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by gorkish 4y ago
> And the reason we as a society aren't doing this already is what? Because you have to park it 900AU away from the sun (Voyager 1 is at 147AU after 40 years and not in a solar orbit) and it has to have a special kind of coronagraph
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by gorkish 4y ago
You seem like a young and eager engineer. You drove your car into a tar pit. You can stand on top of it and yell and scream until you are blue in the face, and everyone will agree with you that nobody should have put this tar pit here in th
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by gorkish 4y ago
I've picked up a lot of pitchforks for YouTube channels before. I do this because I want YouTube to improve and I value the creators' intentions to educate, entertain, inform through the platform. This time, I am not so sure. I&#x
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by gorkish 4y ago
It's kind of strange that it wont let you join the waitlist if you are logged into an existing openai account.
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by gorkish 4y ago
If gasoline cost $10/gal like it ought to, then we'd have smaller cars.
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by gorkish 4y ago
Also kimwipes.
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by gorkish 4y ago
These rituals are pretty time consuming compared to my routine: 1) use a kimwipe 2) use another kimwipe if they are still foggy Beyond this, throw them in an ultrasonic cleaner or the dishwasher if you want them shiny. Buying glasses that d
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by gorkish 4y ago
> There are organizations where SHA-1 is blanket banned across the board - regardless of its use. > I have very recently seen customers move to older much less functional (or useful) VCS platforms just because of SHA-1. A company this
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by gorkish 4y ago
Back in the day I ran X.25 over an actual barbed wire fence for a customer. It connected a serial terminal in a field house at a local feedyard back to their SCO box in the main office. Probably about 1500 feet. It was reliable!
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by gorkish 4y ago
I wish more designers would learn how to more objectively assess whether their work will have positive or negative value. It's kind of like how the lesson that tic tac toe taches kids has nothing to do with the strategy of the game. Th
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by gorkish 4y ago
https://netboot.xyz/docs/selfhosting
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by gorkish 4y ago
> Photonics and copper both travel at about the speed of light. Just going to put this out there since it's totally non-obvious to a lot of armchair engineers, but this is not at all true. Velocity factor in most transmission lines
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by gorkish 4y ago
So do they just vote "No" again when the order comes to pay the legal judgement?
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by gorkish 4y ago
Teslas all have mechanical door releases, but aside from the front seat doors in Model S and Model X they all require knowledge of their location and use. The design in Model S and X are that a light pull of the door handle triggers the ele
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by gorkish 4y ago
Try Mathologer instead
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by gorkish 4y ago
Prior work: https://metacpan.org/dist/Lingua-Romana-Perligata/view/lib/L...
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by gorkish 4y ago
VGA interfaces typically use a RAMDAC which is just a special purpose high speed multichannel DAC. Put the right patterns of data into video ram and you can sorta turn the thing into an arbitrary waveform generator
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by gorkish 4y ago
It's possible in PostScript to dynamically modify each glyph. Long long ago, I saw a small collection of typewriter and handwriting fonts that did this. This would have been back in the mid 90's or so.
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by gorkish 4y ago
It's not very difficult. Just buy a video scalar and slice the screen into quarters. I have a pile of these devices at work. The delay is one frame (or one field in interlaced modes). They are really straightforward devices generally b
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by gorkish 5y ago
Well the entire supply chain for commercial CO2 is "reclaimed" so anything they have to say on the matter is entirely for the purpose of spin. They needed something solid that can sublimate and be relatively safe. Media blasting w
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by gorkish 5y ago
The real question is, "Can Invention Dice invent Invention Dice?"
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by gorkish 5y ago
God this thing is gonna look and work so much worse with 10 cables hanging out of it. Probably isn't even heavy enough to stay in one place against all of that mess, but yeah there's about a million times I can recall where having
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by gorkish 5y ago
So GPT-3 is just the grown up corporate version of Forum 2000 (Forum 3000). Too bad the SOMADs no longer have personalities.
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by gorkish 5y ago
From 2500/yr to 300/yr is 88% reduction in cost. Heat pumps are 300% - 500% efficient, enough to represent a 66% to 80% savings on their own. Adding insulation reduces the total amount of heating necessary, plus heating oil and el
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by gorkish 5y ago
> How can a startup afford this? Do they work out some agreement with lawyers to only pay when they win? On a case like this it's probably even more sophisticated than that; they probably ran a process where many law firms pitched t
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by gorkish 5y ago
I'm extremely surprised as well. This seems like a obvious vector for an impersonation attack. A malicious user could do this, then perhaps they would have more success submitting a malicious change to "correct a flaw in their pre
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by gorkish 5y ago
It's not really a problem. I went ahead and split the universe for you. Between options A and B, you are to select option B.
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by gorkish 5y ago
That is not the point; the signal propagation times in the VLSI blocks are engineered to work properly at the specific physical size. If the structures are scaled to a larger node size, the timing variances increase. If you want to do this,
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by gorkish 5y ago
The hints of their desire to go this direction have been present for a few major versions now: advertisements creeping into installers, auto-updates to a new major version that requires a paid upgrade, making non-subscription renewals more
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by gorkish 5y ago
I believe strings of "dumb" LEDs are mostly free of IP, but once you start getting into controlling them in some way by sending signals over that wire, you are squarely in the soup.

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