mmastrac

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811.
by mmastrac 3y ago
Having a conspiratorial meeting in a public restaurant is not the brightest. If I've learned from Hollywood, it should be in Swiss castles or ancient buildings in Rome.
812.
by mmastrac 3y ago
I would urge you to calm down and stop thinking emotionally about this entire conflict and communicating about it in such a hostile way. From reading your comments in this thread, you are clearly over-invested in this conflict and this does
813.
Girl found alive in France murders car, say what?(ell.stackexchange.com)
2 points by mmastrac 3y ago|0 comments
814.
by mmastrac 3y ago
My guess is that it's cat and mouse with various providers and upgrades and research are inconsistent.
815.
by mmastrac 3y ago
As a curiosity, how do you pay for an EU VPS given the sanctions?
816.
by mmastrac 3y ago
Unfortunately I imagine those operate from regions without controls. I remember the story of the fire at the troll factory from a few years ago when internet discourse magically improved for a few days.
817.
by mmastrac 3y ago
Information control is just one part of how totalitarian regimes maintain that control. Western media is full of stories of the Russian "meat grinder" that would probably incense Russians, so it's probably in Putin's bes
818.
by mmastrac 3y ago
I think it's interesting but I've also never had to brake quickly with it and I worry my brain would fail to jump back to the brake. I suspect it'll end up being more dangerous in the long run unless cars auto brake better.
819.
by mmastrac 3y ago
At SMART Technologies (the whiteboard company), I got an iPod nano and a glass cube.
820.
by mmastrac 3y ago
Wasn't yew wood used for wooden handles in the past? It kind of looks like a yew-handled axe. Surprised that nobody mentioned that option. Fun fact: Ötzi the iceman had a staff and axe made of yew -- https://www.iceman.it&#x
821.
by mmastrac 3y ago
I swapped out the screamer fans for Noctuas on a 1U server and it's significantly better. Needed a custom mini PCB and a bios setting to ignore fan speed feedback but it's extremely quiet and runs cool. I don't think it uses
822.
by mmastrac 3y ago
I believe it comes down to the much more efficient cooling processes, and the fact that you don't need to maintain as much input resource infrastructure as with gas While a gas plant produces heat, the gas transport infrastructure may
823.
by mmastrac 3y ago
I don't think the population gets enough visibility into the price of electricity. Most of the population is on a fixed price plan and I don't understand the economics of it. I'm certain we'll hear about the "wind f
824.
by mmastrac 3y ago
I'm not an EV driver but from what I've heard from others, and at least with current battery technology, range is significantly reduced. I've seen a number of reports that Tesla ranges specifically are quite low at this tempe
825.
by mmastrac 3y ago
As someone who lives in Calgary, a few random points: This is normal weather for us for a week or so every year. Some years we have longer snaps. Some years we have shorter snaps. When things get this cold, everything has a hard time functi
826.
by mmastrac 3y ago
I created a wifi network for most of the smart appliances at home. It's nice that Unifi hardware lets you choose some of the higher-level wifi protocol options per-network, so I have a modern roaming-enabled 802.11 5GHz network for mos
827.
Etherify: Transmitting Morse Code via Raspberry Pi Ethernet RF Leakage (2020)(rtl-sdr.com)
35 points by mmastrac 3y ago|8 comments
828.
by mmastrac 3y ago
Scanning through my old datasheets I have one from the MSM65512 which probably means I considered that but it's been a while. I should have kept a devlog. I found an old email to someone that suggests I thought it was an nX/4. Thi
829.
by mmastrac 3y ago
Correct. Those have been available for ages, but there's a mask ROM on the CPU that is undumpable, at least at this time. I have a huge collection of datasheets and I was unable to even figure out what the instruction set was.
830.
by mmastrac 3y ago
Ken, if you have some spare bandwidth I have some high-res decap photos from the chip in the Casio SK-1! I worked on trying to reverse engineer the instruction set from that chip, but most of the code is in a mask ROM that probably needs so
831.
by mmastrac 3y ago
Headline changed from original: "Thiel’s Palantir, Israel Agree Strategic Partnership for Battle Tech"
832.
Macs can now inform Apple if any liquids have been detected in the USB-C ports(9to5mac.com)
220 points by mmastrac 3y ago|340 comments
833.
by mmastrac 3y ago
When we shipped Jupyter support in Deno, `nodejs-polars` was one of the cornerstone library for data science we supported. https://blog.jupyter.org/bringing-modern-javascript-to-the-j... I'm not personally a Data Scien
834.
by mmastrac 3y ago
> And indeed, I found that it set a period of 1 instead of a period of 1. I assume this should be ... > And indeed, I found that it set a period of 1 instead of a period of 0.
835.
by mmastrac 3y ago
It's a shame that we don't have open formulas in code form published by the government. The only way that I know how to do this reliably is using the web form provided by the CRA here: https://www.canada.ca/en&#x2F
836.
by mmastrac 3y ago
I published a couple of books for the project during a sabbatical in 2021 (The Devil's Dictionary [0] and a cheesy, small H. Beam Piper book named Four-Day Planet). The process and tools are quite nice and it's very rewarding to s
837.
by mmastrac 3y ago
In fairness, Verner Vinge is an amazing author and this is probably a skill unique to very few writers. I've found his books to be repeatedly re-readable.
838.
by mmastrac 3y ago
In the early days of Twitter at least we'd get the fail whale. I would love to go back to the early energy of Twitter but not like this...
839.
by mmastrac 3y ago
I have the set of rules we built, and the "dumbed down" version of the rules that had to be presented to the world. The source code lives in a zip file somewhere and I may be able to dig that out. Send me an email and I'll fi
840.
by mmastrac 3y ago
Is the self-test exposed in any interesting ways? Any interesting JTAG-like interfaces that could be explored?

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