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by bigiain 1y ago
> I think a lot of people in our world need to spend a little more time in introspection. Sadly, I suspect most or all of the investor class of people "in our world" have done this introspection. They've checked with their
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by bigiain 1y ago
> I was once even part of a vendor assessment that was rejected and it turned out that the CEO had already given the green light and signed paperwork weeks before I worked at a place where without any of the tech staff knowing about it,
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by bigiain 1y ago
A 17 foot tall MacBook, which was Steve's original vision sketched on a napkin. Not the 17 inch tall one they built and put on stage for the MacWorld keynote speech - that was in danger of being trod upon by a dwarf.
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by bigiain 1y ago
You need someone to go and 3D scan them for you, then get your YouTube channel big enough for a Bambu Labs sponsorship. And a lot of filament. A _lot_ of filament...
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by bigiain 1y ago
Boeing today is so obviously a different organisation to the one that built their rapidly dwindling reputation. The 747 was an amazing engineering marvel. They started designing it in '65, the first one rolled off the production line i
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by bigiain 1y ago
An epic, Elon level binge, huh?
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by bigiain 1y ago
And also - what about the payload that drone was delivering, aimed at the target and doing 150kmh or more when your microwaves zapped it and killed off all the electronics. It'll only take it 2 unpowered/unguided seconds to cover
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by bigiain 1y ago
I'm fairly certain clay pigeon shooting type ammunition and aiming skills stand reasonable chances of hitting even small drones and doing sufficient damage to knock then out of the sky, but only at maybe 50m or so range. A typical atta
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by bigiain 1y ago
A gutted microwave oven and a satellite tv dish have been demonstrated to disable DJI drones at ranges exceeding 500m - either having them fall out of he sky or trigger return to home. That's broadband jamming on the 2.4GHz radio frequ
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by bigiain 1y ago
I'm pretty sure people with hostile drones inbound on a battlefield aren't too worried about whether it's safe for birds. I'm not even sure that the people responsible for keeping airports safe and open care too much eit
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by bigiain 1y ago
> Capacitors are a terrible energy source. They're a pretty good way of storing energy in a way you can deliver it _really really_ fast. Sure, not in a way your carefully designed electronic circuits can make use of it, but if you n
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by bigiain 1y ago
You might enjoy Lightning On Demand's Lorentz Cannon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lix-vr_AF38 I does seem like a lot of stuff is needed. He's got 2 tons of capacitors in a stack 20 feet tall to get around 35 f
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by bigiain 1y ago
But unlike Steve, Susan will live on immortal - as the inventor of the Dogcow.
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by bigiain 1y ago
This is the oldest snapshot I can find in archive.org, from 2001. But the page says copyright 1996 at the bottom, and that's more like when I actually published this page: https://web.archive.org/web/20010519112823
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by bigiain 1y ago
Next you're gonna try and tell me that Apple didn't invent the mobile phone. Or the portable MP3 player. Or the windowing GUI.
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by bigiain 1y ago
> My interpretation is that Alexei might well have understood that Anna felt lonely / homesick. Maybe? Perhaps Alexei was just one of those rare people who treated everybody with kindness? Either way, respect to Alexei - and everybo
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by bigiain 1y ago
... so they locked out the main security contributor, and didn't see a need to replace them?
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by bigiain 1y ago
It says $3090 (maybe easy to miss since it also talks about RTX 3090s?)
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by bigiain 1y ago
The roller/drag-through thing is worthwhile owning, I use mine a lot more often than I get out the Lansky kit. It's probably a couple of times a month I'll find my usual knife is smooshing ripe strawberries or tomatos a bit i
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by bigiain 1y ago
There's a bunch of red flags here. The author of the article is desperately trying to sound like pert of the Ruby developer community, not some corporate type power player trying to maximise profits and their own bonus... In the linked
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by bigiain 1y ago
Not all _that_ surprising. From where I see things, pretty much every time you see "Cloudflare" and "free speech" in the same sentence, it always end up being about Cloudflare supporting free speech for nazis or white su
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by bigiain 1y ago
I have one of those "roller" sharpeners, in theory a "good" one, it's from Global (the Japanese knife brand) not just an AliExpress knockoff. It works reasonably well and is definitely quick. But its not even close
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by bigiain 1y ago
I remember seeing a comment by a local "celebrity chef" where he said he never sharpens cleavers - he just buys a specific inexpensive brand 5 at a time for $8 each and throws them away when they become dull. While I don't ag
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by bigiain 1y ago
People are the problem. We need to remove them from all processes.
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by bigiain 1y ago
Of course, the seconds that matter might be someone else's medical emergency, which your iPhone or Apple Watch is slowing down with false positives. From https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/03/iphone-crash-detect
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by bigiain 1y ago
> 288 cores is an absurd number of cores. Way back in the day, I built and ran the platform for a business on Pentium grade web & database servers which gave me 1 "core" in 2 rack units. That's 24 cores per 48 unit rac
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by bigiain 1y ago
> The vast majority of users knew nothing about Facebook‘s origins They are all <checks notes> "dumb fucks." -- Mark Zuckerberg, 2004 personal correspondence documented in https://www.theregister.com/2010&
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by bigiain 1y ago
How many of your dependencies have 2nd level dependencies which have even deeper dependencies on ZX Utils, or NX (or left_pad.js)? (right now I don't know the answer to that for the stuff I'm responsible for, but I'm in the p
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by bigiain 1y ago
For some reason I can't seem to find my local Google branch's phone number on their website...
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by bigiain 1y ago
> The Powerwall warranty guarantees 70% capacity after 10 years of daily cycles (i.e. 3650 cycles). This means they expect ... to have pulled some corporate restructure which leaves a bankrupt legal entity responsible for the warranty cl

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