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by snerbles 2y ago
At least the district didn't send a runner, shouting "cyber terrorism, we traced it to this room!!!" at the top of their lungs [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28846895
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by snerbles 2y ago
Cloudflare also locks out non-Chrome/Firefox browsers, stifling the development of alternatives. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953508
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by snerbles 2y ago
> AI may make it possible to build a virtually perfect missile defense against ICBMS Massed ICBM defense is a matter of sheer volume - with the current GMD system the US can throw enough exoatmospheric kill vehicles (and THAAD to handle
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by snerbles 2y ago
I was a controls engineer and frequently on the floor, usually directing the technicians and sometimes adjusting brackets myself. Industrial vision systems can be quite fussy. Agreed on the pay, it would have been good if it wasn't in
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by snerbles 2y ago
Or work for the OEM that makes the gizmos themselves. Weiler Labeling Systems comes to mind.
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by snerbles 2y ago
Learn ladder logic and PLC programming, go into factory automation and controls engineering. I used to work at a packaging machine OEM. Lots of robotics, bespoke designs, and every day was like an episode of How It's Made . Very fun,
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by snerbles 2y ago
I've always liked ksss, deployments are so much simpler.
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by snerbles 2y ago
The official Linux kernel driver for Blackwell is GPL/MIT licensed: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-t...
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by snerbles 2y ago
The Tandy 1000 SL/2 I grew up with had DOS 3.3 in ROM, mounted on D:\
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by snerbles 2y ago
> No it wasn't! You learned how to interact with normal people. That's a lifelong skill. It taught me the necessity of being as viciously crass as my new classmates in order to fit in. If you consider that normal , then let it
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by snerbles 2y ago
> You can also learn outside of school, too. As someone who spent time in all three, I felt that my academic time was utterly wasted in public school. Sure, "learning outside" is always available, but that doesn't regain t
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by snerbles 2y ago
Ultimately, you can't. From Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust" [0], written in 1984: > The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from compan
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by snerbles 2y ago
Grace is NVIDIA's Arm CPU for servers, so the same will apply to Grace-Blackwell.
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by snerbles 2y ago
Years ago I was one of those grumpy-looking guys with a rifle standing next to those "USE OF DEADLY FORCE AUTHORIZED" signs, or directed the responses of said grumpy-looking guys. This is all anecdotal and will vary wildly by org
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by snerbles 2y ago
Laravel, maybe. But not as much as React, or the other myriad JS frontend frameworks. (to include the ones that appeared in the time I spent typing this post)
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by snerbles 2y ago
I've already had this happen with a new MacBook - attempting to link an old account tripped a fraud flag with the device and now Apple refuses to even allow the creation of a new account , with an accompanying vague error after the p
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by snerbles 2y ago
Are you hunting the bear? Or carrying insurance in case of a bear attack while conducting some other activity? Both are very different things. 5.56mm is a very small cartridge for game that large, and with full auto you will spray wide an
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by snerbles 2y ago
It is very much the latter, fueled by self-righteous conviction that is indignant at the mere idea of nuance.
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by snerbles 3y ago
Maintainers will need LLM sockpuppets of their own to automatically answer these automatic emails.
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by snerbles 3y ago
In the case of JuiceFS the file is split into chunks and those are the objects uploaded to S3 - treating it like a high latency block device. The downside is that metadata here isn't just a cache, it is necessary to operate in this fas
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by snerbles 3y ago
> Is this only needed if you want properly faked file system primitives over blob stores, if you can't use blob stores directly? Semiconductor EDA comes to mind, where users are at the mercy of their tool vendors and they expect som
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by snerbles 3y ago
> We still don't have any modern games like Lemmings or the "classic" 2D Worms.. or do we? Noita comes to mind. Also includes some pretty wild fluid dynamics. > HOW did they do that pixel-perfect terrain destruction any
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by snerbles 3y ago
Or perhaps the reality is that society is no longer high-trust, and those who still believe otherwise are now easy marks.
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by snerbles 3y ago
That's comparable to Device42 and Sunbird - what you're really paying for is "one throat to choke". In an enterprise environment, that's pennies. In prior roles I've seen NetBox explicitly vetoed in favor of te
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by snerbles 3y ago
Don't forget that these controllers operate at 5V logic and the ESP32 at 3.3V. Supposedly the ESP32 can tolerate 5V inputs [0], but it's probably best to put a level shifter between the two.
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by snerbles 3y ago
This reminds me, years back I picked up an NTT Data Super Famicom Controller [0] with the idea of adapting it to USB. An off-the shelf USB converter only handled the standard SNES/SFC buttons and completely ignored the number pad. At t
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by snerbles 3y ago
> In software this can just get 900 postmasters jailed Today I learned. For context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
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by snerbles 3y ago
I introduced Git at an industrial automation firm. A handful of folks thought it was "pretty cool", everyone else kept on versioning with myriad copies of "Copy of plc_control-1a (new) (final) (1) (b).ACD"
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by snerbles 3y ago
I use Tortoise TTS. It's slow, a little clunky, and sometimes the output gets downright weird. But it's the best quality-oriented TTS I've found that I can run locally. It's allegedly the basis of the tech used by Eleven
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by snerbles 3y ago
The real fun begins when an executive skips down the chain to directly order you to provide X, accompanied with another order forbidding any further efforts on Y. Then, six months later, said executive shows back up demanding to know why yo

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