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tejtm

1,861 karma · joined July 1, 2015

CS, Math, Science, Machinist/Metalworker, Amateur Telescope maker, HAM, accidental biologist through work.
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tejtm··on The She-Wolves of Jülich
I expect it was never a story there.

The lies were published from a safe distance of four or five hundred kilometers away, close enough for someone to have heard of it, but not close enough the go check on till long after the money was in the bank.

tejtm··on Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions
Indeed, I thought Britland might be a small district near the Midsomer cemetery.
tejtm··on Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN
Shoreing up the meme that there is; "no such thing as bad publicity"
tejtm··on One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems
That is exactly what this reminded me of.
tejtm··on New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras
paper article is based on

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-73167-0

tejtm··on Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020
yes Mega Watts, wattage increased and wave length decreased (to around 10GHz) over time.
tejtm··on Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions
Britland is apparently an informal term for England/Britain.

So all of it.

oh it is el Reg, cheeky bastards

tejtm··on Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020
> I presume we aren't using most bridges as interstellar antennas.

any like area of metal will receive as much interstellar emissions but I guess they did run a MW transmitter sometimes.

tejtm··on Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
One does tend to talk alot doesn't one
tejtm··on Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man
> What in his speech would not apply to language models?

The part between the words

tejtm··on Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop
Requiring them to reside within city limits and be as educated as the median city employee would eliminate needing to fire anyone.

The residents of Eugene may be regarded as left leaning (as in peaceful, go along get along) but that appears to also mean naive and easily manipulated.

Lazzar for mayor!

tejtm··on The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock everywhere
The latter, in software we would get an error message, big whoop. In learning electronics we get blue smoke if we are lucky and frustratingly silent failure usually. Add that each failure has a tangible and potentially significant cost and for me enthusiasm does not cancel sloppy details.

It did lead me buy another book the author wrote, and maybe this one will be better in future editions. But I am neither an expert who can just see and correct or disregard the errors, nor a disinterested tourist for whom it is all the same anyway. So as I implied, I passed this time.

tejtm··on The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock everywhere
I got as far as the eratta
tejtm··on Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
Of course not, we start at negative zero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_zero

tejtm··on I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets
good bye
tejtm··on CIA World Factbook is dead – Here is an attempt at recreation
maybe @dang should work ;)
tejtm··on CIA World Factbook Is Dead – Here Is an Attempt at Recreation
It got spellchecked into the boards

Maybe @dang can fix the autocorecto

tejtm··on YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops
> Flock is intended to be searchable by law enforcement, not Joe Average.

If cops may neither too smart (legally [1]) nor too dumb hopefully (they presumably dress themselves) then who exactly is left but Joe average?

[1] https://abcnews.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story...

tejtm··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
Making political hay now that AI is expected to suffice.

I did not start out this jaded.

tejtm··on Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles
I am pretty sure goatse does not have lawers and the RIAA disavows their collection
tejtm··on What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA?
Suspect you suck even more joy out of it the further removed from original local friends and neighbors getting together it started out as.
tejtm··on Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business
complacent consumers.

Oh wait you meant something else,

Myself I am biased towards antique manual machines, if you are not in a hurry you can push them beyond what we might expect.

tejtm··on AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome
no, furthermore I have never deliberately interacted with one.

Surely you could not think the message was to you only on this very public forum.

tejtm··on AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome
gfp --- green fluorescent protein

glow in the dark jelly fish bits that biologist stick in other critters to see if, when and where it shows up (under a blacklight).

tejtm··on Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death
old.reddit is no longer available (to no account me) as of a week ago.

a few withdrawal pangs, but the mainstream version is a nope.

tejtm··on Lion-man
Ahh the good old Nacirema

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacirema

tejtm··on Evade Reddit account tracking, keep old.reddit.com layout while logged out
@dang this functionality deserves a second chance bump (no affiliation and have not vetted code)
tejtm··on Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny
Except the part where where alcohol metabolizes into aldehyde species which cause double strand DNA breaks faster than we can repair them and we get moderate cancers ... but other than that it is great (ignoring the behavioral aberrations).
tejtm··on Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
A step further "novel" life (hence still simpler) made from the same raw materials as existing life would look exactly like decomposing existing life and be routinely scavenged for material.
tejtm··on A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway
python you say?

Pray tell which one of the myriad is the true one?

And do not worry, no one would be rash enough to bring in external dependencies it is just too darn inconvenient.

I should probably drink my coffee before posting, be less grumpy.

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