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Which projects?

Can you look at the source code in the repos and make any sense of it?

Are there open issues connected to the repo, that you think you could make some headway with?

If you have 0 experience writing code, I think contributing to an existing project isn’t a good way to start. Better to text a textbook and work through some exercises, and do a few small projects of your own, before trying to join an existing team where as a total newbie, you’ll be a burden. Note that “small project of your own” can involve forking something that exists and making your own changes or additions. That doesn’t require much attention from other people.

Then, contribute once you feel you are ready to contribute.

Also Seeed Studio: seeedstudio.com/NVIDIAr-Jetson-Orintm-Nano-Super-…

we assumed that having “visual” cues was further out because AI at the time wasn’t up to the task.

For just terrain recognition, the US has had that since before there was GPS. Since the 1950s even.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM

Unfortunately besides chips, another huge input to this AI crap is electric power, which is coming mostly from expanding fossil fuel consumption and thus increasing planetary heating. Economists’ intersecting curves are of no help with that.

What do you want to do with the HDD’s? I have a bunch of crap saved on mine, but nowhere near 12TB. Also I rent some drive space (Hetzner Storage Box) for server backups. That adds up over time but you don’t have to spend a big chunk all at once, and HDD prices might eventually drop again.

Feel lucky that you want HDD rather than SSD. SSD prices have tripled or quadrupled while HDD has not even doubled, per the graph someone posted.

Some of the shortages have been due to supply interruptions, like the hard drive factory getting flooded, or similarly with a DRAM factory catching on fire. I don’t know what happened after the Chia lunacy (Chia was a crypto currency that consumed vast amounts of SSD space and destroyed the SSD’s through extreme write wear) but prices did normalize after a while. I know that Chia was the final straw that got Hetzner to ban crypto mining on its hardware outright. Previously, it was forbidden on VPS’s but allowed on dedicated servers. Anyway it caused a temporary shortage of both SSD and hard drives.

Yeah that’s happened before, with both memory and hard drives. A flood in Thailand caused HDD shortages and price spikes for a year or two around 2012, and there was a similar situation with DRAM some years earlier. There have also been GPU and SSD shortages due to cryptocurrency idiots. This may just be more of the same.

ballotpedia.org/Adam_Heimerman

Almost like Firefox. cyberciti.biz/…/firefox-is-now-placing-ads-and-he…

I had no idea that 2G worked til just now. Damn. I had to reluctantly mothball my 3G phone some years ago, but maybe there was a way to keep using it on 2G until now.

Who and who?

I’ve never noticed that. Is it something new? Maybe it’s to get in the way of AI scraping (automatic transcription of the audio track, fed into LLM).

Bettridge’s law.

Yeah the founder is or was into that. Thus the idea that Wikipedia’s editorial decision is could essentially be made by algorithms. I have some jokes about it but will spare you for now. The WMF itself is just another tech company with some nonprofit virtue vibes though. Expect a typical campaign.

Up for me right now, northern California.

This is c/asklemmy, where you ask a question and maybe get some responses. If you wanted c/therapy then you posted in the wrong place.

The problem is with your attention span, not mine, if you can’t focus enough to distill your novel into a question that people are willing to read. You’re not entitled to unlimited amounts of other people’s attention, except maybe if you’re paying them for it.

This sounds pretty neat. It sounds like it uses transormation optics, which I’ve just been reading about.

You know how a lens bends light, i.e. a light ray enters the lens and travels at a different angle that depends on the lens’s index of refraction? Now suppose the index of refraction changes continuously, like air’s index of refraction changes with temperature. So if you have warm air near the ground that gets cooler with height, light can actually travel through it by a curved path. That’s how mirages happen.

Now suppose you can somehow control the index of refraction in a volume of material. So you can imagine an “invisibility cloak” where light coming in from behind you gets steered around you and comes out in front of you. People looking straight at you see the light from in back of you so it’s like you’re invisible. This doesn’t seem technologically doable with visible light (at least for now) but it’s been demonstrated in the lab at microwave frequencies, with small objects like a few centimeters. It’s really cool how the math works.

This sounds like they’ve done something similar with heat. They use a 3D printed heat sink with a special shape to make the temperature in front of something look like the temperature behind the thing, masking the heat source in the middle.

If you look up “transformation optics” there’s a lot of stuff about invisibility cloaks, maybe because there’s military funding in the field and the army wants to make stuff invisible, lol. But the math and physics are interesting even if the applications are overstated. It turns out that the math used in studying how the materials curve light is similar to the math of general relativity, which is about how gravity bends light near stars and black holes. So that also leads to a bunch of breathless headlines about making black holes in the laboratory. It’s not 100% bogus (they do get some cool effects) but yeah, of course it’s an analogy, not an actual black hole.

Here’s a TED talk by one of the guys involved with this. I haven’t watched it yet but maybe I will. I saw another youtube lecture by him and it was interesting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9d-EBgro50

Yeah everyone gets that way sometimes. It’s part of not being a kid any more. There’s a whole branch of philosophy called existentialism around it, not that I know anything about philosophy. Anyway, the feeling passes (or else, it can be treated). You have to decide what’s meaningful to you and go with that, even though it’s not meaningful to the cosmos.

Could you rewrite this in maybe 3 sentences? My eyes glazed over. Anyway people get stuck on their own dumb ideas and there’s often not much you can do.