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In the 90's my dad had a tech support/service company. Small one, less than 10 employees. Fixing monitors was an every day task.

One day a petroleum engineer came with his monitor (from the company he was working) to fix it.

After 1 or 2 days it was fixed and they came to get it back.

After few hours the engineer called very angry.

-it is not my monitor!

-oh, it cannot be

-it is not!

-is this brand and model?

-yes

-read me the service tag at the back

-this

-it is your monitor sir.

-is not and I want my monitor back

-sir, it is your monitor

-no!

So he came back with his monitor. It was his monitor, the technicians tested it again.

-sir, this is your monitor.

-no, I had a completely different background, and different programs, it is not my monitor

-wait, what?

The technicians called the it department and told them the situation.

While the monitor was in service, IT used that free time to update his computer.

The engineer leave my dad's place not 100% convinced

If you are that engineer, the story is still alive 25 years later. Thank you.
> Landis saw and did something that he has kept secret for six decades, he says now. He claims he spotted a bullet resting on the top of the back of the seat. He says he picked it up, put it in his pocket, and brought it into the hospital. Then, upon entering Trauma Room No. 1 (at that stage, he was the only nonmedical person in the room besides Mrs. Kennedy, and both stayed for only a short period), he insists, he placed the bullet on a white cotton blanket on the president’s stretcher.

The revelation is that the bullet was not lodged in JFK and did not fall out while shaking about on the gurney.
> using docker images that don't persist data, as Docker is meant to be used

docker volumes entered the chat
There's a kernel of a brilliant idea to it, but when it's really just marketing speak for spinning up a VM or container on demand, it's kind of a joke.
Yeah, that's a ~$2500 55" curved monitor and I'm using a ~$500 Samsung Curved TV.
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I studied ECE but since the beginning I've been working as a Software engineer, as almost everybody from my promotion.

Lately, I've been thinking about starting some hardware side projects. Despite my background I don't remember a thing about those years and would be great to start playing with smaller projects before jumping into something more complex.

Are there any good resources on electronics? I have been looking around and everything I've found is either too simple or too complex.
It's not really a question of if the US can though, it's a question of will. Even before this finding the US had known massive lithium reserves that were essentially just sitting there idle. The US refining a larger chunk of the market is just a question of if we want to do it or continue outsourcing that. The US definitely have competent people (or still has access to, convincing international people to work here) able to build and operate the refining side of it. There's loads of capital available to build the refineries. The US just has to choose to do it.
I think the worst, most damning thing they did was gutting and destroying the Spectra equipment to make Polaroid Go film and cameras.

I wish they'd work on getting film costs down rather than releasing overpriced toys. Instax is still kicking their ass for prices long-term.

Zink was a mistake that should have never been made. I've never had a quality print off a Zink printer.
Then try to read more than just the first sentence of what I wrote, maybe? Our philosophies may not agree but I’m explicitly talking about the protection of the planet.
Indeed... This usage reaches across the pond - check out how the Vanderbilts used the term here:

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/guide-to-vanderbil...

Le Carré's cottage is a splendid place, but it's not the Breakers.
https://youtu.be/DYYkJ0kwNss?si=D0ikIiRr1M4FE8HQ
Amazing what propaganda and convenience does to people.

Environmental "degrowth" measures (that in reality are just growth measures that take externalities into account) are evil, while the companies and the economic system literally destroying the natural environment and the prerequisites for human civilization on the planet are fine.
I bought a Nikon FE2 recently from keh.com.
There are plenty of manual focus film SLR cameras available. You may also want to try your local camera store. Mine has a good selection of used cameras and lenses. Things are more expensive than they used to be but there are still plenty of options available.
Probably the one positive experience I had at uni before dropping out!
And Go apps require recompiling them to use their version of the http. ListenAndServe function. I’m not sure if this counts either…

https://unit.nginx.org/configuration/#updating-go-apps
If you don't like a tangent, you don't have to engage with it. It's not whataboutism, it's observation of direct hypocrisy. You should reexamine your usage and understanding of the term, because it doesn't make any sense in this context.
> onboarding our entry-level talents into the SRE role

This hr-speak is terrible. “Entry-level talents”, omg.
So thats still a local network or just normal internet?
Maybe 3G notification if the machine is borked?

Alternatively, if a company operates for decades, they can make a very, very stable product. Only bugfixes. I'd imagine some of these vending machines are manufactured like that.

Which means, a weekly drive by is enough to inspect, refill, drive on. I used to deliver meats to very rural locations, 10 deliveries over a 300+ km circular route from/back to the packing plant. At 80km/hr, the stops are the big slowdown.

Another way to think of it, is that remote often means little traffic, fewer stop signs, and higher speed limits.

