bigiain

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by bigiain 6d ago
I'm guessing that maybe 4 of them maintain that in their "20% time", while the 99,996 other engineers are: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." -Jeff Hammerbacher
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by bigiain 7d ago
They still run Macintosh System 7 with wireless AppleTalk, right?
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by bigiain 7d ago
I agree, but there's still a big "Why now?" question in my head. I suspect the board knows of something even more spectacularly stupid he's about to do.
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by bigiain 13d ago
leftpad
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by bigiain 15d ago
I was hoping for this to end with "I wrote emacs, and Karl wrote vi."
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by bigiain 17d ago
"Only works with Juicero brand C cells."
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by bigiain 21d ago
There's a reasonable argument to be made that people who talk big game already dominate.
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by bigiain 22d ago
Within her family friendly choice of language, she wasn't shy of making jokes about her own appearance: “I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she
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by bigiain 24d ago
> we would have to assume the vendor's update server was compromised You say "compromised". I say "monetised". :sigh:
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by bigiain 27d ago
Some guy, profiling his linux distro, wonders why ssh connections are a few hundred milliseconds slower than expected, finds there PR introduced and RCE backdoor and p0wns the whole project.
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by bigiain 27d ago
> Why this word Because an AI company made their LLM "roll a dice" that was loaded in a specific way to choose that word, so they could claim ownership of your document later. :sigh:
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by bigiain 1mo ago
I wonder if that's the golden handcuffed founder equivalent of blinking out SOS in morse code?
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by bigiain 1mo ago
Yep. It can be power - see Reddit and Wikipedia mods - but it's usually money. And once VC fundraising is involved, it's pretty much always money.
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by bigiain 1mo ago
Every staff member with a ChatGPT account gets a complimentary promotion to CISO...
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by bigiain 1mo ago
I had a Timex Data Watch over 30 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink It'd transfer phone numbers and calendar entries to the watch by blinking the screen of your computer. Kinda a 1 pixel versi
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by bigiain 2mo ago
I remember asking a chippie (carpenter tradesman) a while back why he was using Ozito brand power tools (the cheapest Chinese brand from the local tool barn). He said "The good gear like Milwaukee and Makita last years. The cheap Chine
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by bigiain 2mo ago
Your legless manager in the daily Workrooms stand^h^h^h^h^floatup glares at you.
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by bigiain 2mo ago
Nah, she got the job. And that lead to her next even better one. Now I'd need something to go spectacularly right for me to be able to afford to head hunt her. (We still catch up for coffee every 6 or 12 months.)
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by bigiain 2mo ago
Gotta admit that's what I clicked through hoping for. I've seen a few projects that use SDR to detect doppler shifts of reflections of broadcast FM radio station off planes as "passive radar". But that doesn't get m
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by bigiain 2mo ago
It's always worth considering whether you have people who will give you genuine glowing references. I've only ever once been at a place where there was a policy saying "all you are allowed to say during reference checks is &q
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by bigiain 2mo ago
Using ADS-B and calling it a "radar" feels wrong to me. (But is is a cool project)
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by bigiain 2mo ago
One of my treasured toys - probably from a few years older than your 3 year old though - was a rocking cylinder steam engine my father gave me. It was a present from his father as part of a steam powered boat they built together probably in
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by bigiain 2mo ago
'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe' -- Carl Sagan
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by bigiain 2mo ago
> I find "make" potentially confusing with AI-assisted projects. I'm feeling this right now. I have a working prototype of a project that has mirrors mounted on pan/tilt mechanisms driven by servos and controlled by a
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by bigiain 2mo ago
The C in DMCA stand for Copyright. All (I think?) software licenses are underpinned and made legally enforceable by copyrights. EULAs are underpinned by licenses which are founded on copyright. Patents are the only one of those protections
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by bigiain 2mo ago
The cheapest option, Pixel 10, costs $1349 from Google, they want $1990 (in Australian Dollars, that's about $940 and $1390 in USD) So not quite a 50% markup on the bard phone, not quite as bad as 4x. And while I'd feel like a jer
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by bigiain 2mo ago
The website also says: "Australian research shows that 99% of domestic violence cases now involve some form of technology-facilitated abuse." Where the "Australian research" is linked to a page where the first Key Findin
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by bigiain 2mo ago
> a badly configured scraping setup? Cynical-me assumes every single AI company is vibe-coding everything, and _all_ their scrapers are as badly written as the typical publicly available scraper code and tutorial - mostly written by self
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by bigiain 2mo ago
Is there a decent rule of thumb about how this style of antenna scales with frequency? I'd kinda like something like this that could do 2.4GHz, 850-950MHz and even down as low as 400MHz. Would by uneducated guess that 2.4GHz antennas w
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by bigiain 2mo ago
I bought whole Intel N100 mini pc with 16GB of DDR5 in it in 2023 for $AUD289 (so about $US200). I got a 16GB (DDR4) SODIMM in 2022 for $AUD88 ($US60).

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