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My son told be today that he wants to buy a floppy disk drive because one of the bands he likes started releasing singles on 3.5" floppies. What a time to be alive.

Neat! I've been wanting to make something like this for a long time, well before LLMs came around. It was one of the first things I tried out with an LLM in the early days of ChatG…

Ha, that's a good one. At a job 10 years ago or so I had a similar premonition of upcoming layoffs—lots of closed door meetings between the execs, travel and expansion plans gettin…

Ha, this reminded me-when I was a teenager I had an old beat-up car that didn't have a CD player or an AUX port. I also had an old boombox that had removable speakers. I removed th…

As I understand it just means there's a lot more energy in the atmosphere. Like imagine the amount of energy it takes to increase water temperature in a pot by 3° and scale it up t…

And the remainder is people complaining about all the AI

The nice (?) thing about the shitty mcDs graveyard job is that, probably, no one has let you borrow a million dollars yet, so you don't have to pay it back. If you also don't have …

I've been thinking about doing valet storage. Anyone had any experience? I think there's some untapped potential in the 'burbs.

It's not fully hallucinated, I don't think. If you squint, you really can see what I assume is the 'decoy message', I'm fairly sure it says 'WRITTEN IN GHOST FONT'. It seems more l…

Ah, fair. I read BEAD in another comment and conflated the two.

I don't think you have that right; BEAD funds were not originally allowed to be awarded for technologies other than Fiber. No one had been awarded in 2020. Many ISPs had been award…

I've known enough librarians to come to a belief that, in general, their curation decisions are more motivated by a love of books and learning than they are by the more divisive po…

Not really, no. How it is relevant?

Note that children do become adults while in (high) school. It's common for book-banners to imply that they are removing books from elementary school kids when they are actually re…

Personally, I am OK with the library making their own curation decisions. That's part of how a library functions, I understand that they can't carry everything. I have a problem wh…

> schools are making these decisions on a neutral, apolitical basis - but this is not really possible, is it? Well, sure, but it's not possible for the religious parent groups to b…

That type of media was never in schools to begin with. The problem here is that schools and districts made their own, informed curation decisions, and those decisions are being ove…

Authoritarian is an adjective. A thing can be authoritarian without all things being so. Yes, authoritarian things have always existed, and yes, a powerful religious group joining …

On the other hand, there is a persistent idea that schools are just making curation decisions for the children in their district, and people are calling that book banning. That's w…

It's a way to create constructive interference in an RF signal in a certain direction (the signal gets stronger in one direction and weaker in others without changing the hardware)…

It can be changed electronically and is commonly used that way in LTE and Wi-Fi implementations of Beamforming.

I learned all about this from Joe Pera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LEJSMm1qpM

At least one time. Considering it's the only time I've been to the hospital for myself in the last 25 years, though, that's a lot! :)

Oof, that's a bad day. I've had cable stolen from a tower site like that, but it was cable we had spooled out for installation the day before, not in active use.

We had a meteor 15 years ago or so. I happened to open the side door just as it was overhead. It looked like late afternoon by the light, but it was long after dark by the clock. I…