I think they mean different regions have physically different layouts. I supported users in different countries and know that French layouts are different than Hebrew layouts which are different from English layouts and so on. Trying to buy different key caps doesn’t give the user a native layout because the shapes of the layouts are somewhat different.
I have gotten in the habit of looking up what isle and bay the thing I need is before I get there, and then I screenshot it because too many times the page has needed to reload and start over
I have been considering the OMSCS program for some time but one of my reservations is the network one misses out on by working side by side with students and faculty vs online ed.
For context: non-traditional student who transferred to UCSD for college, two of those years were spent during Covid. Moved back to Bay Area. My network isn’t as big as someone who maybe went to San Jose state. And so they prob have an easier time finding jobs. I worked with other students through discord and so on, attended virtual office hours with professors and TAs (who were the reason many of us passed these classes, I’m sure) but never truly built a relationship that lasted beyond the quarter because zoom, essentially.
And if I go back to grad school, I would really love to build relationships with others around me. Wondering how others have managed with this regard?
Linear algebra cannot be learned in a day. Maybe multiplying matrices when the dimensions allow but there is far more to linear algebra than knowing how to multiply matrices. Knowing when and why is far more interesting. Knowing how to decompose them. Knowing what a non-singular matrix is and why it’s special and so on. Once you know what’s found in a basic lower devision linear algebra class, one can move it linear programming and learn about cost functions and optimization or numerical analysis.
PyTorch is just a calculator. If I handed someone a Ti-84 they wouldn’t magically know how to bust out statistics on it…
Oh, boy. During the great California fire of 2020, I went down a very deep rabbit hole looking to air purification. I studied what is out there. I compared their characteristics with regard to filter media quality, air cycles, PM2.5 performance, VOC's, energy consumption, and so on, but my goal was to have performance and near silence. I learned about static pressure and how important it is to choose the right blower for the job (impeller and blower vs fan; and yes, a blower creates vastly more static pressure than these fans). I looked into what quantities of charcoal actually deliver meaningful VOC reduction and how often they must be replaced (you need lbs of it; that single filter on the front of most purification units does nothing but act as a pre-filter). I really should have written all my research and discovery down but if you are serious about it, I came to the following conclusions:
1. A furniture company that decides to integrate a purification system into their offerings can hit it big. Imagine a big, heavy dresser in your bedroom that sucks in air from the bottom and pushes up to the top or a TV stand that where different compartments are filter media. The mass of these reduces noise and vibration and allow for larger, slower spinning blowers and larger surface area of filter media (less static pressure, longer replacement intervals, easily hold pounds of activated charcoal).
2. One needs to pump in oxygen from the outside and exchange the indoor air with the outside air. Circulating and cleaning the air in the home, especially with modern doors and windows, will become unpleasant in a short while, especially during wildfire season. The positive pressure this creates also helps pollutants stay out, if done correctly.
I would absolutely go the diy route using large filters, activated carbon, housed in a wooden box with a blower and implement something like AC Infinity's in-line filtration systems to pull outside air in through a window, with a large carbon filter on one end. Or if a homeowner, set up a more permanent solution.
https://acinfinity.com/inline-fan-systems/
If it had a a few more cores, something like this would make for a great node in a distributed system like k8s or ceph for a homelab. At the asking price, however, one could also cross shop an HP micro server gen11.
Absolutely. People just crank up the brightness on the inside lights because "blinky lights" but I have also noticed that, modern cars typically include fog lights which used to be a luxury or premium option, many people just drive around with these lights on as well. Fog lights are illuminating the area closer to the vehicle and therefore inhibit one's visibility further down the road. So now we get super bright vehicles coming at us, inhibiting our ability to see.
Don't get me started on lifted vehicles and their lights...Dept. of transportation needs to figure out a way to enforce a standard height for headlights from all vehicle shapes and heights. Driving after dark is getting more and more dangerous, not less.
Trucks are the absolute worst vehicles on the road. Their giant ass lights blind anyone near their vehicles. A number of truck owners, especially the ones that lift their vehicles, will additionally add light bars to the exterior which are so incredibly dangerous.
We don't just need DOTs to set regulations on these things, we need cops to actually write tickets for this behavior and for judges to get confirmation that these after market modifications are removed.
The problem is largely that the same Cops who should be writing the tickets are the very people putting criminal light bars on their lifted pavement princess trucks.
I just got done with a trip. Unfortunately there's a number of numb-nuts who don't see the problem with driving on regular roads with their lightbars on.
Chia was/is WORM (write once , read many) so not sure how these drives were heavily abused? As a storage nerd, I bought many 18tb drives for chia and they are still spinning just fine in my storage arrays. It’s been five years.
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