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tedu honked 20 Mar 2025 18:36 -0400

Okay, so check this out. I decided to play with copilot and uploaded the EBT warning to test transcription. I upload the image and copilot immediately replies with its thoughts on the matter. Then I ask what's it say, and now it insists that it can't read images. This is what the paperclip maxiphobes are so scared of?

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tedu honked 20 Mar 2025 16:15 -0400

Apparently bacon is a basic human right. Unlike toasted bread.

Attention Customers With the exception of bacon, if any component of a sub is heated or toasted, the sub automatically becomes a hot sub and cannot be purchased with EBT.

tedu honked 20 Mar 2025 15:02 -0400

Parking lot treasures. Somebody had quite the night.

A nail, USB connector, plastic spoon, smashed fireball bottle

tedu honked 20 Mar 2025 14:09 -0400

All the laptops at Best Buy have e-ink price tags. I have not observed the prices changing as I walk around, but I have observed the screens are low res and the smaller text is completely illegible.

tedu honked 20 Mar 2025 13:42 -0400

On my way to the buy of best to responsibly dispose of the zenbook when I realize I didn't wipe the hard drive, so now I'm carrying it down the sidewalk wide open while that runs. Yes, that's right folks, very important work going on here, excuse me, excuse me, clear a path, urgent tasks in progress.

tedu honked 19 Mar 2025 23:16 -0400

Two days until I find out if this magical doodad actually works. The juice must flow.

USB-C to thinkpad slim tip power adapter

tedu honked 19 Mar 2025 22:19 -0400

I think tomorrow I will take the 2015 X1 carbon out for a walk. It could use some fresh air for its tenth birthday.

tedu honked 19 Mar 2025 21:57 -0400

In light of last night's adventure with the swollen battery, I'm now going through the house and finding all the old laptops and either bringing them up to date and giving them a full charge health assessment, complete with openbsd reinstall, or putting them in the danger pile.

tedu honked 19 Mar 2025 13:31 -0400

The city of Philadelphia could really use an ejunk dropoff that's not out in the borderlands.

tedu honked 19 Mar 2025 03:39 -0400

Making good progress on curing my laptop acquisition addiction. The zenbook is now cooked, with a swollen battery, and I soft bricked my pixelbook trying to install openbsd. So that's two down, but so many more to go.

tedu honked 18 Mar 2025 23:32 -0400

Found a new germ tv show to watch: The Island. Lord of the flies with a cool soundtrack. Keine Eltern, keine Regeln.

tedu honked 18 Mar 2025 22:21 -0400

Dusted off an old zenbook and discovered it's been hitting the gym. The battery is quite swole, as the kids would say.

tedu honked 17 Mar 2025 21:51 -0400

Liker.social? Don't even know her.

tedu bonked 17 Mar 2025 21:15 -0400
original: tedu@inks.tedunangst.com

There's more to those colliding blocks that compute pi

There's more to those colliding blocks that compute pi

Two colliding blocks compute pi, here we dig into the physics to explain why.

The original paper by Gregory Galperin: https://www.maths.tcd.ie/~lebed/Galperin.%20Playing%20pool%20with%20pi.pdf

Adam Brown’s paper on the analogy with Grover’s Algorithm: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.02207

#math #physics #quantum #video #visualization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dTyOl1fmDo

tedu honked 17 Mar 2025 19:26 -0400

Gonna put some chemicals in my water. Thank you blessed Bezos for this delicious delivery.

Box of mio

tedu honked 17 Mar 2025 17:48 -0400

Discussions of ebooks and DRM and such always feature a dearth of stories from people duplicating their paper book collection for backup purposes. I think more people should share their experiences doing that.

tedu honked 17 Mar 2025 17:00 -0400

lol, I'm reading this 1955 report from John von Neumann and he's talking about using weather control to stop the polar vortex from advancing. A true visionary.

tedu honked 17 Mar 2025 15:14 -0400

Using the macbook 12 #today, and what I miss from the newer models is the fingerprint unlock. I have a very short lock screen delay set, and it's no trouble at all when I can unlock in one second, but more tedious when I have to type a password.

tedu honked 17 Mar 2025 14:51 -0400

Inspired by sr.ht I just added another 32 /24s to the banhammer.

tedu honked 16 Mar 2025 21:52 -0400

WOT time is it? WOT time.

tedu honked 16 Mar 2025 16:30 -0400

Walked around rittenhouse square, spotted my first whale tail of the season. Nature is healing.

tedu honked 15 Mar 2025 15:51 -0400

Perfect weather for puke on the sidewalk day. Warm enough you'll think you can leave the jacket home, cold enough you'll need to get shitfaced to feel warm.

tedu honked 15 Mar 2025 14:57 -0400

Wore out my civ6 computer, switched to Endless Legend. It's like a warhammer 40k flavored civ6, except looking back it was released two years before civ6, so I guess that makes civ6 a normie flavored EL. You've got your cities, your food, your gears, your sciences, your gold, etc. But the factions have actually distinct play styles, as opposed to nudges via slight bonuses, so if you play as a faction that doesn't have cities, or food, or science, then you have some replacement mechanic that changes things up more than +1 gold on trade routes.

I think it solves many of the problems with civ even better than civ does. Like there's mechanics here that would clearly make civ6 better, but they probably thought, oh, it's been done already, we have to make our game different and worse now. The army and combat system works really well for me. And the graphics are way more interesting to look at.

tedu honked 14 Mar 2025 21:23 -0400

Speaking of the pixelbook, dug it out of the computer bin and it runs fine. ChromeOS is super outdated and not to be trusted, but I can tolerate firefox running in crostini. I've been keeping it around because I was planning on wiping it at some point to install a new OS, but that likely involves screwdrivers and flashing and weird stuff, so never happened.

tedu honked 14 Mar 2025 21:05 -0400

Got to the episode of Banshee where the renegade Indians attack the police station, and assault on precinct 13 has nothing on this mayhem.

tedu honked 14 Mar 2025 18:55 -0400

In XNU, threads belonging to the same process can have different credentials.

Insane in the membrane.

tedu honked 14 Mar 2025 17:28 -0400

Calling my summer lake house Bad Apfel.

tedu honked 14 Mar 2025 17:25 -0400

Haha, amazon has verified my trade-in! It was for an old pair of the original echo buds, for which they offered me $5, and more importantly, 20% off a kindle.

They kinda looked new, because I ended up never using them, but the batteries were definitely dead and unchargable, and yet... verified. I think they knew these things were never going to be resold, so no point wasting labor verifying them, but at the same time, they need the trade in program for reasons. So I have a little box of e-junk that's really just unredeemed coupons.