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by eichin 8d ago
Huh - anyone recall other examples of open sourcing a product code base to mitigate a user trust issue? (In 2026 it's perhaps less powerful because "you're just going to feed it to some AI tool anyway" but I think it&#x2
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by eichin 9d ago
gets() was deprecated in C++11, removed entirely in C++14, and also removed in C11. So while it should have been removed in 1989, it did finally get done over a decade ago.
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by eichin 11d ago
It's the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Garage PR2 (according to the paper linked in the description.) It definitely had a design style - which mostly expressed "we have a lot of money to sink in to rob
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by eichin 11d ago
I haven't tried with BirdNet, but Merlin doesn't seem to ever false-positive on chipmunks or squirrels (there's been a suggestion that it should explicitly recognize them, and maybe some frogs too, since they're "
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by eichin 11d ago
Sounds like you've got birds crashing into the door? That's often something that can be improved (with stickers or hanging decorations) that make the glass more perceptible to the birds. (Another thing that sometimes helps is hav
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by eichin 14d ago
Yeah, Concord grapes are based on Fox grapes; when the new Welch's headquarters opened on Baker Ave they included a plantation started from cuttings from the original farm (which is just a house now but they still maintain their own gr
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by eichin 17d ago
The Sotsu "Flip Action Elite" (I think that's the product name? it was in a recent mrwhostheboss thin tech video) is exactly that: 3840x2400, 16", 450 nits, 14.3mm thick, and definitely had "slice the top off a lapt
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by eichin 29d ago
Back in the early 1990s, mice were fragile enough that Apollo salespeople were trained to be able to do their demos keyboard-only as backup (at least for tradeshows) and that was just generally how interfaces were built. It wasn't an
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by eichin 1mo ago
And we haven't solved "alignment" for corporations either...
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by eichin 1mo ago
I've just been collecting monospace fonts, and have a bit of elisp to cycle through the collection when I'm bored with the current one. (Sometimes that's enough to conclude that no, really, the original was fine and I go bac
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by eichin 1mo ago
There's a similar "horror burrito" circulating on bluesky and my first thought was "now we know how to produce images for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin... " (
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by eichin 1mo ago
Even with the label absent - you wouldn't serve cake with "tomatoes" and "salad", so that would be another hint of something being horribly wrong
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by eichin 1mo ago
I still can't find pics of the boards (other than on ebay :-) but https://seltzerbooks.com/alta.html has quotes like "To get a sense of the relative size of the RAM in AltaVista Search, consider that a typical per
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by eichin 1mo ago
mmm the early Dell 2U servers (2003 or so?) didn't have very good linux support, so the fans always ran at full speed. I think the happiest I've ever seen people about a kernel upgrade was (2.5 era?) when it got fan support for
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by eichin 1mo ago
Reminds me that AltaVista's servers ran in 4G of RAM (there were famous, at the time, pics of the circuit boards - DEC was rightfully proud of this, 30 years ago) and that a modern AltaVista should run on a decent laptop :-)
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by eichin 2mo ago
Is anyone else getting "mongodb is webscale" vibes? (Except 16 years ago that was a lot smoother, because it used some sort of "render this conversation" engine...)
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by eichin 2mo ago
it's sold as harder to copy (and easier to revoke when you're doing layoffs - which shouldn't have been a really challenge for card-based systems, they're just old and didn't keep up.)
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by eichin 2mo ago
Even the Microsoft Kin lasted 48 days (I thought it had been cancelled on launch day, but digging back it was just the tech press saying "This was a mistake from Day One" which is certainly true, but not the same thing :-)
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by eichin 2mo ago
800VDC at (merely) hundreds of amps is a high-end electric car charger. (Those are a lot easier to shut down individually, though.)
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by eichin 2mo ago
Or to the drug-assisted VR scene in Minority Report. (Though that's even darker...)
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by eichin 2mo ago
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7487913... via https://bsky.app/profile/jfoust.bsky.social/post/3mrqa6o24as... says that they're having attitude control pr
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by eichin 2mo ago
They should be close to the end of the checkout stage, then it'll take 4 weeks to get in the right orbit and another 2 weeks of inspection ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_boost_mission#Boost_oper... has an e
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by eichin 2mo ago
At least in the US, no, not many, and the fish itself is very import restricted to keep the toxic parts from reaching the market. Hmmm.
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by eichin 2mo ago
it's a little weird but most of the sub $50 ESP-32 boards on waveshare include an MP3 player as one of many demo bits of code (primarily because it shows off code for "read from microSD card" and "drive the DAC".) I
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by eichin 2mo ago
Monitoring "space weather" (paying attention to the sun/solar flares/CMEs etc) is important to keeping our earth orbiting satellites functioning. (That's without getting into what a modern "carrington event&qu
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by eichin 2mo ago
Textual? https://textual.textualize.io/
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by eichin 2mo ago
ugh, I had some text book that used R for a scalar value and (edit: \u{MATHEMATICAL BOLD FRAKTUR CAPITAL R} here) for a matrix that was related to the scalar and I had to go back and re-learn a month of material once I figured out that the
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by eichin 2mo ago
BASIC is older than most people realize, but it's still half a decade younger than Lisp.
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by eichin 2mo ago
The description of Gallus Gallus ("Red Junglefowl" but also described as the "original chicken") mentions it being an introduced species in Hawaii (but also that it's interbred with "feral and domestic chickens
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by eichin 2mo ago
Thanks!

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