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I find it apparent when I very occasionally take a break from making my own stuff from scratch and get a takeout.

One thing it taught me was that sometimes the corrections would be in next month's edition, so I had that long to figure out for myself why the program didn't work as stated.

The main qualification of one of the best electronics engineers I knew (UK) was Bachelor of Music.

So if, say, you were completely irradiated - every atom of your being - and fully repaired, would you still be 'you'? /Is that a transporter energizing I hear?

Is this the evolution of something that used to run moderately well on a mid-range Raspberry pi? Don Priestley (Mazogs), stares down with a withering look.

A few weeks ago I needed a computer to be a Debian server for some at-home simple Web dev / learning stuff. I bought an HP Prodesk 400 G3 SFF PC with i5-6500, 8GB RAM and a 256GB o…

> leads to real outages. Um, no. I daresay you could find the odd example, as for any grid in a stressed situation, but it's not like we turn to each other every week in the dark a…

I would just like to bring my Bluetooth headset into teams reliably.

I used to support DTP, and graphics for the systems house at which I worked. I travelled round the UK installing PageMaker and A4 paper-white CRT displays - boy were they heavy! My…

The Motorola phones are generally good performers and value for money. My only gripe is that they cannot have their batteries replaced easily - even by phone repair shops. I unders…

I learned how to do lacing during an electronics engineering apprenticeship in the 1980s. After the fact, when I moved more in to systems and networking, I found that flat, nylon, …

LinkedIn - it takes you to the allow/deny page but doesn't automate things. It used to be that the LinkedIn login would get stuck in a cycle around this, but now it just dumps you …

I worked in IT support and engineering for a UK Olivetti dealer / distributor in the 1980s/90s. As such I had access to all sorts of Olivetti kit in various states of functionality…

I tried this with Node-RED for a Meshtastic project (MeshBop), but experienced occasional timeouts even when only making a handful of calls per hour. In the end I moved to Met Norw…

I ran with Centreon for a while because you got Nagios + integrated dashboarding out of the box and a Community option. I'm out of that game now though so don't have the challenge.…

I don't really keep up with the hifi market and seeing the headline was an eye opener. I used to work in a building next to a B&W place where they either made speakers or at least …

Will the products please stop complaining.

My calculator says that's 4.5 days at warp 9.

Here's one possibility. With AI we need fewer programmers, and the juniors will possibly be the first to go, but they might me retrained for other careers (which might eventually g…

> As far as I remember Digg didn’t have followers or any major original content or influencers. Yep, some personalities on Digg had their groupies and if they posted something, all…

Might be OK if you had to take a driving proficiency test and only had the extra HP enabled if you proved you can handle it.

And then your insurance is voided due to an unauthorized engine modification.. Official dealers won't service it or will keep resetting it...