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by martyvis 4y ago
ChatGPT has a pretty good handle on G-code (the machine code to drive CNC and 3D printers). A machinist friend of mine and myself got it to write G-code to create a shape from a block of material, adding holes and arrises and so on. To top
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by martyvis 4y ago
TIL that an eSIM was a separate chip. I somehow thought it was just a function of the TPM.
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Bank flags payment of $30 that had 'Muslim' in transaction description(abc.net.au)
3 points by martyvis 4y ago|0 comments
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We use "grand" ubiquitously here in Australia for $1000.
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You aren't going to be sitting outside without a space suit on.
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by martyvis 4y ago
You need to strip trailing spaces. My first search for "firewall " surprisingly produced 0 results - when I noticed I had inadvertently added a space (well I think autocomplete did) and resubmitted, I got a more pleasing 13 result
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by martyvis 4y ago
You obviously haven't worked in an Australian city office. Every office has a kitted out kitchen, certainly with hot water and instant coffee, but very often these days an automatic espresso or pod machine - where it used to be a filte
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by martyvis 4y ago
Don't know much about Illinois, but there are lakes up there I've heard, surely there are sailing clubs, etc for the summer. I have a small (14 foot) two-hull dinghy thing I bought maybe 38 years ago that I need to get out again o
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by martyvis 4y ago
Jervis Bay, south of Sydney, Australia has records of tsunami going over 80m cliffs (240ft) and carrying 6m boulders up 25m. Large tsunami may have occurred only 300 and 800 years ago. https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcont
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by martyvis 4y ago
And that's why SD-WAN (software defined wide area network) technology now exists. In a lot of ways it is even better than BGP in that you direct traffic based on performance measurements - either actively through SLA tests or passively
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by martyvis 4y ago
I set up a scenario in chatGPT where there was bag designer named Dan, a buyer named Yuki, and the manufacturer named Manu. I got ChatGPT to provide Dan a set of questions for Yuki to create the design. I had it answer for Yuki given the ba
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by martyvis 4y ago
You imagine this could at least be used as material for a 90 minute tutorial somewhere in a logistics or packaging training course.
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by martyvis 4y ago
Passenger liners were great. I travelled on the Ellinis twice. It was a sister ship of the Australis, which was the renamed SS America mentioned in the post. I went with my parents and two sisters to Holland from Australia for a year in lat
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by martyvis 4y ago
It isn't different. It's just that the implication is that you need to talk to the replicator tersely rather than conversationally
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by martyvis 4y ago
OK. I was trying to find a full flight plan, and was thinking it might swing down from the North before it got to Hawaii
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by martyvis 4y ago
Actually this morning I was thinking about the inaugural and hopefully successful flight of Starship maybe next month. While it is meant to demonstrate capability to orbit, it won't complete it and is intended to crash land off the coa
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by martyvis 4y ago
I was into Tcl (and Tk) in the mid 90's. There was a great database that I think had Tcl bindings called Qddb (quick and dirty database). I used these to hack together a few Web cgi-bin applications. One was a super fast library catalo
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by martyvis 4y ago
A former primary school colleague (we met 50 years ago next year!) and his daughter wrote a pretty decent book on death anxiety - "Mortals: How the Fear of Death Shaped Human Society" https://good-grief.com.au/mort
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by martyvis 4y ago
Why does the title miss the key words "sum of" or the symbol "+"?
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by martyvis 4y ago
As always Juan Browne gives tremendous insight and sober review of incidents like this https://youtu.be/SvUOHa8n7aQ
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by martyvis 4y ago
it's why in the case for mine there are two holes in the foam for spare batteries
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by martyvis 4y ago
It's funny how this comes up often. Even though Kleenex is by and far the most popular brand here in Australia, I don't ever recall anyone ever saying something like "pass me a Kleenex". Maybe it's our penchant for
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by martyvis 4y ago
Internal cute nicknames is nothing new - I was a "Digit" when I started at DEC in 1997. 25 years later I'm just a boring old HPEer.
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by martyvis 4y ago
Festo have a long history making technical things fun. As a young teenager some 45 years or so ago, I used to go every year with my toolmaker Dad to the engineering expo in Sydney. I always recall Festo putting various demonstrations of the
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by martyvis 4y ago
Shared a beer or two with machinist friend yesterday. It blew us away that given a description of a block of steel and how we wanted to process it, it would write generic G-Code (commands for a computerised machine tool) that were feasible,
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by martyvis 4y ago
Even very earth tied machines suffer similar issues. I worked on what was known as a "hot leveller" computer, a PDP-11/73 at the steelworks I was employed at. It had something like 9 rolls (maybe 200mm in diameter) that would
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by martyvis 4y ago
>formally or formerly?
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by martyvis 4y ago
The prohibition orders came into effect yesterday https://legacy.legislation.nsw.gov.au/~/pdf/view/act/2022/46...
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Dedicated encrypted criminal communication device(legislation.nsw.gov.au)
3 points by martyvis 4y ago|3 comments
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Missing radioactive capsule found in WA outback after frantic search(abc.net.au)
293 points by martyvis 4y ago|234 comments

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