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> I also think calling these a "sensor" is a bit of a stretch. Indeed. At best, they're an "emitter", a "proxy", a "relay", a "transformer", or some combination thereof with "sense…

> Don’t we pass someone walking with a gas can on the highway every year though? No. I see something like that every year on television, but not in the real world. If you've seen s…

The solution is A/B testing and then looking at the resulting crash statistics. Weekly reports produced by the connected BI system should use excrutiatingly precise language like "…

> a little clumsily s/a little/very/; > What do you think the best implementation would look like? We already had one! Dashboard indicator lamps have been an international standard…

None of it matters if the controls aren’t responding. You’ll know, too, because they make that sad static beepy noise like some sort of Tactile Control Panel ACKnowledgement failur…

I can’t argue with you there. The Pentagon’s silence is deafening; I only want to caution myself as much as anyone against jumping to conclusions. It may be AI, it may be bad intel…

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> I think Blizzard could have also made the player base just as happy by [...] understanding the underlying problem. I'm reminded of the 1995 interview in which Steve Jobs elucidat…

Modern 802.11 implementations are wildly complex. The output from `iw list` on a Linux system with a modern WiFi radio, a trip through the example configuration that ships with `ho…

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” — Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying (1889)

I do and it does. $ ls -al /dev/std* lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Feb 24 15:08 /dev/stderr -> fd/2 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Feb 24 15:08 /dev/stdin -> fd/0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 …

It's possible that he's taking "hope for the best, prepare for the worst" to its logical if unhealthy extreme by interpreting every ambiguous 802.11 frame as one with ill intent. H…

Oh my... This is how the code could look indeed. Which LLM did you use to generate this?

Yes! I also used glyphosate to kill things growing in and around my sidewalk, driveway, steps, and curb. I've also used a propane torch for the same purposes, but it requires more …

> As I'm sure you're aware, glyphosate is usually only appropriate as a weed killer on your property if you're looking to kill all vegetation in/around where you spray it. > It's a…

Nest is hardly the only thermostat out there using solid-state relays. Have you considered the possibility that they did take it into account and they deliberately chose to use SSR…

Well that's certainly a take. Solid state relays using optoisolated MOSFETs have been around for fifty years. Mechanical relays are overkill for signal switching as in HVAC thermos…

I also went about looking at the difference rather than the order. In the hexadecimal case, the difference is 15 (0xEF vs 0x12). I thought, then, that for any base B with ascending…

> Did you live at a time where Internet was not a thing? You must be relatively young. Software existed before the widespread adoption of the Internet. > I remember very clearly bu…

At infinity, the shape becomes a sphere and all orientations of it are identical. It is no longer a convex polyhedron and, thus, not subject to consideration.

Podman is daemonless while docker is a client/server pair. Podman also shipped with support for rootless containers, though Docker now has that capability as well. The podman CLI i…

I've experienced the mind-numbing frustration of API specs that don't match the implementation, which is why I have embraced the concept of requiring the spec to be part of the imp…

Mostly the fact that it's based on Markdown, which makes the raw specification far easier to read with a text editor than OpenAPI/Swagger. Markdown also permits styling in the vari…