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Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
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Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
lelio Link ParentI interpreted the "understanding", at least the mechanism of it, as something that kerns virus had given the spiders. So in a way it was human technology coming back to give themselves empathy...I interpreted the "understanding", at least the mechanism of it, as something that kerns virus had given the spiders. So in a way it was human technology coming back to give themselves empathy with the spiders.It seems simplistic but I found it satisfying. The spiders seem to have this way of sidestepping, finding lateral shortcuts around conflict. Like forming a connection with the ants instead of trying to eliminate them. Are the ants slaves, or is it a symbiotic relationship? Kind of both and it feels almost as murky with the humans. It feels like real life biology: gross, ethically ambiguous, and impressive.
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Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
lelio Link ParentI just finished the 4th one. 1 and 2, I absolutely love. I think the second was almost as good as the first. The nod thing was scary and fun at the same time (adventure!). The 3rd had some good...I just finished the 4th one.
1 and 2, I absolutely love. I think the second was almost as good as the first. The nod thing was scary and fun at the same time (adventure!).The 3rd had some good parts, like the crows. But the middle felt like a pointless slog. If half of that book in the middle had been cut down to a single chapter I would have probably liked it more.
The 4th one was better than 3rd. but still slow at times. The boring part of the 3rd book
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
lelio LinkI've gone deep into claude code/linux the past few months. they work so much better together than windows. Plus it makes it so much easier, It finally got me past the learning curve to switch...I've gone deep into claude code/linux the past few months. they work so much better together than windows. Plus it makes it so much easier, It finally got me past the learning curve to switch over. I was using WSL for awhile. then I set up a droplet with ubuntu for server stuff. then I bought a framework to put ubuntu on. Lastly I switched over my main desktop/gaming/entertainment, Lucy herself, to Ubuntu last week. I tried mint at first just to see, but had issues with multiple monitors mixed resolutions, and in the end decided to stick with what i know for now.
Lucy has been my desktop of theseus for decades and always windows. I think its the end of an era. And what rough beast slouches toward Bethlehem to be born? -
Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
lelio Link ParentI felt about the same after the first book, pleasantly surprised . I've read 7 now and only like them more. They remain silly and fun, but new layers keep getting added on. its well crafted pulpy...I felt about the same after the first book, pleasantly surprised . I've read 7 now and only like them more. They remain silly and fun, but new layers keep getting added on. its well crafted pulpy fun. I'd recommend anyone keep coming back to it when they are in that kind of mood. It reminds me of the bobiverse.
The only thing that I didn't like was the audiobook. Respect to the talented voice actor, and to Patrick Warburton, but it was just too much. This became a read only.
I just got book 8 and i think its next on my list!
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WIFI APs and other network stuff
I need to overhaul my home network. I have a house on a lot that is ~60 meters by ~15 meters. my house is on one side and my garage is on the other, I have a little "studio" building in the...
I need to overhaul my home network.
I have a house on a lot that is ~60 meters by ~15 meters. my house is on one side and my garage is on the other, I have a little "studio" building in the middle.
I had relayed the signal around with 4 google/nest wifi mesh things for a decade or so. but I always felt locked out without even a web interface, just the home app. and then two of them died at the same time last month.
I ran some cable last weekend. Now I have 3 roughly equidistant wired switches wired together :House-Studio-Garage.
My current plan is just 3 wireless APs at each. I have a wired only brume 2 that i can use as the router.I want to be able to have one SSID and roam between them. how well can that work without a mesh type network? just 3 good APs? My phone would stick to one before the mesh network. but that was a long time ago. Im hoping modern protocols might be better?
We have teenage kids, lots of phones and laptops plus wireless home automation devices, shelly switches, wyze cams, smart bulbs, etc.
I'm looking for something open source and as configurable as possible. I'm going in a linuxy direction lately and looking to have more direct access and control of my hardware. That's why I thought to ask here.
