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by bigiain 2mo ago
Nah, she got the job. And that lead to her next even better one. Now I'd need something to go spectacularly right for me to be able to afford to head hunt her. (We still catch up for coffee every 6 or 12 months.)
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by bigiain 2mo ago
Gotta admit that's what I clicked through hoping for. I've seen a few projects that use SDR to detect doppler shifts of reflections of broadcast FM radio station off planes as "passive radar". But that doesn't get m
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by bigiain 2mo ago
It's always worth considering whether you have people who will give you genuine glowing references. I've only ever once been at a place where there was a policy saying "all you are allowed to say during reference checks is &q
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by bigiain 2mo ago
Using ADS-B and calling it a "radar" feels wrong to me. (But is is a cool project)
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by bigiain 2mo ago
One of my treasured toys - probably from a few years older than your 3 year old though - was a rocking cylinder steam engine my father gave me. It was a present from his father as part of a steam powered boat they built together probably in
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by bigiain 2mo ago
'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe' -- Carl Sagan
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by bigiain 2mo ago
> I find "make" potentially confusing with AI-assisted projects. I'm feeling this right now. I have a working prototype of a project that has mirrors mounted on pan/tilt mechanisms driven by servos and controlled by a
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by bigiain 2mo ago
The C in DMCA stand for Copyright. All (I think?) software licenses are underpinned and made legally enforceable by copyrights. EULAs are underpinned by licenses which are founded on copyright. Patents are the only one of those protections
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by bigiain 2mo ago
The cheapest option, Pixel 10, costs $1349 from Google, they want $1990 (in Australian Dollars, that's about $940 and $1390 in USD) So not quite a 50% markup on the bard phone, not quite as bad as 4x. And while I'd feel like a jer
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by bigiain 2mo ago
The website also says: "Australian research shows that 99% of domestic violence cases now involve some form of technology-facilitated abuse." Where the "Australian research" is linked to a page where the first Key Findin
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by bigiain 3mo ago
> a badly configured scraping setup? Cynical-me assumes every single AI company is vibe-coding everything, and _all_ their scrapers are as badly written as the typical publicly available scraper code and tutorial - mostly written by self
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Is there a decent rule of thumb about how this style of antenna scales with frequency? I'd kinda like something like this that could do 2.4GHz, 850-950MHz and even down as low as 400MHz. Would by uneducated guess that 2.4GHz antennas w
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by bigiain 3mo ago
I bought whole Intel N100 mini pc with 16GB of DDR5 in it in 2023 for $AUD289 (so about $US200). I got a 16GB (DDR4) SODIMM in 2022 for $AUD88 ($US60).
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by bigiain 3mo ago
> on hardware that ordinary people can afford These days, can "ordinary people" afford 24GB of ram and half a TB of NVME ssd? sigh
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by bigiain 3mo ago
This is a beautiful turn of phrase - the likes of which is unlikely to ever be generated correctly and in appropriate context by an LLM: "An additional inconvenience is the flyby speed: as designed, the Cyclers would swing by Earth at
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Yeah - I think we're on the same page here? If I'm interviewing at a Python shop that actually does statistics t=ype stuff or text munging, I'd expect them to have preferred/existing solutions for these tasks in their st
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Is that really a "more applicable" task that finding the median? Are there actually software development jobs where either of those tasks are a regular/common part of the work, where people don't "just know" ho
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Back in the late 80s and early 90s, I drove a '72 Superbug reasonably regularly from Sydney to Brisbane and Melbourne, even Adelaide a few times. They're 800-1000km trips each way and 1600km for Adelaide. Admittedly my muscles and
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by bigiain 3mo ago
> I think in the near future, people will start filtering out movies that have a non-trivial share created by AI. I'm not _sure_ that's true? "Most people" know that McDonalds don't make the best burgers in their
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Yep. Earlier today I pointed someone toward Sade's song Young Lion. It's a really good song all on it's own. But if you take time to not only listen and understand the lyrics, but to find out the backstory of who she wrote th
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by bigiain 3mo ago
I think there's probably some discussion about using AI to write fiction that should be had. But. Passing off your AI output as "human written" should be punished somehow. As a fiction reader, I don't care what ChatGPT h
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Honey, We Bought an AI Story(bona-books.com)
42 points by bigiain 3mo ago|17 comments
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by bigiain 3mo ago
"Download NoBeepPro for Android Auto now! It silences all unwanted warning sound, and totally doesn't surreptitiously enroll your car into a residential proxy service or mine crypto currency using your main power or hybrid battery
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by bigiain 3mo ago
> At this point I don't know if I'd buy anything made after 2008. At this point I'm contemplating finding a a late 60s/early 70s Beetle - or some other car with no more complex electronics in it than headlight switche
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Any advice on good communities or sources of (reliable) information on alternative firmwares and pen testing type tools?
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Especially since, as that article describes, the "firmware" has a much more limited scope that it used to, now being mostly a loader for app rather that providing user functions. Worrying about firmware development resources for a
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by bigiain 3mo ago
I wonder if, for autonomous (or semi autonomous) flight, there's a way to make the drone flip and "power dive" then fly a carefully configured/programmed half-loop at the bottom? Seems there might be scope that way to ha
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Keep in mind "copyright" explicitly does not cover "knowledge" or "ideas". The reason I buy books is rarely for knowledge or ideas, its either for a good story in the case of fiction (which the author definitel
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by bigiain 3mo ago
I think iTunes Store and Netflix both showed 15 or so years back that if you give people and easy and convenient way to pay a reasonable price for music/movies - a huge number of people will willingly choose to pay and support the arti
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Too many. By which I mean "more than zero". And yes, I'm including nation states as "nutjobs" for the purposes of this calculation.

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