jcgrillo

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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
"Man sticks hand in fire, discovers fire is hot"
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
And literally every other thing they do on the internet.. remember that Strava shit? You have relatively technically unsophisticated people with high level access and not a lot of adult supervision. That seems like a juicy target. I assume
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
God money's not looking for the cure God money's not concerned about the sick among the pure God money, let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised God money's not one to choose No, you can't take it No, you can&#x
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
> better than nothing, I don't blame em. Money ain't got no owners, only spenders.
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
But from the perspective of the US DoJ the right people got killed (assuming of course they've determined the operation was legal according to their own rules, e.g. US law). The issue here is this guy telegraphed operational plans to t
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Yes, it seems in this case an adversary who was paying attention could have learned something very, very valuable.
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
It seems strange, but that must be why I'm not a lawyer :p
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Maybe I'm making an incorrect assumption, but I assumed the information was already classified. He was betting on an outcome of a planned military operation based on his knowledge of those plans. My assumption is that information is su
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
It's interesting they don't think they can get him for leaking classified information. To me that seems like the biggest issue--I mean sure, it's bad he made money on it, but it would have been really bad if he'd gotte
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
I think you're asking for something magical, like when politicians go on TV and demand safe cryptosystems with government backdoors. Any time you try to do engineering work to hinder users from using devices they own it's a really
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
There was a moment ca. 2020 when everyone was losing their minds over Lambda and other cloud services like SQS and S3 because they're "so cheap!!11". Innumeracy is a hell of a drug.
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
> Management very often trust the sales and marketing departments of big vendors more than their own staff. They're getting kickbacks from cloud vendors. Prove me wrong.
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
There's a device called an "aneroid compensator" that sits on top of the governor and is used to maintain a fueling profile for a specific density altitude (e.g. limit fuel at higher altitudes on naturally aspirated engines o
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
They charge for the diagnostic systems. Bigly. For example, Mercedes-Benz's Star Diagnostic System (SDS) is necessary for a variety of repairs and diagnostic procedures. There are varying degrees of workarounds and alternatives but non
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
I have a Kubota L3010 HST (late '90s-early '00s) and it's fantastic. Fuel efficient, quiet, comfortable, minimal electronics, pretty easy to work on. It's a little underpowered (30hp/24 pto hp), but not egregiously.
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
It has a governor.. The P pump 12 valves (and many other multi-application diesels) come with either one of two different governors, an automotive one which has a high idle and low idle, but unrestricted fueling in between. This is what yo
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
It's not the craziest idea. A tractor is basically just a big hydraulic pump driving a bunch of linear and rotary actuators (commonly called "motors" and "cylinders"). Especially if it's got a hydrostatic trans
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
I like the electric saw for limbing and felling small stuff because it's light and quiet but yeah for anything bigger than like 9" or extended work it's not the tool for the job.
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
What would you be accomplishing by trying to control end user behavior like that? As a manufacturer, there are certain standards your machine must meet when it leaves your factory. After that, a whole separate set of standards applies to us
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Yeah you're definitely gonna want to purchase nozzles. They're extremely precise and manufactured to very high tolerances. I've rebuilt plenty of 30+yr old injectors and haven't yet been unable to find newly manufactured
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Controls are one thing, but there's also the problem of generating 20k psi of oil pressure and some thousands of pounds of continuous common rail fuel pressure to actuate the injector. Compared with older MW, M, P, etc. styles it'
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
> How do you separate them? Mandate common interfaces and open hardware. I shouldn't have to buy a $10k dongle to sniff codes. I certainly shouldn't have to buy a different one for each manufacturer.
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Exactly. Electronically controlled unit injectors are expensive--like 10x the price of mechanical ones. They're super cool, they can produce like 10 separate metered injection events per cycle. This is great for efficiency, noise, emis
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Hell yeah 12V 5.9 Cummins. The one in my pickup has 250k hard miles on it, some blowby, and it starts right up at -10°F no problem.
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
I think there's a big assumption baked into the economic collapse thesis that Tay and MechaHitler, when they attain superintelligent sentience, will have any interest whatsoever in participating in the global economy. They might just s
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
They're literally hoping to make it up on volume. The AGI thing is a boondoggle that I doubt any serious person actually believes or takes seriously. But let's say for the sake of the hypothetical that tomorrow Microsoft Tay or wh
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
> as costs go down Huh? Why would that happen? Indications are that costs will likely go up , especially if currently vendors are selling tokens at a loss.
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Grammatical errors, formatting mistakes, or bad writing in general aren't something the magazine publisher can be held liable for, it may be embarrassing but it's not illegal or unethical. Publishing outright falsehoods about some
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Yes, it's amazing how quickly so many tech companies have hitched their tooling to these big AI vendors seemingly without any thought towards whether they'll still exist a year or three or five from now. Insane behavior. To the (d
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
I disagree. If you merge code to main you immediately lose all control over how it will be used later. You shouldn't ever ship something you're not comfortable with, or unprepared to stake your professional reputation on. To do so

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