mk_stjames

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by mk_stjames 8mo ago
I fly between various countries in western Europe a dozen times a year and have done so for a decade and every single time I've boarded a plane I have had to shown a photo ID with my name on it that matches my name on the plane ticket.
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by mk_stjames 9mo ago
... And here's the first three orders mentioned in a famously quoted press conference from 2002: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REWeBzGuzCc
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by mk_stjames 9mo ago
Astute observation; no canal, but there is a river outflow to a bay, whereby a ship could have carried stones from the quarry, albeit a long way around a peninsula; it is possible that was a more effective way to get them close, and then u
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by mk_stjames 9mo ago
I live in a late 18th-century rowhouse where there is large stonework for window sills/surrounds/doorways all done in a very specific pink granite that was carved from a shoreline quarry a significant distance away. Massive stone
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by mk_stjames 9mo ago
Whenever I see press on these new 'rack scale' systems, the first thing I think is something along the lines of: "man I hope the BIOS and OS's and whatnot supporting these racks are relatively robust and documented/
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by mk_stjames 9mo ago
Paying a subscription for an alarm clock. I've heard this one before! [1][2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocker-up [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35840393
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by mk_stjames 9mo ago
I'd wager they will use what is known as a 'Float-on/float-off' ship for transport... it's rather common actually- It's a ship with a very low deck line that partially submerges itself, with the center of the d
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by mk_stjames 10mo ago
Given the reputation for the cost and provenance of the cameras I'm surprised that Hasselblad passed through QC with that solder spooge at the edge that got into the frame of the film. I mean... it's visible on all the photos. I
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by mk_stjames 10mo ago
The table lists F1 cars as having "Carbon fiber brake calipers". This is glaringly incorrect. All current brake calipers are machined from aluminum, specifically Aluminum-Lithium or Aluminum-Copper alloys. There is a rule denoti
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by mk_stjames 10mo ago
So you're telling me that simply walking out to the car and hitting a button inside the car is just too much of an "inconvenient experience"? You know we used to have to drive the car... sometimes many miles... to a station,
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by mk_stjames 11mo ago
7, if the Extremely Strong Goldbach Conjecture holds. [1] [1] https://xkcd.com/1310/
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by mk_stjames 11mo ago
Really cool, I figured that was the case and I'd be in the same boat. I have an ice40UP5k board but I quickly ran out of block ram and LUTS whenever trying to use it for anything substantial, but seeing this project has me itching to s
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by mk_stjames 11mo ago
There is 32MB of SDRAM on the FPGA board.... I wonder exactly what using 1MB of that as the system memory would have entailed instead of the separate 1MB SRAM chip that had to be soldered. Was using the extra SRAM chip just done just to do
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by mk_stjames 11mo ago
Ever since 802.11ah devices started appearing I've thought it would be perfect for partnering inside wireless IP cameras... and hell, make them mesh together with something like this so each one configured on your network extends the r
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by mk_stjames 11mo ago
So, after seeing how cheap and available these Phomemo printers are and with this CUPS driver looking like a good option, my instinct as someone who also wants one of these sitting permanently on my home network as to appear all the time on
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
I was recently thinking about super deep drilling after coming across a very neat mini-documetary [0] self-filmed by a geophysicist around the work at the Kola superdeep borehole [1] in 1992. It is project I had heard about before but only
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
That didn't sound right to me, and so I checked it as follows: Estimate for a standard classroom globe at 13" in diameter (I'm seeing a rnage of 12-14 inches as typical). I'm reporting in inches because that is what cam
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
The System on Module board is an Inforce 6601 SOM. [0] It uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 and they provide prebuilt Ubuntu Linaro distros for it, preconfigured for the board. The camera manufacturer likely just tossed it straight in as confi
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
Absolutely. I have a person favorite setup... which is to have these two playing at the * same time * and play around with the combos of sliders / set to automate. Pair: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/numberSta
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
'Dinosaurs' was a masterpiece and I won't hear otherwise. The series finale is one of the greatest T.V. finales of all time.
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
What, not a fan of 'Cow tools'? [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
I was prepared to be absolutely fucking disgusted by such a comment but I.... shit. I mean... this is.... this is wild I gotta go contemplate 'where we're at' again it seems. If that is truly a straight generative audio dif
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
I would argue that valuation of '50 Cent' (real name Curtis James Jackson III) was essentially flat leading up to immediately before the release of Get Rich or Die Tryin', his debut album released February 6, 2003. Which, und
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
This isn't the greatest wikipedia article, but I'd rather not write more on a topic so close to heart.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedball_(drug) That'll get you started.
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
I don't see if they found out the pinouts for the SFP connectors on the back. If those were documented, and the PCI-e lanes were documented, I could see someone having some real fun with these building some bespoke fiber networking ge
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
They do this to measure load vs deflection and check agreement with models, not to get anywhere close to yield. It's a low end proof check, drive trucks on, measure deflections, drive trucks off, confirm reset of deflection; The margi
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
This was essentially my response as well, but the other replies to you also have a point, and I think the key here is the 'Retrieval' in RAG is very vague, and depending on who you were and what you were getting into RAG for, the
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” The average- nay, even the more above average journalist will never go far enough to discern how what we are seeing actually works at the level needed to accurately rep
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
I came back to reply with just this. Christopher Domas's conference talk on the movfuscator is legendary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7EEoWg6Ekk
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
That type of shape constraint would be called having a ruled surface with a Gaussian curvature of 0 everywhere, otherwise known as a 'Developable Surface'. Fitting a -single- such surface to a set of points is nearly trivial; find

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