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Having spent some time as a cellular tech in Detroit, scrambling up half-wrecked stairwells in long-abandoned buildings to service the radio equipment still running on the roof, those accounts make it sound downright tame. I'd visit in a heartbeat next time I'm in DFW.

The landscape is so spacious, I hesitate to call it urb-ex. Rur-ex?

Hosting a talk-show / variety-show hasn't been a novelty in a long time either, what's new is doing it as an independent creator for an audience of 20 or maybe 200, rather than 2,000,000.

What's depressing to me is that the broadcasting network still has the same old standards-and-practices censorship. Despite the peer-to-peer promise of the internet, peer streaming just hasn't taken off. And in recent years it's getting harder to have a real IP address in the first place, so that window seems like it's closing.

Hey now!

Speaking as a co-founder of a large community hackerspace, we don't have the volunteer bandwidth to manage the additional overhead of tool lending. Please, please, please let the libraries offer more alternatives. It's exactly their mission.

I presumed that was to make sure there was no accidentally-warm RAM cache or whatever, start from a known system state.

Also it seemed to have revealed the aforementioned ulimit hiccup, so it sounds fruitful.

Seems like this process itself should be incredibly amenable to automation. Here's 25 parameters, permute over them, perform this test on each loop.

But it sounds like there were other gremlins (like ulimit reverting itself) that would've thwarted automated testing.

Do you feel like there's a point where it would've made sense to automate?

Microsoft Tay is looking more prescient by the minute.

Furthermore, it helps to talk with people who think differently from you.

Maybe they studied the same subject but at a different school, or maybe they specialize in something else entirely.

Maybe their first language is different from yours, since language idioms can affect the way we frame problems.

Maybe they want to get into the field you're working on, and your thinking can also be teaching.

For me, this is a big part of the value of a hackerspace/makerspace. The tools are nice, but the intellectual environment is amazing.

Yeah, it's a significantly trickier proposition when the pads aren't there.

The contacts are in the connector, you just need to bring them out and get the resistor on them, which is frankly a pain I shouldn't have to endure when USB-C has been out for 12 years. None of this is rocket science, the manufacturers just aren't feeling the pain.

The thing is, making a 5v-only device PD-compliant is literally one resistor. It costs well under a penny.

It's pure ignorance, not a decision, but the lack of one. Lack of caring, lack of having an actual engineer involved, just slapping an oval-shaped port into a product where a trapezoidal port had been, and blindly thinking that magically makes it spec-compliant.

Or not thinking about the spec at all.

I return these devices too. Lots of them. My e-commerce returns over the last year are probably 50% PD non-compliance, 50% all other defects combined.

How many times have the cops busted a dealer who turned out to be another undercover cop?

I think that's even more significant, since it's measuring people who cared enough to click the form in the first place, which is juicier than just page loads.

The trick is that the scratches need to recur at the right revolution rate, while the bandwidth needs to slowly decrease as the stylus nears the end of the groove. Hmm.

Absolutely this. Blind application of a technique, not understood by the one applying it, is jarring. IMHO it insults the era from which they were trying to mooch cool points.

If you're hiring from the town where Kool-Aid is headquartered, don't be surprised if most of the candidates drink a lot of it.

And weirdly, neither does Klipper, despite having all the resources in the world to do so. Just not a priority since slicers don't produce code like that, and 99.999% of Klipper's job is to eat whatever a slicer sends it.

So suppose I attached an extruder to a Haas mill or something...

And smart NICs are moving significant amounts of compute directly onto the network interface, though I haven't seen anyone combining a GPU and a 100GbE NIC into a single part yet.

Where does a few more steps of evolution take us? A wide path between a few heavy devices, and then the CPU off to the side just orchestrating the data flow?

Or someone found server.domain/path/subdirectory/resourceX and was like "shit, I was hoping to find resourceY but I can't find a link to it, I wonder if I just click in my address bar and change the X to a Y", and voila, resourceY is right there.

To some of us, this is elementary navigation. Like going up the stairs if the elevator is out. Often it's faster than waiting for the damn elevator, too.

To others, it's cybarrrr-criiiimeeee!!!!!!11111one

Cyclomethicone is getting hard to get depending on your jurisdiction. I think it's shelf-stable though, so if you think this might be something you want to do in the future, maybe get some now.

(But also, the disks aren't getting any younger. Do it now.)

Precisely this. It's not the fastest machine, but it's not the slowest, and that's more than adequate for other factors to tip the scale.

And I VERY much want to encourage this approach. Laptops COULD be as modular as desktops, and they've proven it with a real machine, not a toy, not a gimmick, not a compliance-car. A genuinely useful piece of hardware that I've been daily-driving for almost 2 years now.

I very much believe in putting my money where my mouth is.

Would I go back to another laptop? Well, if someone else starts making motherboards that'll drop into this chassis, I'd consider it...

> The people who handle these reports often do so after-hours or on holidays.

If that's the case at Microsoft, something is absurdly wrong.

And the ESP32 is offering CPU power on par with many of the embedded-x86 SOCs that powered some of the early wifi routers...

This just clarified something for me. I've always been annoyed when I see a Pi with nothing connected to its GPIO header; why not just use a cheap thin client? Or an old laptop, for that matter? But that's missing the point. Here's the point:

Pre-Beagleboard-and-Pi, if you wanted an programmable thing to work with GPIO, you used an Arduino or a BASIC Stamp, or just a plain old PIC. But they wouldn't run a real OS.

Pre-Beagleboard-and-Pi, if you wanted an embedded Linux box, you used a WRT54G or a Soekris or an old laptop. But getting GPIO out of them was a PITA. (And often involved lashing an Arduino to the side.)

The Beagleboard (released in 2008), could finally do both. It had gobs of I/O and first-class support for it under Linux. It was pretty affordable. Then the Raspberry Pi came out in 2012, with a similar amount of GPIO, but demolished the price point to where it made sense to use it in place of a microcontroller.

That's really the magic of the Pi. You can keep one cheap gizmo around, and use it to solve (a large fraction of) two classes of problems. It doesn't fully replace everything a PIC or a PC can do, but it replaces an awful, awful lot of them.

> it's intended to be preterminated SFP-to-SFP

I wonder why nobody's making field-terminatable DACs for custom lengths. If you've torn one down, they're not exactly complicated inside.

If they existed, would people buy them?

> You spent hours debugging basic networking issues.

And that was FUN, as long as you were enjoying the tinkering and not stressing about missing a game.

> Everyone copying everyone else's mp3 folders on network drives.

I think this is an under-remembered aspect, or at least, under-told. LAN parties were filesharing parties too, sometimes that more than gaming. (Which caused no end of strife with the gaming folks, until we learned to segment the network to keep the filesharing congestion from lagging the gaming packets.)

The heyday of mp3 also coincided with the explosion of coffee-shop wifi, in the days before client isolation. Grab a latte, browse Network Neighborhood...

In my copious free time, I've wanted to go looking at FTA satellites to see if there's data in the TS that I can't ascribe to any known programming. This seems like an ideal tool to start with.

Thank you, yes, that's exactly the detail I was missing! It's a euphemism for a word that starts with an S, not at all related to the typographical form of the letter S.

Alright, my Trogdor-shaped guitar might happen after all...

Okay, none of the guitars on that page look like an "S" to me. What am I missing, and what are they protecting?

How many trains were delayed or incorrectly routed as a result?

I would love a resource to get more into the details of bend radius and vibrational modes in harnesses, specifically as they're used on different types of vehicles. Marine wiring endures very different motion than road-vehicle wiring, for instance.