mike_d

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by mike_d 3y ago
"That is impossible" is literally the bread and butter of signals intelligence. Measuring light bouncing off a window to hear conversations, using millimeter waves to see through walls, taking photos from space, and planes that co
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by mike_d 3y ago
> based on the actual costs to the electric provider They tried this in Texas. During the 2021 winter storms consumers who opted for cheaper rates tied to the actual generation costs ended up with $20k+ power bills.
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by mike_d 3y ago
> Did I misunderstand you when you said you don't need generators, UPS, and multiple HVAC systems? No, you seem to misunderstand how leased space works. If you rent a floor of an office building, the toilets flush without you having
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by mike_d 3y ago
I thought I would be clever and install the N edition of Windows 11, took me nearly two weeks to figure out what extra bits needed to be installed to allow a webcam to work.
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by mike_d 3y ago
Unless you are a double digit billion dollar company, you don't build your own datacenters. You lease space from a colocation provider like Equinix, CoreSite, or DRT. Even AWS and GCP themselves are partially hosted in buildings operat
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by mike_d 3y ago
There are two types of remote hands: dumb and smart (under various names) Most colocation facilities include dumb hands for free. Push a button, tell me what lights are on, plug in a monitor and tell me what it says, move the network cable
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by mike_d 3y ago
> Now you are maintaining generators, UPSs and multiple HVAC systems in addition to your 'few racks of servers'. I don't mean to call you out specifically, but I believe your comment is a perfect example of how the majorit
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by mike_d 3y ago
A lot of comments here seem to be along the lines of "you can hire one more engineer," but given the current economic situation remember that might be "keep one more engineer." Would you lay off someone on your team to k
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The techniques are the same, just in reverse order.
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by mike_d 3y ago
Sorry I was trying to rewrite for clarity and said encoder instead of controller. If you naively emulate (as Telsa surely would) a 1:1 fully locking diff in software it will suck to drive. Electronic limited slip diffs already exist, like t
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by mike_d 3y ago
GPUs https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-is-renting-gpu-power... Specifically for the parts of Bing that are rebranded OpenAI https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-cloud-infras..
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by mike_d 3y ago
> It is impressive to me the amount of time others are willing to spend in order to avoid even considering what is arguably the cleanest, most business-friendly stack in 2023. This is totally correct if you are doing small scale stuff in
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by mike_d 3y ago
Azure is now leasing capacity from Oracle.
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> No one is gonna be doing this sort of thing with an EV though. There is no charging infrastructure out in the boonies. Jeep has built solar supplied charging stations at most of the 56 badge of honor trailheads and continues to expand
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by mike_d 3y ago
Motors know nothing. The encoders know how much current is being input to the motor, but do not know the rotational output of the motor or the friction coefficient between the tires and the ground. All three are things you'd need to em
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by mike_d 3y ago
I've often joked that my retirement plan is to put all my money into buying and warehousing a fleet of base model Kias. I'll operate a rental service of cars that "just work" to criminals who want to rob banks or escape
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by mike_d 3y ago
I seem to recall an announcement from Western Digital(?) years ago about a line of hard drives with a direct ethernet interface. Does anyone remember the same or what might have come of it? The market is saturated with solutions for middle-
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by mike_d 3y ago
Can you help me understand how it is open source? Or is the post title just in need of an update?
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by mike_d 3y ago
Hypothetically you could get a license just for yourself, but only you'd be able to use it which might get kinda lonely. Using a LLC is much more practical as the entity can own the radios and assign them to authorized users acting on
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by mike_d 3y ago
Think of Ham like Usenet or posting to a forum. You are in the public square talking for all to hear. If you want something more akin to private email, that is possible you just need a difference license. https://www.fcc.gov&#x2F
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by mike_d 3y ago
The most awesome part: > This bug was independently discovered by multiple research teams within Google, including the silifuzz team and Google Information Security Engineering.
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by mike_d 3y ago
Linux allows you to bind a subnet of addresses to an interface so that an application can listen on them. The netplan syntax is poorly thought out and overloads the CIDR notation to specify both the IP and netmask, so it is impossible to sp
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by mike_d 3y ago
I didn't intend to cite the case specifically as an analog, but the part I quoted as flavor as to how the law in general looks at nonpossessory interest in the sale of goods. When this is litigated it will no doubt be complex and touch
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by mike_d 3y ago
In a Boston University study they found that 81% of prescription drug abuse and 79% of high alcohol abuse was to self manage pain. There is no humane approach to furthering addictions as a band-aid for our lack of medical care and failure t
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by mike_d 3y ago
I think presenting voters with "decriminalize drug use" was a deceptive play to start with. Most voters picture themselves smoking weed on the weekend or doing mushrooms at Coachella, not the people unescapably trapped by drugs. H
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by mike_d 3y ago
Retrieval is the easy part. Locating the containers (which are often not found to be missing until arriving at port) is a MH370 scale problem.
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by mike_d 3y ago
The idea that you can't tell someone else what they can do with a thing once it has been sold traces back to common law. Here is a Supreme Court example from 1911: "The right of alienation is one of the essential incidents of a ri
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by mike_d 3y ago
5 years ago a $100 preorder on a $40k electric truck was a sure bet. Everyone was hyped. People were willing to deal with its weird looks for an etruck. Tesla stumbled and the market is now gone. Rivian nailed the high end luxury market and
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by mike_d 3y ago
I just provided that as an example most people are aware of. It could very well come into play if Tesla attempts to use IP laws to prevent resale. Any such provision from Tesla would generally fail under UCC, which generally only allows con
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by mike_d 3y ago
Ferrari won't interfere with the sale of a vehicle, because they have no legal grounds to do so. However you do give up your ability to be waitlisted for upcoming models, which effectively prevents you from buying them new ever again.

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