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Sure, but that shouldn't be a time-dependent charge. If my build takes an hour to build on GH's hardware, sure thing, charge me for that time. But if my build takes an hour to buil…

Inclusivity and democratic governance of a project is a strike to you? Seems like perhaps your hat is showing...

Interesting. I'm somewhere on the aphantasia spectrum, but I very rarely have vivid dreams. Most dreams I would describe it almost like remembering an audiobook instead of a movie.…

I interpreted it as more of "concepts" and not the word floating in space. That's closer to how I would describe my experience. With effort I can kinda force a static visualization…

LASIK is well known to only be a short to mid-term solution. The eyes age like the rest of you, and any correction will eventually be outpaced by the natural weakening of your ocul…

I elected for LASIK as my near-sighted prescription was severe enough that I could only see about 6-8 inches in front of my eyes without my glasses. Also, I could only get my presc…

I always figured it was from Nuclear pearl-clutching and genuine fear about launch disasters. Especially after the various Apollo and shuttle disasters. Though with how SpaceX has …

> As someone who has actually built working micro payments systems The Github repo clearly has Python and Typescript examples of both client and server (and in multiple frameworks)…

Yep. They claim all sorts of things, but there is no transparency or proof that any wastage or actual fraud was present. It's all just ideological things that Project 2025/MAGA/Dad…

It's a damn shame the IRS funding is getting gutted and those billionaire 1% will be getting cuts anyways. Hard to go after those not paying when Daddy Trump and Daddy Musk cut the…

Haven't used the M8, but I just set up an AGM M9 on Mint Mobile two days ago. That said, that's kinda cheating since Mint is a T-Mobile MVNO and I haven't tried it outside my usual…

One of my favorite series in the last few years. The tech side of things are believable enough (at least compared to the usual handwavy nature of sci-fi books) and now I understand…

It seems like the profit-driven attitude put us in the ecological situation and maybe it's time to put the environmental impact first.

It also doesn't help that the bid/contract process is skewed to select the lowest bidder. You can always forget to add some margin here or there, or fail to plan for problems that …

And how many would assume that the incorrect unit abbreviation would mean something else? If I said Kbps and KBps, it's an entirely different unit of measure. NM and nm are VASTLY …

I too first read it as nanometers. Perhaps it's just those with engineering/science backgrounds who have far more experience with nanometers than nautical miles? I've never had cau…

Recently unionized at my workplace and the most vocal anti-union folks were high-level/long term employees that went "Well I have mine, I can negotiate my own wins", while saying t…

The question was would you spend that on a device you spend 8+hrs in each day, which is something people often ignore. This is a device you _live_ in. This is someone's mobility an…

Well that's reductive and dismissive. These are perfectly understandable mistakes or scenarios one might find themselves and a simple method to avoid/rectify them. Find is a very p…

I taught my research group Git version control in college. It was part of a "new student/researcher onboarding" series that we put all the new grad students and undergrads through.…

Why wouldn't you take a scratch-build EV on the road? People build kit-cars all the time, and an EV has a much simpler control system. This is a very simplified project to prove th…

Given that the engineering safety folks are more than likely not the ones writing the code, I doubt it.

The university I studied at had a Gravitational Wave center under the Physics dept, and all the professors would joke about how LISA had been "less than a decade away" for 20 years…

It's serving as both a demo of their generative AI and is an entertainment pre-show. It's not meant to be a presentation or deeply informative.