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by myself248 3mo ago
Having spent some time as a cellular tech in Detroit, scrambling up half-wrecked stairwells in long-abandoned buildings to service the radio equipment still running on the roof, those accounts make it sound downright tame. I'd visit in
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by myself248 3mo ago
Hosting a talk-show / variety-show hasn't been a novelty in a long time either, what's new is doing it as an independent creator for an audience of 20 or maybe 200, rather than 2,000,000. What's depressing to me is that
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by myself248 3mo ago
Hey now!
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by myself248 4mo ago
Speaking as a co-founder of a large community hackerspace, we don't have the volunteer bandwidth to manage the additional overhead of tool lending. Please, please, please let the libraries offer more alternatives. It's exactly the
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by myself248 4mo ago
I presumed that was to make sure there was no accidentally-warm RAM cache or whatever, start from a known system state. Also it seemed to have revealed the aforementioned ulimit hiccup, so it sounds fruitful.
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by myself248 4mo ago
Seems like this process itself should be incredibly amenable to automation. Here's 25 parameters, permute over them, perform this test on each loop. But it sounds like there were other gremlins (like ulimit reverting itself) that would
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by myself248 4mo ago
Microsoft Tay is looking more prescient by the minute.
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by myself248 4mo ago
Furthermore, it helps to talk with people who think differently from you. Maybe they studied the same subject but at a different school, or maybe they specialize in something else entirely. Maybe their first language is different from yours
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by myself248 4mo ago
Yeah, it's a significantly trickier proposition when the pads aren't there. The contacts are in the connector, you just need to bring them out and get the resistor on them, which is frankly a pain I shouldn't have to endure w
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by myself248 4mo ago
The thing is, making a 5v-only device PD-compliant is literally one resistor. It costs well under a penny. It's pure ignorance, not a decision, but the lack of one. Lack of caring, lack of having an actual engineer involved, just slapp
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by myself248 4mo ago
How many times have the cops busted a dealer who turned out to be another undercover cop?
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by myself248 4mo ago
I think that's even more significant, since it's measuring people who cared enough to click the form in the first place, which is juicier than just page loads.
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by myself248 4mo ago
The trick is that the scratches need to recur at the right revolution rate, while the bandwidth needs to slowly decrease as the stylus nears the end of the groove. Hmm.
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by myself248 4mo ago
Absolutely this. Blind application of a technique, not understood by the one applying it, is jarring. IMHO it insults the era from which they were trying to mooch cool points.
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by myself248 4mo ago
If you're hiring from the town where Kool-Aid is headquartered, don't be surprised if most of the candidates drink a lot of it.
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by myself248 4mo ago
And weirdly, neither does Klipper, despite having all the resources in the world to do so. Just not a priority since slicers don't produce code like that, and 99.999% of Klipper's job is to eat whatever a slicer sends it. So suppo
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by myself248 4mo ago
And smart NICs are moving significant amounts of compute directly onto the network interface, though I haven't seen anyone combining a GPU and a 100GbE NIC into a single part yet. Where does a few more steps of evolution take us? A wid
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by myself248 4mo ago
Or someone found server.domain/path/subdirectory/resourceX and was like "shit, I was hoping to find resourceY but I can't find a link to it, I wonder if I just click in my address bar and change the X to a Y",
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by myself248 4mo ago
Cyclomethicone is getting hard to get depending on your jurisdiction. I think it's shelf-stable though, so if you think this might be something you want to do in the future, maybe get some now. (But also, the disks aren't getting
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by myself248 5mo ago
Precisely this. It's not the fastest machine, but it's not the slowest, and that's more than adequate for other factors to tip the scale. And I VERY much want to encourage this approach. Laptops COULD be as modular as desktop
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by myself248 5mo ago
> The people who handle these reports often do so after-hours or on holidays. If that's the case at Microsoft, something is absurdly wrong.
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by myself248 5mo ago
And the ESP32 is offering CPU power on par with many of the embedded-x86 SOCs that powered some of the early wifi routers...
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by myself248 5mo ago
This just clarified something for me. I've always been annoyed when I see a Pi with nothing connected to its GPIO header; why not just use a cheap thin client? Or an old laptop, for that matter? But that's missing the point. Here&
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by myself248 5mo ago
> it's intended to be preterminated SFP-to-SFP I wonder why nobody's making field-terminatable DACs for custom lengths. If you've torn one down, they're not exactly complicated inside. If they existed, would people b
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by myself248 5mo ago
> You spent hours debugging basic networking issues. And that was FUN, as long as you were enjoying the tinkering and not stressing about missing a game. > Everyone copying everyone else's mp3 folders on network drives. I think t
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by myself248 5mo ago
In my copious free time, I've wanted to go looking at FTA satellites to see if there's data in the TS that I can't ascribe to any known programming. This seems like an ideal tool to start with.
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by myself248 5mo ago
Thank you, yes, that's exactly the detail I was missing! It's a euphemism for a word that starts with an S, not at all related to the typographical form of the letter S. Alright, my Trogdor-shaped guitar might happen after all...
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by myself248 5mo ago
Okay, none of the guitars on that page look like an "S" to me. What am I missing, and what are they protecting?
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by myself248 5mo ago
How many trains were delayed or incorrectly routed as a result?
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by myself248 5mo ago
I would love a resource to get more into the details of bend radius and vibrational modes in harnesses, specifically as they're used on different types of vehicles. Marine wiring endures very different motion than road-vehicle wiring,

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