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I thought I knew a decent amount of computing history, but I never came across these guys before.

>“We see how Google is degrading in quality. We see how AI content mills are digesting our stories and gaming the system to get more views than our original reporting they’re ripping off,” cofounder Emanuel Maiberg told me an email.

Told me an email? Looks like whatever this publication is could do with an AI editor.

I thought that was just a tool used by India-based scammers to access old people's computers.

Muilenburg was an aerospace engineer by training, that is how he ended up at Boeing. To be fair, though it sounds like he was on the management track early on, so not sure how much engineering he did after graduation.

Like others here have mentioned, I reused the grocery store thin bags for lining small bathroom trash cans or when scooping cat litter. Now I need to buy special trash bags instead so no environmental savings. I also have a ridiculous number of the reusable bags as I forget to bring them when going to the store sometimes, or end up stopping by the store unexpectedly.

One thing I never figured out was why they made the original bags so thin that in the end, the clerk needed to double-bag everything.

I use it for deobfuscation, decryption, base64 en/decode and and sometimes just for converting hex to readable strings or vice versa via copy paste and no effort. It can switch up endianness, sort out network packet data, etc.

For even less effort there is a MAGIC function where you just dump some bytes (sometimes with a from/to hex block first) and it tries to make sense of them for you.

It saves me writing custom C or Python scripts every time I want to manipulate or analyze some data.

I love how you can build complex operations from each of the simple primitives like From Hex->Uppercase->XOR->Remove NULL->To Hex and save them as a recipe. It reminds me of the Linux command line where each program is simple but you can pipe the output of one into another to create a chain that can perform complex data processing.

I think a lot of the comments are also missing the fact that the moon is an unreliable means of navigation due it not always being present the whole night (or at all), changes brightness, moves around the sky and can be covered by cloud. It is unlikely then that insects would specifically evolve to use it as a means of navigation.

The paper states that it is the general brightness of the sky, even at night, compared to the ground that is the point of reference. So insect point top side at diffuse bright area and bottom side will be parallel to ground.

I would take it as a point of pride to be on the receiving end of one of Linus' rants. If I have his attention and he is even looking at something I wrote, it lets me know I made it :)

Wait, so the airplane manufacturer, Boeing, does not even make its own airframes? Some third party company makes the whole fuselage (most of the plane) and Boeing does what, bolts on the wings and third-party engines then sells it?

It didn't land upside down, it landed upside vertical - 90 degrees off, not 180.

It does make me start to think that there is perhaps a large contingent of people who go around their daily lives just skimming and reacting to headlines. How does that affect their interpretation of the world around them, I wonder? How does it affect their voting?

My work is in (embedded systems and reverse engineering) so I use C every day as a necessity and love it. For me it is the perfect level of abstraction, not too high and not too low.

I use Python for glue code and for running unit tests and other boring stuff and find it frustrating with too many ways of doing things, too many libraries for achieving the same thing.

It could be I am still bitter because Python3 broke a bunch of my scripts by forcing everything to be a byte array.

Wow, so Boeing doesn't even make its own fuselage? That's like most of the plane and they spun that off into a separate business they are a customer of?

It reminds me of the kind of corporate malfeasance that happened with Sears - sell of the buildings they own (to a company controlled by the CEO on the side) and make the individual stores rent them back and hope they can't pay so you can rent the space to more profitable tenants.

"Ghost Kitchen" is more common in my area.

Who else allows you to use an unmodified (hardware or firmware) cell phone? Certainly not Iridium. You have to have a specific iPhone 14 that was updated to support Globalstar and using it is awkward. I can't use an old iPhone or my Samsung phone. Other players have had single test satellites that again required a modified phone.

Reverse engineering.

You can also know this by reading the article too: "Since the system prompt for ChatGPT feeds the bot the current date, people noted, some began to think there may be something to the idea."

Sounds more likely he an incel neckbeard who didn't know how to talk to women and got upset because he was rejected by another American woman and perhaps the victim too.

I was referring to multivitamin levels which are typically ~100% RDA, so to get the levels the study considered harmful, you have to be intentionally taking large doses of B Vitamins which is easy not to do.

Those are very high doses of each. An average multivitamin has 1.8 mg of B6 (vs. 20 mg in the study) and 6 mcg of B12 (vs. 55 mcg in the study).

I am surprised anyone wants to take that much, but I guess the smokers were trying anything they could (short of actually quitting) to compensate for the effect their habit has on their health.

For those people not on mobile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolomite_(mineral)

Reminds me of navigating with maps and sometimes despite that stretch of road having a local name, they use the route number, so instead of "Turn left on Happy Street" it is "Turn left on Rte. 401"

CAPTCHA loop unfortunately, I think because I use Cloudflare DNS and archive hates them?

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-today-is-failing-...

Almost missed the period on the ".40 meter" resolution and was confused for a moment. What is wrong with writing 0.40?

Because it is fucking cruel.

Pretty good, though unlike many here I am in embedded software and on the East Coast. Got a lot of interviews through recruiters finding me on LinkedIn when I marked myself as Open to Work.

When I was involved in certifying new devices to get on a carrier network, the carrier insisted on exponential backoff as well as some randomness so you wouldn't get millions of voic..devices crying out at the same time when power was lost or restored.

Interesting large holes in the coverage map that look to be the Great Lakes and the National Radio Quiet Zone.