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"I would have liked to have seen Montana..." You are forever in our hearts, Vasili.

The DNS Song seems appropriate. Even if it's not DNS in this case. https://soundcloud.com/ryan-flowers-916961339/dns-to-the-tun...

I gave OpenPOV a try with FS 2024, and found it really disorienting. It was not useful at all. I went to a Meta Quest 3 and that actually made me feel like I was inside an aircraft…

memories of slashdot rush in

I don't want to crap on peoples ideas. Really, I don't. But getting some closet case computer with unknown hardware and turning it into a server, at scale, is an impossible scheme.…

I recall as a teen wondering if the 486 was so good, how amazing a 1086 was going to be someday :D

My first PC was a 286/12 with an AMD chip in it. I well remember the 486SX/2-66's and how terrible they were. I liked to say that Compaq put the "sorry" in Presario. In the late 90…

My uncle Richard is one of the inventors on Honeywell’s early phase‑detect autofocus. Patent US4333007A, which figures out both the direction and amount the lens needs to move inst…

I've never been afraid to share bad ideas because the best way to get to a good one is to go through the bad ones. Sometimes my bad ideas will spark a good idea from somebody else …

At first, I felt smart about knowing what a TCXO is. Then, it went downhill from there. Great analysis. I figured it would have been the heater component that failed, then reading …

I learned next-level defensive driving by bicycle commuting to work 5.5 miles each way on busy roads in rush hour traffic. On a bicycle you're invisible, and if you expect any less…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club The 27 Club is an informal list consisting mostly of popular musicians who died at age 27. Although the claim of a "statistical spike" for the…

My organization is, for now, using OpsGenie. My pager noise: https://www.soundjay.com/transportation/sounds/train-crossin... That will not only wake the dead, it'll wake me no matt…

I had the same thing for Slashdot.org for many, many years. Both the reflex and the browser autocomplete. I still miss the old /. It was like HN + Hackaday + Usenet.

Yep, have been on constant "pager duty" for 2+ years, although I have more help now and I get paged 1-3 times a week instead of per night. Still, carry my lappy everywhere I go. Bo…

That was my point. They used the wrong filament. And there isn't really a right one for the cowl of a single engine aircraft

Yes but are they printed with PLA or PETG, or even ABS? Or are they using material designed exactly for their use case, and tested thoroughly before being certified for flight? Or …

Just added to my cart. Thanks. Working from the car sucks, but it happens now and then. This should make it a lot easier.

The ability to spot poor information is what keeps the end user a vital part of the process. LLM's don't think. [Most] humans do.

LLM's follow the old adage of "Garbage In, Garbage Out". LLM's work great for things that are well documented and understood. If you use LLM's to understand things that are poorly …

Wow. I have never heard of this. Thank you. I just Googled it and while not all of the symptoms fit, a good number of them do. It's rather interesting, I know how to use numbers- I…

Exactly. I left high school over abuse. Another student spent the whole period sitting next to me staring at me muttering about how he was going to tie me up in the middle of the d…

High school was toxic, and so were my first few jobs. Lessons learned the hard way.

These weren't universal truths, they were my personal truths.

Math is amazing, and I'm becoming interested in it after being out of school for over 30 years. But, my own incompetence with numbers meant gravitating away from them, for me. I am…