dosman33

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by dosman33 5y ago
You're suggesting this is an accident. Lawmakers don't write any laws any more, that happens on K-Street by lobbyists. But the same idea applies to whoever is writing these horrific things. We're still living with the DMCA al
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by dosman33 5y ago
Moar people need to be talking about this guys work, a buddy clued me in to it last year. Creating new species without any genetic changes... it's huge. Not only has he discovered a new communication control channel in biology, machine
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by dosman33 5y ago
I'm calling BS on this. Total lack of any specifics, and I don't need to know what brand of hardware is giving them fits. I've been responsible for tens of millions of dollars in hardware over the years of my career and PCIe
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by dosman33 5y ago
Separate from the article, the damming thing in his email release is the strong suggestion that he knew it was engineered early on and may have participated in hiding this fact.
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by dosman33 5y ago
You're dating yourself. XP from 2001 is 20 years old now. I get it, I cringe when I realize this too.
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by dosman33 5y ago
If you are powering off a very old system that spends most of its life powered on, don't let the hard drives or power supply cool down. Do your best to keep your work as brief as possible and get the thing turned back on before it assu
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by dosman33 5y ago
In unrelated news, people experiencing depression tend to sleep in an extra hour, film at 11.
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by dosman33 5y ago
Yes. Once while touring a space museum in Switzerland I was reading the placards about the Russian and US space programs. Yuri Gagarin was consistently referred to as "the communist" which seemed perfectly normal to me as an Ameri
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by dosman33 5y ago
In the US, universities use the term "Institute" mostly as marketing. They can take existing related units and organizations within the uni and package them under the term Institute for the purposes of creating a single cohesive b
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by dosman33 5y ago
The article every so slightly touches on radium products but doesn't expand on what those are, I suppose that's to draw less attention to them. I sometimes take my Geiger counter with me when hitting flea-markets and such. In our
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by dosman33 5y ago
Yep, agreed. But when you're first starting out you have to make some sacrifices and employers know this. In IBM's case, they've been burned pretty bad in the past. Gene Amdahl was one of the engineers that designed the IBM 3
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by dosman33 5y ago
Sounds like a simple misunderstanding to me. Employee thought they were doing something acceptable to formally disengage from the project and just wanted to monitor traffic. IBM interpreted it as an attempted end-run-around. Not surprised,
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by dosman33 6y ago
They forgot to mention the part where the goal posts get moved and you have to keep apologizing each time this happens. You may find yourself running out of rope as you are pushed further and further out until you don't have much left
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by dosman33 6y ago
Riiiiight. Just look at how districts are gerrymandered to realize this is not what politicians of either side want.
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by dosman33 6y ago
I think this is the right thing to post here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
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by dosman33 6y ago
Heck ya, Sidekick! I remember writing html in sidekick in high school. Until my files got larger than 2k anyway, that was the largest file sidekick could handle. Then I had to switch back to edlin :-(.
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by dosman33 6y ago
Eh, sure it matters somewhat. But if you think you're getting matched cells when you buy anything with a battery pack from China you're kidding yourself. So a home made pack isn't going to be any worse off that the cheapest k
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by dosman33 6y ago
You also have to realize things like this have to take scale into consideration. No one is going to do mass manufacturing of battery and electronics enclosures with 3D printing, this is a prototyping and hobby level manufacturing system. So
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by dosman33 6y ago
I've become a large user of PET-G for some of the reasons you outline. I've never had a problem with strength the way that I use it in my designs, PET-G is plenty durable for a small device which spends 99% of its life inside a la
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by dosman33 6y ago
As far as I'm concerned this is one of the main killer apps for 3D printers - making battery packs for vintage electronics. It's great to breath new life into old equipment which just needs a shot of lithium to be revived. I'