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New cars have 3G cellular transmitters constantly sending telemetry data. This started becoming common in 2012.

Still down as of 22:31 PDT.

Show me the person and I'll show you the crime. -Stalin This was a person they wanted to let go and needed an excuse to get rid of that would save them severance and lawsuits, I'd …

I've been experimenting with AI trying to understand its strengths and weaknesses better. There are certain lines of prompting that will result in heavily censored responses. They …

Who would collect such a dossier? Who would want such a thing exposed? How many Trump voters care about the details of JD Vance enough to change their vote (zero)? Why has Zuck pub…

Efficiency means minimizing the use of the costliest components. It's installing fault points into a system on purpose. Robust systems minimize fault points. Efficient systems come…

My uncle works for Nintendo. He says Bird Flu is going to start getting real bad in two weeks, like REAL BAD.

The consensus at the very large IT provider I work for, amongst the staff, is that India is a good bet for a script running operations team, but poor on ingenuity, innovation, and …

Zig looks fun, as a low level alternative to Rust. Similar use case as Rust, but much simpler.

In my niche, platform engineering, grey-hairs is a positive indicator of competence.

Women often eventually discover they want children and are on a tight timeline. Men do too, but they are not on the timeline. They can start families at virtually any time in their…

Anyone can build a bridge that will stand. It takes an engineer to build a bridge that will barely stand. A second of life beyond the warranty period is profit that the manufacture…

The corporations finance.the politicians, so no. It's all for show, and lines the pockets of the lawyers, who are the primary political class.

From the politicians they funded?

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Diablo Canyon was a Gen I/II design from the 1950's/60's. Gen IV designs are far safer and cleaner, Thorium designs in particular, however they don't generate byproducts for nuclea…

If they didn't spend so much money on renewables they could have used it on the grid. Some of the dumb enviromental laws didn't help either. It could be pretty hard to clear trees …

Just wait. California is where they start this stuff. California was an amazing place to live not too long ago. Good schools, affordable housing, (so) no major homeless issues, one…

I've lived in California for my whole life. A blackout in the 80's was an anomaly. They were so rare that I remember them as being fun, a little adventure, because they were very r…

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I've been at this business for a few minutes and can say it's not that hard to identify good candidates. 1) a native and active interest in computing 2) good english 3) good (enoug…

The buildings are more than symbols, we have no clue how they were built, just theories, but remember there were no power tools before 1895. There were no cranes. Those massive Rom…