ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Just great, now I'm getting so old I'm mixing up my Sun Executives :-). You are correct. I also believe Scott said something to the effect that IT was dead although we all know how good of a prediction that was.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Eric has a penchant for saying things he thinks before thinking about how they might be heard. He famously said, "There is no privacy, get over it. If you're not doing anything wrong you don't have anything to worry about.&qu
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I am aware, and it is unfortunate for Emerson Electric in terms of branding things in the electronics space. I don't doubt they will retain the National Instruments and/or Digilent brands for that reason. It will make me chuckle e
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I must have missed this when it happened last year (April apparently). Perhaps not surprisingly I associate the name "Emerson" with comically large integrated stereos (boom boxes). But apparently they are building up a test and me
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National Instruments acquired by Emerson (2023)(ni.com)
74 points by ChuckMcM 2y ago|48 comments
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Okay, that is legit insane :-).
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Wow. Pretty neat stuff. This is another great way to understand what computers getting faster by three decimal orders of magnitude means :-)
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This is an interesting data point. Grid scale batteries are a pretty big change in how grids are managed, things like "anticipating load" and starting up "peaker plants" to catch that load are mitigated by the ability to
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California Grid Breezes Through Heatwave with Batteries(thinc.blog)
111 points by ChuckMcM 2y ago|115 comments
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Reminds me of a data center that said they had a backup connection and I pointed out that only one fiber was coming into the data center. They said, "Oh its on a different lambda[1]" :-) [1] Wave division multiplexing sends multip
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Solar panels have indeed become much cheaper, although it is important to distinguish between energy "provided" and energy "stored." Which why the combination is so important. It is often great to look at solar in terms
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Yes, and conflate "totals" with proven reserves while failing to mention that people aren't really actively looking for more reserve as aggressively. But this is a PR piece for the University for which the standard problem is
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
It is remarkably difficult and continues to provide a good example of the limitations of LLM based systems. In my case, I used perl, and exploited the fact for for a given bank, the statements are consistently formatted. Further, PDF OCR co
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Yes. But the list is too long to put in a message here. Generally tools which do things that I needed done at the time, like convert PDF bank statements into CSV transaction files that can be ingested by a simple ledger application. I alway
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I really appreciate folks who include their reasoning with their argument as it makes it possible to evaluate their conclusions through external sources. So hats off here. One of the things that helped solar take off in California (besides
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Interesting cheap low power system. My brain connects "NAS" with "Data I value" and there isn't anything in the author's system that is focused on enhancing the data integrity. Not saying that is bad, just sayi
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Sure, if you're doing a TCO analysis you figure out a deprecation schedule for your physical plant and your OpEx for the day to day operations. Of course the CapEx for "one" versus the CapEx per instance for "one thousan
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
What is your measure of efficiency? I ask because the cost of sunlight is nominally zero so 10kWh/$0 is a really big number :-). Note that the article said that as a thermal plant it operates 24/7 by storing heat in a high thermal
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Absolutely correct, any APT won’t be caught this way. But script kiddies will be every day of the week. And if you’re browser is suddenly sending queries to China after that last add-on, it can be a good bread crumb to follow up. Security,
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
A number of routers can capture every destination address your network has sent data to. You can then go through that list and mark 'safe' the ones where you know where they are going. After about a week you'll go days and da
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
My Dad collected antique cap guns. By the "collector's bible" its "worth" $40 - $50 grand. He got zero offers for it when it became clear he needed to liquidate some of his "stuff" to pay for health care.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This is so sad for me on so many levels. Not the least of which that I came very very close to giving them my PDP-5 because they would keep it running and the curator at the time gave the impression that Paul was setting up a trust to keep
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
It would be fascinating to see how the proceeds of such an offer were split. I've heard whispers that SpaceX has a bunch of debt that is collateralized by Tesla stock, if that's true there is clearly a case for margin pressure the
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Of course, the inverse square law, but given they are not designed to deal with multi-megawatt transmitters shining a light in their eyes, well that would be an issue. (Of course if satellites have secretly been launching with ginormous not
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
That would never work! :-)
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Hah, oh and blind every satellite in low earth orbit sure. :-) I think a better headline would be that it isn't "crazy" to suggest you could power an airplane with microwaves, but you probably wouldn't want to do it fr
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Would love it if they started comparing plant based leathers to plastic based leather alternatives and actual leather. When those comparisons are favorable I expect there will be a bigger impact on both sustainability and the market.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Yeah but so many people want to believe this idea. Consider all the history of people of "royal blood" as if that endeared them with the knowledge and skills of ruling. There is a whole industry that plays to this desire of peop
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Yup. That is where the money is, it isn't in "hobbyists". It will be interesting to see if the RISC-V efforts will allow for vendors to supply "50 year" SBCs (which is to say they are guaranteed to have pin-for-pin
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I've got one of these and its glorious if you fondly remember the PDP-10 as I do. Yes, its just being emulated on a Raspberry Pi, but seriously running a "real" one generates several kW of heat and required even more kW of po

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