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by Animats 7mo ago
The immigration attorney company works from Firefox at https://www.tryalma.com/ or https://www.tryalma.ai but not from https://app.tryalma.com Nothing reachable from https://www.appl
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by Animats 7mo ago
Not always. Try to buy a reasonably priced car or truck, with a price no higher than the last 20 years of inflation applied to a vehicle price from 20 years ago.
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by Animats 7mo ago
Well, here's a video which ends with a hand holding a sample.[1] It's a sand-making plant. Big rocks go in, and repeated crushing makes them into sand-sized rocks. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVBiRPkQ0MI
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by Animats 7mo ago
What, a government agency doesn't have incoming fax servers that create PDF files? I had a service for that twenty years ago, for both incoming and outgoing faxes. Cost a few dollars a month, flat rate. (Now if LibreOffice could edit
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by Animats 7mo ago
I dropped Windows when Microsoft first added ads. My last Windows 7 machine was turned off last year. It's just better without Microsoft.
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by Animats 7mo ago
How long before Bitcoin's security is broken? About 2.3 to 4 million Bitcoins are considered "lost".[1] This is several times larger than the remaining 1.3 million un-mined Bitcoins. Expect substantial resources to be devoted
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Iran's toll booth system is now controlling Hormuz traffic(lloydslist.com)
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by Animats 7mo ago
The lead story in this article is not romantic. It's about an AI proposing to go into business with a human. "He and Eva made a business plan: “I said that I wanted to create a technology that captured 10% of the market, which is
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by Animats 7mo ago
The war should be over by March 31st. Netanyahu has a deadline. He is facing a snap election. If the Knesset doesn't pass a budget by March 31st, Israel votes 90 days later, and Netanyahu is not expected to win. Worse for Netanyahu, he
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by Animats 7mo ago
Most game engines seem to have some coroutine kludge.
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by Animats 7mo ago
"CATL’s “Naxtra” sodium-ion batteries achieve an energy density of up to 175 Wh/kg, the company said, putting it on par with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries." Useful, but not a "breakthrough" in energy densit
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by Animats 7mo ago
[1] https://www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein-victim-fbi-trump...
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by Animats 7mo ago
That used to be plausible. But what new revelation about Trump could hurt him? Misuse of office for personal gain? Trump Tower Moscow? Inciting an insurrection? Harassing young women? Adultery? Rape? Hanging out with a pedophile? Blowjob fr
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by Animats 7mo ago
McMaster-Carr has the personal protective equipment required for 800V: Flash protection face shields [1] and Class 0 electrical protection gloves.[2] It's not that bad. It's just ordinary industrial protective gear. [1] https:&#
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by Animats 7mo ago
This is an excerpt from "Always/Never" from Sandia.[1] [1] https://newsreleases.sandia.gov/always_never/
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by Animats 7mo ago
Yes, I read that. There had better be a backup system. MOSFETs tend to fail ON, and there's a megawatt going into each rack. Somehow this seems the wrong approach to AI.
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by Animats 7mo ago
Up from 35 years. Average age is currently 22, though. Air Force and Space force went to 42 years back in 2023. The Navy went to 42 years in early 2026. Maximum age for the Marines remains 28 years. With high youth unemployment [1], it ough
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by Animats 7mo ago
800V to each rackmount unit, with hot plugging of rack units? That's scary. The usual setup at this voltage is that you throw a hulking big switch to cut the power, and that mechanically unlocks the cabinet. But that's not what th
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by Animats 7mo ago
The relay they're using is quite likely to fail. It's a no-brand imitation of a relay where the real one is only rated for 10^5 cycles driving an inductive load.[1] Also, they needed a DPDT relay, which they are emulating using tw
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by Animats 7mo ago
Note the use case - someone wants to have the ability to replace a base-level crate such as serde. When something near the bottom needs work, should there be a process for fixing it, which is a people problem? Or should there be a mechanism
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by Animats 7mo ago
It's becoming painfully clear that we have no idea how to run a society where machines do most of the thinking. Maybe there will be a glut of smart people. Historically, that was the case until roughly WWII. Humans produced a certain f
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by Animats 7mo ago
That's a generic problem with oil states. Or, more generally, where most income is generated by some centralized industry with strong government involvement. See "Dutch disease".[1] It's a strange situation in which havi
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by Animats 7mo ago
> > My technical skills are being disrupted by machines - that's fine I'll go do other things. > As others have noted, it's great to not actually need the paycheck you are working for. Um. Yes. There's a link on
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by Animats 7mo ago
We really need automated roofing. Installing shingles is easy, except that it has to be done on top of buildings. There's an experimental roofing robot, but it's not good enough for production yet.[1] [1] https://www.yo
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by Animats 7mo ago
I sent a query into NARA. Maybe they know something. It's probably in some forgotten Civil Defense archive.
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by Animats 7mo ago
I never answer my land line with "Hello", because predictive dialers recognize that as a go signal for telemarketers. I usually answer my land line with my name, business style. Cell phone is answered with "Hi, ... " dep
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by Animats 7mo ago
Also note that if you buy a Tin Can unit, there's a noncompete clause: You agree not to "build, benchmark, or develop a competing product or service." So don't buy this if you work for a telco, or a voice communications
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by Animats 7mo ago
I've looked a few times over the years but can't find it online. National Archives probably has it somewhere, but not indexed where Google can find it.
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by Animats 7mo ago
> The reason casino dice have such sharp edges is to get the to stop rolling faster with fewer tumbling. The more a die tumbles the more likely it will present any issues with it. No, casino dice are flat-sided cubes because corner curva
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by Animats 7mo ago
I think this article was on HN a few days ago.

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