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by 13of40 4y ago
Makes me wonder what happens if you remove the liquid and replace it with more thermite. Edit: Come to think of it, it might just absorb the heat and do nothing.
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by 13of40 4y ago
One of the signals they use for classifying spam is people clicking "Report Message->Junk" in Outlook, so it's probably a constant battle with people who forget they signed up for something and call it junk.
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by 13of40 4y ago
It seems like the electronics should be in an enclosure to protect them from the extreme cold, low air pressure, radiation, etc. they would encounter at 60,000 feet. Whether that would survive the fall is a different question.
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by 13of40 4y ago
There's a lot of truth in this. Some of the most classically brilliant people I went to school with ended up being homeless drug addicts or shut-ins. Meanwhile, the unassuming Ukrainian guy who built my deck is a secret multi-million
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by 13of40 4y ago
The Harvard architecture on Arduino and not being able to load code at run time is a real buzz kill. It would be so much better if you could execute out of RAM so young hobbyists could make their own Apple II grade hobby computer.
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by 13of40 4y ago
When I was a kid, my dad always carried one of those magnesium fire starter things [1] on his keychain, and whenever we went camping he would use it to start the fire instead of matches. He never used it the way it was intended, though, wh
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by 13of40 4y ago
You can get a detector/dosimeter on Amazon in the $50ish range. I got one a while back and verified it works for increased background radiation at 30,000 feet in a plane and separately with an alpha radiation source. The interesting
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by 13of40 4y ago
Officers carry pistols so they can coerce enlisted men to stand up and run into machinegun fire, not because they're meant to engage in combat. What the general is talking about is just one of those head games to make people put on th
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by 13of40 4y ago
I read that as "don't accuse other HN users of being shills" not "you can't say this news article seems a little suspect".
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by 13of40 4y ago
In my experience "bars" of 5G don't have much correlation with actual (tethered) megabits. In some places it's like broadband speeds, and in some places I've had to explicitly switch back to LTE to get a decent con
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by 13of40 4y ago
When I saw the picture, my first though was of the one in Le Mans: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g187195-d50581... In my cartoon understanding of physics, it boggles the mind that these things wouldn't
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by 13of40 4y ago
One of mine had a picture of JFK giving a speech.
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by 13of40 4y ago
"In highschool I did well enough at Z80 assembly code in Junior year that I was selected as a teacher's assistant for the Pascal class in Senior year...Kiddo."
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by 13of40 4y ago
> Most developers are basically powerless here In fact, there are so many corner cases in date/time, trying to calculate anything like that yourself is probably as ill-advised as rolling your own crypto.
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by 13of40 4y ago
I was a little late to the game, but in the mid-80s my parents took us to a screening of 2001 a Space Odyssey at the local university, and although they weren't in use by then, all of the desks in the lecture hall had ashtrays build in
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by 13of40 4y ago
Two times I can recall using them in real life were for parsers to identify MIME and CSV files. I thought it was pretty elegant, but zoom forward a few years, and I got to listen to the new guy tell everyone in scrum how he had to fix a bu
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by 13of40 4y ago
Kind of makes me wonder what would have happened if all the cars involved had been on autopilot. Would there have been a collision at all?
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by 13of40 4y ago
Where I live every house has a garbage can in front, trucks pick it up once a week, and every public space has multiple garbage cans that get emptied on a regular schedule. I didn't set the system up, and other than paying a bill ever
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by 13of40 4y ago
I have a lot of bitter things to say about automated testing, having spent 14 years of my life trying to knead it into a legitimate profession, but here's the most significant: You test case is more useless than a turd in the middle of
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by 13of40 4y ago
Thanks, I'll take a look at that. Next thing I was going to try was host a VM under Linux and see if I could make a "hackintosh" on real Apple hardware.
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by 13of40 4y ago
I have a Mac Mini from around 2010 that I saved from the recyclers recently. Dusted it off, put in 8GB of RAM and an SSD, and it booted up Windows 11 just fine. However, as far as I can tell there is no up to date MacOS available for it b
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by 13of40 4y ago
I visited Russia in 2013 and 2014, and there were a lot of gritty places, but availability of modern retail shops, goods, etc. was basically the same as places in Europe at that time. My kid travelled there last summer and said the sanctio
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by 13of40 4y ago
Maybe this is a life pro tip for anyone entering a situation like this. Keep your own logs, and if they come after you because the AI said you slacked off, just point out all the times you answered a question from on-call during dinnertime
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by 13of40 4y ago
FWIW, Google says 540 electrical deaths per year in Europe vs. 200 per year in the USA. Whether that's from lower voltage or more GFCI is anyone's guess.
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by 13of40 4y ago
I see what you're saying, but the truth is that for a moment there the bank had $2 on its books.
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by 13of40 4y ago
No, I mean if the switch is closed... [hot wire]---[switch]---[load]---. | [neutral wire]-------------------+ | [person]
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by 13of40 4y ago
Does it matter whether the light was switched on? It seems like the path of least resistance in that scenario would be the other copper wire leading out of the light socket rather than the high resistance person connecting to ground. I&#x2
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by 13of40 4y ago
If I could have had that interrupt list and memory map (tables 1 & 2) when I was 16, that would have been a game changer. As it was, the machine was already obsolete when we thrift-stored it, so there was no way to get software or manu
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by 13of40 4y ago
I saw this in an elevator in India recently. The third-hand instructions we heard were that you double-click the button to cancel, so all of us computer nerds were trying to double-click it like you would a mouse, when apparently it's
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by 13of40 4y ago
In fact there are about 750,000,000 people alive today with no access to electricity. That's not to say they could all live off the land if society falls apart, but someone's going to survive.

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