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by edgineer 10mo ago
What would you say to someone who has long been fascinated by nuclear weaponry and hopes to one day witness a test explosion? I see even China hasn't tested in decades and so my chances of doing this are close to nil, but I ask because
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by edgineer 10mo ago
100,000 people in the US alone die of diabetes per year (none of the 7 were in the US). Other reporting shows that 3 million glucose meters are being recalled. Diabetes can be tricky to manage as it is. One could look at this story case-by-
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by edgineer 10mo ago
I'm aware that "what does Salesforce actually do?" is a joke but I also really don't know what they do and this article didn't help. They... have conversations with customers? What does the AI do?
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by edgineer 10mo ago
Living in proximity to people who don't care enough to not be annoying to others has a few ways you can look at it. But I suggest you consider upgrading the cabin air filter in your car. There are likely options with activated carbon t
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by edgineer 10mo ago
I hear this commonly about using the words "male" and "female." I think it's unfair. For one thing, the military uses them frequently, and so would veterans. Another reason is that their meanings are age-agnostic wh
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by edgineer 10mo ago
Doctors sometimes prescribe alcohol and in these cases pharmacies do fill these orders.
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by edgineer 10mo ago
I'm sure those people exist, I just never happen to see anything they write online nor meet any of them in real life.
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by edgineer 10mo ago
Ha, that's like the quote: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
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by edgineer 11mo ago
On the topic of biology specifically, you might like The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. He argues/explains how evolutionary forces become dominant, with much more focus on the why. Why it has come to be that living things grow, multi
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by edgineer 11mo ago
There's some neat math that shows how one could send (radio) signals which are undetectable to an observer. Last I read, the research was in specific, purely theoretical scenarios but the idea is that you could send bit impulses which
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by edgineer 11mo ago
Sleep is just different from shut down. With an unplugged laptop, after an idle period or by shutting the lid, I'd like the machine to save energy. I haven't always taken the steps to prepare for a shut down, saving open documents
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by edgineer 11mo ago
The elephant in the room for me is "microphonics" or the noise piped to your head via the wire any time anything touches it. You demand higher quality, yet don't care about the loud noise created with every small movement of
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by edgineer 11mo ago
Use a wallet with a divider, and sort your bills. Won't have to flip through until you carry several each of five or more denominations. If you regularly do, then use two dividers.
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by edgineer 11mo ago
So it goes: unintentional data leak. Data leak pipeline becomes common knowledge. Then manipulation. "New CPU in Passmark" news has become so regular, I've long since assumed that they are not leaks at all, but intentional pr
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by edgineer 11mo ago
There may be newer laws with different spirits, but I thought the original copyright spirit was "other people can't sell your work without permission" and not at all about preventing free sharing.
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by edgineer 1y ago
Personalization would be good if it meant recognizing that I dislike blogspam, SEO'd pages, advertisements, and assuming my location.
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by edgineer 1y ago
I would like copyright law in the US to be weakened.
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by edgineer 1y ago
One F-35 costs around $100 million. I count two that perhaps theoretically, with a clever autopilot, could have landed on their own after pilot ejection. At the scale of $200 million I'm not certain that the additional engineering of t
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by edgineer 1y ago
It doesn't have to a mistake, it could be any other detail that you know would be disagreed with. Comedy sketch writers would write a throwaway that was too off the wall to air, then include it in their proposal among others to make su
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by edgineer 1y ago
And for the modern era there is Drugslab, a Dutch channel where the hosts describe drugs, take them on camera, and show their experiences. https://www.youtube.com/@Drugslab
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by edgineer 1y ago
You can buy a new zipper and have a tailor put it on for you. I've upgraded clothing in this way before. Total cost is about $20.
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by edgineer 1y ago
Nvidia also had really cool demo programs you'd run with each generation to show off what your new card could do. [0] You'll have to use the Internet archive to see them all. [1] Several, like 'Dawn' for example, were qu
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by edgineer 1y ago
"Nowadays, video rendering is no longer done with overlays." Darn, I thought this explained why, after upgrading my GPU, videos playing in Chrome have a thin green stripe on their right edge.
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by edgineer 1y ago
Wiper blades, cabin air filter(s), 12V battery, refrigerant dryer, suspension. Arguably drive unit oil. Very good idea to lubricate moving parts, hinges, apply protection to weather stripping, exposed steel on underbody.
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by edgineer 1y ago
Storage is cheap and upgradeable on all but very very few Windows laptops.
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by edgineer 1y ago
As an aside, "bar exam" and "passing the bar" comes from the bar/railing physically or symbolically separating the public from the legal practitioners in a courtroom. "Set a high bar" comes from pole vault
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by edgineer 1y ago
I've seen one or two fake capacity disks show up. I check this site every couple weeks, for a couple years now. The more common listing issues are hybrid drives showing up as SSD, or disk bundles showing as a single larger disk, that t
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by edgineer 1y ago
I'm not reading that Israel released every person of Palestinian descent from their prisons. In another source I see "agreed-upon number of Palestinian security prisoners" which apparently is the 2,000 we heard about today. I
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by edgineer 1y ago
You are suggesting that "leak" is a transitive verb. It is. However, it is also an intransitive verb.
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by edgineer 1y ago
This is just one facet of communities that stays opaque. I mean scientific literature, statistics, and demographics only go so far. Things done privately stay secret unless something severely breaks, or someone speaks up. Slice of life bits

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