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I'm with you. I get great joy knowing that the machine on my wrist started out as rocks (ore) and was refined and fashioned into something that keeps time with very little energy i…

I appreciate the sentiment and prefer to use websites instead of installing another stinkin' app. I'll even enable desktop mode if necessary. Mobile apps have one advantage that I …

In the late '90s I worked for a startup that was building a video server based on a massive custom SIMD engine, each processor having its own disk drive in a RAID 3 configuration i…

The Tesla Live Camera/Sentry Mode feature is watching by design in the name of security. What they actually do with the footage is anyone's guess. And any car with a panoramic came…

Also the name of prog supergroup Transatlantic's first album, SMPT:E, a play on the band members names.

Yes, I had a flurry of them over the past two weeks when clicking the comments link. Comes and goes even on the same post. Running Chrome on Android with script enabled.

For me in particular, hard disagree. Had a challenging and fun career until it turned into the same problems, different year. Retirement lets me pursue wide interests, interact wit…

No Amtrak in South Dakota.

I love that it has a standard RJ45 ethernet connector.

Having used only various ESP and RPi types, I found the article informative and the comments moreso. AI slop or not, a list is a good place to start.

I hear this expression said with the incorrect "could" more often than than with the correct "couldn't." I attribute this to one of the following: - the speaker is using wry sarcas…

In the 1990's NASCAR driver Geoff Bodine got interested in the lack of success of the US bobsled teams, so he coordinated the application of racing technology and training to the s…

I love this expression. Initially a hardware guy, my motivation was driven by poverty and the parts I had on hand. This quickly turned into, "what can I build with what I've got on…

As a manager, my job was to make sure they were working on the right thing. If they didn't carry their weight, I either reduced the impact by assigning them necessary-but-boring ta…

As a poor engineering student, I couldn't afford one of these, but I could afford the TIM-1 chipset at $35, wire wrapped it up, and borrowed a single-line ascii terminal from a bud…

Delivery robots may not work out well in Philadelphia. https://apnews.com/general-news-fc26378306a44d62bc9eb14b122f...

For me, the failure of Fe is all the races are run on street courses with few high speed turns and no elevation change through the lap. That, and they sound like an NBA games with …

When it happened here, I instinctively threw the flaming pan out the adjacent open door into the yard. We ate something else that day.

It's wrong in Einstein's name, twice.

My name is so common that people laugh and say, "come on, what's your real name?" There are two of us in our little town. When the other one robbed a convenience store I started ge…

I discovered just yesterday that Verizon home internet blocks archive.is. Changing the router DNS from their default to openDNS fixed the problem for me, so it looks like they made…

I've been looking for something to do with the bag of 1N4001 diodes I trash-picked decades ago. There are 1,000 pieces minus the dozen or so I've used in projects. The 50V PIV and …

I had a brush with the PS/2 and OS/2 back in the day. IBM offered the PS/2-based Personal/370 on the platform with a card that could execute S/370 SW. My team built the I/O channel…

My best power tool tip, learned years ago, is "go pee first" meaning that you'll be less careful if you're trying to hurry through the cut because you need to go to the bathroom.

I replaced a blown Phase Linear 400 with a Behringer A800 amp for less money than the replacement output transistors would've cost. The PL400 was well setup, but the A800 sounds be…