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I really enjoyed reading about his inventions when I was growing up, it was inspiring to me. It’s also true though there’s a lot to be skeptical of, and it was also an education of…

Exactly my experience, the faster file transfer programs failed me on the crappy dialups of the day… but Kermit came to the rescue. As I recall it gave you a running tally of retri…

Anyone have a rubidium fountain clock that you are looking to get rid of? Asking for a friend. Thanks.

Yes, which of course is still cool. Probably the main point.

This is the correct thread. It has to be some words that don’t seem too fake and seem to plausibly suggest forward progress. There has to be some plausible support for decisions, t…

A pity that water isn’t being sold as an expensive supplement. Or is it?

Privacy is a natural fit for Apple in that they make money on discrete devices, but services have grown tremendously. That’s where the erosion of privacy happens. So once there’s a…

The page does give a pointer to Wikidata, I for one would love to see your example included.

Absolutely. I think “open” can be used as a cudgel to force an agenda that is ultimately about the benefit to some small group. Nobody should feel obligated to support something th…

Thanks for the discussion. >This argument boils down to X is good, therefore more of X is good. No, I only argued that it was a moral good, the kind of good. I actually may disagre…

I’ll take a swing at it. Open Source is a form of sharing with the wider community. Closed Source is not sharing. Moral good is based on doing good outside of your own benefit (the…

She’s not known for the concision of her videos, true. The Feynman one is interesting to me because I also read the books about his exploits and enjoyed them. As a reader I think y…

I guess I object to defining “creator” as specifically “online content creator”. Maybe there was some golden age in the past, but I think that was always aspirational and there was…

Needs to be 3,300 bags of something I care about. Otherwise you are talking about nonsense or voodoo.

Well if AI can accelerate the slopware -> abandonware lifecycle then maybe net gain? We can move on more quickly after setting fire to a zillion tokens.

>Broadcom will produce advanced radio frequency components — including FBAR filters Thin-film bulk acoustic resonator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin-film_bulk_acoustic_resona..…

I tried tofu dogs for the first time on the grill, they were pretty good.

I did read the article, all the way to the end. I liked the article the more that I read. And I didn’t imply Mr Bourdain was unpleasant or anything else. My point is that you canno…

Maybe controversial, but I think it’s always a mistake to idolize people instead of strictly something that they did. That’s enough, you enjoy their work, you don’t really need to …

I was looking for an explanation of how you deal with the fact that quad rotors are under-actuated, and therefore you lack the complete control authority to do any arbitrary motion…

When I see “boffin” in a title I think “The Register” so kudos I guess.

I absolutely believe this, it attracts developers that can see the idealistic potential. It is worthwhile to do your part for an ideal future. The fact that you your vision is unde…

>it'll take more than one swing That’s the crux of this story. There is an expectation that, if you can chop something down in several swings, then one really big swing will do it,…

>An alarming number of people seem to build their intuition about the world from fictional sources, without even realizing it. A friend of mine had a machete that they destroyed wh…

I think this is part of an anti-climate change agenda, which is about protecting fossil fuel investments. Not sure that it is broadly anti-science, except maybe in the sense of bei…