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I wonder if that's the golden handcuffed founder equivalent of blinking out SOS in morse code?

Yep. It can be power - see Reddit and Wikipedia mods - but it's usually money. And once VC fundraising is involved, it's pretty much always money.

Every staff member with a ChatGPT account gets a complimentary promotion to CISO...

I had a Timex Data Watch over 30 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink It'd transfer phone numbers and calendar entries to the watch by blinking the screen of you…

I remember asking a chippie (carpenter tradesman) a while back why he was using Ozito brand power tools (the cheapest Chinese brand from the local tool barn). He said "The good gea…

Your legless manager in the daily Workrooms stand^h^h^h^h^floatup glares at you.

Nah, she got the job. And that lead to her next even better one. Now I'd need something to go spectacularly right for me to be able to afford to head hunt her. (We still catch up f…

Gotta admit that's what I clicked through hoping for. I've seen a few projects that use SDR to detect doppler shifts of reflections of broadcast FM radio station off planes as "pas…

It's always worth considering whether you have people who will give you genuine glowing references. I've only ever once been at a place where there was a policy saying "all you are…

Using ADS-B and calling it a "radar" feels wrong to me. (But is is a cool project)

One of my treasured toys - probably from a few years older than your 3 year old though - was a rocking cylinder steam engine my father gave me. It was a present from his father as …

'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe' -- Carl Sagan

> I find "make" potentially confusing with AI-assisted projects. I'm feeling this right now. I have a working prototype of a project that has mirrors mounted on pan/tilt mechanisms…

The C in DMCA stand for Copyright. All (I think?) software licenses are underpinned and made legally enforceable by copyrights. EULAs are underpinned by licenses which are founded …

The cheapest option, Pixel 10, costs $1349 from Google, they want $1990 (in Australian Dollars, that's about $940 and $1390 in USD) So not quite a 50% markup on the bard phone, not…

The website also says: "Australian research shows that 99% of domestic violence cases now involve some form of technology-facilitated abuse." Where the "Australian research" is lin…

> a badly configured scraping setup? Cynical-me assumes every single AI company is vibe-coding everything, and _all_ their scrapers are as badly written as the typical publicly ava…

Is there a decent rule of thumb about how this style of antenna scales with frequency? I'd kinda like something like this that could do 2.4GHz, 850-950MHz and even down as low as 4…

I bought whole Intel N100 mini pc with 16GB of DDR5 in it in 2023 for $AUD289 (so about $US200). I got a 16GB (DDR4) SODIMM in 2022 for $AUD88 ($US60).

> on hardware that ordinary people can afford These days, can "ordinary people" afford 24GB of ram and half a TB of NVME ssd? sigh

This is a beautiful turn of phrase - the likes of which is unlikely to ever be generated correctly and in appropriate context by an LLM: "An additional inconvenience is the flyby s…

Yeah - I think we're on the same page here? If I'm interviewing at a Python shop that actually does statistics t=ype stuff or text munging, I'd expect them to have preferred/existi…

Is that really a "more applicable" task that finding the median? Are there actually software development jobs where either of those tasks are a regular/common part of the work, whe…

Back in the late 80s and early 90s, I drove a '72 Superbug reasonably regularly from Sydney to Brisbane and Melbourne, even Adelaide a few times. They're 800-1000km trips each way …

> I think in the near future, people will start filtering out movies that have a non-trivial share created by AI. I'm not _sure_ that's true? "Most people" know that McDonalds don'…