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It’s easy enough to just configure TouchID so that it doesn’t work to log into your computer. It’s only used for authorization to do certain operations (like ApplePay), once you ha…

I don’t think these methods are possible anymore in this modern economy of “fire everyone because of AI and then rehire them a few months later at half the salary”. If you’re not o…

You know, if this was software, I would agree with you. Let’s just say that hardware and I are not a good fit.

I regret to inform you that I am not competent to make electrical systems design changes on a device like this.

You should ask Daniel Stenberg of CURL fame. He might appreciate some help in this area.

Trump: Yes, let’s kill all the children. Surely that will improve things.

This design appears to be 220VAC only. And I’m assuming all metric threads and other measurements, too. I think I could live with all the other components being metric, if they jus…

Only until OpenAI or one of the other hyper-scalars makes sure to adequately pay him off.

So, use a good VPN. IMO, the main thing they’re actually useful for is protecting you against abuse from your own ISP.

For the time I worked at AWS, pretty much everyone inside the company used s5cmd for its speed. I think that speaks pretty highly of it.

Yeah, that jumped out at me, too. If they can’t re-run the benchmarks on the same hardware, it’s hard to compare the numbers.

You can send power without wires, over short distances. Induction charging on devices like iPhones and Apple Watches are common examples of that. But it gets exponentially more dif…

Is it supercavitation or is it riding in a bubble of steam that it creates ahead of itself? Either way, it’s effectively flying through the air bubble underwater, which was the con…

This is not a new concept. You can see a discussion of this technique being used (to a degree) on battleships in WWII, by watching some of the videos on the Battleship New Jersey Y…

So, Kiri Engine?

No, but there is still common use of the related form “wary”.

One of the reasons why Ipe (pronounced “e-pay”) wood is so fire resistant, is because of its density. You can get Class-A fire resistant Ipe that can be used to build in the Wildla…

With regards to cerebral palsy, my mind always goes back to Chuck, a guy I knew in high school in 1983-1984. His case was pretty severe, most people couldn’t understand him when he…

Salt water is a nasty substance and difficult to handle properly. That salt interacts with metal and other substances in the pipeline, etc…. You might not have to go to fully potab…

Datacenters need four things: power, water, cooling, and access to the WAN. A dry desert environment is not very conducive to datacenter operations with regards to those first thre…

For years, my dad and I had pun fights. Sadly, my mom was caught in the middle. Literally. Her chair was between my dad’s chair on one end of the living room, and mine on the other…

VCs and PE will fund anything, especially if someone like Peter Thiel tells them that Palantir will make trillions of dollars selling this information to their bestest buddies in a…

Many years ago, I did a six month contract for Apple Retail Software Engineering, to deliver a Jenkins CI/CD system for the code that was used to communicate with the employees in …

Even with solar panels, you have to have the right equipment at your meter and in the first box connected to the meter, in order to backfeed power to the grid. You can’t just slap …

The description was very poor. They could only feed power back into the one circuit that hardware is on, and the would also be a violation of multiple safety standards, as well as …