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Car keys usually use a wavelength of 1 meter; networking on your phone is going to be typically shorter than 15cm (though varies widely based on geographic region and carrier). A f…

Seems like that would significantly raise the center-of-gravity making it less stable?

Maybe a Multiple Use Labor Element?

Did you see the 26 minute long video?

It took several hours to do the first time, and it will take several hours to do the next time. Sounds repeatable to me :)

More likely they wrote the obit several years ago. That's not uncommon.

Had he acted in real life the way he did on c.l.l, I strongly suspect he would have been punched a lot more often. Certainly one eulogy I read of him led with the sentence: "Erik N…

I'm not sure how much of this is complicated because of NixOS; going this far off the beaten path would be rather complicated in any distro. I'd be a lot more sure if the author ha…

Yes, I was wondering if they really last longer than sodium-vapor lamps, which last about 5 years at a 50% duty cycle.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#%22Gell-Mann_...

I have never lived in SF but I have failed similar Chinatown-during-lunar-new-year tests in all 3 places I lived for more than a year. I have no doubt that an AI, particularly one …

Is Troup bowling without using the thumbhole? That was a no-no when I learned bowling, with conventional wisdom being it would put a ceiling on your performance.

Besides electrical noise, there are mechanical issues as well. I've seen systems fail memtest86+ after being moved, and the issue being fixed after reseating the DIMMs. ECC can cat…

I really liked their comparison matrix, it's honest about what it does and what it doesn't do. I'll probably go with Kobo + Koreader when my current ereader gives up the ghost, but…

Dinners with my extended family are like this (everybody talking at the same time, most people participating in two simultaneous conversations). After moving away for college, my s…

I wear an analog watch; I've never spent over $200 on a watch, despite being a bit picky (I insist on a day-of-week feature). Seiko doesn't seem to make the movement in my watch an…

USB 3.0 Hubs have always been pretty "meh" for me. I think the quality control, even on name brands, is poor.

Then they start calling it "buproto" or something. Firefox has a trademark too, but that didn't stop debian from distributing the same thing under the name Iceweasel...

RE: SQLITE_BUSY: I would replace "often" with "nearly always." On top of that, it's often not fixed even when pointed out. "This software only has one writer, so we don't need to h…

With 8kb of registers for just this one feature, what does a modern process-control-block look like?

I encountered that on exchange to a Gymnasium in the '90s. I liked it better than the Palmer I learned in the US.

+1 for the rollerball recommendation. It's hard to describe what it's like using something like the STABILO worker after using ball-point pens for years. Compared to a ball-point i…

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I believe liability is an issue too. In aviation (as compared with autos) the manufacturer is often found partially liable for an accident, so they can be on the hook even if it wa…

Not to mention they are spending an awful lot of money on developing anti-satellite missiles for having a working directed-energy weapon that can do the same. I'm sure they are exp…