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I used to throw up and faint as a youngster, when having to do talks. Was unable to call people on the phone for years. Anxiety is a bitch. However, the only way out is through. I …

RF as in radio. Radio waves have this nasty habit of leaking out past the fence: https://cyote.inl.gov/content/uploads/24/2025/12/CyOTE-Case-... In water/wastewater much of infrast…

It’s not a paper HQ, but it is for tax purposes.

Femto second laser lightsabering through insect heads + electron microscope to provide an MRI style animation through the insect. All in what appears to be some guys garage done as…

I did not say that humans anthropomorphise every rock or stick. The point is that we are hard-wired for this possibility . Perhaps something more relatable? A cat? We ascribe all s…

That’s not a solution. Humans are wired to anthropomorphise; we do it with sticks and rocks. How much more so with LLMs. We’ve invented a technology that hijacks that part of human…

Cool. I will assert a magic 8 ball that gives the correct answer. Are we done?

Having worked on SCADA software in the past, I find the evolution of the control room UX fascinating. You can see in these pictures, where every input and output is a real physical…

Not a doctor, this is how it was explained to me by my doctor. Paracetamol/acetaminophen has a therapeutic dose that is uncomfortably close to the fatal dose, but is otherwise as s…

If we are going to start discounting economists based on failure to correctly predict things like - interest rates - then you’re going to be chopping the entire mainstream field. I…

> Let the kids play. To a point. Plenty of people from previous generations with missing digits and hands thanks to play with commonly available fireworks of the area (Australia ba…

So VB6 or earlier is what you are probably remembering, and VB has a fascinating history as it started life as a wysiwyg design tool before it was attached to any language. However…

> Perhaps the biggest difference I see from millenials and gen z is that the degree in which they realize the difference between having earned the right to expressing your opinion …

“Tinker in my garage” for low level things. If I’m playing around with a custom layer 2 protocol, python is not my language of choice. Basically, if what you are tinkering needs pr…

Seeing as I can get about 200K TPS from a networked DB in my environment, I have to question your setup here. In the real world we are looking at things like RPO (recovery point ob…

We’re all enterprise. If you have 200 WF’s/sec each with 200 events, it sounds to me that you have a sizeable amount of work flowing through this system. 17 million workflows per d…

With all due respect – if that’s the attitude, you have no business running anything on-prem. And that’s fine, there’s a reason the various cloud providers are the go-to for many b…

> If you're doing anything non-trivial (say, 200+ events/workflow) and you need to run only a couple hundred of them concurrently all day, you're going to spend millions on infra, …

HCF

> as soon as you do something actually complicated, you realize that the different optimization modes of the engine give different results The same is true of SQL query planners. Y…

> existing anti-cheat measures can simply be avoided by letting the AI play through the same interface as a human. Great. Now we are going to get “secure cables” for mouse and keyb…

> The fish rots from the head. The old adage that the people elect the governance they deserve; comes to mind. The concepts of Virtue, Honour, Duty, and Justice have been declining…

Right, but there’s really only two directions you can go. 1. Install a culture of honour/virtue/accountability. Rely on duty and moral justice to keep the majority in-line. 2. An a…

Closed source centralized SaaS will have a major security advantage. Edit: Because an RCE in a open-source dependency means you are just as vulnerable when the security patch lands…

Interesting idea