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My first job out of college in the early 80's was working on diagnostics for an old NASA computer. "What language do I use?" I asked my boss. "We don't have a compiler". OK, I thou…

Worried about the privacy of data that the US government holds on you? It's soon to be in the hands of a quickly thrown together AI system for the entire federal government

I worked on a system at Martin Marietta in the late 80's and early 90's where we created tiled maps for use by the US Army. We had a large scanner we'd use to scan their maps, then…

"Hard to find a more American article than this." Just wait until they start taking pot-shots at them and then it will be "real" America: BOOM! "Look Ma! I done got one!"

Just another example of impulsive and very poor judgment from Trump. Even though he had the right to declassify this image, his only reason to do so was to taunt the Iranians - Ha …

Yeah - When covered in even a moderate amount of snow, output drops almost all the way off. I had thought that being black, they would melt off quickly, but that doesn't appear to …

One interesting fact that I recall, and that I didn't see in the article, is that evolution in some Owls traded off silent flight for the inability to fly when their feathers are w…

Yeah, you typically need some sort of hub unless you run Home Assistant. My understanding is that it doesn't need any hub for Matter support.

Yeah - you can even pass your own python, go, bash, etc. "on/off" script as a parameter to the example matter-device so you can get away with no code changes at all. You can get he…

If you can do Typescript, matter.js makes it trivial to at least create a virtual matter device. Five minutes to clone the repo, build, run and pair with Google, Apple, Alexa, Smar…

Those bank-teller tubes are still in use in the Denver suburbs.

Enjoyed the story and it reminded me of another bridge over I-225 that I wondered about and drive under occasionally in the Denver area. The bridge is much wider than a typical ped…

Olathe had POpular 4 and STate 2

If you search on youtube, you can see that some F-117s are still flying. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UUOJBBNfZY&ab_channel=Youtu...

I use this in a little raspberry pi project. For persistence, I occasionally copy data to a writable partition and then at boot, after the ram overlay is mounted, I copy it back.

I don't know the answer, but are these numbers comparable? I would assume that Waymo is talking about crashes while in self-driving mode, is that true for Tesla as well or are they…

I was just getting ready to say the same thing and was wishing for a plugin that would replace all exclamation points with a period. That would make reading much easier

I just got done searching for an accessory for a specific model of car on Amazon. My results prominently included items (ads) for accessories for a different model of car that woul…

I worked on a downstream consumer of a passive radar system years ago and was amazed at its capabilities. We had it set up on a tennis court outside of Farnborough UK during a bi-a…

When Aldrich Ames, the notorious CIA KGB double-agent was sent to prison, his personal library ended up in a used bookstore in the DC area and I picked up a few volumes that had hi…

Iceland generates 25% of their energy geothermically https://nea.is/geothermal/

I also use the Wemo switches at home. And yes, for the most part they are reliable. I really like setting schedules based on sunset and sunrise. The integration with Google sometim…

I have 6 lines, "unlimited" with T-Mobile for around $130 used by various family members. Can't find a better deal than that.