I’ve found myself reading much older text and still being annoyed by it. I think I paused a YouTube video from like 2015 after hearing it spoken and having to pace a little before continuing. I’ve completely cut that out of my own writing style.

Text extrusion software will obviously favor some writing elements over others, and it is just a supercharged version of bland-yet-saccharine corporate writing style. So all of it, seen sparingly, wouldn’t make you feel like the society is falling apart. But when you see it 10000x more often you really question if anyone is even trying to communicate a novel idea anymore.

It’s been happening for ages already. What reality do you people live in?

I don’t understand, is this for keeping track of the charge level of battery powered sensors?

Also, the description in the page is painful to read. I haven’t gotten into HA yet but I’m keeping an eye on stuff I find interesting, but I really hope having to trudge through saccharine LLM output to understand what each project does isn’t the standard.

OSM coverage in Lebanon is pitiful outside of a few areas, and even then nobody updates anything.

If I drove around the south during peacetime sketching things out on a tablet I’d be questioned for espionage. Not because it’s a police state here, but because everyone is extremely paranoid. Guess why.

Yeah I’ve been involved in stuff on that level by pulling in a library in a university project. But there were higher level research projects going on where they were going into real nitty gritty fine control, I think they had a control model with an obscene number of degrees (as in xth order physical model implemented as a PPIIIIDDD system or whatever). That was a little intuitive since there was a physical process that you can observe.

But the theory is definitely something I’d like to at least understand a little

This was my weakest subject, I found it fascinating but my math was just not good enough for it.

Hopefully someone here has some interesting resources for this stuff, I would honestly love to integrate things like PIDs where they absolutely don’t belong in my bullshit hobby procrastination projects.

Baalbak is a city with a lot of targets during any period of bombing. Mercifully the temple complex site has never been hit and it hopefully stays that way.

They’re not above it though. They hit the archeological site in Sour/Tyre in the 2024 airstrikes though, and even though dozens of people and medics were murdered by then, my blood boiled white hot after that, I was angrier about it than the mass murder. I think the precision strikes on ambulances came after and those pissed me off even more though.

It’s never a good sign when you have an internal conflict about whether you’re a good person or not because you’re more mad about a bunch of old rocks getting pulverized than people like you being murdered.

They’ll fucking do it, they don’t care. They don’t think we’re people, they obviously don’t think our heritage matters, especially not in a poor city they routinely terrorize.

I live where people run to for safety. This is supposed to be a normal safe part of Beirut. It’s quiet now and I’m fine but every year is an innovation in terrorism from this criminal entity.

Thank you for the well wishes.

Death toll is higher than 300, injured over 1200. They’re pulling bodies and survivors still. This is worse than August 4 2020. And they’re still fucking bombing!

This is senseless, savage terrorism. I think I heard over a hundred thuds in Beirut during the first hour. What the fuck is wrong with these people

This feels like falling into the TVTropes rabbit hole for the first time. Neat

That’s one thing that’s been bothering me a lot about this AI worship era that I don’t see mentioned enough anywhere. Machine learning is a fucking incredible tool that can surely be used to do a lot of things in a novel or better way. Instead all of the investment and eyeballs are on overplayed party tricks

If the UK decided to ally with Rhodesia in 1969, would you read it as anything other than an endorsement of it?

Huh. I picked that up from a used book stand on a whim just based on the tile and skimming it, like ten years ago. I should probably read it.

The first time I discovered them they reminded me of people I did theater with back in the day and it threw me into a little existential crisis.

They’re great!

Right now, we don’t give a fuck about their interceptors. They are murdering normal people from the sky and are clearly preparing to finally annex the south again, permanently this time. If they run out of bombs they’ll drop barrels of oil, if they run out of oil they’ll drop barrels of concrete, if they run out of jet fuel they’ll tear their toys apart and catapult the metal into our homes. There is nothing more viscerally horrifying than feeling like your days are being counted down by something that only exists to kill you. Maybe it’s their propaganda making me feel hopeless. Maybe it’s the fact that there’s less people fighting back. Maybe it’s the way I was able to volunteer my time and money in the 2024 war to help the displaced, compared to not having the financial means to do that this time, when the war is much worse.

I wake up to obituaries of EMTs and names of towns every day and I just want it to fucking end. I haven’t lost any friends this time yet but many of my friends are grieving for someone. I swear they could have gotten a docile comprador society out of us if they weren’t hellbent on being so abjectly evil.

There’s something depressing about all the world news being about some shrapnel falling in Dubai instead of over a million people displaced, many for the second time in two years. There’s a stupid pun about Lebensraum/Lebanon and they’re precisely that right now and the best thing the tactical geniuses online (I only use Lemmy and this place is guilty too) can say is “Beard man terror scary! This is inevitable!”.

I had this as a kid. It absolutely did all of those things, and the intro cutscene showed this menu as just one nook in a giant museum with other things to see. I had a few of their other games as well.

I can all but guarantee that a lot of the curiosity and enthusiasm for learning that I had as a kid was directly thanks to these edutainment games. Compared to my overwhelming adult apathy it really stands out.

I know people, here in Lebanon, with the last name Israel, who are older than the terrorist state.

Maybe more people here would be accepting of Jewish people if the only Jewish people they ever met hadn’t been soldiers at checkpoints in the 1980s pointing guns at their faces.

FWIW L’Orient Le Jour has always been very pro-Western on foreign policy, the fact that they are even framing it this way is a sign in itself. A good chunk of its readers believe Iran invented homosexuality to make their kids go to hell and pissed in their cereal.

They used to be a paper of record back in the day though, not as much since the 2019 financial meltdown. They also mainly publish in French with a fraction of their work translated to English.

I first read about these as being under development in a kids’ science magazine in like 2008. I’ve been waiting to see this for a while now, amazing stuff.

I would be shocked if it was over even 1000W at peak, but I suppose it’s over provisioned to deal with the very very brief peak when the compressor kicks on.

We have large fridges here. It’s not the volume that matters when we’re looking at peak draw, it’s the compressor’s power rating. The same compressor can cool both, just at different duty cycles.

FWIW there’s probably a lot more auxiliary power being pulled for things like water dispensers and that kind of thing for your fridges. And of course the Palantir-enabled AI Smart Fridge Miner features. In case any of these pretentious commies eats any food correlated with support for the wrong ethnic cleansing victims.

It’s likely the fridges we buy here are simpler older designs with less fragile components, and stuff that runs on lower power. Most people here are not going for the smart fridges. There are a few inverter fridges on the market, but I prefer going with simpler older designs for what should be obvious reasons.