I'm a magister, scholar, and merchant. (I own a technology company).
Saigonauticon
joined 1 year ago
I never actually noticed. It's always been like 25MB for stuff I do. Is that a lot?
Takes a huge amount of storage on my production machine to store the various libraries to produce that file, to be fair. That is a minor pain.
No, although I'm outside the US and not familiar with their medication names or medical system.
I think it would be a bad idea to do otherwise. Children need to learn about useful tools, and the shortcomings of those tools.
16 year old me would have had a great time getting an AI to teach me things that my teachers in school did not have expertise in. Sure, it would be wrong some of the time, but so were my teachers at that age. It would have given me such a head start on university!
For this kind of thing, I use Godot and write a quick and ugly one-off app. That way it works exactly how I imagine and I just send myself the APK over messenger and install it :P
Although it would be a joy to implement in hardware.
I never did work it out myself. Sometimes I was fine. Other times I didn't sleep for 3 days. Was "sort of" independent of stress and so on, although higher average stress levels made it a little worse. Or maybe stress just feels worse combined with sleep deprivation. I tried various changes to my habits over the next few years, none of which made any difference -- although some were good for other reasons (e.g. getting into better shape, eating better, and so on).
Went to go see a doctor. They brushed it off, so I went to go see another doctor. They prescribed a low dose of a sleeping pill.
Problem solved forever with no noticeable side effects. I think I'm on 1/2 the pediatric dose or something. Amazing how so little of something can make such a big difference in my life. Wish I had gone to see 2 doctors earlier.
Nah, I saw the heating coil was the right resistance. Then, the shiny metal coating on the inside of the tube was not oxidized, so the vacuum was likely good. Nothing rattled, so a short was unlikely. It was designed for 6.3V.
So at 5V the worst that could happen was that the heater coil fizzled and died with some sad noises. Well, maybe no noises, because of the vacuum and all. Some form of sadness though, surely.
The more alarming things I've built over the years aren't so much "duck and cover". They're more of the "spend a all day doing data analysis, then know something I probably shouldn't" variety.
Well, I had heard of someone that got a little amplification out of them at 3.3V and a weird configuration. It was a different tube, but I figured I'd give it a go at 5V.
My tube was old and originated from a junk pile in Japan. I figured it wasn't enough entropy to just use an unknown tube the wrong way, so I added some random scrap parts from the Soviet Union. The tube produced amplified output, but the output impedance was way too high when being used this wrong way (in other words, it couldn't drive a speaker). So I added some completely unknown Chinese amplifier IC as a buffer.
It's approximately pocket-sized. For a large pocket, anyway. The tube heater gets the whole thing warm. It produces hilariously distorted (but sort of cool) sound. I call it a 'themionic pocket warmer', arguably not so useful here in Vietnam. The audio function is secondary. I suppose if you are a half-deaf Antarctic explorer with a deep love of stovepipe hats, it would be a good hat-warmer as well. I guess that's the target market :D
I threw some photos up at voltage.vn. It was a fun way to spend a couple of hours.
None of them! Numbers are a poor way to communicate with most of my clients.
On the rare exception, it depends on the number of significant digits of the measurement I (for example) multiply it with. Digits past that don't communicate any useful information.
It would be inaccurate to take it as a literal quote :)
This is just what I wish I could say. Small talk annoys me greatly, and in practice I want to shift conversations in deeper directions as quickly as reasonably possible. I'd much rather exchange a few thoughtful phrases with a stranger than a large volume of nonsense. "Can you tell me something important about yourself?" is maybe a little less aggressive. Anyway, my Vietnamese language skills are not good, and immigrants are rare here in Vietnam, so conversation is... necessarily direct :)
I actually do want people to prove they are worth my attention! If they haven't learned or accomplished anything in a year (in their opinion, not mine), then I can't talk about things I've done or learned without it getting awkward, and I have nothing else to talk about (I spend essentially all my time either working or studying). I just don't have room in my life for many people, either. This isn't their fault or mine. My wife is the same way (and we certainly skipped the small talk when we met -- we went right to engineering schematics for something or other).
I'll share a funny story that might explain a bit of my frustration -- I live in Asia, so all my conversations are extremely scripted. How are you / how old are you / where were you born / are you married / do you have kids / why don't you have kids / you must silently sit here and listen while I go on a 10-20 minute rant on why you have to have kids, or I will tell everyone how rude you are. My wife and I get stuck in this conversation constantly. Sometimes so many times in a row, that we effectively do nothing but have this conversation over and over for 3-4 hours. At family events, it's the only conversation that happens for days. It's like a glitch in the Matrix or something, you really have to experience it to believe it!
Of course I still have to be polite, have mostly empty conversations, and so on. It's exhausting, and I don't remember any of their names, because I have learned nothing about them. It's not the lack of people (in Asia?) that makes me feel alone, it's this.
Well, the dumbest reason I've seen people get murder-y for is typically fighting over inheritance.
It's like... now there's even more inheritance to fight over. Then also you just paid for one funeral, and now you want to pay for another?
Mine is supposed to be 100 / 100 and actually is. In Vietnam, symmetrical fiber-to-the-home is actually pretty common. I think I pay 5$ a month, or maybe a bit less.