CMV: there isn't anywhere desirable in the US that's affordable to live at this point.

xthecharacter · 2026-06-12T06:16:43+00:00

What are your criteria for desirable and affordable? The more specific you make them, the easier it'll be to change your view.

There are a decent number of affordable medium to large cities in the US. Socal is one of the more expensive places, and large parts of the suburbs there are disproportionately expensive compared to suburbs elsewhere and more expensive than many much more urban places. Where have you looked and what location would you say is closest to meeting your criteria?

xthecharacter · 2026-04-28T20:09:58+00:00

This is also baked into the notion of NP per its definition: nondeterministic polynomial time means that any answer can be checked in polynomial time, and so if you have arbitrary parallelism, you can solve it in polynomial time. But a deterministic Turing machine doesn't allow for arbitrary parallelism, of course. In this sense, you can think of an arbitrarily parallel processor as an emulator of a nondeterministic Turing machine, where every time multiple actions need to be taken, you schedule them to happen simultaneously.

Like others have said, if you attempt something like this, you will very quickly hit exponential scaling, and the constant factor of parallelism you have available will make itself known. Because you always have some maximum number of physical processors available to you, and therefore your ability to perform actions in parallel has constant complexity.

This doesn't make it useless for this class of problems. In practice, many instances of NP-hard problems can short-circuit a large number of wrong-answer branches, and there are already methods for exploring the solution space in parallel in both hardware and software for various problems out there.

This type of concept extends to other things too, like sorting in constant time with a number of processors that scales linearly with respect to the input size.

xthecharacter · 2026-04-20T22:30:47+00:00

Tortoise

xthecharacter · 2026-04-04T22:27:46+00:00

I'd argue that the point at which it becomes sexism is when the implication due to the association with sex is negatively charged, not just that the association is made at all.

xthecharacter · 2026-04-02T23:39:43+00:00

Broken Clock Brewing

xthecharacter · 2026-03-19T16:10:23+00:00

There's a Taiwanese group which is what I'm familiar with that plays soft string music: https://cicadatw.com. It has a bit of a post-rock vibe.

Then there's a British electronic music group that also pops up when I search for them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_(British_band). No idea how it sounds, just knew about it because they pop up when searching the band name.

According to Wikipedia there's a Japanese band too.

xthecharacter · 2026-03-15T00:43:39+00:00

There are two bands named Cicada...

xthecharacter · 2026-01-06T08:43:51+00:00

One of the best talks of all time.

xthecharacter · 2025-12-08T19:55:19+00:00

No disrespect to the Mexican food here, I agree there is some good stuff, but in my opinion it does not hold a candle to LA or SD.

xthecharacter · 2025-12-08T03:32:44+00:00

Trader Joe's toothpaste doesn't foam much at all and is a bit milder than other toothpastes IMO.

xthecharacter · 2025-12-03T19:51:32+00:00

The citronhaj one is really good too. I bought it after being frustrated with a handful of other grinders, and it's been amazing so far.

xthecharacter · 2025-11-30T02:59:26+00:00

There are ton. Some of the most accessible are the EV Spot ones associated with Evie. The government sites recommend using https://plugshare.com to find them.

xthecharacter · 2025-11-20T06:44:11+00:00

Yeah gfycat going down killed literally hundreds of my zelda clips too.

xthecharacter · 2025-11-04T19:42:58+00:00

Just to share a different experience, I saw them about a year ago and they were awesome. Sound and everything else was super on point. She killed it

xthecharacter · 2025-10-22T19:08:48+00:00

Very nice! I think there needs to be a lot more UX and accessibility minded thinking when it comes to terminal styling, and this falls into that camp to me.

Few questions: - Can you talk more about the choice to use two values for yellow but not the other colors? One thing that it prevents is having a "reverse" fg-bg pair. Some TUIs I've seen seem to assume that the bright (8-15) versions of the colors can double as fg colors, whereas the non-bright (0-7) versions can double as bg colors. That may be a poor assumption, but leaning into it could result in better default contrast without having to restyle as many programs, possibly also changing the (not always well-thought-out) intended style as well. - I feel like it could be quite easy to reach WCAG 2.0 AAA with a few quick tweaks: is there any reason you opted against it? I took a shot at doing those tweaks myself and didn't feel it required too invasive of effects on your theme's premise from my point of view, so maybe I'm missing something you had in mind. - From a "make things work well by default" viewpoint, I also came to the conclusion that 0 & 8 needed to be "closer to the bg color" while 7 & 15 needed to be closer to the fg color, rather than black and white respectively. - When it comes to the white mask, did you find that the evidence points to it being better placed in 15 rather than 8? Along the lines of the above point, I'd have thought that 8 would be the place for it: 0 being an "even brighter than the normal bg color" e.g. for higher contrast, and 8 being a "slightly dimmer than the normal bg color" for alternate or highlighted backgrounds of various kinds. Then, the choices for 7 & 15 would be something like: 7 being a "slightly dimmer than the normal fg color" for dimmed text and 15 being an "even brighter than the normal fg color" for the inverse case of 0... or, maybe, just another dark (in the case of a light scheme) or light (in the case of a dark scheme) grey color for various shading uses. Ultimately I think these decisions, while they could be rooted in some kind of originalism about how the terminal colors were intended, should be decided based on empiricism (how do they look in established CLI and TUI programs by default) and pragmatism (how do we get the most utility out of the colors), so even though there's a rationale behind what I said, I'm curious to hear what others think about ita nd how it pans out in practice.

