zimpenfish

"for users who are not accustomed to text editors with separate insertion and editing modes"[0] could be construed as "beginner-friendly" (albeit with some squinting, I'd concede.)

[0] https://man.netbsd.org/atto.1

Comment · 2 days ago

Sure, the coffee shop might be a problem (since I'm guessing that'd be more than 10 minutes.) You could always turn it off (and a smart system wouldn't turn it back on 10 minutes later unless you leave and come back.)

Comment · 2 days ago

iOS focus does let you have location-based activations ("when I arrive at work", etc.)

Comment · 2 days ago

> "Oh sorry, I happened to walk by an opera house."

It would be unfortunate for them to phone you precisely in the small period where DND was turned on as you walked past the opera house (even a large one would be, what, under two minutes of walking?) and not try you again.

(Because if you have instant location-based DND, yes, it might turn on as you walk by an opera house but equally it would turn off when you were past the opera house. Normally, though, I'd expect location-based DND to only kick in after a certain period of time in the same location - say 10 minutes.)

Comment · 2 days ago

$79 per consumable tank, yes, which is rated for 75000 layers (according to [0]) which is "approximately 190 prints with an average height of 39 mm at a layer height of 100 µm" - not that long if you're printing regularly.

In contrast, I can get 6 FEP sheets for my Mars 2 Pro for $21 which don't appear to have any official lifetimes but generic internet advice says "40-50 prints" on the low side. That'd be 240 prints for $21 compared with 190 prints for $79.

[0] https://www.igo3d.com/en/formlabs-form-studio-1-resin-tank-p...

Comment · 3 days ago

* If you buy the "Form Studio 1 Resin Tank Pro" extra at $79 because the included tank "is not compatible with Tough 1500 Resin or materials needing to utilize Open Material Mode"

Comment · 4 days ago

I assume you mean "connected-component labeling" with union-find as the underlying "manage the sets" algorithm? If not, a link would be helpful.

Comment · 4 days ago

To find connected regions on a map. I could probably have been smarter about the initial generation and connected things as they were generated (but that has only just occurred to me. Worth a go, I suppose.)

Comment · 4 days ago

Huh, that's useful because I had to write a floodfill a couple of days ago and it was a pain in the arse.

I'll be converting my code to the stackless version toot sweet.

Comment · 5 days ago

Pretty sure we have, e.g. [0], "TI's MSPM0Cx MCUs featuring Arm® Cortex®-M0+ core with 24 MHz CPU, 32-bit structure, 4 to 16 KB Flash provide cost-effective designs for electric toothbrush and shaver applications." - compared to the 5150[1], it's 4x the bus width, 5x the CPU clock, albeit with fewer RAMs.

[0] https://www.ti.com/lit/ab/slaaeg0/slaaeg0.pdf

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer

Comment · 6 days ago

> I'm surprised the government can consistently turn around a response in 30 days.

They don't, e.g. [0], [1], [2], etc.

[0] https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs...

[1] https://neilwilby.com/2026/04/02/when-delay-becomes-denial-a...

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/foi-department-for-int...

Comment · 11 days ago

> But I think this kind of moral approach is precisely why right wing parties have been winning globally

No, right wing parties have been winning globally because they are vastly more resourced both financially and media-space-ly than the opposition. If you can constantly flood the zone with bullshit, it becomes impossible for the opposition to correct the disinformation before the next flood arrives.

Comment · 12 days ago

As best I can tell, the red dots are "major outages", the yellow are "partial outages".