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  • It was actually pretty great when I worked for a company making things here in england:
    "That needs to move 50cm" meant it had to move exactly 500mm
    "That needs to move a foot" meant just kick it over about a foot

    It was just an unspoken thing that metric meant precise and imperial was just caveman measuring

  • How did you get into coding/programming?
  • Got into making redstone logic in Minecraft, including joining a community of people building all kinds of crazy things like CPUs. This was early days too - I think the repeater was brand new

    Eventually wanted to make mods so started learning Java. Was bad at it. Then wanted to make games in unity. Was bad at it. Learned C++ at Uni. Dropped out and was bad at it.

    Kind of repeated this cycle for various languages and tools for years, never with enough motivation to learn properly. Eventually I hit a critical mass of skill and was able to actually make things in HTML/JS and over a couple years this snowballs until surprisingly quickly I find myself a senior developer teaching others!

  • I put my number in a secure form for a trusted bank and immediately got spammed
  • We had a zoom call with a very well reviewed, recommended broker local to us. Next day I get a spam call pretending to be the bank we talked about the most as a lender, but that we currently have no business with. My paranoia has been at 100% ever since

  • Cheap Australia-based static site hosting
  • If you only care about australia based for latency reasons give netlify a look.
    Super easy to hook up to your git repo and will probably even detect Hugo and configure stuff automatically

    Have been really happy with it hosting a couple mostly static websites I've done

  • Here's Proof that Earth is flat
  • Assuming a ground clearance of 10cm, and a wheelbase of 2.4m (source: my ass) then you can construct an arc under the wheels

    This arc says you could drive such a car on an earth with radius as small as 7.25m. Actually, it could be slightly smaller because of where the wheels would contact, but I've lost interest

  • Start learning at 50
  • People look down on Javascript (and therefore Typescript) but as someone who learned by doing I think its a really good option

    Once you get past the hello world phase you can take it any direction you want: websites/apps, command-line stuff, desktop apps you name it. Just avoid the trap of getting sucked into specific frameworks or loads of tooling early on and learn the language

    W3schools is a great resource and you can do the examples and exercises right there in your browser

  • All Those NFTs Are Officially Worthless
  • Most people (even with otherwise good understanding of tech) still fail to grasp that "an NFT" is not the monkey picture itself.
    This is both why some managed to be bought for insane prices, and why we see reporting like this.

    Your examples would actually be a useful case for NFTs since you'd have to both have a genuine card, and the token saying its genuine

  • Road casualties have become normal in Britain. But there is another way
  • I've been trying to get my local council to enforce the law on the road near me and have just been fobbed off repeatedly.

    It's a 30 road, with a school and loads of pedestrians and cyclists using it yet we see people running the red lights, speeding well over 50 and doing crazy overtakes DAILY

    I've driven and cycled in 3 other countries and England is by far the scariest, feels like every other driver is trying to kill you

  • First print with PETG
  • I think most of the horror stories are from people printing way too fast and too low
    Many people print with too small z-offset because "that's when it sticks". you can get away with it in pla but petg will just become a mess

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  • To make you less anxious:

    A friend of mine had issues with his (much older) PC, stuttering in games and similar but it still worked

    When I took a look I found it was pegged throttling at 100deg after running for a while. This had been going on for months

    Eventually found the AIO pump had completely died, any cooling was due to passive conduction through the materials and water

    We replaced the cooler and now it's been running fine for another 3 years and going

    TL:DR: modern CPUs can run hot, and safely boost. As it gets too hot it will start reducing clocks but it's highly unlikely you damage anything unless you go out of your way to overclock, overvolt or ditch the cooler entirely

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  • I honestly wouldn't worry about it, especially with the weather as it is at the moment- my PC is getting about the same with a 3900x, nice noctua cooler and loads of airflow It's been going over 30 in my office and even the best coolers can't break that physics

    Check again when it cools down, might make it easier to see if/where there are issues

  • Video codecs: Adding AV1 stateless video decoder support to Linux
  • It's not stateless end-to-end, it just means the client needs to keep track and pass the state rather than drivers or hardware

    I'm not 100% on the motivation but from an architectural standpoint it does make sense - your software can now do many new and weird things without a hardware change

    One example I saw was allowing an arbitrary number of streams to be processed simultaneously, just passing the different context state for each stream

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