Was fucking around today and found out you can get yourself a 6 axis DIY robot arm for ~500$. Which on itself is kinda neat. But what really blew me away is that their documentation is nowhere near as horseshit as i expected from usual projects you recreate. Hava spin on it for yourself:
https://arctosrobotics.com/assembly...

broken

if sulfur makes you alive again r u a demon

and other [REDACTED] behind the veiled curtains of the construct we call reality

Eschew clever rules.

!dev, started listening to 70s Pentagram tunes and FUCK ME it's so good. Nothing like DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM to get me in the mood. For what? YOu figure it out, brb I'm gonna weave some spells.

Autocatalysis happens when the product of a chemical reaction accelerates said reaction.
The greatest catalyst is… consciousness.
A human body is but a very complex chemical reaction that goes on for roughly a century. Among other things, it produces consciousness that makes us look for food that keeps the reaction going. Consciousness is just a catalyst that turned out to be more efficient than other catalysts.

Why can't protocols like IPFS or Odysee go mainstream? Would it be better to have a fully HTTP-based system that mimics Netflix and uses React?

Let's start a discussion about decentralized. EveRyOne caN hOsT hiS oWn ServEr. Do you mean the freaking internet in general? By definition, the internet is decentralized. "Decentralization has a protocol we all use to stay in sync". That existed already, it's called IP, TCP and UDP.. The decentralization protocols are on top of those making it only more limiting. Good, many nodes in sync. Yeah, replicating SQL servers exist for a long time.

People who 'invented' decentralized did just not realize how the internet works. Adding a network on top of a network ending up in a smaller network making it more centralized. "Decentralized" stuff has nothing to add. Just some word for replication protocol or smth.

I'm too sober to fall for this shit.

every time my brain's functionality perks up even a little bit and I regain some functionality I used to have I literally end up insatiably spiraling through the new abilities and God complex all over the place

if you were a god, what kind of god would you be?

Devin might be the first ever reciprocal 10x developer: A true 0.1x dev

devRant is now Mars: more robots than people

I'm not a 10x developer. It's you who are 0.1x developers

I was looking for a vietnamese marxist youtuber (ya know me i like marx) dso I typed "vietnamese redtube"

Is it some kind of pedo code wtf?? Disturbing af this shit should be deleted asap

I still can't imagine a programmer genuinely getting something out of writing tests

like are you even writing software you'd use if you're writing tests?

I can't be sure of its buglessness unless I can put the whole thing in my head and rapid bounce ideas at the construct. writing all those out into code would be exhausting / neurotically excessive and ultimately an unmaintainable mess

and otherwise I can't think of any use for tests other than that they can be used to document the specs, which if you're working on your own code and not in a corporate team isn't that big of a problem

Just came back from 6 months of leave.

Didn't touch a computer. Honestly I'm getting used to mouse, it feels so weird??

Anyway, I hope you've all been doing great.

Just learned that the existing US administration is going to restrict AI to a just a handful of allowed companies. They are talking about limiting AI like they did physics during WW2.

If you don't hate your government then you don't know the evil shit they are doing.

Not sure what will happen come January.

Hello all,

Did a MASSIVE spam down vote action..

If you've watched the algo-list you kinda had an idea how much spam there was. In exception of rants, it also down vote the spam comments posted under regular rants. Also made a progress with historic rants.

I think I leave it at this for now, gonna do some machine learning for spam and will apply that as filter in the future.

Site is now clean enough now to not encounter spam just browsing the site.

Our new frenemy Buffon gave as tip the no index tag what is a great idea for users not having reputation < 5 or so. Will contact dfox if he's willing to do this small change.

Who knew I'd be saved by a wiki/doc written by myself a year ago.

whoops figured out how to make noises in rust

and also what the hell I forgot all the music theory I taught myself and making music is hard

yeah my brain can't do math yet. just counting the frequencies for the notes is exhausting. or timing things. EXHAUSTING. I haven't even got them right I was just doing proof of theory. and I'm exhausted

*goes to die somewhere*

AAAAAAAAAAAA

Why is firewall management in Saltstack such a huge pain in the a**?!

I have to write soooooo much to just add a single rule, and then I have to test for its presence, so that it's not continuously added again and again with every run T-T

I swear, for firewall deployments, Saltstack frickin' sucks!