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by _kb 8d ago
Direct link to the analysis report: https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/dynamic-media-pr...
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by _kb 9d ago
Similar environment, identical experience. Fixing something that’s visibly and publicly broken (or able to be sold) gets immediate praise. Preventing that issue before it occurs is thankless and invisible. There are people doing that invisi
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by _kb 11d ago
This is like vim pedal ( https://github.com/foxweb/vim-pedal ) on steroids. I love it.
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by _kb 12d ago
Nand2Tetris is great. Definitely one of, if not the, most impactful bit of education I’ve ever done it terms of knowledge imparted.
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by _kb 13d ago
I've spent a fair chunk of career designing/building installed audiovisual systems. Displays devices are what terrify me most from a security perspective (and it's a low bar in that world). They should never be network connec
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by _kb 13d ago
That depends entirely on where you are. This is explicitly not allowed within Australian Consumer Law, for example. Impeding resale is an entirely legal and effective dark pattern this provides though.
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by _kb 14d ago
See: philosophy ~> determinism.
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by _kb 16d ago
Math from Three to Seven by Alexander Zvonkin is a great read and example of this. It recounts experiences running a math circle for preschoolers and really highlights the value of play, curiosity, and open exploration. From personal experi
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Notey and Noisy: A Sound Science Mathemusical(malwebb.com)
2 points by _kb 20d ago|0 comments
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by _kb 20d ago
If this is the sort of thing that interests you, I highly recommend setting aside 90 minutes and strapping yourself in for a listen to https://malwebb.com/notnoi.html .
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by _kb 20d ago
That format is considered harmful.
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by _kb 20d ago
> Time, quiet mind, slow mornings, rest without guilt, calm and boring days. Ah, I remember pre-parent life too.
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by _kb 21d ago
Since the ANT+ protocol implementation seems to already be there, it seems a likely/sensible future path is to implement wheel sensor support. It provides much higher accuracy of speed/distance than GPS and lower power draw. On th
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by _kb 22d ago
AU$140 (~US$100) per 4mg, which is approx one month, here. AU$25 (~US$18), or AU$7.70 (~US$5.50) with a concession card if you qualify for subsidy. If you're in Australia it's worth a chat with your GP rather than less regulated c
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by _kb 24d ago
If you get a high frame rate video of a space, there's plenty of other objects that can act as visual transducers: https://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/VisualMic/ .
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by _kb 28d ago
Within built environment and industrial design that's termed universal design. The canonical example is ramps on footpaths providing equivalent benefit to people in wheelchairs, parents with strollers, and commuters on bikes, scooters
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by _kb 1mo ago
Particularly here where the context is ephemeral. Any usage of short links can (and sometimes should) link to a canonical source with an immutable URI. This is just a foreign key for humans.
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by _kb 1mo ago
Aka POSSE: https://indieweb.org/POSSE
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by _kb 1mo ago
Open the rack bay doors, please, HAL.
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by _kb 1mo ago
Syslog is still everywhere on a lot of hardware and appliance style devices. For those bringing that into modern telemetry stack I can't recommend Grafana Alloy enough ( https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest&#x
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by _kb 1mo ago
In environments where the threat model requires it you can/must already buy hardware variants that are non-radio. It's not just disabled in software but is a different physical SKU. Likewise data diodes for USB, audio, or display
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by _kb 1mo ago
The preceding sentence is equally prescient: > Operating systems aren’t really equipped to work with the user to ensure that a microphone stays a microphone, and doesn’t spontaneously turn into a keyboard that hits Win+R and drops a pay
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by _kb 1mo ago
The secret is to have your children eat for you, then just do blood transfusions when they’re at peak nutrient level. You can do that while you work for optimal efficiency.
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by _kb 1mo ago
Yes - sector lights. When you are on a channel / in safe water they’re white, red in the port sector, or green when you are too far starboard. Some will combine this with an angle dependant flash to alert you how far into a port or sta
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by _kb 2mo ago
When the glut of GPU arrives I'm sure humanity will find a good use for all that excess compute, like finally getting back to signing monkey pictures and excreting endless hash based pyramid schemes.
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by _kb 2mo ago
https://specs.ipfs.tech/ipfs-uri/
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by _kb 2mo ago
Building anything is a good way to learn. It’s the industrial design / manufacturing equivalent of perusing or hacking on a good open source project.
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by _kb 2mo ago
With a USB-C cable tester tester, of course.
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by _kb 2mo ago
Is is a perfectly cromulent use of capital.
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by _kb 2mo ago
> Even if it's 50% worse, it's 90% cheaper, so the economics argue against producing any new physically made content. That is an unfortunate pattern I fear is become applicable to a lot of domains (film, software, food, clothin

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