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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Ouch
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Article comments aside, it is entirely unclear to me whether or not there was no backups. Certainly no "external" backups, but potentially "internal" backups. My thinking is that not actually allowing backups and forci
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If you get a chance, you should read (or listen to) Robert Caro's biography of Robert Moses[1] who built much if not most of the parks in New York. He built many of them at a time with Roosevelt was using public money to provide jobs f
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Okay, that made me chuckle. As someone[1] who has also predicted the opportunity for hobby robots based on my experience with home computers. And yet that has really never materialized. I mean there are common household robots today, thin
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Youtube link for the bridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mytGMsn4wvk
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In a different comment, I had mentioned the story of salvaging a Roman trade galleon and how one of the divers had made off with the lead keel weights (which turn out to be valuable because they don't have radiation in them) and while
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Chinese Ship Accused of Looting Iconic WWII Wrecks(historynet.com)
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Now we have a modern version: https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2023...
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You made me realize that tractor feed roll paper would be really great for printed web pages, no page breaks! Kinda like reading scrolls of yore.
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First I thought this was an old Aprils Fools post like the 'bring your gun to work day' posts back in the day. This is going to really make it hard to IT who are trying to enforce their company's contract mandated 'you c
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I know I'm weird but I love posts like this. I keep thinking there should be a paper for solving any closed form curve but haven't found it yet. (Symmetric curves are 'easy' but asymmetric like the egg get complicated fa
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Ah good to know.
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Hard agree here. The value of combining database + UX + logic into a workbench is like the app we've been reinventing over and over again. It's why Visual Basic still lives :-). And yes, not the greatest way to proceed once you kn
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A pretty reasonable way to prototype fixed segment LCD displays. I'm kind of on the fence about the on/off backgrounding stuff.
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"Roman" lead has no Cesium in it, which is important for some radiological instruments.
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I've been looking for it but have yet to find it. My memory has it being in Smithsonian magazine but I've gone through the last 6 years that I have digitized and nothing.
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I ended up switching to Keychron keyboards and found that the stabilizers do make a big difference in feel and in my own accuracy. I'm still looking for a good design that lets me put a drop-cap key where the Capslock (I've got Co
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Pretty wild story. Reminded me of the story of salvaging a Roman trade vessel off the coast of Greece. Everyone carefully cataloged and managed the various amphorae of trade goods, and one of the divers made off with a quarter million dolla
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And with the right shape, the turtles would bin pack when falling into a ditch and with enough turtles they would make their own bridge for the turtles that came behind :-)
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It's the real deal, lots of challenges with high emf. Not surprisingly a very common failure mode is that if you induce currents in the coils of the brushless motors their controllers which are using back emf to set their waveform phas
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I disagree, writing your own code is the only thing that does scale. Even if you do nothing more than take the NPM package get source, and then do your own maintenance on it. But having been in different organizations that chose one path
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
> Are people really this oblivious ... Yes, yes they are. The vector of "I've been using this package and giving it full permissions for like forever and it has never been a problem. " oblivious. One must understand the t
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Yup. I went to the Microprocessor Forum where they introduced 'Sledgehammer' (the AMD 64 architecture) and came back to NetApp where I was working and started working out how we'd build our next Filer using it. (that was a jo
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Is there a good explainer of the challenges of growing dirt based bacteria in the lab?
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Sigh, serves me right I guess. How many people do you know, who write open source? If you've been in the tech industry at all its probably hundreds if not thousands. How many of them are okay with the GPL when someone used their GPL&#x
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There is a growing sentiment that the GPL is the one source of the inability to derive economic benefit from doing productive software work. That was kind of explicit in RMS' manifesto, he was pissed off that people were charging $5,00
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> So I guess my issue is not thinking of these general purpose computers as appliances, so much as it is treating the owner of the device as a security threat. And in this we are 100% in agreement. The issue in the US is that liability f
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I know it feels like a semantic quibble. Consider that you can boot and run Linux on the processor that powers a Seagate hard drive. You can even run a c compiler and develop new code on it. But when you pull one from its protective wrappin
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The author appears to be nostalgic for the wintel monopoly that made it possible to write software for one system standard "PC" and have it run on dozens of different manufacturer's hardware. The people who use ARM chips typi
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This is an unrolled thread of Mary Lou's announcement at Wired Health in Boston. The device they are building uses ultrasonics to treat a wide range of conditions.

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