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dylan604··on Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved
> as the load of the initial surge into even fully charged batteries can be almost infinite

There was an post a couple of days ago about a telco debrief of an interesting outage that happened. Several things went wrong like the audible bell was manually silence from being heard as a step in routine working but was forgotten to put back into normal mode once work was complete. The actual loss in power triggered the automatic switch to the batteries, but something else seemingly benign happened at the same time so that when power was restored, the batteries had been depleted to the point the charging process could not start because of something similar to this. I wish I could remember the write up, as it was really well written about the cascades of failures that occurred.

dylan604··on US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech
The newly elected Congress critters can't take office until they are sworn in by they speaker. As we've already seen from the pettiness of the current Squeaker of the House Mike Johnson, he has already used skullduggery to delay the swearing in of new members. I'm sure claiming that a seat's validity being questioned by ongoing litigation would be cause to delay that person being sworn in.
dylan604··on Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking (2019)
come on now, you're really expecting too much of the internet with that kind of thought process.
dylan604··on Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking (2019)
Yeah, when I got to the "can't cook with it" part, I was like wait, what? I use it all the time for smoking brisket.
dylan604··on US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech
after many rounds of frivolous law suits if I'm reading the tea leaves correctly
dylan604··on US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech
without a veto proof majority, they might as well not be in the majority. Trump could become the most veto happy POTUS ever and stay his course. If they do not have a veto proof majority, they also won't have enough to convict on any potential impeachement. So all of this hope/prayer for a "blue wave" is not going to be worth much.
dylan604··on The Milwaukee Brewers win the first World Series title in franchise history
It's enough that I knew the two teams playing in the Series, that both teams have never won, and that the progress was looking really good for the Brewers all while not being the type that follows baseball at all.
dylan604··on The Milwaukee Brewers win the first World Series title in franchise history
What never happened that you didn't hear about World Series winners or that you didn't hear about the Brewers winning. There's a reason for the later, and as far as the former, well, it's two teams that aren't known for their post season appearances.
dylan604··on The Milwaukee Brewers win the first World Series title in franchise history
It is, in a way. The name is, shall we say, appropriate for the city
dylan604··on The Milwaukee Brewers win the first World Series title in franchise history
I don't even follow baseball, but I'm just happy hear anyone winning that's not a Dodger or a Yankee.
dylan604··on Zillow to pay $212.5M to settle class action for real estate venture
Used car prices are still higher than pre-COVID, but there's still a decent mark up for restoration projects if you want to go that route in used car
dylan604··on Zillow to pay $212.5M to settle class action over failed real estate venture
I heard people were buying property before this year's Wold Cup that were near the stadiums so they could rent them out and then sell them after. Now, sellers are having to lower the asking prices, and that's just a few months after the tourney. Honestly, I hope those asshats are taking it at a loss
dylan604··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
If you're doing anything in the freedom fighter vein of activity, why would you be connecting directly to anything from your IP? Why are you not bouncing around through VPNs, TOR exit nodes, and the like? I know not everyone is a skilled freedom fighter, and even skilled freedom fighters make mistakes, but isn't this like step one to not connect directly from your IP?
dylan604··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
To that point, she was on the Committee for Intelligence, so of course she was going to lean the direction of giving Intelligence Community what they wanted. I'd expect someone on Government Oversight to be the one to try to reign it back in, but doubtful any in modern times have the moral fortitude to push back especially under Comer's leadership.
dylan604··on Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content
> it becomes noisy and sameish at larger scale or the more you read it.

I absolutely understand where you are coming from, and I agree to a point. If you're of an age where you actually read a printed encyclopedia, the tone and voice of the entire set was sameish as well. The difference is that it didn't sound LLMish like LLM text does. I know that printed encyclopedias would have been vetted by editors, and I feel this is the key difference. Editors not only knew grammar rules, but had that sense of good writing practices that's hard to write down as rules. A piece of text passed through a good editorial review will read human while LLM text reads as LLM text.

