jareklupinski

i live in the US and cant get something sent here to save my life

i used to get weekly packages from indie european stores and samples from asia

since tarrifs, that has dropped to zero, with 90% of my shipments being returned for cryptic reasons (like 'incomplete address' when the full address is correct and visible) or outright 'No' from sellers

its starting to feel less like random failure and more like "system working as designed" :(

whenever i want to play a video game with someone, theres no way to just pick up a couple of controllers and jump into a game without waiting for something to start, or update, or sync, or...

im building a tiny handheld video game (think GBA) where simply turning it on starts the game and you can immediately start playing. no os to boot, bios checksum screen to wait through, or scripts between you and the game. if another person turns their handheld on, they join your game and it becomes multiplayer seamlessly

esp32-s3 based for dual cores (screen updates / game loop) and bluetooth for "local" wireless multiplayer matchmaking, currently making the game itself be like a cross between puyo pop and tetris (an actual mashup of the rules, not just two games in one cartridge)

TIL

> The Hippocratic License is an ethical software license created to ensure that open source software is not used for harmful purposes, aligning with human rights principles

> they’re running an unknown distribution on a 13 year old ThinkPad.

"Tony Stark can do it in a cave! With rocks!"

the first engineer that creates a public company all by themselves will prove / get it all

as most "U's" do :)

guess i'll find out :)

> Bluetooth 5.4 LE Audio enables high-quality, low-power streaming with LC3 codec and multi-stream audio

finally i can make party mode home speaker arrays

> Maybe if the airline notices that all the passengers are sitting on the left (for some strange reason) or something like that, they would reseat people.

I was on a turboprop plane when they made a few people switch seats to balance the weight: the seats were arranged Seat - Aisle - Seat - Seat , and all the singles on the left side were filled to the back, with only a few seats on the right side taken.

the moat between "here is the code on github" and "here is a viable production-scale setup serving this codebase accessible to someone with only a smartphone" is still worth a lot

not to say this can't be ansible'd or something, but at the end of the day someone is paying the server costs

gotta wait for your turn to use The Brain

got caught up on decoding 'tends'

autorouters are the closest thing to "just spin some cycles to do this for me"

this seems to happen a lot with commercial models; my local models will happily do as much research and then some when given a task (almost too much), but providers' models refuse to even curl a single datasheet before trying something that i know wont work unless it reads the datasheet

it's more likely that they used our planet as a "greenhouse" to grow these crystals for themselves, and we're just the lichen that happens to grow on the walls as a consequence of their process

21st century humans had notoriously poor light receptors, so they used these "smart" devices to reflect more sun into their eyes in order to see while hunched over

i've played multiple AAA(+) games before AI 'was a thing' that have had textures/elements, like bulletin boards or posters, where even on cursory glances (not zooming in or ADS) you can easily see literally "Lorem Ipsum" instead of lore or story which would have helped build atmosphere

LLMs had nothing to do with this

i still have mine too! managed to talk to the microcontroller and dump its firmware, but didn't know enough about how to make it arbitrarily run code without worrying about ruining it all

> "give me a lot of money and everything will be great for everyone!"

or a hostage negotiation

> One of the geese, for whatever reason, begins to lay golden eggs. Your little farm is now unbelievably profitable.

how? the value of gold plummets the instant that the market learns that the stuff literally comes out of rear ends

> In the summer of 1917, he was arranging various types of coil antennas at a receiver test site on the Chesapeake Bay when he accidentally dropped one of the antennas into the water. Strangely enough, the radio receiver connected to the antenna continued to provide good reception even as it sank into the bay.

is discovery ever intentional :)

"code on, code off"

for restaurants, i scraped my city's health inspection dataset and mapped it https://github.com/jareklupinski/dash-nyc

the only thing im missing now are actual speakeasy's and popups

there's a reason even the announcer says "transfer here to the F'in G line"

> Betting in things you can’t affect like the weather

get a hairdryer and you too can control the weather

it's honest work

i wrote a zine on how to set up your own server / website and left free copies of them around some friendly indie bookstores and libraries

hopefully we'll see something new soon

a large piece of modern / abstract art works just as well, without it needing to be a blank wall

> consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

not when money is involved

> The development of science on Earth was spurred fundamentally by observations of the regularities of the stars and planets.

perhaps on Venus, it would be spurred on by the creatures there trying to understand why a gaseous swirl goes in a certain direction, or why a vortex does what it does for as long as it has to

they may be better at fluids and flow than we are :) worth sending a message in a bottle at least