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> I am not your QA department The article is a lovely cathartic rant against agile software development methodologies applied in the wrong place in the wrong way, whether or not th…

Have a look at these [1] polar diagrams for tall sailing ships. The radial distance from the center is the theoretical boat speed and the angle is the direction that the wind is hi…

For a close second here's a 1985 issue of the TPUG Magazine [1], from the Toronto PET Users Group. I attended a few meetings of the Niagara Commodore Users Group and spent all of m…

> [distributes] AND [facilitates the download of] Grouping braces and capitalization mine. So distributing also required. However it's still overly broad, vague, and ambiguous.

Supply management does have its problems, but given the involvement of imperfect humans nothing will be without problems. Canadian pork, beef, and vegetable farmers that I personal…

A farm on the western side of Canada has been doing something similar for years: https://langleyadvancetimes.com/2025/08/09/record-breaking-u...

My experience supports nearly all of this. In 2022 I decided to keep my 2019 F-150 gasser instead of getting a Lightning because the Lightning was ridiculously expensive, even thou…

Our favorite is still PDF-XChange [1] which has been our daily driver for years. Only dislike is the difficulty in opening a document in a separate application window. It's either …

> Since a human uses ~100W of power, the .24Watt-hours of energy > for an AI prompt is about 40human-seconds of energy. .24 Watt-hours is 864 Watts for one second, so a 100W human …

Why are the Arxiv and Nature versions so different, even the text?

They have their beauty as objects of art, but certainly not as a place that I would enjoy occupying or being around. Brutalist architecture with a Chinese flair.

$1400 a year in electricity at a high rate of $0.15/kWhr for all 8,760 hours in a year is about 1 kW in power savings. Reality check: A typical 3-phase 2hp industrial motor [1] is …

I often ponder what the generator algorithm might be when I am solving "insane" 13x17 Kakuro puzzles [1], because there always seems to be just enough logical paths to solve each p…

All the underlying claims by the author really need the sources referenced.

I would suggest the same hardware solution, where the USB powers a device-side presentation of the raw data into a more universal mass storage device. This also allows file transfe…

As usual it's complicated, and it depends on which study you pick, and which model and parameters the researchers used. This study suggests that more anthropogenic sulfate aerosols…

Absolutely essential. Fumes from lead-free solder fluxes are nasty [1]. I find that bench-top "fume extractors", consisting of a fan and thin dust filter, are extremely noisy and e…

The F-22 service ceiling is 60,000 ft so it can get up there too. The U2, however, flies relatively slow ( I would think that the U2 internal cameras were designed for a long focal…

And here's Dick Proenneke's way of doing it, pre-Internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss [edit: originally stated he was an Army engineer, but turns out he had variou…

In a similar vein, I quite dislike Microsoft's personification of Windows in the messages such as "We couldn't log in ...", "Let's finish setting up ..." or "We are adding new feat…

Hmm. An engineered tree introduced to the ecosystem. What could possibly go wrong?

The fluorescence is so weak that the ambient conditions need to be dark and the concrete needs to be hit with only a narrow band of the light spectrum. Then you need a tuned detect…