Oxidation

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by Oxidation 4y ago
And respect for engineering as a discipline. Tell a German that an engineer came to install your internet cable and they'll look at you like you've grown a second head. Actual quote: "what could be wrong with it that needs an
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by Oxidation 4y ago
I didn't say it was miracle (or "secret sauce", as it now reads), it was a result of decades of deliberate (and pretty ruthless, geopolitically speaking) policy. Which wasn't something the UK was somehow innately incapab
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by Oxidation 4y ago
> The UK no longer makes anything. The Tories are almost exclusively responsible for that. With education and long-term industrial policy, there could have been an enormous high-tech manufacturing sector underpinned by an educated workfo
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Not any more. It used to be true in the US that the copyright declaration has to include the claimant and the year, and that not inducing one or both forfeited your copyright. This hasn't been true for decades and since then copyright
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by Oxidation 4y ago
France is downrange of Cornwall. It'll be 'raight.
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Support it better (shoveling money at it is probably necessary but not sufficient), ration care to prioritise workers (this is usually considered distasteful) or do nothing and drag down the general health and economic condition of the enti
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Some old people definitely read the Times. Source: all the old people I'm related to who don't read the Telegraph which is even worse.
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by Oxidation 4y ago
> Interesting how a poor health care system can impact the general economic productivity. I thought this was basic governance. Even at the most ruthlessly utilitarian, healthy workers pay taxes.
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by Oxidation 4y ago
This isn't about software engineers, it's more about the nurses, GPs, teachers and everyone else who has said "well, sod this for a game of soldiers" and retired early rather than be paid to little to be the ablative arm
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by Oxidation 4y ago
You can choose how much correction you get, in terms of how many bit errors you can correct per 'n' bits. And you need surprisingly few bits to get pretty great performance under "reasonable" bit-error rate channel (like
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by Oxidation 4y ago
None of that automatically means a safe harbor provision can only exist if claimants are able to make obviously bogus claims without redress, though, which is what the original point was before or was derailed into a false dichotomy of hav
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Seems like it could benefit from forward error correction to defend against bit errors (this is how QR codes survive big chunks being partially obscured or replaced by logos, and also how CDs survive being scratched within certain limits).
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by Oxidation 4y ago
I know exactly what you mean. I can't put my finger on it, but it feels a bit "always been at war with Eurasia".
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by Oxidation 4y ago
With as much evidence, one can say that it's almost as if the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in 2002 allowed it. Geocities, say, was huge before the DMCA and died after it.
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by Oxidation 4y ago
The AT&T Unix is probably "the" Unix, if there is one, but the name got sold eventually to The Open Group which licenses it to compliant systems. So it's now a bit more like x86 (family of similar products that work somew
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by Oxidation 4y ago
> completely unhinged from reality Like apparently the UK bring a knife-ridden crime epicentre, when the knife-crime rate is, while unacceptably high, actually rather lower than the US, and that's before you consider guns which ar
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Indeed, Linux is probably the most famous. It's trademarked because someone else tried to trademark "Linux" and then shake down vendors for 10%. It went to court, the trademark troll lost and the trademark itself was assigned
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by Oxidation 4y ago
RF as in radio frequency. They work by sending radio energy down a coaxial cable to the tip where it's absorbed. At the desired temperature, the tip alloy reaches its Curie point and stops absorbing energy. The instant it cools, it abs
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by Oxidation 4y ago
It's not necessarily true that a system that requires a claimant to demonstrate ownership also requires a user to pre-emptively prove it. You could have a law that provides a safe harbor provision but also requires claims to be hones
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by Oxidation 4y ago
The legal requirement to act instantly on the automatic presumption of the claimants being both right and acting in good faith with no evidence required isn't required to avoid liability. They could have required some higher standard o
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by Oxidation 4y ago
> DMCA mechanics just not works, seems like anybody can claim anything, the service provider is just forced to remove the content and in general not ask or nor the considering if the claims are real. It works extremely well, if you consi
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Metcal (actually OKI) changed my life, and for under $200 all in second-hand with a selection of tips and the option to add another handpiece (dual port power supply).
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by Oxidation 4y ago
A used Metcal/OKI RF iron is a good investment. They're pricy, but if you're using lead-free (and if you're modifying something soldered elsewhere, you probably are), they just work. Even a Hakko struggles on ground pins
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by Oxidation 4y ago
> seems like drawing skills will go the way of the horse and carriage. The exact same thing happened to technical drafters when CAD destroyed the entire (sub-)industry. And to typesetting, for that matter[1]. Which is a pity in the human
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by Oxidation 4y ago
A lot more passenger miles are flown then 25 years ago: there are more flights and they go further. Fatalities per passenger mile are something on the order of 5-10 times less than in the 90s. You also hear about every single one of them no
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by Oxidation 4y ago
There's a lot more "economy" you can do with automation, though. Automatic switched-packet routing has enabled a lot of value-add over fully-manual postal systems, for example. There's a reason there was a big knee in th
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by Oxidation 4y ago
What is the industry standard for a decent, non-antique small manual lathe? Everything I see is either 50+ years old or mediocre-looking Siegs or otherwise suspiciously white-label-ish or it's a super-fancy CNC alien spacecraft that co
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Reminds me of: > 1960's Futurists: Automation will free mankind from meaningless tedium to focus on creative pursuits only human beings can master. > 2020's Techbros: We're building AI to write all your books, music, an
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by Oxidation 4y ago
> The few UK machine shops that even bothered answering my emails and phonecalls Sounds familiar. Just getting someone local to take your money is like pulling teeth sometimes. Eventually went with someone halfway across the the country
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Another domain name that looks more like a phishing domain then anything else. Reminds me of an IT email warning against clicking links to strange domains, followed almost immediately by a password reset reminder to something like microsoft

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