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128 GB memory is also lame. I'm hankering for a windows equivalent of the mac studio that came with 512 GB.

In New Zealand at least, a lot of this data seems to come from imagery; it's quite outdated, the cables are all missing and the voltages are pretty hit and miss. Cool project thoug…

Not just America. People are stealing copper in very rural areas in my country; in many cases the price they get is hardly paying for the petrol to drive there. We have a whole tea…

I have a job that deliberately runs at 2am and 3am... to update the time in a bunch of really old PLCs for DST. And check that every other device on my telemetry network has correc…

And this reminds me of the time that my colleague put DB15 on a whole bunch of drawings, and we ended up with DA15 connectors instead of DE15. If I see DB9 on any drawing that come…

I use both DA-15 and DE-15 all the time in my line of work, and I am fastidious about using the correct terminology on all my drawings. Manufacturers are ironically some of the wor…

Right, but bitcoin is global, not just for one country. And while anyone can participate in theory, in practice the big mining pools always get their first. And if a quorum of mini…

I don't really follow bitcoin, but last I checked over 75% of block confirmations came from the top 3-5 mining pools. That seems a hell of a lot more centralized than the tradition…

Yes I have seen OpenGL applications refuse to start with AMD cards in some circumstances due to a bug in the AMD drivers, but never had a problem on NVIDIA cards

> you aren't getting to use your remote GPU through it. Um yes you are? I use AutoCAD and other software using GPU all the time over rdp

Am grid engineer. You nailed it. It can get incredibly complex modelling this stuff, and reading all the armchair observers banging on about 'single points of failure' is amusing.

I imagine there was some sort of cascading failure involved, as in the transformer tripped, but this then overloaded another circuit which then tripped, or there was a power swing …

yea same boat. I've always wondered what normal depth perception looks like. On the plus side, it is fun to challenge people to wear an eye patch and play table tennis or some othe…

This is just not at all true, and we are hardly dependant on the USA, which makes up only 10% of our trade. The way that Americans think the world revolves around them is embarrass…

I think this is changing, in my country the equivalent of PE will soon be required for a number of engineering disciplines, not just civil. But that's kind of missing the point, wh…

Yep, I'm an Electrical Engineer, and I also write code. I don't like the term Software Engineer, because there is none of the of the regulated safety and quality mechanisms require…

If only there was an equivalent to DnSpyEx for Java. Can't wait for Recaf4 to be ready.

It might be the colloquial term, but if you ask someone for a DB-15 connector then theres a good chance you'll get the wrong one. I regularly use both DE-15 and DA-15 in my line of…

I'm guessing it's for time sync, but any clock worth it's crystals will keep good time for quite a while. Every substation generally has GPS time sync if it isn't fibre connected, …

Just coming here to say this. I was reversing a license file for some software so I could play with it yesterday, and I could implement the encryption/decryption code direct in the…

oh dear, I wish I hadn't looked. So many of the power lines in my area have the wrong voltage, and zone substations with incorrect spellings. Now I feel obligated to fix it.

I noted 5-10 mins of near total blackout at 0630 Friday morning in the UHF band in New Zealand on the telemetry networks that I manage. Nearly all 200 of our radios reported unusab…

New Zealand has recently directed distributors to change to cost reflective pricing, which resulted in big increases in the fixed daily charge, and moderate decreases in the variab…