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by brk 3y ago
My IBM PCjr utilized this concept with their sidecars. I recall having: 1 Memory expansion sidecar 1 Parallel port sidecar 1 Sound module sidecar 1 Extra power sidecar (just power insertion to make up for the anemic default power supply) I
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by brk 3y ago
I think the argument is that there are no constitutional rights to bars, cigarettes, and porn. Social media is being held up as an example of "speech" here, which all US citizens are entitled to (at least in theory).
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by brk 3y ago
They have been "at war" with water for centuries now. Several floods have occurred, the last major flood was in the 1950's, IIRC. For the most part they have managed to keep the water out, but I wouldn't consider their b
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by brk 3y ago
A lesson learned from boating, and living on waterfront property: Water always wins.
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by brk 3y ago
Olive Garden has entered the chat.
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by brk 3y ago
Add Dadagrams to your list: https://dadagrams.com/ No affiliation, it was posted to HN a while back and that is how I found it. The premise is fun, you're playing against the developers dad.
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by brk 3y ago
It was different earlier. But the linked article still leads with "Boeing overwrote security camera footage of repair work..."
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by brk 3y ago
"Boeing Overwrote" makes it sound like they actively did something to cause the footage to be lost. Most video surveillance systems record to a giant circular buffer, newest video overwrites oldest video automatically. In many ca
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Remote driving startup Phantom Auto is shutting down(techcrunch.com)
1 points by brk 3y ago|0 comments
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by brk 3y ago
Then you'll see MFDs from Garmin, Raymarine, etc. I had Raymarine Axiom's on my last boat and they were pretty modern. You could display charts, radar, sonor, engine data, all mixed and matched on various layouts. I could even wat
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by brk 3y ago
They’re surprisingly resilient actually. I had one on my last boat (though in a space that was primarily air conditioned all the time. Had another on my balcony running a Marine Traffic AIS station for 6 years that was ‘weatherproofed’ with
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by brk 3y ago
In that class of boat, the owner is not the one operating it. Many times they literally wouldn’t even know how to start the engines much less interact with the ships systems.
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by brk 3y ago
Quicktime lets you record all or some of the screen, along with optional microphone audio. Saves to an MP4 file.
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by brk 3y ago
This is a great idea! I know that I was flailing about trying to figure out why I couldn't login, so I'd suggest calling it a "Flail Whale".
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Facebook, Instagram Down(wfla.com)
3 points by brk 3y ago|1 comments
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Shot-Scraper(shot-scraper.datasette.io)
1 points by brk 3y ago|0 comments
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by brk 3y ago
Missing the point? When the classifications are horribly bad, what is the point? I can write a random phrase generator in FAR less than 5MB that would have the same overall accuracy as this.
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by brk 3y ago
It classified my mostly-bald, short hair as "shower cap". I help a coffee cup up to the camera that it called a plunger. There were some other bathroom-centric classifications as well, maybe it tries to guess the room type and c
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Nascar driver caught wearing an amphibious-like glove in a cheating violation(wflx.com)
34 points by brk 3y ago|57 comments
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by brk 3y ago
That’s funny, I’ve been reading HN since the beginning and have never heard of this.
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Presumably far less than what is required to make the offering value to Microsoft. Still it is probably hundreds of thousands of devices, if not low millions.
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by brk 3y ago
My fear is similar, but more along the lines of adversarial attacks as various weaknesses are exposed. Imagine people taking advantage of zero-day exploits that cause self driving cars to veer off the road, stop suddenly, collide, etc. It i
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by brk 3y ago
>I don’t get it why the US company layoff culture is so different from what I’m familiar with, the European one. Not trying to single you out, but these kinds of comments always baffle me. Around the world, we have different religions, c
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Uncertain-T FAQ(stevescottsuncertaint.com)
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by brk 3y ago
I have done exactly that - car as generator, during a long power outage in NH. We had 2 oil furnaces, and ~350 gallons of oil left in the tanks, but no power to run the blower motors to move the air. A Harbor Freight inverter and our Ford E
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by brk 3y ago
FWIW, I really liked Termination Shock. Much more than Fall (I read them in that order). I had to kind of force myself to finish Fall. >The daring new social structure needed to deal with climate change is... heritable monarchy? What doe
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by brk 3y ago
Sure, but you have a lot less personal risk following advice from a lawyer vs. advice from an LLM.
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That shot is a ducking annoyance!
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I agree, for whatever it's worth. There is already a social stigma around people being focused on their phones/screens, and the disconnect it creates with people around you. But that disconnect is somewhat virtual in that the phon
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by brk 3y ago
In the previous house we had 3 A/C units for the house (4T, 4T, 1T), and two on the boat (1.3T, 1.3T) that ran pretty consistently. That was the vast majority of the consumption. We had an electric clothes dryer, which would run a few

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