Claude and co have recommended:
Zyxel NWA50AXPRO
Cudy AP3000
Omada EAP670After I pick an AP I also need to pick a switch. I used the old 3 switches I already had on hand: TRENDnet TEG-S82g, Netgear GS105, Netgear FS108. All 3 are unmanaged and one is 10/100. so I want to replace at least the slow one. I'm thinking of getting a managed switch with POE for the switch that connects to the router. I want to try running POE cameras at some point. I want to be able to make a plex server, NAS, etc. Again, I want something flexible and I don't mind fiddling with it or paying a little more for decent hardware. I'm considering the Zyxel GS1900-8HP.
Both the Zyxels apear to be openWRT compatable. which is something I may want to try.
I generally don't keep up with this stuff. I've never went very deep into networking before. I wanted to check with some real people. Has anyone used any of these, or any other good wireless APs? Is there another strategy that would work better for my setup?
Thanks for reading!
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Comment on Hyundai Ioniq 5N or: welcome back Forester XT in ~transport
lelio Link ParentI have a regular dual motor 2023 EV6 . its around 300hp. 200 on the rear motor and 100 on the front. I've assumed it does 0-60 in 5.0 since thats what Ive read, never tested. There is a much...I have a regular dual motor 2023 EV6 . its around 300hp. 200 on the rear motor and 100 on the front. I've assumed it does 0-60 in 5.0 since thats what Ive read, never tested. There is a much faster "GT" EV6 that i think is close to the 5N spec.
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Comment on Hyundai Ioniq 5N or: welcome back Forester XT in ~transport
lelio (edited )LinkI have an EV6 with dual motors. Its plenty fast for my family car. my family groans in pain from the G-force if I floor it. I cant imagine shaving 2 seconds off the 0-60. I briefly considered...I have an EV6 with dual motors. Its plenty fast for my family car. my family groans in pain from the G-force if I floor it. I cant imagine shaving 2 seconds off the 0-60. I briefly considered trying to get the GT, but I'm fine with what I got.
The ev6 will also oversteer and fishtail if you turn off traction control. It really drives great. I'm either in one pedal/sport mode or radar cruise.
We had the ICCU replaced a year or two ago under warranty, it just stopped accepting AC charges one day. it took a week but we got a loaner, not too bad.My pre family car history includes an AWD Talon and SRT-4 so i come from a similar place :). We had a Mazda 3 for awhile. I love a good wagon.
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Comment on New AI data center in Utah will generate and consume more than twice the amount of power the entire state uses in ~tech
lelio Link ParentAgreed that we fucked up decades ago not pursuing nuclear. But why isn't it theoretically possible to scale up solar? Back of the napkin math(with ai help) puts it around 80,000 acres of solar...Agreed that we fucked up decades ago not pursuing nuclear.
But why isn't it theoretically possible to scale up solar? Back of the napkin math(with ai help) puts it around 80,000 acres of solar panels and then some kind of storage device, pump water? Or maybe 100,000 acres or more if you use mirror arrays and heating tower or something that holds heat and doesn't need batteries.
Or we actually build a 3 gorges type dam project.
Anything renewable would be massively more expensive than just burning gas. But burning gas just defers those costs to later. And we're still spending huge amounts of resources on infrastructure and technology that has no future.
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is right now.
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Comment on Project Hail Mary - Discussion thread in ~movies
lelio Link ParentI looked into the screen size thing just for this movie too! I found the references to "Liemax", which is apparently most of my local theaters. I end up going off this:...I looked into the screen size thing just for this movie too! I found the references to "Liemax", which is apparently most of my local theaters. I end up going off this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/imax/comments/1b33wwo/la_area_imax_screen_comparison/#lightbox
City Walk was pretty much booked solid. I ended up going to a Sunday matinee at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. The movie was a huge hit with the whole family. We all thought the screen looked huge, and the movie was beautiful. I hadn't been there in more than a decade, and I forgot how actually convenient it is once you're there. Just one screen, so you just walk in off the street with your ticket, straight to concessions, and the pretty theatre is right behind it.
