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> While there were no human fatalities as a direct result of the fire or flood, 13 people died of alcohol poisoning after drinking from the stream of whiskey

I just can't think of something more Irish than that :-).

> the release of [...] food products including hams, hot dogs, bakery items, and cranberries

"Firefighters, this isn't going to be a picnic!"

"It isn't?"

Well blankety-blank!

> Motor winding is an amusing problem.

Also really difficult to do, with huge tradeoffs depending on whether the construction is 2-core, 4-core, interpoled 4-core, coreless, slot-wound, salient poles, and many more configs and winding types. In particular cheap salient-pole motors can be wound directly with automated machinery while better slot-wound motors need to have the coils formed first, then inserted into the rotor slots, which is a manual process and complicated further by the fact that the coils are skewed to minimize torque ripple, no-one's really managed to automate that process yet.

So if you saw a factory making a mixture of salient-pole motors for toys and slot-wound motors for serious use you'd see exactly what TFA is describing, salient-pole automated, slot-wound with human operators.

If you want to see what real highly-automated Chinese manufacturing is like, look at one of Bunny Huang's videos on electronics assembly. Then for contrast look at the videos of how it's done in Pakistan.

If it was in Europe they could have used to Milk Lake to put out the burning Butter Mountain.

Came here to say the same thing. A graphical IRC client should not require 290MB of RAM to run.

> So rather than it being 'Herodotus' as a single reliable or unreliable source, it was more like a collection of unvetted sources.

So a sort of one-man Greek Facebook then?

I wonder if they signed up or get paid to push the app? So data on the kids and parents are the product, not the app.

They can make emergency calls no problems, but ACMA decided they're not worthy of making them. See the numerous news articles at the time.

A stable genius, who obviously recognizes a fellow genius.

> "Find and fix these flaws now before they are zero days taking your infrastructure down"

Time to find just one vuln with an LLM: Three minutes.

Time to fix that three-minute find, properly fix not just an AI-slopped band-aid: Two weeks.

Number of three-minute finds: Just over five hundred. In just one single code base of many.

There are several other embedded-targeted crypto libraries that have been around more or less forever, mbedTLS isn't the only game in town.

I'm also a bit confused, which side is the Judean People's Front and which is the People's Front of Judea?

Having been to Italy and seen abominations like pizza with a topping of French fries (I have the photos to prove it), I think complaining about pineapple is a little rich.

Read up on the Doolin case, which is mentioned in TFA. At best it's an incredibly shaky conviction based on a badly mishandled legal process, at worst it's an appalling miscarriage of justice.

So am I. However, plastic straws are a bit of a lightning rod for greenwashing/virtue signalling given that they have an environmental impact relative to other plastics that you need to zoom in with about 20x magnification to even see on a chart. From memory when I looked up the figures for ocean plastics the single biggest problem is fishing nets, which outweigh everything else. Plastic straws are so far down in the noise floor you can't even see them there.

Also any ultracentrifuges...

Had that experience a number of times when referencing some research via a third-party retelling of it. If it seems a bit unusual I'll go and dig up the original publication, which is often a major pain when all you have is an approximate reference to a publication date some time in the 1960s and one author's surname. Way too often the paper isn't actually saying what the retelling is claiming.

> Is this money not understood by the tech giants taking on the debt?

There's a game-theoretic way of modelling this situation called, from memory, a modified Dutch auction. The way it works is that the winner pays the difference between their bid and the next highest bid, and so on all the way down. It models the way in which players are motivated to extend themselves almost infinitely in an attempt to win something unwinnable (what are the success criteria for "winning the AI race", in other words how do you know when you've "won"? And what do you get for "winning"?).

The ESP32 is an ecosystem, not a device. Nordic do some cool stuff but they'll never displace ESP32.

Had that with AI "support" bots as well, friendly, helpful, and completely useless. Took me longer to figure out how to get the clanker to put me through to a human who could understand what I needed than it did to actually solve the problem.

They buy AI to get investors to increase the company's stock price for being up with AI. That is a tangible benefit, but probably not the kind you were thinking of.

A lot of roads in the US seem to be designed to be completely oblivious to pedestrians. Some years ago I was doing contracting work there and the company had put me up in the nearest hotel to the office. I could see the building from the hotel but there was physically no way to walk there without risking death due to speeding cars and trucks. I tried to find a non-suicidal route one day and it took something like half an hour cutting through properties and at one point pushing through undergrowth to get there.

Eventually I found out that there was a bus used by cleaning and maintenance staff that I could catch if I walked several blocks in the opposite direction and that stopped in front of the office building. I was the only non-minimum-wage person I ever saw on the bus the entire time I caught it.

It's not just cars. Our house alarm had two clocks, one in the alarm itself, one in the display/control panel, and the two didn't talk to each other, not just for that but everything else as well, for example motion sensor names.

It's now in an e-cycling waste bin somewhere, replaced by an ESP32 I/O board and Alarmo in Home Assistant, at 1/20th the cost of the original PoS alarm.

Given that the broadsheet looks like it was printed in Augsburg in Bavaria and Jülich is up near the Dutch border you're probably right, far enough away that no-one was able to question it.

> However, there hasn't been too much of an issue with transition to VoIP here, apart from

... providers bricking huge numbers of perfectly-good phones, in some cases brand new devices, because ACMA decided they weren't worthy of making emergency calls.

An awareness campaign won't help. The problem is that people get some shitty router/AP provided for free by their ISP which they set up at the far end of the house on the same channel as fifty other shitty ISP-provided routers in range and then complain about their TikTok videos stalling. Once they switch to 4G all their problems go away, so they stay with 4G because that "works" and WiFi "doesn't work".

I've always assumed it was to calibrate the PWM sensor for fan speed, so it starts with no sensing active, runs up to max, and then the sensor kicks in and settles it down. You don't need to run a fan at max speed to get it to start, most will start with very little power applied.

A 5/32" flat-blade screwdriver makes an excellent fast-blow fuse when dropped across exposed bus bars. And you can re-use the remains of the handle to stir your coffee once you've retrieved it from across the room.

Soft-start is in theory the way to go, but it's very dependent on the motor type, there's a whole pile of different methods required for induction motors depending on whether they're capacitor-start, permanent split capacitor, shaded-pole, etc, so you can do it in some cases by lowering the voltage, or with a VFD, or a VSD, or the old-fashioned way with a centrifugal switch but that requires very careful handling. If as the OP said it's running million-dollar equipment you probably don't want to monkey with it at that level.