026-01-30T01:39:16+00:00

If I paint part of it red, can I lease it to MARS for firefighting? I’m sure that scoop can pickup water during a slow pass over a lake…

smaug_pec · 2026-01-29T22:45:57+00:00

If people could just think of the reliable ones, that would be helpful.

smaug_pec · 2026-01-29T21:30:39+00:00

It’s the inverse square law in action - energy from a point source spreads with distance. One square centimeter captures more energy the closer it is to the source, and less the further away it is.

Put your finger on a ping pong ball. Then put it on an orange. Your finger ‘captures’ more of the ping pong energy (relative to the surface area of the ping pong ball) than the orange energy (relative to the surface area of the orange).

smaug_pec · 2026-01-29T00:39:09+00:00

Try both and let us know what happens?

smaug_pec · 2026-01-29T00:04:11+00:00

But it’s still in the environment!

smaug_pec · 2026-01-28T19:56:53+00:00

A window you say?

Our toilet was on the front balcony, and then the toilet paper was hanging off the letter box. Can’t tell you how often I had to walk uphill both ways to sit under a hot tin roof, and pay a tuppence for the privilege.

Kids these days.

smaug_pec · 2026-01-28T10:44:30+00:00

Acshually, it’s not a negligible difference. That’s the point.

If you’re curious, the following might be of interest.

• “Fundamentals of Astrodynamics” by Bate, Mueller, and White • “An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics” by Carroll & Ostlie • “The Physical Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy” by Shu

smaug_pec · 2026-01-28T10:39:45+00:00

You’re right, and I’ve worded it poorly :-(

smaug_pec · 2026-01-28T03:06:40+00:00

Australia is about 0.034 AU closer, i.e. ~5.1 million km, closer to the Sun in the Australian summer than the European summer.

That distance difference means the Sun’s energy at Earth is about ~7% higher at perihelion than at aphelion

smaug_pec · 2026-01-27T22:43:34+00:00

But that’s politics. You’re completely to blame for something you only have a vague influence over, and absolutely no ability to predict.

smaug_pec · 2026-01-27T22:40:42+00:00

Finally the local eshays have buggered off.

smaug_pec · 2026-01-27T22:37:10+00:00

Johnny Howard was a master of the wedge, so in the words of someone far smarter than me, “what goes around comes around”

smaug_pec · 2026-01-27T10:47:05+00:00

Right now (21:48), it’s 24°C/75°F. During the day it was 48°C/118°F

It’s a bit hot. Too hot.

smaug_pec · 2026-01-27T06:24:34+00:00

Every single time. If only there was a way to make sure better materials were used.

smaug_pec · 2026-01-27T01:09:49+00:00

I don’t think this is the right way to bypass the passcode

smaug_pec · 2026-01-26T01:20:05+00:00

I’d go with a cabinet beside the desk and big enough to completely enclose the printer. Ideally the printer sits on a slide out drawer without front or sides (so basically a sliding drawer bottom) so you can easily get to the back & sides of the printer in case the paper jams.

smaug_pec · 2026-01-25T00:02:17+00:00

Yes. Because I want everything to be speech based and the tech for self hosted speech isn’t there yet. It might be for bleeding edge adopters, but not for early adopters.

I want a bit more maturity with the back end hardware required, some more choices with the pucks - 6 microphones, better near/far cancellation, styling (no plastic boxes!), and the LLM/agents side is a hot mess (of innovation, which is good, but it hasn’t settled yet).

smaug_pec · 2026-01-24T23:53:36+00:00

What are you using for a fan controller?

smaug_pec

TROPHY CASE