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Wait until China invades Taiwan.. (ok, it's not too likely, but what if?)

Isn't the main showstopper issue to solve for brain implants is scarring response or something similar? That is when body responds to the implant and surrounds electrodes with some…

When most of services nowadays seem like a hostile subscription, this brings joy. edit: use of Yandex on the other hand.. yeah that's a no go for paid subscription.

Tried going all out at ~45deg angle until fuel is finished hoping to go into orbit, but no luck.

I've done something similar but it was only a 7 segment display showing how much I ran. It sat on a shelf and it was pretty fun to watch number go up every time I came back to my a…

Yup. And the other (green/teal?) typewriter has a spacebar on the edge, same colour as the typewriter body. Ends of it sometimes visible between fingers, it's also used.

My father got it after an injured looking/unusually behaving cat scratched him up. Cat ran away - so it was impossible to test for rabies. 4 shoulder injections - no drama, no noti…

Not from Russia, but nearby.. It was very common - kinda wild east and nobody cared. As soon our telecom started providing DSL - we (neighbourhood kids) got a commercial DSL into m…

English Wikipedia and some Linux distribution which can be downloaded as a full set of packages + sources.

Basic flight instruments almost always have a backup. In case of F-35 there's a small square screen in centre console which shows attitude indicator and flight parameters. Needless…

Somewhat related: https://x.com/id_aa_carmack/status/569658695832829952 > Teaching my kids programming on an Apple //c is like kung fu training in the primitive wilderness.

Reminds this current slightly comedic (IMO) situation in my office: a few months ago developers were given access to GitHub's "Copilot Enterprise". Then, a month or so later, organ…

On top of problems with helium leaks there's now another issue[1]: > Starliner has been given a go to hold at 260 meters from the space station. During the approach two reaction co…

On top of that there's now another issue[1]: > Starliner has been given a go to hold at 260 meters from the space station. During the approach two reaction control system jets have…

Title should be "Creating Windows 95 theme for a disposable vape" or something similar.

And we're all happy CVS users.

Related - there's also ESP8266 based TheOldNet wifi modem[1] in case you want TCP/IP over wifi networking in your MS-DOS machine (or possibly others which have support for SLIP - S…

Somewhat related.. I recently discovered Facebook "Ad Topics". In my case through Instagram preferences. List of topics is hilariously long and 2/3rds have nothing to do with me. B…

The design, look and feel is great. Authenticating / proving your identity on the other hand is lacking: https://www.gov.uk/using-your-gov-uk-one-login/proving-your-... Meanwhile, …

Somewhat related: WizzAir adds £10-£20 "system surcharge" if you're buying tickets from Firefox and Linux. Or use ad blocker.

Not sure about stack overflow, but search result quality feels to be in decline. Lately I deliberately try to rely on official documentation more (i.e. have it bookmarked and brows…

It's both. DJI drones while expensive they are rather user friendly. Some fighters in Ukraine do use them with aftermarket droppers[1]. Payload is limited to a single VOG-17M grena…

My father avoided using any kind of computers until he was 68. The we got him an Android tablet. Not the best choice to be honest, but it's too late, he got used to it. He's now 77…

Can't you achieve same thing with uprobe[1]? [1]: https://brendangregg.com/blog/2015-06-28/linux-ftrace-uprobe...

In case of my previous employer it led to incredibly complicated encryption system. It took couple years to maybe implement in 10% of the system. Deleting any old data was rejected…