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Sobering stories and photos. There is a beautiful stillness in the desert. Thanks for reminding me how much I miss it.

I was hoping to see something on Kalman filters. But it was good to see info on state space analysis. Also good to see a simple example on why dynamic range compression is nonlinea…

I suspect the fresh air is more an issue with temperature and humidity rather than oxygen content. Try a fan first.

Take care of your parents!

In 2008 or 2009 Palm still had enough relevant legacy apps that they could have convinced me to stay with WebOS, but launching a tablet (no phone) in 2010. Forget it! That shop has…

These were my exact thoughts about HPs printer division. These should be studied in bussiness schools as the definition of enshitification for the next 25 years. PC side of HP is a…

Current AI is like search. You still have to know the vocabulary and right questions to ask. You also need the ability to differentiate a novel answer from a hallucination. Its not…

I’m just a small business & homelab guy, so I’ll probably never use one of these big distributed file systems. But when people start talking petabytes, I always wonder if these thi…

If you are selling to a non-technical user, phone calls give them a hint of your support. Email support is horrible. Turn around times are too slow. This is the reason I wont buy a…

To make even more confusing, laryngology is the surgical specialty you would go see for a tracheal issue in the neck. (where a trach is performed) And a head and neck surgeon (onco…

Many people have a fascination with cleaning their body parts and looking at the cleaning product to confirm that the dirty stuff is gone. Toilet paper gives you that’s satisfactio…

I love the idea of the Indie web. But the costs seem prohibitive for someone with 1990s skills like me. I have a personal blog site setup on a shared server for $100/year. But runn…

It’s still better than duckduckgo requiring a Microsoft account to see TFA!

Target market for the MachE is explorer and escape owners looking at EVs. Lightning and MachE aren’t anywhere close to the same price point. # of MachEs at local dealer = 3 # of F1…

File a lawsuit to get them to lemon law the thing. Court testimony is public record that can’t be NDAd.

So is most of NPRs “analysis and context”

As someone who self-identifies as Hispanic, I find NPRs insistence on the term LatinX offensive. I’m a middle of the road New Yorker but NPR pushes their way out of journalism and …

It’s called computers at your public library.