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First thing I learned attempting the same is that lid open vs closed are two very different situations in terms of thermals.

But overall without aggressive throttling these devices work a maximum of half an hour before the components get saturated with heat and performance tanks.


Yup. Gaming laptops with dedicated GPUs tend to fare better on this because internally the CPU and GPU is often bridged with a heat pipe and shared cooling

So thermals are specd for both running at same time but you only need CPU for home server so shouldn’t throttle


There's an interesting film focused on this topic:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1499420/

The author traveled through Cameroon and documented, among other things, the realities of having a backlog of dead one must properly bury.

Turns out not everyone can afford putting their deceased relatives in a freezer - especially for extended periods of time, so sometimes the dead are stored in a separate storage area next to the home until the living gather the necessary funds.


> so sometimes the dead are stored in a separate storage area next to the home until the living gather the necessary funds

Isn't this an own goal when it comes to disease?


Doesn't stop the Torajans in Indonesia for storing the corpses inside their own houses, sometimes for years.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2017/oct/13/cleani... (warning: graphic)


Well, there are many worse systemic issues in the region.

It's been 15 years since I saw that movie, but I recall the remains presented to be just the skull and some larger bones - all dried out completely.

What happened to the rest of the body I don't recall.


Market rate for a senior engineer in much, much poorer Poland exceeds 80k at current exchange rates - ask me how I know.

I also had a contract in Switzerland for a brief, beautiful moment and in 2020 it was not weird to have an hourly rate exceeding 90CHF/h in this role.

Permanent employees were making anywhere in the range of 100-130k CHF, so the 140k USD figure is close adjusted for inflation.


I downloaded a cake sort game to my phone for my daughter, thinking it's the same vendor as for the one on her mom's iPad.

Nope. Unrelated company - just looks the same.

Shovelware, but a snow shovel, not a regular one.


There are companies that sell premade games you can buy and distribute.

That's disappointing. I genuinely thought they were just copying each other.

There's a surprisingly high number of people in my extended social circle who picked up archery as a sport.

It's actually a complex discipline with a huge range of bows and projectiles to choose from, each having unique characteristics you have to train for.

Training using VR equipment is picking up steam, as typically you need a sizeable amount of real estate to practice when the weather is bad.


> Training using VR equipment is picking up steam, as typically you need a sizeable amount of real estate to practice when the weather is bad.

I always wondered, how does that work?

Over in bullseye rifle we live and breathe dryfire (no ammo), but I understand the equivalent (no arrow) with a bow is a recipe for breaking the bow.

Like my brain just cannot comprehend how to get enough reps to get good enough at a thing without being able to do dryfire at the volume we do for rifle.


Answer is that it's the human body that's the weakest link here, as muscles get sore and tendons might get damaged if you overdo it.

Prepping for tournaments is a field in and of itself as you need to time your trainings right to achieve peak form at the event itself.

My sister, who's been doing this competitively for a decade now, showed me an excel sheet her team has - there's an optimisation problem you have to solve to get every member to their best shape within the specified timeframe.

Also there are so-called "trads" - people doing traditional archery with period-correct technology, where the stakes are understandably lower.

Also they ingest, ahem, aiming fluid each meeting, so it's way more casual than what modern competitive archers practice.


Archery does seem like it's having a moment right now.

I wonder if it's some combination of people wanting a more tactile hobby plus some vague apocalyptic undercurrents in society today.


Over here it's a combination of having a tradition of historical reconstruction and fairly strict gun laws, that don't extend to other weapons.

Case in point: you can open-carry a sword, unless you're displaying violent intent. Concealed carry of any obviously dangerous blade is prohibited, which spurred speculation on what to do with, e.g. a bread knife.

Consensus in the community is that you need to hold a loaf of bread in the other hand.


I always shoot 12 grains per pound, it usually gets me around 150-160fps, marginal weather is where the fun begins.

Archery is a lot of fun - I go to a monthly archery gathering where the host has a bunch of really nice recurves.

Depends how they're listening I think.

There was a time not long ago when reportedly looking at the emails being exchanged around the world one would think the most pressing matter, discussed at length, was how to "enlarge your penis".


Think if the metazoans had written down their reproductive anxieties.

That's why I enjoy singing so much. Moderate skill good enough as most people can't even bring themselves to do it in public out of embarrassment.

My sister is in a whole different league than me in terms of singing but she also performs live, which I don't plan to do unless it's a karakoe evening.


I am 57M. I started singing less than 3 years back. Had a teacher from Koltaka doing weekly zooms for a few months, but mostly on my own. Started with karaoke, then graduated to a capella bollywood songs. The idea was to improve my voice, I was always shy/introvert but something triggered me to get on camera. With embarrassment out of the way, now it just 1) keep working on it - singing, producing tiktoks, learning editing on the way, and 2) lot more fun since I can hear my voice and enjoy it ... many of the times. Not a great singer, but getting better every single day.

As mentioned in the top comment, or somewhere near that, the first step ... listening to your first botched song, going on camera ... was the hard step. I made a monologue about this, a mix of english and hindi, on my tiktok profile.

PS: I have an alt, or a main. Not sure if that is an issue or not. I opened this account a long time back and then decided I did not want my name to be public so I opened an alt. This discussion made me reverse that decision just for one comment.

I updated my profile to add my social links, and happy to answer any questions from mods/dang about dupe accounts, but in general do not want to comment on AI, politics, corporations or anything controversial where it can be linked to my identity. And this is not trying to get followers or viewers - I have my hands full anyways.


Regular alarm sounds already do that, because above 1kHz or so it's the cushioning in the device that does the majority of the cancelling. There's a dip in effectiveness before that because to cancel noise effectively it's best to have a latency lower than a quarter of the wave's period.

Also ANC works best on wide-spectrum sounds, so any kind of siren or the cries of a child will go through, as the spectrum is a series of narrow peaks.


Also submissions with more comments than upvotes are looked into, if not outright automatically flagged.

Meanwhile the rest would be housed in "machines for living in".

If there is a hell, Le Corbusier is currently in it, eating the equivalent in cement to all the monstrosities he concocted.


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