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Comment on What radicalized you? in ~talk
lelio LinkNo one thing really. But a true and fun story is: At nine or ten years old, I heard a guy talking on CNN about how education is a long-term investment, and should be considered a higher priority,...No one thing really.
But a true and fun story is: At nine or ten years old, I heard a guy talking on CNN about how education is a long-term investment, and should be considered a higher priority, budget-wise, because of that. I was on board, and then they said: "Thank you for your time, Mr. Dukakis". And I was blown away because this was a name I associated with Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi, these evil men my parents talked about that wanted to kill Americans. I technically knew he had run for president the year before. But I was so oblivious, I never thought about what that meant beyond why would anyone vote for an evil guy? That was a formative moment in learning skepticism.The more fun question is, what radicalized AugustusFerdinand?
This post was made on March 12th, right?
So maybe Covid?
Or the invention of the World Wide Web?
Fukushima?
Madoff?
I guess for every day, there is a list of like 20 things that could potentially radicalize a person. And it could be something completely personal, too. -
Comment on A game involving California’s working payphones in ~games
lelio LinkI love this idea, an excuse to go on a bike ride. Also, there is one in a nearby sheriff's office. I bet I just have to do some crime, then they'll let me use it at least once, right?I love this idea, an excuse to go on a bike ride.
Also, there is one in a nearby sheriff's office. I bet I just have to do some crime, then they'll let me use it at least once, right? -
Comment on I don’t know if my software engineering job will still exist in ten years in ~comp
lelio Link ParentIn terms of pure software engineering that's probably true. If AI development stalled we would still need coders. But, I think there is a big lag right now between the ability of these agents and...In terms of pure software engineering that's probably true. If AI development stalled we would still need coders.
But, I think there is a big lag right now between the ability of these agents and the tools they have available to them. So even if the agents themselves stalled we have a lot of work to do just figuring out how to use them properly.
I've been pretty disappointed with how AI gets integrated into software. It's usually just a dumb chatbot that has access to some help docs. Just recently I tried to use Gemini in Google sheets and it just doesn't seem to have access to the software as much as it needs to. It still tries to give me formulas and have me paste them in the cells.
Switching from browser based LLMs to Claude code this year was a revelation. Anything that can be done from a command prompt can now be done way easier. Just because of the infrastructure around the agent
I think even if the agents themselves stayed the same, we have a lot of room for improvement for building infrastructure around them.
I know everyone is dreading AI making its way into everything. But that's because it's being shoehorned in as quickly as possible by every company that wants to please shareholders by having an "AI strategy". So not only are they ineffective but they are loud and intrusive. Trying to force their useless suggestions on us.
Imagine if a piece of software had an AI properly built into it from the ground up with usability as the goal. With access to the source code and every tool and input. In a lot of cases The UI could become superfluous. Just tell the software what you want to do.
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Comment on What are you no longer a fan of? in ~talk
lelio Link ParentSometimes I feel like I am the animal in the zoo. It seems ridiculous for a monkey in a cage to spend its time stressed out about all the millions of suffering creatures out there in the world....Sometimes I feel like I am the animal in the zoo. It seems ridiculous for a monkey in a cage to spend its time stressed out about all the millions of suffering creatures out there in the world. Maybe I could just focus on the things that are in and around my cage. That's all I can really have an effect on.
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Comment on What are you no longer a fan of? in ~talk
lelio Link ParentYou're probably not wrong. But also, I'm kind of oblivious to most of what you're talking about. I like the matrix movies. I have torrented copies of them on my hard drive and enjoy watching them...You're probably not wrong. But also, I'm kind of oblivious to most of what you're talking about.
I like the matrix movies. I have torrented copies of them on my hard drive and enjoy watching them often. That's all I need to still be a fan of them.I feel the same about a few other things you listed.
I downloaded the lord of the rings trilogy recently and I'm looking forward to watching it with my kids for their first time. I have no idea what else is going on with that IP right now. I don't really care. They can do whatever they want. I'm good here.
