Lichess is great. TTT is more of a venue for following pro games, kind of an ESPN for chess. It’s also supposed to be good, but its purpose is different. Using Lichess as a gameplay backend lets them host online games without the effort of the somewhat evil chess dot com, or the unsuccessful Chess24. Seems like a win for TTT. I’m not so keen on Lichess doing something that commercial but we’ll see.

You can use Lichess online at lichess.org. It’s completely free, no ads, and no mobile app is needed. It’s the best fancy web UI I’ve ever seen by far.

Craigslist has worked fine for me in the past. Maybe there’s less there now but it hasn’t dried up yet.

In fanfiction it’s a big thing, called “slash” (look it up). I don’t claim to understand the phenomenon. But the current trend seems to be slash between hockey players, and there’s a TV show about that now.

I wouldn’t call them super cheap though they depreciate a lot from the new prices. Lots of quality ICE cars of similar age at lower prices, i.e. they are still expensive cars.

You can get fantastically good deals on used Fiskers. The company is bankrupt but there’s a lively community of owners and getting stuff like repair parts isn’t hard. I’m slightly tempted but only slightly. What I really want is an EV conversion for an old cargo van, so it would have very few computers inside.

What has it got in its pocketses? The One Ring.

Overall I think we’re going to see a much higher quality of software, ironically around the same level than before 2000 when the net became usable by everyone to download fixes. When the software had to be pressed to CDs or written to millions of floppies, it had to survive an amazing quantity of tests that are mostly neglected nowadays since updates are easy to distribute.

Finally someone else said that.

Ironic that the info is on youtube. Maybe put it ccc.de or something?

Is nodeBB a generic old school PHP forum like phpBB ?

Climate change, flaky software, crappy maintenance, etc. It’s been going on longer than the AI thing.

Experts are dubious that he teleported to Waffle House. CNN investigation reveals it was really an IHOP.

PIC64 is a product line now? And it’s Risc-V underneath? Interesting. PIC32 is/was MIPS-32 so I guess it fits.

All that anti-radar tech and the plane gets taken down by a 0-day? Uh oh.

I wonder why they didn’t use Ada.

Thanks, there’s an Android 8 phone that I might be able to use. Otherwise I can do some overnight tests with my main phone while I’m sleeping. I had been thinking of possible multi-day tests for low powered lights, but those can be split into a few overnight segments.

Thanks for this update, Zak! Do you know if 32 bit Android 7 should work? I’d want to use my old retired phone instead of tying up my main phone for hours or days on a measurement.

It works nicely on Android 14 once I realized that the phone’s light sensor is on the front!

People run Chrome on Linux.

These are services, nothing to do with source code, and most don’t release theirs.

I thought part of the legend was that his parents were killed but they had arranged for him to be cared for and educated, probably at a level that the average orphan can’t get anywhere near. Plus there’s all that physical training that he has to do all the time. Like in this story he (at one point) beats the crap out of Harry Potter even though Potter is an Auror with tons of magical combat tricks. I’m unfamiliar with Rorschach so can’t compare.

Batman has to be free from the need for a real job, plus be able to run the Batcave research infrastructure that developed the Batmobile, the Batplane, and all that. Plus keep Alfred on staff and in on the secret, plus stay with his backstory of Thomas and Martha Wayne being murdered. Wayne Enterprises came much later. Bruce Wayne’s original guise was being an idle playboy in Wayne Manor.

Spider-man isn’t rich. If you want a non-rich superhero, you might check him him out.

Or heck, I’m old enough to remember Reid Fleming, the World’s Toughest Milkman.

Wong Kim Ark was itself a baffling decision imho. I read through it once. It seemed to me that it should have been 1 sentence, “Constitution says citizen, therefore he legally is one”. Instead it went through dozens of pages of nuanced and somewhat precarious reasoning to reach the same conclusion.

That the current SCOTUS took this case at all made it sound like they were inclined to overturn Wong Kim Ark, and decide that the Constitution really didn’t mean what it said.

The merits of lightsticks versus LED’s weren’t part of my question. I just wanted a measurement, not purchasing advice. The idea that a single measurement is uninformative and that I really need thousands of measurements is ridiculous. It seemed like something an AI would say, but ok I guess a human could say it carelessly. If I thought a single measurement was suspect, I’d go for maybe 3 measurements. People infer all the time from way less than thousands of observations.

As for fragility, one suggested way to use a light stick is to put it at the end of a few feet of cord and swing it around in a circle, for more visibility from a distance. Most people won’t want to do that with LED lights.