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by hinkley 7mo ago
Obviously the contact point in the sled will need to be disconnected while not grounded, as the top level suggested, or shorted to ground across a large resistor. It’s not the amperage that’s going to cause problems it’s the 800 volts, back
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by hinkley 7mo ago
The dumbest thing I’ve done in the last ten years was stick my hands in the mouth of a “docile and friendly” pitty to extract a screaming puppy. Only afterward did I realized I almost destroyed my livelihood. My partner Google stalked the o
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by hinkley 7mo ago
The power connectors will be on the far side of the rack from the service side so shouldn’t be a problem for humans touching the third rail so to speak. With that sort of voltage you should be able to use a capacitive or inductive sensor to
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by hinkley 7mo ago
IMO, there are more steps. Do what you love for work, someone will exploit you for it, and break your heart. One of my kids has taken this advice, does art (really good art) for themselves and is pursuing a STEM career instead. The other is
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by hinkley 7mo ago
Hat tip to Sindre who has fifty bagillion packages but few of them depend on more than one of his other packages.
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by hinkley 7mo ago
Off the cuff, the first step to ASLR is don’t publish your images and to rotate your snapshots regularly. The old fastCGI trick is to buffer the forking by idling a half a dozen or ten copies of the process and initialize new instances in t
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by hinkley 7mo ago
Dyneema has remarkably low elongation, in addition to its very high strength to weigh ratio. Higher than Kevlar (but less heat resistant). It’s why they used it for sail cloth before rigid body sails took over most competition sailing. Aaed
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by hinkley 7mo ago
Jeremy Fielding is also good, but I think he must have gotten busy because he doesn’t post as much. https://youtube.com/@Jeremy_Fielding If you pay attention to Smarter Every Day videos he’s occasionally in the background,
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by hinkley 7mo ago
They’re all bad hiring processes. Some worse than others. Hiring known quantities can slip onto nepotism shockingly fast.
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by hinkley 7mo ago
These systems make it more efficient to remove the actively toxic members for your team. Beligerence can be passively aggressively “handled” by additional layers but at considerable time and emotional labor cost to people who could be getti
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by hinkley 7mo ago
I learned recently that the inductive heating coils used for metallurgy (smithing) are copper tubing with coolant flushing through them. The copper tries to heat up along with the bar you’re heating in the coil. Both from resistance and fro
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by hinkley 7mo ago
Aaed Musa blew my mind about 18 months ago with his capstan drive video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MwIBTbumd1Q Eight months ago he built a quadrupedal robot that could step sideways using three of them per leg. I’m not go
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by hinkley 8mo ago
They showed it on The Daily Show at least once. Talking the rest of a committee out of entertaining a nomination under Obama. Which they ignored entirely in the same time frame for the next administration.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
From a determinism standpoint it might be better for the rot to occur at ingest rather than arbitrarily five questions later.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
That’s basically the Neo. Apple did patent a design for a dock in a monitor for a portable device to slot into. It’s gotta be getting close to expiration now. I think the trick is heat dissipation. My friend who is a macOS programmer years
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Isn’t my Apple Watch faster than a Cray 1?
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by hinkley 8mo ago
And I will say again, we couldn’t get insurance without the halon system.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
This is going to be an environmental disaster.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Lindsey Graham is a lying sack of shit. And I say that with his permission, since he’s on camera asking to be called out if he did exactly what they did with the Supreme Court not four years later.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Some of us hate this part. They don’t want to learn the domain to that degree. It’s not always the dumb ones either. However there’s not a lot of overlap I’ve noticed between the craftsman crowd and that one.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
> Most enterprise code involves lots of exploring and fast iteration. And when the code base is 250,000 lines of garbage all the way down, this is impossible. The projects where I’ve had free rein to kill tech debt and SDLC footguns with
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Wise+intelligent people realize that intellectualizing every fucking thing in their life is a trap, and that they should rely more on other things. Not the least of which is buy-in, which is often not about rationality either. It might take
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by hinkley 8mo ago
How many data centers have had a server room burn to the ground? We had a halon system in an on-prem data center twice the size of my bedroom. We had to knock out a wall because the volume was too small for the smallest cooling system we co
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Yeah this is a function called sort_by but I don’t think it’s doing the same thing. let (initial_values, stream) = (initial_values, stream) .filter(filter) .sort_by(new_sorter_lexicographic(vec![
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by hinkley 8mo ago
In my lifetime the conversation has shifted from mineral farming with chemical fertilizers to managing microbes to microbes doing the managing. There is a case to be made for many species of plants effectively being a previously unidentifie
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by hinkley 8mo ago
It’s also cops Making the Numbers Go Up by marking down a case file as having progressed because someone is in custody. Which isn’t about justice.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I went to a top ten school. I had one semester of circuit design, one one of EE, and a couple of computer architecture that went over the MIPs and writing assembly. I think there was some sort of transition of curriculum going on with the i
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by hinkley 8mo ago
In the era of kubernetes and edge servers and everything running on battery power, that distinction between need and want becomes much fuzzier because of course we can bin pack the more efficient one better or preserve another five minutes
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Five decades but I’m talking about an unprecedented degree of crappiness.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
If an allocation falls in a forest and never gets written to, did it really happen? We don’t allocate things we don’t write to. Maybe if the question sounds stupid then you didn’t appreciate it, instead of other people being stupid.

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