I live 8km from a large city. It's often far faster for me to drive 15km to a corner store in a small nearby town, because I can do 120km/hr the whole way there almost, on my rural road, with no stop signs or lights.

Drive to the city, there are 5 stop lights before the first corner store, that's each way, so chances are high to hit a light. And even one light is 2 or 3 minutes delay.

So rural servicing and deliveries can be quite fast and efficient.
There is an plant app I use thar will identify plants. Just take a picture of it. It tells you what it thinks the plant is and some other similar options. You get to select the winner by "adding to your garden" button. it tracks the plants in your garden.

One of the pieces of information the app gives you is what is the plant considered every where in the world. The types of categories I've seen on it are native, cultivated, exotic, invasive, and potentially invasive. The app is called Picture This. I do not want to endorse it, cause it is annoying to use sometimes. But I cannot lie that it has been extremely useful. I am very close to paying for it, since as a fellow programmer I understand the people making this need to make a living.
In the end of the day, not that different.

Besides, I included CL there.
Not everybody has $5k to give away to charity, but they have $5k to give to De Beers.
Heap memory allocation can be very slow. Reducing the number of allocations is often a fantastic way to get very significant speed ups.

Using an integer to identify strings is very common in parsers - it's called "string interning".
Never had this experience - would like to have it as a 40 yr old but I guess shooting real guns is also fun and more accepted by normies..
But TOML is worse, right ? I can't write nor read TOML to save my life... :(
My limited understanding from various blog posts is that you can still get the benefits of a container, but much faster startup/runtimes. As in WASM provides performance very close to native.
> Then consider an employer who demands more of the employee than they can safely give—what choices does the employee have?

I don't agree much with that. BUT! I am not American, nor do I live there. So YMMV.

> Violate the law in order to keep getting the money they need to survive, or choose not to violate the law and put themselves at very high risk of firing (and thus the above consequences).

I think that's the biggest issue. I was talking more from a "how it should be" kind of view, or how I perceive it from my central European background. You're reality might be wildly different, and I lack the experience to understand that I think.

My overarching point is: if you start to consider that the system is bad, how do you stop everyone else from doing the exact same thing, breaking laws to live? Where do you draw the line?
Ahhh interesting, thank you!
Do you mean cache locality? Coherence is not something ordinary single-threaded code has to be concerned with.
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And until early 2000's even UNIX systems were lacking fully conforming ANSI/ISO C compilers, e.g. aCC on HP-UX 10, let alone non-UNIX platforms.
Agreed, this is something I've been working about improving in myself over the years too.

Sometimes all it takes to fix a problem is to just try something, but by being overly cynical I end up repeatedly self-sabotaging.
I have never reported any of the 3 times I or anyone in the family have had Covid and that comes out to more than 3 because we didn't all get it at the same time. And that was not just "after", this was even when you had all the 'test centers' everywhere and all that.

I know nobody I know who had Covid that ever reported their case. All just self-tested and stayed at home for the appropriate amount of time. Why stand in line with lots of people that very probably have Covid to get tested and if you don't actually already have Covid, get Covid? Just stay home and isolate and get better.

Again just anecdata of a few but extrapolate that up to a population level and you know why they are now doing the analysis through levels in waste water to get numbers. It's way more accurate.
> I mean, you can't (well shouldn't) microwave a steel can, right?

Sharp points are a problem, but one can design things to work:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg_lqy1p6B4&t=11m20s
I play the piano. That does it for me :)
Mostly because this is a hell of a hassle to save $70 a month that becomes not worth it once you're older than 25, married with a kid or two, and you're spending that much money on food every 3 days anyway. If you're really that cost-conscious, you can only buy used cars and live in cheaper neighborhoods and save more money all at once than you'd save by cutting streaming subscriptions in 20 lifetimes. At some point, sanity and convenience become preferable to spending hours every weekend digging through the newspaper to cut coupons.
I wasn't familiar with Serde's description of this so that was a good read, thanks.

Although I still think this is a bad example of an externally tagged representation. In the Serde example they have the key as "Request" then what follows is the request object. In this example, the "success" key is followed by an arbitrary string message, which isn't obvious at all.
Virtual CloneDrive is extremely under-appreciated both then and now. Most retro hobbyists use an ancient version of DaemonTools instead
I was a techie for 25 years and my response to this story would be predictable - combination of chuckle, sympathy, and outrage. And I still feel all of those.

But now I've been in the management/client-facing role for a while, and my burning question is: 1. WHAT did the person say over the phone to calm them down? 2. Could the author of the article have said it with same results? Because I'm learning that as much fun as it is to understand and hack computers, it's also fun to understand and 'hack' people (something all my mentors have been telling me for 20 years but I've only recently been able to hear).

