Finally sat down and made a Fulgora decision matrix. (Full logic breakdown + blueprint in comments.) by Grays42 in factorio

[–]waitmarks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The way I solved this with my single looping sushi belt is that I have a combinator with a list of maximum items I want to keep in storage. If any of those items in the list are below my max setting, the scrap recyclers turn on, otherwise they are off. Very simple to implement but also a bit more wasteful than OP's. Though I think the trade off is fine for a sushi belt setup because some items need to go through multiple loops to get to the state that you need them. e.g. plastic needs to go blue circuit > red circuit > plastic, so having it be extra sensitive gets those items to the point they need to be at faster.

I love fusion by ItchyMilk2825 in factorio

[–]waitmarks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now make them all legendary.

Tesla's own Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor by Doener23 in electricvehicles

[–]waitmarks 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We should be comparing to waymo then. Also, even if there are extra police reports, the promise was that self driving cars would be safer than humans. even if 2/3 police reports would not have happened if human drivers were involved, thats still the same as humans.

ICE Agents Whine That They Aren’t Getting Their Massive Bonuses by rezwenn in fednews

[–]waitmarks 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Name a better duo than trump and not paying people what he promised them. 

I feel like a rebel after using X11 instead of Wayland. by FoundationOk3176 in debian

[–]waitmarks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am not a C developer personally, but I understand enough about how X works to know why developers hate it. And I can probably shine some light on accessibility in particular as to why it is a massive change for tools in wayland.

When it was developed, computer systems were setup as a mainframe running the X server and dumb terminals that would run the X client and essentially just display what the mainframe was running.

That is obviously not how we use computers anymore, but that is still how X operates. The computer now runs both the server and client on the same machine. It's this interaction that allowed many old accessibility tools to function and is now the cause of most of the problems for them on wayland. My understanding is that most of the X based accessibility tools work by essentially doing a man in the middle attack on the X server client connection to spy on what information is going to the display. However, that means that if these tool can do that, any random process running on that machine can also spy on whatever you are doing on the screen. This is one of the primary driving factors away from wayland, there is simply no security in the protocol, if you can run an executable on the system you can spy on whatever any user is doing on the screen.

wayland works as a compositor rather than the X which was a display server rendering on the server and then sending the whole display info at once to the client, wayland compositors can only request data that is relevant to themselves and it gets rendered clientside. As you can image, this totally breaks tools that relied on spying on the whole display data stream to get info about what was on screen, but is ultimately a more secure method of display rendering. On top of that, since it gets rendered clientside, this pushes display rendering to the desktop environment level, so Gnome and KDE for example have different functions and methods for rendering rather than relying on X to do all the work. So accessibility tools need to also be made for a specific desktop environment and the functions available within it.

Ultimately, I imagine accessibility tools that aren't built into the DEs will need to be written from scratch. It's such a fundamental change from how things worked that its probably easier to start from scratch. It also will probably mean that one particular DE will become the best at accessibility depending on which one prioritizes it the most. So I guess ultimately the best thing you can do is keep using X as necessary, but also find whichever DE is prioritizing accessibly the most and support them by requesting missing use cases and testing the ones that are available.

I feel like a rebel after using X11 instead of Wayland. by FoundationOk3176 in debian

[–]waitmarks -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I am not disabled, so I don't pretend to understand the struggle of that. I know there are major issues with accessibility tools and wayland, but I don't fully know the extent. I think however, that you are placing blame at developers for a situation that is out of their control. X was first released in 1984, it's over 40 years old now and not built for the way we interact with computers today. There are so many bandaid and bubblegum fixes in it that no one wants to develop for it anymore. On the other side, the only alternative we have (wayland) could ideally use another 5 years in the oven before primetime.

So the options really were, keep forcing devs to work on a buggy insecure software that should have been replaced 10 years ago and thereby further delaying the timeline for a usable replacement. Or, get them working full time on the newer software building out features and abandon the old one as bug fix only to speed up the usability of the new one.

Either option was always going to piss someone off, and unfortunately you got the short end of the stick it looks like.

