dogman1050

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I'm with you. I get great joy knowing that the machine on my wrist started out as rocks (ore) and was refined and fashioned into something that keeps time with very little energy input. Just keep them away from some modern devices, like an Air Pods case, which will magnetize a watch making run poorly unless demagnetized!

dogman1050

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I appreciate the sentiment and prefer to use websites instead of installing another stinkin' app. I'll even enable desktop mode if necessary. Mobile apps have one advantage that I can discern: fewer clicks to get to what you want for those who don't want to fuss.

dogman1050

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In the late '90s I worked for a startup that was building a video server based on a massive custom SIMD engine, each processor having its own disk drive in a RAID 3 configuration in totality. Our integration lab had a 256 proc system, with each disk having an activity LED. Open all the disk cabinet doors, turn off the lights, play a video, and watch 256 lights blink in unison every 0.8 sec or so. Neat!

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The Tesla Live Camera/Sentry Mode feature is watching by design in the name of security. What they actually do with the footage is anyone's guess. And any car with a panoramic camera can do the same.

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Also the name of prog supergroup Transatlantic's first album, SMPT:E, a play on the band members names.

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Yes, I had a flurry of them over the past two weeks when clicking the comments link. Comes and goes even on the same post. Running Chrome on Android with script enabled.

dogman1050

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For me in particular, hard disagree. Had a challenging and fun career until it turned into the same problems, different year. Retirement lets me pursue wide interests, interact with a more diverse group of people, and generally be a better human. Managing people is manipulation and while successful at it, I always found it a bit distasteful in spite of them thinking I'm a good guy

dogman1050

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No Amtrak in South Dakota.

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I love that it has a standard RJ45 ethernet connector.

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Having used only various ESP and RPi types, I found the article informative and the comments moreso. AI slop or not, a list is a good place to start.

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I hear this expression said with the incorrect "could" more often than than with the correct "couldn't." I attribute this to one of the following:

- the speaker is using wry sarcasm, although the inflection is usually wrong.

- the speaker actually does care a bit.

- it's easier to say "could" or it's habit.

I try not to be a pedant about this, but often fall. Yeah, I'm fun at parties.

dogman1050

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In the 1990's NASCAR driver Geoff Bodine got interested in the lack of success of the US bobsled teams, so he coordinated the application of racing technology and training to the sport. It took about a decade, but they had success. The attention to detail was the key, little things make the difference.

https://www.jalopnik.com/switching-pit-stops-for-push-starts...

dogman1050

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I love this expression. Initially a hardware guy, my motivation was driven by poverty and the parts I had on hand. This quickly turned into, "what can I build with what I've got on hand?" Even after bring able to afford the optimum parts for a design, I'm still drawn to using what I've got. Most recently I found a couple HP bubble displays in a drawer as used on the original HP35/45 calculators. Beautiful things. Wired them up to an ESP32, wrote the scanning / blanking code and packaged into a WiFi voltmeter to monitor battery voltage on a motorcycle. I could've bought this on Ali for peanuts, but where's the fun in that?

dogman1050

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As a manager, my job was to make sure they were working on the right thing. If they didn't carry their weight, I either reduced the impact by assigning them necessary-but-boring tasks to offload the high performers, or PIP'd them. I "rehabilitated" several engineers over the years and even gave them references when we parted. Staff that lied to me more than once were terminated.

dogman1050

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As a poor engineering student, I couldn't afford one of these, but I could afford the TIM-1 chipset at $35, wire wrapped it up, and borrowed a single-line ascii terminal from a buddy. It's hanging on my lab wall next to other obsolete stuff.

dogman1050

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Delivery robots may not work out well in Philadelphia.

https://apnews.com/general-news-fc26378306a44d62bc9eb14b122f...

dogman1050

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For me, the failure of Fe is all the races are run on street courses with few high speed turns and no elevation change through the lap. That, and they sound like an NBA games with more tire squeaking noise than the propulsion system sounds.

I'm really looking forward to this weekend's F1 finale. Three drivers have a shot at the top three spots in the championship.

dogman1050

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When it happened here, I instinctively threw the flaming pan out the adjacent open door into the yard. We ate something else that day.

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It's wrong in Einstein's name, twice.

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My name is so common that people laugh and say, "come on, what's your real name?" There are two of us in our little town. When the other one robbed a convenience store I started getting calls from friends who thought it was me. I also look like many people, to the point that I once told someone, "no, I'm really not your cousin."