dylan604··on Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
As photographer, I find it hard to work with your model. It's like it has no training and just sits there waiting to be told what to do. I spend more time explaining what I want the model to do than actually working with the model. Maybe I should shell out for a professional model instead of working the the open models hoping to be a professional one day.
dylan604··on Apple introduces the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6
Post-COVID Apple releases have been totally different than the Jobs era.
dylan604··on DOJ says presidents should be able to sell secrets on eBay
The best chance of having a Justice Canon would have been prior to now. If the control of the Senate flips, I hope that any position on SCOTUS that might open up would be denied based on POTUS being a lame duck following the precedent set by Mitch.
dylan604··on A Printer Printing onto Paper
With all of the DRM nonsense around printers and authorized print cartridges, I'm kind of shocked the cartridge doesn't also have something that prevents printing if not in an authorized printer.

Not being part of a printer have anything to do with why the print looks bad? Like the thing he created to get the print head to spray ink isn't the same drivers and that's just a PoC to make the project possible? If this is just an extension cable from an actual printer, the quality looks janky to what I'd expect from modern ink jets.

dylan604··on Sigma Says the Compact, Modular FP2 Is the Ultimate Hybrid Camera
> will perfectly lock on to fursuit eyes

how's the pay shooting the furry community these days?

dylan604··on Sigma Says the Compact, Modular FP2 Is the Ultimate Hybrid Camera
Again, isn't dating and renting equivalent?

Regardless, it is outdated when very few owned film cameras. If you had a chance to buy a set of Cooke lenses for a steal even though you didn't own a camera, you absolutely would if you were able. You could then rent a Red, Arri, or even film cameras as needed. You're forcing this into a modern digital only situation where camera bodies are dirt cheap maybe from being younger so that's your familiarity??

dylan604··on Sigma Says the Compact, Modular FP2 Is the Ultimate Hybrid Camera
> "date the body, marry the glass"

how is that different? They both mean that you won't be keeping the camera while holding onto the lenses. Also, at the time of the saying, it was for professional film shoots and not your take on vacay. Yes, it's an old saying, but rang true for a long time. Similar to Moore's law. Neither are as relevant while still being a bit truthy.

dylan604··on Sigma Says the Compact, Modular FP2 Is the Ultimate Hybrid Camera
Samsung made one

https://www.classiccameradatabase.com/blog/the-mirrorless-ca...

dylan604··on Sigma Says the Compact, Modular FP2 Is the Ultimate Hybrid Camera
There's a saying "buy the glass, rent the camera" as camera bodies change much more frequently than lenses. There's more camera mounts now than when I first heard the saying though.
dylan604··on DOJ says presidents should be able to sell secrets on eBay
It was a hypothetical posed to the DoJ from a judge. The lawyer answered in the affirmative that they believe selling the documents with confidential information could be sold on eBay.

"with Judge Patricia Millett asking: “Can the president then offer on eBay to sell them, all of our national security secrets, to the highest bidder?”

The government’s response was, in short, “yes.”"

dylan604··on DOJ says presidents should be able to sell secrets on eBay
Being an EO, any following POTUS can rescind an EO of a previous POTUS. If you want a law to remain in effect across administrations, you have to get Congress to pass a law. Trump spent a lot of time in his administrations writing EOs that reverse Obama and Biden's EOs. If Trump ever came close to being in violation of this order, he would quickly rescind it. I put no weight in this being used against Trump
dylan604··on Reinventing the Pencil Sharpener [video]
That's the most steam punk sharpener I've seen. Looks like one of those obviously too expensive items people put on their fancy desks.
dylan604··on In Leaked Audio, Flock CEO Tells Cops Backlash to the Company Isn't Real
Can you remind me where I can submit my invoices to get paid for my protests? I must have misplaced my memo
dylan604··on ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems
> Spamming is already illegal but so commonplace that it's pretty laughably enforced at this point

I see comments similar to this about tech issues, and it always reads as if the person is assuming that these illegal tech activities are being done under the jurisdiction of the laws making it illegal. All you need is one jurisdiction that is not under the influence of the country with laws, and you make it impossible to stop these "illegal" activities

dylan604··on DOJ says presidents should be able to sell secrets on eBay
I wasn't aware of this supposedly. I had assumed that the EO signed covered it in a single signature. Not sure which is worse here, my assumption or your supposedly.
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