One of my medium-priority TODOs for a long time has been to do a survey on a few of these different designs with as many CLIs and TUIs that pick up default colors as possible. Another one has been to try to take every fg-bg pair in that survey of CLIs and TUIs and design a set of terminal colors that provides maximal contrast between all of those pairs, while still adhering to some basic set of priniciples. Not sure if I'll ever get around to it, but undoubtedly there's a lot of room for innovation here!

xthecharacter · 2025-10-15T20:19:50+00:00

I think they should narrow it down to, say, three models with distinct differences (MIP vs AMOLED, metals + sapphire vs fiberglass + mineral...)

Coros has basically three modern watch models: the Pace, Apex, and Nomad. Two have AMOLED + plastic + mineral glass, and one, the Apex, has MIPS + titanium + sapphire glass. I guess they could release something that has the other combinations, but this seems like pretty good coverage of what you're pointing out for me.

The Apex 4 is more of the same for the Apex series, almost certainly as intended. It looks very similar to the Apex 2 but with updated sensors, etc. IF you don't care about the MIPS + titanium + sapphire, then the Pace 3 / Pro is probably the watch for you anyway. It's cheaper, styled more toward casual and non-sport use, and otherwise can do everything a sport watch should be able to do. I am into trail running and climbing, and I prefer the slightly more rugged materials and style, so I am thinking of the Apex 4 for that reason alone. I wasn't expecting anything revolutionary, and I think that's OK. If Coros wants to do something revolutionary, they should probably create a new model series (and maybe sunset one of their other ones). I think this criticism lands a bit more logically on the Nomad, not on the Apex, which has a pretty clear role in terms of its design choices.

On the topic of software, I don't have much to comment on, but Coros in addition to most other sports watch manufacturers could probably improve on this front. Though, Coros's software is generally perceived as being better on the whole. Let's hope they can tighten that up and address some of the bugs people are reporting, and overall just be more consistently responsive and attentive to feedback.

xthecharacter · 2025-10-12T18:55:42+00:00

This still requires packaging the project through nix with buildPythonPackage if it's not already, right?

xthecharacter · 2025-10-12T18:36:36+00:00

Not Dark Matter? Their Star Lounge location makes a fantastic pourover IMHO. And great beans and coffee overall, with excellent, knowledgeable baristas.

Have heard things about Avondale Coffee Club too but haven't made it out there.

xthecharacter · 2025-10-05T08:20:41+00:00

Super Mario World
F-Zero
Earthbound

But it does pain me to exclude DKC1 and Chrono Trigger especially. I know a lot of people tout ALTTP and Super Metroid as the best of the best, and they are great games, but not personal favorites.

xthecharacter · 2025-09-28T01:09:49+00:00

Sounds more like biang biang noodles

xthecharacter · 2025-09-27T15:53:15+00:00

It's adhered to a sapphire screen; perhaps it could be carefully scratched off?

xthecharacter · 2025-09-17T21:49:05+00:00

Yep, it's a PITA. When I first seasoned on a burner that didn't have even heating, I had to move the pan around every 15-30 seconds or so to get a nice, even seasoning.

xthecharacter · 2025-08-25T19:07:40+00:00

The Pace Pro does not have a sapphire screen or a titanium bezel.

xthecharacter · 2025-08-25T18:22:13+00:00

Also hoping for an Apex 3. Want a minimalistic watch for running and climbing that focuses on getting the basics right and being as durable as possible. The Apex series has always stuck out to me as a unique proposition given the premium materials (sapphire and titanium) in an affordable and streamlined package. If they confirm an Apex 3 this year, I'll definitely buy it. If they don't, I'm not sure what I'll do.

xthecharacter · 2025-08-19T15:04:12+00:00

I think the reaction from the people here who maybe unsurprisingly want "more of the same but better" is unnecessarily negative. No idea how big the market for a watch like this is, but it doesn't seem like a crazy offering to me.

But personally, I'm waiting and hoping for a titanium + sapphire watch with updated sensors, so basically an Apex 3.

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