Oh that’s right!

And sea shanties? I seem to remember they were in for a short while. Damn, 5 years ago really rocked!

I’m gen-x and trying to think of what was cool 5 years ago. 2021. So middle of the pandemic. I guess wearing funky masks, working from home, socially isolating? Aw shit, I miss those things too.

I think Hawaiian pizza is one of those foods I’ve always hated because I had poor experiences with it growing up. Sort of like shepherd’s pie, which I only knew of through the abomination served at the high school caf.

But recently, I tried it at a new pizzeria that opened near me. They honestly used real ham like you would get at an Easter banquet. Not the processed sandwich meat. And that was actually really good with pineapple!

Well, from what I’ve read, it’s a job that involves a lot of unexpected complications that has resisted automation. In fairness though, I’m not sure how much machine learning in its present form would help?

The other day I learned about fatbergs and the people tasked with climbing down into sewers with shovels to remove them. Can’t this be a job for AI? Please?

Wow that didn’t take long.

I’m not super on top of Brazilian politics. How did this go down? Was it something like:

FB: The election was rigged! I demand a court hearing!

LdS: Oh, you’ll get your court date all right.

FB: 😳 Ok…uh…I’ll be on the next plane up there…

I’m intrigued by this Telesat Lightspeed project. Telesat’s been around forever, but to my knowledge, this is the first time a Canadian company is legit looking at deploying a LEO communications constellation with over a hundred satellites.

By comparison, Starlink of course has thousands, and it’s unlikely the Telesat network would be offering to your door Internet anytime soon. Part of it is gearing towards military applications, but if I’m understanding it correctly, the civilian side involves providing backbone connections to remote communities. So say you live in a remote arctic village. You might get a single high speed connection which is then distributed across a local cellular network.

I’m not a game dev but work in a scientific field. One thing I didn’t see mentioned here which may or may not be relevant is it pays to try to keep your memory footprint as low as possible. Memory I/O is a bitch. So for example, let’s say you have 2 vectors that interact in some way. You may be tempted to store precalculated interactions in a matrix, but generally speaking, it’s best not to do this. Just calculate each cell of the matrix on the fly as you need it, even if it’s a long formula and you need to access this same value many times. 2 vectors are more likely to fit in L1 cache and you’ll get the best performance out of all the compiler optimizations. It makes a huge difference.

Oh that’s clever. I could see noaiyiyi being used as a tag to filter out slop posts.

While not a native Spanish speaker, I somehow read that as “doesn’t have it”. I need to ask my hispanic friends if they would ever use a subdomain like noaiai for the AI-free version?

They had games like this before the Internet with no DRM or anything? :O

A friend of mine showed me her wedding album. It was full of photos taken at odd angles from near ground level. She told me the photographer used this perspective in an attempt to add a sense of wonder and grandeur to the occasion.

I had mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, I had to admit I had never seen anything like it and did appreciate the artistry of some of the compositions.

But at the same time, there was this nagging suspicion I couldn’t shake that her photographer was, in fact, her cat with a GoPro strapped to its head? (And yes, it would be in character for her to do this.)

What, the US has gone metric?

Everything the NA auto sector puts out is a hulking behemoth. SUVs, pickup trucks. “Small” today would be some sort of crossover.

I’m an empty nester at this point, and have no need or desire for anything like that. And giant EVs are just way beyond my budget. At least I have my e-bike.

I got the power station first out of necessity, but am now at the point of desperately trying to justify adding solar panels even though I don’t camp or anything. I fear it could become obsessive though.

Maybe I keep can limit myself to only as many panels as I own violins? That would be a fair number… Or at least cap it off at the number of musical instruments in the house? That would leave some room to grow, if I can count my wife’s ukulele collection!