For example (and the fun here is in guessing and hypothesizing:) -- rather than listening to tirade, could the author have said something like "Oh, we have found it is far less efficient for partner level people to go through obscure manuals themselves; my team and I have gone through them and I can give you a customized review of the key features relevant to you that will be far more respectful of your and companies' time" ?

(is it cheeky? Of course! Winning question is would it accomplish the same or similar result? Was there a winning game strategy for author other than escalating?)
Sales at a startup trying to find product market fit is probably the worst job of all time. You have no marketing/brand/leads and if by some miracle you do land a deal your product probably isn't quite right and there is no customer success to handle the daily demands of an unsatisfied customer. That said, if you want to transition to sales, with 17 years experience (assuming no sales) this is probably your best option. The pay cut is typical, the upside is real, IF you can find product market fit. Sales is not presenting a solution, it's asking questions to find the problem and more importantly finding the person who the problem affects financially the most. It's a lot of fun and a unique skillset. I'd say not closing a single deal last year is a warning sign. I'd evaluate what you would do differently. Be objective and critical about why you will produce different results. Only advice I'd give is what I tell all sales reps, focus on quality daily outbound activity (calls, emails) and everything else will take care of itself.
At first I thought that the first pic in the article was the diamond that the author synthesized.
"large" is meaningless unless you can compare it to the friction cost of the brushes they replace.
Yep, roughly 2-3 gccs to compile in order to reach one able to build a linux kernel. I could compile a linux kernel with gcc 4.7 not a long time ago (disabling some features and unlocking gcc version). But they really added things which were too much a pain to workaround (if I recall properly, related to data/code alignments required by some assembly code, like the kernel entry code).

I severely disagree, gcc code should have stayed plain and simple C (without the latest ISO abominations): the cure is worse than the disease. c++ is not a sane language, it should be jailed to closed source applications only, it is NEVER the solution. I think it should not be taught anymore as its syntax complexity is toxic for mind sanity.
>>Cache and cookies aren’t as important, but history is useful.

If I were to clear my wife's cache and cookies, it would predictably lead to the biggest marital disturbance we had in our 10 years together.
When what?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37450792
I let Google keep track of mine and occasionally do a takeout so I can search back over a decade on all the devices I use.

One of the first browser extensions I wrote would archive the page you're looking at and create a navigable tree of your browsing history with a built in search. This was like 20 years ago. It's probably still somewhere, I don't even remember the name.

Bookmarks presume I'll know the future while history presumes I'll know the past. One of them is more knowable.

Clearing my history would be like wiping my home directory. If someone did it on my behalf I'd be shocked.
There might not be any diodes required if the driver uses a very high frequency DC chopper, the smoothing could be purely reactance + momentum.
Nope, just stupid "Print Support Apps" with inevitable subscription models.
It’s a sincere question. I didn’t have a point. I was surprised to see someone saying that attempting to sequester carbon for the good of the planet is a scam.

Saying something is a scam implies it’s completely a scam.

Equating NFTs with attempting to sequester carbon is not an appropriate comparison.
“Everyone deserves public safety,”

You're not gonna create that with more weapons, surveillance, fear, and oppression. Totally the wrong direction to take as a society.
Building high speed rail is complicated because of land rights, the US is not China where the government can just order people off large swathes of land as needed.

Lithium mining is more like the shale oil boom, when the US went from an net importer to a net exporter of fossil fuels, environmental damage be damned.

When it's for private industry's profit, the US is quite competent at eliminating any oversight of environmental and societal concerns.
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I don't know if it's just another example of my complete immunity towards advertising and marketing in all of it's forms, but one of the requirements I set early on when I started to think seriously about settling down was "she can't give any value, at all, to useless things like an idiotic ring with a dumb whisperer's rock on it". I found my girl thank God. Not being an american neither having lived in the US at any point in my life, it always amazed me that your society accepted as common knowledge that "you must spend X months of your salary on a dumb whisperer's rock to prove to your woman that you value her. The DeBeers corporation sure did a good job on you guys.
I find it interesting that people associate italy with good coffee. Given their reputation there the coffee is poor. Espresso is typically burned quite badly and praised as strong.

Northern europe, Ireland, and the UK have far better coffee. Also Oz. At least in my experience.

Also, to briefly comment on the oz conversation happening here - perth does have fantastic coffee. My favourite cafe ever is a little place called issacs in rocko.
Another possibility. This happens alot. The partner gets one of these calls a week and has become ept at handling it.
Fun fact! The entire experience was a trial in sustainability, the water for the soup came, filtered, from the pool, and of course the pool contained a lot of soup, filtered, by human kidneys.

A closed loop of beauty and perfection.
So I have been lied to for a decade?

