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gnu units can do that

  You have: .5 * (10 m/s^2) * (15 s)^2
  You want: 
          Definition: 1125 m
  You have: sqrt((6.673E-11 N*m^2/kg^2) * (5.98E24 kg) / (6780 km))
  You want: 
          Definition: 7671.783 m / s

> plough ahead with a mic/speaker in the middle of the room and the remote guys become second class citizens, not being able to hear half the room.

there’s really no excuse not to have a decent conference phone in meeting rooms. i’ve seen them in use since 2000 at least, and personally purchased one that wasn’t even $1k.

we had meetings and calls with remote people long before covid.

> Isn't this why companies have employees with different levels of experience?

this runs into another common mistake businesses make: putting people onto a task because they're available, not because they're suited to it (in any sense).

the junior person (+ a little mentorship) would be great for the job, but they're mired in some big project. but hey, you've got this super senior fellow sitting around waiting for work, and we can bill the customer more for them, anyways.

> the golden goose offing itself

they'd give it some icon indistinguishable from the rest of the google apps, forget about it, and then turn it off in a few years.

> But as the device is in the attacker's hands, even a good power supply could be compromised by replacing or removing capacitors that are used to smooth out the power rails.

slightly improving the argument, while keeping the device non-compromised, is that whatever info is coming out of the LED is probably coming out in RF, also. so getting the LED further away from the CPU's power rail(s) probably isn't going to help. they're already emitting the data.

if you can stick a camera this close to the LED, you can probably surround the device with antennae, as well.

> The beauty of repairing gadgets is that as long as they’re not incredibly broken, any generally intelligent person can learn on their own. Broken gadgets usually make it clear how they’re supposed to work, just by the nature of their parts and assembly.

"tell me you have a 120 IQ without telling me you have a 120 IQ"

> If the manufacturer's still making a part, you should be able to order it straight from them.

there's a hell of a jump between "right to repair" and "manufacturer has to have SKUs for every subassembly in all of their products, stock them and ship them to random internet people for a price that won't cause the same people to post articles about how $company doesn't really want their stuff to be repaired"

(let's be real, that's the implied expectation)

> Your HTML is, quite literally, a degenerate form of an API.

i look forward to the folks making this argument telling their boss “it’s ok the HTML is an API that’s all we need to provide”

come on, nobody believes this when they’re not trying to win an argument on the internet

there are also small companies which deliver the same service, if that appeals. i've been using mailroute.net for delivery and spam prevention for a small business for years.

seems to be popular to believe that offering consumers a choice that might not be great for them is immoral and should be banned.

> the worst part is that there's somebody in a GCP office somewhere that might secretly believe that I'm actually a cryptobro.

you're probably safe on that front, it isn't like the GCP folks are paying any attention to the customers.

if you’re rich enough you just pay somebody else to run the errand or drive you around in an even larger vehicle.

stop freaking out about rich people being able to get something nice. they can already afford nice things. look at the overall costs/benefit analysis of the policy.

what’s the point of even typing such silliness? you just said “confiscate the property of everyone on the _planet_ who has ever had a retirement account”

you might as well propose “we should just snap our fingers and wish really hard for utopia”

> It really locks you in the AWS ecosystem

the bar for being "locked in" seems to drop further every day.

i had a client who was burning… $10k? maybe $20k per month largely on nodes for EKS when they had no paying customers and ~zero load. (they had fully “production” sized clusters in all of their environments, and they had a slew of weird not-quite-prod environments.)

they also had some rabbitmq-on-k8s system going that fell over during small tests because they couldn’t get k8s to actually scale it. (which then convinced them they needed k8s, and bigger nodes)

sigh

what sorts of errors do you think a lawyer should be able to make without risking disbarment?

the back half of the sub missing wasn’t what tipped you off that it wasn’t real?

> What do you think? Why?

asking if someone’s post was written by gpt is just a new way of being rude that internet mods haven’t yet had the balls to ban people for.

are citizens obligated to keep themselves informed of anything? what should we continue to permit when it might have some sort of negative consequence for the underinformed?

there’s a difference between being an expert and knowing what sorts of questions will sniff out bullshit.

"extensions to the protocol" do you need the whole thing designed in a comment?

the original context was to decompose subreddits into their own decentralized and separately hosted things. so:

dump spam into some hidden pseudo-group that only mods can see. let them post replies to the posts which are interpreted by the server to release/delete the spam

add additional headers on posts to mark that they're pinned or sidebarred. clients will have to know how to interpret that, but you'll remain backwards compatible with everything that already exists

again if you really want upvoting/downvoting, have specially formatted reply posts which the server uses to increment/decrement the vote counter, which is presented as a special header on the posts. special clients can display it like reddit, and even old clients can probably make use of it for filtering purposes.

now, i did the design work, so you go implement it.

somebody was asking in a thread the other day about some open protocol for forums/subreddits/whatever that different people could host, that could be fronted by independent clients.

well, there you go, NNTP still exists.

write some ios/android NNTP clients that can handle multiple servers w/credentials, and run some NNTP servers. no need to distribute the posts to other servers.

> while Reddit users get less than nothing

those poor bastards, all chained to their computers, joylessly creating content for their overlords.

> 50Hz is within the range of most LFO circuits (Low Frequency Oscillators) of the kind used for modular synthesisers and guitar effect pedals.

i don't think those are designed for long-term frequency stability, either. not at the <0.01% level needed for a clock. rest of your comment is on track, but the original low-voltage low-power 50Hz signal needs to come from something that was designed for low long-term drift.

this is the same crowd that is angry because openai has “open” in their name, but isn’t “open”.

the hallucination issue was a separate clause. the court does not think that so swearing will fix hallucinations.

this guy needs his own lawyer. being a witness (expert or otherwise) in case doesn't mean the lawyers who want you to testify are _your_ lawyers.

these sorts of subpoenas can sometimes be whittled down with only a little bit of effort. and even if they're not, you can bill for your costs to satisfy them.

people are nuts about southern accents: i had a manager (not my manager but one of his peers) actively mocking me for having a southern accent after finding i’d grown up in the south.

weird thing, though, my accent (since everyone has one) matches the area i live perfectly, which isn’t much of a surprise since my parents grew up here before moving to the south.

> Sure, they could prefer healthy customers, or they could select for lower risk populations. The latter is easier.

how are insurance companies (in the US) supposed to achieve this, when it is generally acquired through an employer?

those are all things you actively agreed to, in advance, in exchange for some sort of consideration (job, not going to jail for illegal things you've already done, etc)