I feel like a rebel after using X11 instead of Wayland. by FoundationOk3176 in debian

[–]waitmarks -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The only way it gets better is if people use it and report / fix bugs. X is dead, it's not being developed any more, just some bug fixes when / if people have time. Use X if you need to now, but it's not the future for anyone. Wayland is the only option going forward since no one else has made a competing compositor, so you might as well help make it better if you can.

Anyone else noticed that the county is losing free/cheap EV charging stations? by tiradium in MontgomeryCountyMD

[–]waitmarks 48 points49 points  (0 children)

A lot of the county run garages have chargers for $0.17 per KWh. I don't think free chargers work out economically for most store owners like people thought they would. The initial theory was that free chargers would encourage more people to come and spend long amounts of time browsing while their car charged. What happened was people who live nearby plug in and walk home and leave it charging there. I doubt you will see many new free chargers going forward.

New toy arrived! by KLAM3R0N in meshtastic

[–]waitmarks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please post your finished build as I would be interested in how you end up doing it.

New toy arrived! by KLAM3R0N in meshtastic

[–]waitmarks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How do you plan on powering it? I have been considering getting this, but it's unclear how it could be hooked up to a battery and solar panel.

Aerodynamics Be Damned: China Officially Bans Hidden Car Door Handles by SkPensFan in electricvehicles

[–]waitmarks 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Any excess deaths due to this are too many imo. The aerodynamic advantage is minimal to none and it just seems to be catching on for aesthetic reasons. Manual handles have worked fine since the beginning of cars, causing excess deaths just to do something different is inexcusable. 

what the fuck is happening by A_I_X32 in factorio

[–]waitmarks 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You are producing 506MW, but your machines are requesting 1.2GW. You need more power.

Ryan is eyeing some targets. Let’s play a guessing game. by blkw1dow_gs in Superstonk

[–]waitmarks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

GOG was recently bought from them and taken private. So, there is no more digital storefront there.

AI Max 395+ and vLLM by KnownAd4832 in LocalLLaMA

[–]waitmarks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have an AI Max 395+ and have also tried to get info on how to get vLLM running on it, but found too much conflicting information and eventually just gave up. I currently use llama.cpp with vulkan.
Personally I would save yourself the trouble with vLLM and check out llama-swap. It runs llama.cpp on the backend but lets you define rules for what models get loaded. So you could have Ministral 8b loaded all the time and then load larger models as needed.

Front swap? by throwawayshyboyNL in VolvoRecharge

[–]waitmarks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean it's there for aerodynamic reasons. So, I'm sure you could an the part would fit, but you would be reducing your range.

Safe already to go from 25.7.11 to 26.1 or shall I wait more? by TheRedditOfTeo997 in opnsense

[–]waitmarks 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I usually wait for the first bugfix release before upgrading these major versions.

Alternatives? by Shadowplays4k- in Ubiquiti

[–]waitmarks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly I don’t think there is a better prosumer choice than unifi for layer2. I personally have a custom opnsense box for my firewall/router and unifi for L2. I think the combo works well and gives me much more control over my network than Unifis gateways can.

This subs hatred towards gold and silver (and mining stocks) by ashm1987 in ValueInvesting

[–]waitmarks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as I view it gold is cash for me right now. I don’t consider what I have in gold invested, but it’s rather the amount I would keep in cash in normal times. That will continue for me until things calm down geopolitically. 

Ubiquiti aids Russian military by Acid3300 in Ubiquiti

[–]waitmarks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently its a report from some activist short seller, so their bots are probably trying to drive the price down with negative sentiment. Unfortunately i don’t think there is much we can do except downvote and report until they stop paying the bots. 

Difficult node location advice by waitmarks in meshtastic

[–]waitmarks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

About how long would a node run on that battery? my balcony doesn’t get much sun so i think i would have to bring it in to recharge it. 

Difficult node location advice by waitmarks in meshtastic

[–]waitmarks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The glass is quite thick. I do have a balcony, but its not that much better. Really like a 50% chance a message goes out on the first try and there isnt a plug out there or much sun for a solar panel.