Need regulation to make that official public info.
"Galileo"

His opponents were not scientists, but priests.

Resistance against evolution likewise. Fueled by religion, not science.

And tectonic plates was just a theory among many, with unclear data at that time. Pasteur likewise.

Real scientists also made mistakes, more so when their reputation is based on the old theory. But in general if there is a new theory that provides a model that works (its calculation fit reality), then it will be adopted. I don't know of a case where this did not happen.
Unless you move somewhere the cost of living isn't crazy, and pocket the difference.
There's a rather interesting film I watched called 'Nothing Lasts Forever (2022)', which talks about the two types of manufactured diamonds - high pressure high temperature and CVD diamonds - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16317380/. It talks a bit about natural and manufactured diamonds being mixed together.

It sounds like it's pretty difficult to tell the difference between natural and HPHT manufactured diamond, without spectrometers etc.

I found this re. CVD diamonds though "You can identify CVD diamonds fairly simply. They have a unique strain pattern that doesn’t resemble that of natural diamonds and strong red fluorescence. In addition, they lack the typical "Cape Line" at 415 nm on their absorption spectrum. Instead, they present a strong line at 737 nm." - https://www.gemsociety.org/article/identification-of-synthet...

I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdsMIG04vHA (a short clip from Bang Goes the Theory) shows CVD, using acetylene. And they verify with a raman spectrometer.
I'm glad to find my sentiment reflected in the article:

I was interested in RPGs and wargames in the early 90s. Even in my relatively backwater hometown there were events, stores or clubs were I could socialize over them.

It was all swept away by MtG within a few months, and I had the misfortune of not "getting it" myself and suddenly being left without anyone to play anywhere.

So I'm still repelled by card games to this day.
Depends on what you mean by that :D

As one can see the last commits are a few years old, and in the issues there are a few robot arms that I haven't worked in yet, which I want to do soon. However, I'd largely attribute the lack of activity to me not actually seeing a lot of new robot arms popping up. If there are any I'm missing or resources where one might regularly find some, I'm eager to hear about them and add them to the list!
I always try to avoid clearing peoples’ history if possible. E.g. use the Disable Cache option or delete individual cookies via Developer Tools instead.

In the rare case that I do try the nuclear option of clearing history, I always ask permission first.
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OpenStreetMap Americana: A quintessentially American map style
Its a GHB analogue im guessing.
EU fossil generation hits record low as demand falls
> The other thing I’ll note is that sales people are from a different planet than I am

I'm curious what your view is on the statement? How are they different? I get the concept of what you're saying, just curious about your view of those folks vs. your specific way of working/behaving.

Otherwise, not off base at all! Much of what you said reminds me of recent Hidden Brain episodes that touched in various ways on our tendency to focus and dwell on negative things while discounting positive things. This might be an example of that: The positive? potentially large upside potential. The negative? Pay cut. Easier to dwell on that.
That QR code will only work until the website gets redesigned, probably with the next fad.js
Emotions eh!
The people who share ownership are entitled to the resource and can decide how someone can join.

The land your home is built on is part of a shared resource: the space available for the community.

If we apply your logic there s nothing wrong with immigrants showing up and colonizing natives - be it in America, Australia, etc - shared resource bro!
You could do a lot worse than play around with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and similar! Lots of levels of entry from beginner to ... well ... I have a 100kloc open source 'arduino' consumer product that I can point you at!
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If I'm not mistaken a Youtube channel called "Night Hawk in Light" made a series of videos some years ago about creating various types of gems using a microwave, like rubis and diamonds. Amazing channel overall.
There's a channel on YouTube that explores some of these, they are so cleverly simple in some respects. Conveyers, servos, more mechanical than digital. But while some machines do all the work, there are also machines that get stocked daily with freshly cooked food that gets kept warm. Just in general, keeping all the machines stocked is likely a massive effort.

If I had to take a jab at the core difference between Japan and other countries, and why this stuff works there; Logistics prowess and manpower. Organised and affordable employees may be another way to word that.
And how does that upend anything? That it fell out already in the car does not seem dramatically different from it falling out after shaking Kennedy a bit.
A (regular) steel beverage can is pretty thin, and comes with sharp edges on the opener ring/tab? (I suppose the tab could be plastic - but they're not now)
Herron's "Slow Horses" series, a total of eight books, is wonderful bedtime reading.
And you think the answer is no?
The title is a bit misleading. The point of the article isn't that their ethics board resigned - that happened a while ago (right after the Uvalde shooting). The point of this article is that even after the board resignation over taser-carrying drones and a shareholder proposal to stop drone development, Axon bought a drone company anyway.
US West (telephone company) used them around that time. I know they were in Omaha, NE but unsure of where else in their market it was available.
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