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I've had some success converting an old printer to do pen plotting, but I haven't tried PCB manufacture yet because Sharpie marker does not do a sufficient, reliable job at working…

For a while I committed to at least using DDG for sanitization/anonymisation of my Google searches with bangs: !g There is always value in trying other engines, but it's come such …

Watch the range over time, though. The cells in even the latest Nissan Leafs do not have any charge or temperature conditioning for the batteries, so they are likely to age poorly …

It is a matter of order. First, we learn how to terraform ourselves out of our inadvertent unhelpful terraflopping, then we use that learning to terraform anywhere we go. :)

> No one "pioneered the west". Various groups of people with powerful technology traveled west and stole land from other groups of people. The people crossing the land bridge to No…

Oh my Goddess, there is nothing worse than hearing: "It's on the website". Yeah, that's unhelpful if "the website" is a sprawling, vast wasteland. Finding a specific thing on an ob…

Oh my goodness, I love icarus verilog, I wish there was a push to get to icarus systemverilog... ... or a more recent version of the verilog standards ...

Same reason you can't drug up or taze the special goose to produce more golden eggs. Long term high intensity output will lead to burnout, even if the salary is 10x people would st…

Oh no! My mother's maiden name is _invalid_!

Just go with the snark and out in a joke answer that you will find funny. Some of my security questions are hilariously inapplicable, so the first silly, snarky thing I think up is…

"The Dispossessed" was incredibly interesting abd my favorite novel from Le Guin so far.

6 characters? Let me guess, were there restrictions on character space and case? One place I had an account has a password input that restricts all of those, so it's like an 8-10 c…

Necronomicon quote? Nice. This has me thinking about what I can do to make my security answers to security questions untethered from PII. A book quote is a really good idea.

Can confirm. I had a trippy experience where I had on one monitor some RTL+simulation for our chip up for view, on another I had the PCB schematic I had helped design, and on my th…

Sous vide burssels sprouts? I mean, sous vide is amazing, but have you ever had your sprouts crispy? I used to be pretty indifferent to them until my fiancee cooked them up crispy.…

When you end the day, do you have a second fake commute home?

Banning suicide is as effective as declaring pi as 3 via legislative fiat. At least in my mind. For one, it is hard to enforce; those who choose to end their own lives may not show…

These trends come and go. When they annoy me, I really am glad for "reader" views that ditch all the fancy, unreadable flourish (and social media nag-bits that just don't fucking d…

This is an interesting point. Companies that try to "hire to greatness" have a steep fee to pay for their hiring approach, and it might not work for reasons that cannot possibly be…

I was thinking this while reading, too. Concurrency is everywhere in hardware by default, and explicitly statesd with fork...join!

Yes, I have this too. Robinhood Instant is a margin account, with the same conditions/restrictions as a Gold account. They loan you money in that settlement time window, basically

And, potentially, pull you over for complying with the speed limit if the normal rate around you is large. Either way, you could lose.

So you thave ouched on an important limitation of electromagnets; they need to be cooled. In space, the vacuum surrounding this power hungry object would be inferior to air for hea…

Those also damage electronics far below. In fact, that is the characteristic way of using high altitude nuclear weapons to damage communications over a continental region. But far …

My parents TVs have RCA plugs.