Badabinski

joined 1 year ago
[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I don't run shell scripts unless I can review them first. I'm considered "the bash guy" at my job, and part of that means reviewing people's scripts. I have referenced this wiki page hundreds of times because so many people don't know how fucking shit Bash is as a language. My god, every time I see set -euo pipefail I want to scream until my lungs exit my body and then I leave a polite comment about how that might be a bad idea and link this page.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My BLE proxies keep picking up my neighbor's toothbrush. I was briefly tempted to install the integration just to see what would happen. I didn't because that's creepy, but just... what a weird world we live in.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No, it's syphilitic brain damage.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 25 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I fucking hate that the use of emdashes (i.e. —) is associated with fuckass LLMs. I use them all the time and now I'm worried I'll be mistaken for an LLM.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 6 points 1 week ago

I'll mirror what others have said. Arch is the most stable distro I've ever used over the long term. Even with heavy AUR use, I've been rocking the same installation for over a decade on one of my computers.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 9 points 2 weeks ago

I use one of those daily and god they're all terrible. They're huge and they all break really easily. My phone is fucking huge, just give me a built in headphone jack!

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was in a crowd of ten thousand people screaming "FUCK MIKE LEE" and god damn did it feel good and god damn do I want that to happen again where he can hear it.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 2 points 3 weeks ago

This also sucks because the CSB produces really awesome videos ):

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 20 points 3 weeks ago

I was in a crowd of people screaming "FUCK MIKE LEE" on Saturday and god do I want to scream it again now. Mike Lee is such a worthless cunt and I'm furious that he supposedly represents me.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 4 points 3 weeks ago

I wonder what the maximum theoretical efficiency is. The article says the current system is 20% efficient, which is not exactly good. I'm not a physicist so take this all with a grain of salt. They're going to have to overcome generation losses (this article says diode lasers can be 60% efficient but have Problems™), transmission losses (the inverse square law is a bitch, and they'll have to contend with atmospheric absorption and scattering), and receiving losses (they're using PVs which are famously not super duper efficient). I'm sure they're working on all of this, and it seems reasonable that you might be able to get power transmission up to, say, 50% efficiency. That's great and has its uses, but it's not going to replace transmission lines, batteries, solar panels, and gas generators. Plus, we're talking about sending 10 kilowatts of power across 200 km via light. Can you imagine how dangerous that would be? Like, what happens to anything in the path of that laser beam? What happens if the light gets reflected? a 10kW CW laser is no fucking joke!

EDIT: I could see this being useful for recharging/powering drones or something. It also seems like it would be much more useful in space where atmospheric scattering becomes a nothing burger.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Pig. It was INCREDIBLY emotionally effective and made me cry SO HARD FOR LIKE 20 MINUTES. Holy shit what a good movie.

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