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Is anyone else getting "mongodb is webscale" vibes? (Except 16 years ago that was a lot smoother, because it used some sort of "render this conversation" engine...)

it's sold as harder to copy (and easier to revoke when you're doing layoffs - which shouldn't have been a really challenge for card-based systems, they're just old and didn't keep …

Even the Microsoft Kin lasted 48 days (I thought it had been cancelled on launch day, but digging back it was just the tech press saying "This was a mistake from Day One" which is …

800VDC at (merely) hundreds of amps is a high-end electric car charger. (Those are a lot easier to shut down individually, though.)

Or to the drug-assisted VR scene in Minority Report. (Though that's even darker...)

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7487913... via https://bsky.app/profile/jfoust.bsky.social/post/3mrqa6o24as... says that they're having attitude control proble…

They should be close to the end of the checkout stage, then it'll take 4 weeks to get in the right orbit and another 2 weeks of inspection ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_boo…

At least in the US, no, not many, and the fish itself is very import restricted to keep the toxic parts from reaching the market. Hmmm.

it's a little weird but most of the sub $50 ESP-32 boards on waveshare include an MP3 player as one of many demo bits of code (primarily because it shows off code for "read from mi…

Monitoring "space weather" (paying attention to the sun/solar flares/CMEs etc) is important to keeping our earth orbiting satellites functioning. (That's without getting into what …

Textual? https://textual.textualize.io/

ugh, I had some text book that used R for a scalar value and (edit: \u{MATHEMATICAL BOLD FRAKTUR CAPITAL R} here) for a matrix that was related to the scalar and I had to go back a…

BASIC is older than most people realize, but it's still half a decade younger than Lisp.

The description of Gallus Gallus ("Red Junglefowl" but also described as the "original chicken") mentions it being an introduced species in Hawaii (but also that it's interbred wit…

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The only ones getting paid this time around had registered copyrights (in the US at that.)

what's getting built is more like Asimov's Spacers/Solarians, though. (Vastly reduced population wielding thousands of robots each)

and "cookie clicker" is already taken :-)

Only vaguely related: is that tiny receipt printer at the end of the article real or is it itself a mockup? (It appears to be smaller than any of the ones I've come across, and goo…

The anecdotes I picked up in my early driving days suggested that red being more visible also meant it was more visible to traffic cops and get more attention - and thus more speed…

The "you'll get left behind" crowd has already made it clear that they're not worth engaging with, you're not going to find reasonable voices anywhere those threads are happening..…

I recall one article mentioning that there's desalination gear on board (that's what the solar panel is for?)

I don't use it for my primary workflow, but I use the Android app all the time for "grab a couple of interesting shots to send to friends, from the parking lot right after a hike/n…

I don't really see this with modern graphics programming, but I was highly amused that my 1980s-1990s graphics skills (in particular, coordinate transform math) were very useful wh…

At least in the US (and this probably is different from Europe) it matters a huge amount how the asbestos is exposed to the environment. Asbestos that's sealed up generally gets (a…