A loom that learned to weave itself.

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • If anyone knew the answer there would be no addicts.

    In the end, their drive to sobriety must be consistently stronger than the drive for drugs. There’s no moral system with the power to counteract that. And it’s not a moral failure that they can’t.

    In other contexts people love to blather about the power of discipline over motivation. Well this proves the lie. It has to come down to motivation, consistently. And you probably don’t have the power to motivate them to consistently stay sober. You can’t make sobriety consistently more enticing than getting high. The rest of us are more enamored by what sobriety offers. We are not morally stronger. We just prefer being sober, consistently (or some of us prefer other, less-destructive forms of intoxication).

    Sorry about your friend. Take care of yourself.




  • Oh it makes a huge difference. Without humidifiers I get awful dry skin and nosebleeds from the dry heat of the heaters in winter.

    This humidifier is different from the vaporizers I used before. Those ones would get mouldy and would only last a year.

    It’s a Venta Air washer. It has a turbine inside the water reservoir that slowly turns the water like a mill, so the water evaporates more slowly than with a vaporizer. And on top there’s a fan sucking air down into the wet churning turbine, so the air is being pushed through all the wet pieces of the turbine. Somehow that takes impurities out of the air, they stick to the water. And the impurities don’t evaporate, so as the water slowly evaporates you can see it getting dirtier over a few days.

    EDIT: I have a two-bedroom apartment and the one humidifier makes the whole place comfortable. It’s a really good purchase. You have to buy a liquid to add to the water though.

    I found this video that sort of explains it:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOvsXL0pk8Y





  • I’ve had two useful applications of “AI”.

    One is using it to explain programming frameworks, libraries, and language features. In these cases it’s sometimes wrong or outdated, but it’s easy to test and check to make sure if it’s right. Extremely valuable in this case! It basically just sums up what everybody already said, so it’s easier and more on-point than doing a google search.

    The other is writing prompts and getting it to make insane videos. In this case all I want is the hallucinations! It makes some stupid insane stuff. But the novelty wears off quick and I just don’t care any more.