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500 billon, you mean.


I intend to! I didn't post this here but all these comments have inspired me to flesh this out a bit more.


Thanks for pointing it out. Need to visit again and explore more. I'll fix it in a bit.


Not the poster, but it's my blog, funny seeing it posted here. This was actually from June this year, which is supposed to be the sunniest month. I got to see just five islands, so there's still plenty more to explore. The cliffs and the rough sea are a mesmerising sight, I remember sitting for an hour just watching the waves crash along the base.


You just described wonderfully why I'm drawn to remote places. It started with a trip to the interior of Iceland, then Tromsø, and more recently Svalbard and the Faroes.

I tried to capture the beautiful sense of isolation in Svalbard here, maybe it inspires others to make a trip to somewhere remote. https://photoblog.nk412.com/Svalbard2024/n-ssC8fP/Svalminiph...


Thanks for the pics! The prevalence of rifles is... thought provoking. The pic of the guy on a bike with a rifle is so metal

My overall impression of the area is "gloomy" all pics are overcast. It feels sad. It is beautiful, but I long for the sun


I believe that a rifle is required in Svalbard when you are outside. Polar bears are no joke there.


I couldn't find my old photo of a modern-day nordic recreational cyclist with an all metal SAAB on his back, so here's the next best thing

https://old.reddit.com/r/shittytechnicals/comments/yicgme/it...


On Svalbard you need a rifle for Polar bear protection. If you need sun just go there in summer, with the midnight sun it will never leave you.


I could’ve scrolled far longer. Really liked the pictures and brief texts


Thank you, I've been trying to post more.


Poked around your site and enjoyed it, please post more


Thank you, kind of you to say. Enough people have said nice things that I've convinced myself that more might be interested in my travel shenanigans.


My god, how can I take photos like that? Do you describe your setup and process somewhere?


Thank you, I don't think I'm doing anything particularly special with my process. I like blacks, and keep photos slightly underexposed, something that most phone cameras will avoid like the plague, brightening everything up. Cropping and composition is also more important than it seems IMO.


Great photos. Crazy to just see a picture of a rifle leaning up against a window, unattended.


Beautiful photography, and I enjoyed your commentary. Thank you for posting.


Jason Statham in "The Apiarist" doesn't have the same ring to it


If you'd seen the movie, you'd realize that it couldn't have been more ridiculous even if that had been the title.


"Secret Backup NSA" isn't as catchy


OP, what is that grid of geo-located countries called? It's beautiful, and I want to play with such a map. Is there a name for this?


Those are called "tile grid maps", I got the template for the world one here: https://policyviz.com/2017/10/12/the-world-tile-grid-map/


Seems like the same text/instructions are cached, so they give you the same result. Just a hack, but adding in a data box with current date+time fixes it as expected as the inputs are no longer the same. I wouldn't rely on this for true randomness though.


It's interesting how sometimes the instructions seem to specifically dictate JSON output and other times not. Even without changing the prompt, it seems that this aspect - the generated series of steps for each instruction - is pretty random each time you run it. Or maybe it caches for awhile. What would be really nice would be if there were a checkbox to request structured or unstructured output from instructions, or better yet just lock in a set of derived steps you were happy with.


I hear the same with my shower, but I'd wager most of the change in sound would be to do with pressure change between the hot and cold source.


That was what I thought at first too. However if it were pressure change, the sound would change when you move the knob, not when the hot water reaches the shower.


Also it's more-or-less the same pressure. It's the cold supply pressure pushing water out of your tank or through your tankless water heater.


Yes, the thermostatic mixing valve is worth understanding- it’s pretty neat.


In most plumbing (at least in the US), there is no difference in pressure between hot and cold because the hot input is the same cold water source.


It's been there for a long while, doesn't look like a test item. My guess is they're trying to take it down, but cache hits along the way bring it back for now.


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