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Not sure - but I know there's a really serious community of folks who do ATC virtually on VATSIM: https://vatsim.net I feel like those folks would already have been candidates for …

It's certainly interesting that someone who founded Onavo would be made VP of "Trust & Safety"

Bloomberg's podcast "The Big Take" has been running an interesting series on Chinese industrial espionage called "The Sixth Bureau". Here's a link to the Youtube playlist: https://…

Do you have evidence of that?

> The human eye is most sensitive to green light, so that channel effectively carries the majority of the luminance (brightness/detail) data How does this affect luminance percepti…

Does this mean that we'll start to see SATA replaced with faster interfaces in the future? Something like U.2/U.3 that's currently available to the enterprise?

In the report they tested samples of the part and found that they actually had glass transition temperatures of 52.8°C, and 54.0°C... so sounds like the owner fell victim to false …

There's also Actual Budget ( https://actualbudget.com ) which you can self-host.

Oh, nice! Thanks! This reminds me of the unofficial yahoo finance api.

Tangential question. What do people use for search? What search engines provide the best quality to cost ratios? Also are there good solutions for searching through a local collect…

I’m painfully aware of that being dark skinned myself. That doesn’t mean that Minnesota is inhospitable though (or that it would be criminal to send me there). It just means that t…

It's only criminal if they aren't provided with the education/information they need to live healthy lives (which is possible with the right diet/supplements).

Ooh, looks like the Raspberry Pi 5 is now supported!

How did you arrive at the decision of not putting the GPU machines in the colo? Were the power costs going to be too high? Or do you just expect to need more physical access to the…

The ethical stand serves the dual purpose of: a) trying to make sure the company does the right thing, and b) avoiding liability. Seems like Engineer-1 failed at stopping her, but …

I'm not justifying the crimes and I think people should pay for the consequences of their actions, but I don't think it's that simple. I think some people just haven't been exposed…

I personally wouldn't rely on my phone/watch if I'm headed anywhere remote without cell service & electricity. With Garmin inReach you don't just get better battery life - you also…

My naive first reaction was that a unit like that would consume a way too much power to be practical on a robot, but then I remembered how many calories our own brains need vs the …

If you do set this up, consider also feeding data to non-commercial aggregators who make their data available for free and do not censor certain flights: https://github.com/ricksta…

I'd recommend just uninstalling the apps. I'm still able to get the content I need, and scroll mechanic doesn't work as well on the websites so a lot of the temptation to doom scro…

Fair enough. I was hoping for more detailed photos too.

Heavy emphasis on the tissue in lung tissue: https://analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do...

Why do none of these have larger displays? I imagine it's annoying to type without the ability to at least skim over the last page of content? Are larger monochrome displays just h…

How do you power it for extended sessions? Is it constantly connected to power - using wifi/airlink between it and your Mac? Or do you use the link cable?

If you're looking to setup a GPS-disciplined time-server at home, I highly recommend this writeup: https://austinsnerdythings.com/2025/02/14/revisiting-microse... In the author's l…