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by mdip 5y ago
For what it's worth, I realized after I wrote that original comment that I have a (rather powerful) desktop in my basement that I stopped using several months ago (really, about 2-3 years ago my usage dropped off substantially).
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by mdip 5y ago
I didn't catch that quote -- that's an amazingly dumb thing to say. It's so dumb that I'm inclined to believe it was a mistake, rather than something Nadella believes. Maybe the PR folks had a little too much say i
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by mdip 5y ago
This article sums up a lot of my thinking pretty well, and at the same time, I didn't find any of it particularly earth-shattering, and that it was all a rather obvious place they've been heading[0] but I realized after I reflecte
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by mdip 5y ago
Wonderful write-up. I'm working on something that could benefit from this in my free time[0]. The code examples were fantastic; somewhat ironic that the AI couldn't detect sarcasm, but it was fascinating reading the longer imple
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by mdip 5y ago
Very cool; I don't work with OSM in my "day job" but took an interest early last spring. It's amazing how far things have progressed in the mapping space. I think back to my first "serial-port attached" Magell
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by mdip 5y ago
I clicked into this article knowing nothing about Triplebyte (not meant to insult), at all, and after reading the first paragraph, I'll admit I jumped to a whole bunch of conclusions, the worst of which was probably: I wonder what &#x2
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by mdip 5y ago
That's good to know, I think some of the warning still stands. It doesn't hurt to be a little paranoid, especially if this isn't your wheelhouse day-to-day. It's certainly not mine, though, I've done enough to be
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by mdip 5y ago
Just to disclaim a little more -- I definitely would do this at home, and the first time I did something like this was before I started doing any real circuit work at home. I take into account the typical audience of the site, though.
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by mdip 5y ago
Ah, yes. This is a point I really should have made. If you've been "bit" by a small cap on a circuit board, imagine one as big as an adult's fist. I don't recall the output of this thing but one needn't read
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by mdip 5y ago
Not just home A/C but many of the hotels I visited did not have A/C (or it was set for the whole building, and way too hot at that). We visited the UK in late May during one of those heat waves and got stuck on the London Undergro
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by mdip 5y ago
Not just California. I live in Michigan -- about once every 7 years we get unseasonably warm summers. It's been 85-95 degrees through June with the sort of humidity that makes it feel like you have to actively think about breathing.
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by mdip 5y ago
It's a bit crazy to say the least. I went to the WalMart by my house, today, to replace a blender who's motor failed. I realized as I passed the bike section, now 1/8th full, that "hey, (awful) bikes are back!". T
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by mdip 5y ago
This may end up a good thing for some people. About 5 years ago, I had a heating/cooling contractor come out to repair my A/C unit. It had failed just coming into a very hot night, I called a local company which told me "
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by mdip 5y ago
This is incredibly interesting. From the articles I've been able to dig up, it sounds as though they've outright admitted to breaking the counterfeit products and it was not an accident[0]. Rather than simply state "We&#x2
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by mdip 5y ago
Speaking as someone with a hot air rework station and no experience soldering SOICs, I can make a whole bunch of melted crap in 5 minutes all while burning my fingers. 5-minutes sounds insane to me, but I know it's accurate (the ke
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by mdip 5y ago
> Not only does Linux have its own drivers, they can unbrick the damaged devices. Thanks for that. I haven't used my counterfeit FTDI cable in probably 2 years, but I was trying to figure out how I had not encountered any
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by mdip 5y ago
It's a little different but in essence I agree. Assuming the bricking of FTDI devices as mentioned in the update isn't "We sent out code to intentionally destroy counterfeits" (i.e. it served no other purpose, wasn&#x2
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by mdip 5y ago
It's a little unpopular with me, yes, but it also depends: (1) Was the "bricking" intentional [0], as in, did FDTI's driver look for the counterfeit, and upon finding it, issue instructions that would make the device us
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by mdip 5y ago
I think this is the second or third time that I've seen this browser hit the front page. Each time I get a little more interested. The concern that I have is that there's going to be a learning curve to picking this up. Normally
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by mdip 5y ago
Completely agree. My thinking was simply: I know my Dad held himself to that standard. And the only way that I'd be willing to fly a plane is if I was willing to hold myself to that high of a standard, but as I'm not a pilot
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by mdip 5y ago
> He was a skillful pilot but enjoyed risk too much to be a "good" pilot. To the extent that anyone who is willing to fly GA enjoys too much risk, that's my Dad. But I'd say he became a uniquely skilled sma
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by mdip 5y ago
I did one of those chopper tours over a big city one time in a splurge. Yeah, I hear ya. I was surprised at how similar the feel is. Your bicycle analogy made me laugh -- spot on. I used to love taking my macho friends up in my dad&#x2
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by mdip 5y ago
Without reviewing your profile, I'm just going to guess you're a pilot or you know pilots -- just from this: > Or—to rewind the causal chain just a little further--pilot hubris, impatience and/or ignorance, which leads
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by mdip 5y ago
So the "details" are a little off. There wasn't rain, it was an outright winter storm. The pilot was VFR and should not have been flying in that weather. I don't know what the characteristics are of that airport but
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by mdip 5y ago
I'm glad my Dad's not flying any longer. He was doing very long (multiple stops for re-fueling, flying on some form of breathing tank[0]) trips. He can go on for hours (and we let him) about stories of how he almost didn't
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by mdip 5y ago
You're probably right -- I likely have the number wrong. In fact, I was able to find the craft in a database online (still reporting my Dad's corporation as the owner, so it's not perfect) and it indicated 6. I recall him sa
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by mdip 5y ago
Not so much overlooked as omitted ... I had originally written "average American adults" but I didn't want to distract into the territory of "how bad our diets are in this country". My Dad almost always flew alone.
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by mdip 5y ago
Very interesting. I remember thinking it was positively "nuts", but then when you're in the aircraft being slapped around by the breeze, it starts to click.
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by mdip 5y ago
Wow, that's incredible. Goes to show that people do walk away from plane crashes with some regularity. My father was a pilot[0]. He sold his plane about 15 years ago (to a group of owners, one of which was a priest, I'm sure t
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by mdip 5y ago
I started getting Migraine headaches in the late spring at age 17 and continued to get them in the spring/fall weekly for about two decades[0]. I remember the age and the season because, up to that point, I had headaches. What happen

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