Who considers Patrick a trusted source of information? He’s basically doing comedy news with a focus on finance. Entertaining, interesting, but not like a full-on serious reporter.

It’s surprisingly calming to listen to Patrick cathartically vent, after what must’ve been a stressful education and career in finance.

Keep Lemmy small. Make the influence of conversation here uninteresting.

I’m doing my part!

That was awesome

The artist seems to be Chas Fagan: https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/behind-the-art-fort-ligonier-work-depicts-george-washingtons-friendly-fire-incident/

That’s an article from 1950, perhaps not so relevant anymore today.

Not to say socialism isn’t a strong influence in many European countries, though I wouldn’t go so far as to call a European country as being primarily economically and politically “socialist”. Democratic socialism / Social democratic maybe, but that is much more of a centrist set of policies than the outright goal of a workers-owning-the-means-of-production economy. Just my 2c.

I'm pretty sure that's not how it works on Lemmy. For some reason "block" here is really what "mute" is everywhere else on fedi.

Not the onion indeed

Guess I won't meet the minimum requirements then. Oh well. Plenty of other games on my backlog.

Pretty much anything from the Hitman games sountracks. Mostly Contracts or Blood Money.

It's basically corporate anti-virus software. Intended to detect and prevent malware.

Whatever it was, it seems admins have already noticed and are unbanning users and restoring comments 👍

These days, on Earth? Yup.

Most large instances have a support community. That seems like the suitable place to raise a moderation issue with specific a community on the instance.

From the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic: Týr - Regin Smiður

Are you saying it might be a crime for a President to unilaterally invent a new law and make the federal government enforce it? Well, you see...

It's so good. And also one of my most treasured 90s records I have on vinyl. Wish I had a pressing of Death's Design too.

Hollow Knight 112% completion is what I'm most proud of. It was hard!

The best free one is probably Pitchproof. It's alright but it doesn't handle chords well. I gave up using pitch shifting and got another guitar and put thick strings on it for low tunings.

1995 by Kewlers & mfx

https://youtu.be/weGYilwd1YI

Killer Bean? What year is it!?

The DSL40 sounds very appealing indeed, and not too pricey. I'll go around and look for it at the local guitar store. I've also frequently seen those Katanas mentioned above which I'll have to try. Thanks.

Thanks. Hoping to figure this out around $500. I don't need loads of power so that should help the budget.

I don't have experience with amp modellers in the FX loop. This works differently from multi-fx pedals with preamp simulations? I plug my guitar into my GT-1, which goes into the instrument input of my amp (a Rumble 100). No matter what I tweak with this setup, I fail to get it to sound believably "classic rock" so far.

Ah yes I should've specified. It's a Rumble 100. Yeah, that's a bass amp as I was primarily playing bass when I bought it. It does sound surprisingly excellent when I play clean-ish guitar through it, but with the GT-1 I can't quite get a satisfying overdrive tone, no matter what pre-amp simulation I select on the GT1. With the amp set to clean, 0 gain. The master volume is plenty to make it loud. But yeah, I just can't get this combination to reproduce what I'm looking for.

Perhaps it's the speaker cone itself which is holding it back. I hadn't considered that yet. Thanks.

Do you do poison?

According to the article this system also detects power outages and shuts off when they happen. Just like full-scale solar power systems. But yeah, no physical kill switch.

I enjoy opamps. Texas Instruments LME49723 is one of my favorites :P

By asking this question you're already ahead.

Be your genuine self. Share your wisdom. Love your child.

I'm guessing regular non-LP DDR works fine socketed in desktops because power is nearly a non-issue. Need to burn a few watts to guarantee signal integrity? We've got a chonky PSU, so no problem. On mobile devices however every watt matters..

I doubt doing it in software like that outperforms sqrtss/sqrtsd. Modern CPUs can do the conversions and the floating point sqrt in approximately 20-30 cycles total. That's comparable to one integer division. But I wouldn't mind being proven wrong.

Well, yeah, but you asked why they didn't use integer sqrt. It's something many programming languages just don't have. Or if they do, it's internally implemented as a sqrt(f64) anyway, like C++ does.

Most CPUs AFAIK don't have integer sqrt instructions so you either do it manually in some kind of loop, or you use floating point...

California somehow never fails to do the wrong thing when it comes to utilities.

The problem isn't people with a few solar panels on their houses, the problem is climate change and poorly maintained infrastructure leading to wildfires and massive liabilities. Perhaps if these liabilities would come out of PG&Es absurdly high profits they'll be motivated to rethink how maintenance and wildfire risk is mitigated.

The builtin u64.isqrt seems to be available in nightly only, and additionally I guess the author didn't want to use any external crates as part of their self-imposed challenge. Though I think there may be an off-by-one result with f64.sqrt I don't think this functionally breaks their u64 code because they loop to root_n + 1.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.u64.html#method.isqrt

There isn't even any memory management in their code. And arguably the most interesting part of the article is implementing a bignum type from scratch.

The author pointed out they also could've just called openssl prime -generate -bits 1024 if they weren't trying to learn anything. Rebuilding something from scratch and sharing the experience is valuable.

As he alludes to, this is different on Teslas. Where in an attempt to save a few bucks on a simple sensor they're using "machine learning" to detect rain with the front-facing camera and it doesn't fucking work.

Yeah. Tech has gotten worse. But you really think it's better in any other sector? I'm sure there are a few highly-compensated lap-dance-inspectors out there but the vast majority of workers deal with the same shit techies are dealing with, for significantly less pay and respect, if you can believe that.

Eh. I work in tech. I have friends who work or worked at almost every big tech company you'd recognize. These are still jobs, dealing with layoffs, annoying bosses, etc. has always been a fact of life. But from what I can see the average techie still has it very good compared to most other jobs. My friend who is a nurse would certainly like to earn a tech salary, not have to deal with hospital politics, and not work night shifts all the damn time, and take time off whenever they want to not whenever there's availability...

I think Big Tech is still pretty much a dream job for most people. High pay. Perks. Work/life flexibility. It's certainly not as dreamy as it was 5 years ago perhaps, but realistically I'd take it over pretty much anything else.