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Comment on What are you no longer a fan of? in ~talk
lelio Link Parent"Money" has always been annoying to me. It was played on the radio so much when I was a kid in the 90s. It makes me think of smug boomers. So I think I understand. On the other hand I just got..."Money" has always been annoying to me. It was played on the radio so much when I was a kid in the 90s. It makes me think of smug boomers. So I think I understand.
On the other hand I just got into Pink Floyd in the past 5-6 years. My favorites are the great gig in the sky. And the Wish you were here album.I also got into KGLW at the same time.
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Comment on Good News Everyone! - your semi regular good news thread in ~talk
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Comment on How do you remember? in ~tech
lelio LinkI use Google Keep in a pretty haphazard way. I have a few pinned notes right now: "Felix commands" (Felix is a work project) "To Do" "Felix To Do" "Books read, 2025 - " (this one is fun, I started...I use Google Keep in a pretty haphazard way. I have a few pinned notes right now:
"Felix commands" (Felix is a work project)
"To Do"
"Felix To Do"
"Books read, 2025 - " (this one is fun, I started a journal listing the books I read and any thoughts about them.)
"Projects" (What is the difference between projects and to-do? Who knows?but I look at projects less often)
"Music"
"Movies/TV"
"Books"
"Games" (last four are recommendations/things I might want to check out)I throw stuff in all these and occasionally clean it out with no plan/schedule. Some of them have years-old stuff. Anything important goes in To Do, and I check that at least every couple of days. Or it goes in Google Calendar with a notification.
If I want to remember a thing but don't know where to put it, I just make a normal note and don't pin it. I try to use enough keywords that I can find it if I search later. But if I never think to search for it, it is essentially gone. I rarely look at unpinned notes. This helps when I have a thing taking up space in my brain, causing mild stress. I just fart out some notes in Keep and probably never see them or worry about them again. But if it comes up, I can search and remember where I was before. grocery lists etc. are also unpinned and float in the abyss.
I use it on my desktop and my phone, both are necessary. I typically add things on my phone and look them up on my desktop.I'm also looking to improve and try Notion or something else. So thanks for the thread!
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Comment on I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took twenty minutes in ~tech
lelio LinkDid you know that anyone can buy a printer that will print whatever dangerous nonsense they want to write? They can even put a fake letterhead on top that says "super legit trustworthy source."...Did you know that anyone can buy a printer that will print whatever dangerous nonsense they want to write? They can even put a fake letterhead on top that says "super legit trustworthy source." They can then give that, real, actual, paper to anyone and act as if it's the truth! Damn your hubris, Gutenberg!
We should all know by now that you can't trust anything an AI says. You can't trust anything. That should be our default at this point, right? Truth is hard.
AI is useful, flawed, and complicated. But at this point, "you can't trust it" isn't that interesting beyond educating people who are just starting to use it, I guess. -
Comment on James Van Der Beek, the ‘Dawson’s Creek’ star who later mocked his own hunky persona, has died at 48 in ~tv
lelio Link Parenthttps://www.tmz.com/2026/02/13/james-van-der-beek-purchased-texas-ranch-before-dying/ My take away was van-der-beek himself bought the ranch while he was still alive. He had been living on this...https://www.tmz.com/2026/02/13/james-van-der-beek-purchased-texas-ranch-before-dying/
My take away was van-der-beek himself bought the ranch while he was still alive. He had been living on this ranch since 2020, renting. He was dying so he wanted to buy this ranch so his wife and 6 kids would be at least paying a mortgage rather than renting. To be better set up after he was gone. The friends setup a gofundme then him gave him the money to do that. And he got to do it a few weeks before he died, not after.
I'm at 29% of Parade of Horribles, the 8th DCC book. It's ok so far and I'm sure it will pick up later.
But I was a little bored and I couldn't stop thinking about "the Diamond Age" the past few days. So now I'm reading that again for the 3rd or 4th time. It's been many years since my last read.
We'll see if I jump back and forth or what. They are very different styles so sometimes it's nice to have options.