awalton

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by awalton 6y ago
I get that it's fun to try to "big time" me with physical explanations for simple phenomenons that anyone who actually owns a kettle can explain, but it's very simple: the filter isn't there to provide any kind of s
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by awalton 6y ago
If you have hard water, you'd know just how silly that question is. Everyone descales their kettles at some point, but we don't want to do it every other day. That's too much effort for making coffee or tea. The filter is the
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by awalton 6y ago
Except, in this case, we have a society where one side is spreading very deliberate, demonstrable, objective lies, and then saying the other side is lying as a method of trying to shut down reality-based conversation. We're reaching a
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by awalton 6y ago
> Is there anything that can be done that would satisfy all regulations? We could go back to having advertisements be relevant to the content audience instead of the specific viewer and end stalkerware for good. Crazy talk, I know...
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by awalton 6y ago
Ross's lymphoma was thought to have been caused by dichloromethane exposure from his odorless paint thinner (and him 'beating the devil' out of his brushes aerosolizing it). It's now banned in paint thinners as a result
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by awalton 6y ago
Its oral LD50 was tested to be more than 5000mg/kg according to Shepherd Color Company's MSDS for Blue 10G513 (as it is known commercially). That's well into "non-toxic" as categorized by the EPA. For perspective, t
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by awalton 6y ago
'Hecka-' sounds like the giggle-unit version of the 'Hella-'. So let's propose a heckabyte is 1024 yobibytes.
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by awalton 6y ago
And they released the documentation for the hardware so you can feel free to join in and make the drivers better any time you like. Which is about all we can ask of companies doing open source work. And it's still vastly more than most
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by awalton 6y ago
There's at least 3 different manufacturers that make these things. There's absolutely no reason to point out ChromeCast over Roku or Amazon's FireStick, e.g.
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by awalton 6y ago
It's going to be ridiculously annoying once the security professionals start finding exploits for smart TVs and have them worming around the internet - the vendors will be glacially slow to respond, if they do at all. It's going t
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by awalton 6y ago
And then Tillis' (Disney) Historical Preservation Copyright Act of 2023 will make sure we won't see that in our lifetimes. (But seriously, just look at the absolute absurdity that Tillis is trying to push through right now as an e
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by awalton 6y ago
It feels a hell of a lot like the multimillion dollar pen vs the pencil myth - it costs them maybe $20K to send six months worth of clothes to the ISS per astronaut on a Dragon 2. The ISS-rated dry cleaning machine would cost at the very le
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by awalton 6y ago
I'm old enough to remember when reCAPTCHA was first introduced to help with deciphering text from OCR'd books. At that time, it didn't feel so bad answering those, as we were using our intelligence to genuinely help preserve
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by awalton 6y ago
They get paid from whatever service you bought your music from - be it from CDs, MP3 sites like Amazon or Google Play (RIP), etc. Scary thought, being able to purchase music these days rather than a streaming service lease, I know...
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by awalton 6y ago
New users do find it to be a dungeon that's hard to escape from. The jokes on this one write themselves.
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by awalton 6y ago
Copyright isn't the problem, it's greed. Each company is offering a unique product, so they get to charge whatever they want for it. And users that want that media will chase the platforms around, so they're able to extract t
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by awalton 6y ago
They might not even be able to measure that small of a difference in the spacecraft's acceleration, to be honest. We're talking about a difference in grams of a spacecraft that's somewhere north of 1000kg right now - wet mass
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by awalton 6y ago
It's not enough to make a difference either way around it. The sample return container could be filled to the brim with pure osmium or iridium and would make it through the atmosphere just fine. The scientists are mostly worried becaus
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by awalton 6y ago
You learn strategies for getting through some days, some days nothing works, and some days are pretty much completely normal... and you never get enough normal days. A good healthcare team really helps, but it's pretty rare to find in
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by awalton 6y ago
If $30 of extra hardware makes them able to directly sell $X0+ of ads per TV per year, they're going to be happy to do it.
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by awalton 6y ago
That's fine for now, but you just know within a crop or two there's going to be panels that insist on being connected to the Internet or they won't even display anything. And then once one or two companies have made that ac
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by awalton 6y ago
Hm, using your own link, I see "Federal aid to highways" totaled at $43,421,077,419, and I see "Total excise taxes" at $42,329,411,402. I do a subtraction and I see a $1,091,666,017 deficit. Seems to suggest that, in fac
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by awalton 6y ago
It's fun that nobody ever includes the cost of the Interstate Highway System into these throwaway calculations, as if the roads just magically appeared and are maintained by faeries. As if the roads, car companies, and the airlines are
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by awalton 6y ago
> why has McAfee decided to IPO now as opposed to any other time in the past few decades All of the tech companies see where the economy is going, and they all know it's time to bunker down. Going public is a good way to raise a nic
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by awalton 6y ago
It's so much this. Intel showed up with a proprietary 70 pin fine pitch SMT connector, a 1.8V power requirement and sold the Edison to high level designers, when the market they were after (the Rasp-PI folks) had extremely easy to inte
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by awalton 6y ago
This isn't a big-LITTLE situation. The controller is there to manage board state without waking up the CPU, as extremely commonly found on server- and embedded-class deployments. They've probably even got a document describing how
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by awalton 6y ago
> Seamlessly transition processes to run in qemu-x86 on the ARM core? No, this thing runs its own firmware. It's a Baseboard Management Controller on-die, basically.
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by awalton 6y ago
> You have a problem that's repeatable right on schedule, that presumably shows up in the logs and affects multiple customers. It should be a no-brainer to send someone with test equipment out there to measure things in the field wh
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by awalton 6y ago
> It’s not like Mitch can singlehandedly control the whole senate. He's Senate Majority Leader. That's literally exactly what he does. Besides, he's whipped his party so hard they basically never break rank. Even Mitt &qu
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by awalton 6y ago
Clearly Obama should have just done an end-run around Congress, because that's how democracy works in America now, right? Just write an Executive Order and ignore the fact that it's totally and completely illegal. That would show

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