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If you don't need components on the bottom side, it saves money to not do so. That means the board doesn't need to go through another pass on the SMT machine. Even if a board is do…

> `... they did invest in Uber, but also have many bad investments.` The one I really don't get is that they funded Adam Neumann's new company after the collapse of WeWork. How stu…

You can insert arguments into an SQL statement with the (?1) style syntax. See the example here: https://docs.rs/rusqlite/latest/rusqlite/

Well, that would be an awkward DM to write. "Hello, you invited me to the website, but I don't actually know who you are." Modern problems...

You can look on your user page, or search for your username on the user tree page.

I requested an invite from a guy I have only known via Reddit, we've never met IRL.

That is basically the idea behind https://lobste.rs/ . There's approximately zero spam or other bad behavior. You can look at the full user tree ( https://lobste.rs/users ) and see…

Why do you want to stick your opinion into something that you hadn't previously known about? What are you going to positively contribute to the discussion that will move things for…

The high-voltage side should be separated from the electronics, so it shouldn't be dangerous if you are observant. It may be sufficient to just disconnect the antennas from the WiF…

This is an interesting and fun project, I was glad to read about it. It was a bit of a bold move to base this on a Model I. That system had an unreliable expansion interface, limit…

The museum has "Columbine III" (a slightly newer Super Constellation), which was also used by Eisenhower. It was delivered to them soon after it was retired in 1966. https://www.na…

Yes. The ARM Chromebooks suffer from long term support issues just like phones. Qualcomm and the other chip vendors will only support a given chip for a few years, and then that's …

You can do this sort of thing easily with an old Chromebook as well. You can re-flash the BIOS from https://mrchromebox.tech , and then install a standard Linux distro on it. You c…

There's a lot of quackery around these days, especially with regard to tech and finance. There's quite of bit of quackery just with nutritional supplements, too. And people and com…

> Syntax highlighting code visible on the screen That... does not work in most programming languages. Especially so for showing indent levels correctly. Generally speaking, the lan…

> If I start parsing from an arbitrary offset in the code, ... Why would you ever do that? What's the point? There are many other examples, but in C and C++, if you don't start par…

It doesn't really look like it can handle weather or ordinary dirt getting into the belt drive and rails. Automating the watering isn't hard with existing technology. if it can't r…

I also don't know why MOND remains so popular. Angela Collier talks about Dark Matter here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbmJkMhmrVI And talks more about how often MOND is broug…

At least one company I know of (though this was 15 years ago) had ridiculously high prices for their products. But they had extensive after-sales support, and the warranty was such…

Huh, interesting. I've never used our Alexa for shopping. If I said something like "Alexa, buy more filters", even being very clever and looking at my order history, it would still…

> Having a corporate job is usually a 'mediocre success'. Eh, that is doing OK to me, which is better than some nebulous "mediocre success". If you are at least saving for retireme…

So of course I have to ask... What version of NFS are you running, and are you disallowing the older versions? How are you handling user accounts? LDAP, Samba PDC (which is also LD…

Without knowing the specifics of that platform, it is likely that the BASIC interpreter was not fast enough to generate the desired effects and animations.

Generally speaking, layout for modern DRAM (LPDDRx, etc.) is a giant pain. Trace width, differential trace length matching, spacing, number of vias, and more. And all this is neede…

> And on Whatsapp, I want to talk to people on Whatsapp directly, without a chatbot in the middle. They're doing this with Skype too. It annoys me. I have a list of business contac…