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20 years ago my town had a boutique electronics store, somewhat like a Radio Shack, except they'd developed corporate sales as a revenue stream instead of pushing cellphone contrac…

From your description I hoped that you would be analyzing audio to solve problems that don't raise codes. Years ago my daily driver had a noisy wheel hub bearing, so when I heard a…

A colleague of mine transitioned from a senior IC role to manager of a PLC group in the same company. Their methods were just as unsophisticated as you describe, and now he is atte…

The world is full of plausible-sounding but provably incorrect explanations if you understand the laws of physics. As a university student I happened upon a liberal arts undergrad …

That'd be GNU/Turd to you!

Your comment reminded me of rachaelbythebay.com. While her site seems to be down at the moment, she has shared some useful war stories from debugging similar scenarios. I understan…

> those fingerprints were used A detective in a ~150K pop. municipality told me that while they might dust for prints, they rarely use them in court because computer matches are ve…

Facebook groups are good if you can get access. Be careful when cold calling on facebook, you can get permanently banned, but if you can sustain your access, you can also find othe…

> treason While outrageous, these actions are almost certainly not treason.

> cops put in jail Right. The real justice comes from treating this incident like you would if there were no municipal coffers at play, and simply punish criminals for criminal act…

Sam's Club Cafe sells $1 hot dogs and $2.50 pizza slices with a drink, and it doesn't not require a membership to visit. Larger families (4+ kids) shop at Warehouse clubs because t…

> splitting hunks a pain Sublime Merge for the win; a fantastic visual interface with context and reversible inputs. Don't leave home without it!

Long policy documents are also a problem for human agents. Without special training no one will retain 180 pages HR employee handbook, fire codes, OSHA safety rules, FCC regulation…

> I don't understand why we humor this stuff Social contract is a difficult subject, and people don't think about it enough. But thanks to this clickbait headline, thousands of rea…

> Leidenfrost effect Okay for a steak, not great for eggs!

> After having used NixOS for the last two years in my homelab, I wanted to go back to what I know. This was exactly my impression of nixos: that after years of using it, it still …

At a Denny's once, I received a kid's menu with a blurb purporting to reveal the trendy new slang words kids were using. I read with interest, but found only contrived nonces like …

Does anyone know what they're using for telemetry? Over the launch pad you have a UHF link, but that offers infrequent availability after launch. If I were launching my first orbit…

> New Era But no PQC?

John Stossel explained in _Give Me A Break_ that the US once had a variety of pharmaceutical labs researching different cures and conducting trials. But US courts allowed a frenzy …

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Thanks for a well written article! When spec'ing a signle database host, I've been told to select the highest L1/L2 cache possible (allowing O(n^2) loads to complete with the least…

I typically use paypal for paying contractors, but try to "load balance" across a couple competitors because you never know when one of them will flag your account, nor for how lon…

My dream configuration in the past was Vault, protected by step-ca's ACME implementation, with an IdP like KanIDM for SSO. But it seems like there is so much feature creep: OpenBao…

This year, an octogenarian friend got locked out of his android phone permanently. He had never had a PIN on his Samsung phone. It started when he signed up at a new bank, giving t…