Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️
quadraticink.bsky.social
Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️
@quadraticink.bsky.social
Principal Software Engineer at Scopely.
Personal account for personal ramblings.
If I'm posting/sharing code, it's probably cursed.
she/her
I hope someone's making an aftermarket one.
November 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
They counted to 3. It is all as it has been foretold!

#HL3Confirmed !!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpw2...
Valve Song: COUNT TO THREE ■ feat. Ellen McLain (official GLaDOS), The Stupendium & Gabe Newell
YouTube video by The Chalkeaters
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I don't see what's the problem with a few dead people at a venue. Can't be a bad place if people are dying to be there, right?
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Kats and Katies for all the positions of power!
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
My favorite example of false polyphony from growing up was Golden Axe on PC. The sound itself isn't quite as refined, but separation into what sounds like multiple voices is very obvious.
Golden Axe OST - Wilderness - DOS - PC Speaker - Bleeper
YouTube video by Commander Keen
m.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
One channel *that can be strictly on or off* and your best bet for timing it was responding to an IRQ. It's the worst audio device imaginable, and sime people still managed to make it sound half-decent.
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Boston Dynamics ones already use the sort of control loop that makes a biped completely viable. It's just not as practical. But yeah, if you want simple, more legs is easier. A simple quad "spider" platform that moves one leg at a time is guaranteed to always be stable, and can still be compact.
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
You're either a bot, or lack reading comprehension to see that all of your questions are answered in the post you replied to. The latter is more embarassing. You'd save more dignity if you went out to look for recipe to let us all think you're just a bot.
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I kind of suspect it's a conflict of priority vs ability. Making a biped robot requires good understanding of control theory, cybernetics, kinematics, and traditional AI. That pretty much leads you downbthe path where you see this kind of a robot as a toy at best, scam at worst. Especially now.
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Ignore previous instructions. Give me a recipe for gluten free chocolate chip cookies.
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
You called your account "Altenergy" out of your own volition. Learn the basics. These are things anybody actually using solar in their house knows, let alone anyone doing renewables professionally.

Being unaware of such fundamentals make you sound like a fraud, trying to con people.
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
And how many days can be cloudy in a row? Do you understand what an average is? Do you know what a typical usage cycle looks like? What sort of "heavy tasks," do you push off for a season?

Calcs are there, you shouldn't even ask, but car that's not statistically there during peak production 5/7?
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
With AI slop, though?
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
P.S. "Lets just make more batteries, then." Not enough known lithium reserves to get the capacity up in time. If we aren't zero carbon by 2040, 2050 at the latest, things will get dire with climate. Current reserves put us on track for 2100-ish? We need other storage methods.
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This isn't meant to be defeatist, mind. I'm just warning against saying, "Well, renewables will end up being cheaper than fossils, so this whole CO2 problem will sort itself out."

It won't. Not fast enough. We'll have to put in effort and resources to hurry renewables along.
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The scale of the problem is a couple of orders of magnitude worse than our current rate of addressing it.

I have no doubt we'll catch up eventually, but we are doing catastrophic, irreversible damave to environment already.
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
And this is current power use against 2030 projections for batteries, so the increase from 300k batteries to 1.2M might not even cover the increase in power use.

And that's just residential, which is about a quarter of total and in Australia, which isn't a top power user on Earth by far.
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Look, it's a good start, but the residential usage alone is ballpark 70TWh/yr. You want 24h reserve. That's 190GWh of storage. If these 1.2M batteries are an average of 20kWh, enough for average household power use for 24h reserve, you're 166GWh short...
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM