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by blendo 22d ago
Our company offered all programmers $1000 to spend the night in the office. But they sent us home around 4am. The same time many of the overnight jobs started up :-) Fortunately we had zero issues.
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by blendo 3mo ago
Like Chuck Norris, chuds don't sleep. They wait.
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by blendo 5mo ago
Special forces training and force vetting seems astoundingly poor for such an "elite" outfit.
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by blendo 5mo ago
"we've shown a pretty significant increase in the number of new housing permits each year, we’re closing in on the 10,000 mark for the last two years" Does that mean the "surge in supply" is really a surge in permit
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by blendo 5mo ago
Searching for more DOGE-boy wrecking balls?
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by blendo 7mo ago
I'm in SF where they advertise a lot, and the ads are incredibly niche and nerdy. But a general sense of paranoia comes through quite strongly.
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by blendo 9mo ago
5G C-V2X New Radio might be helpful. https://www.telecomtrainer.com/lte-v2x-vs-nr-v2x-key-differe...
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by blendo 10mo ago
Back in the 80s, the Tek 4115 (color, 1280x1024) was so much fun for a young programmer working at RADC/Hanscom AFB. Mandelbrot sets and Towers of Hanoi were so exciting to write in Fortran (I think Fortran 77), running under, iirc, CP
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by blendo 10mo ago
And the US never revolted against our domestic aristocracy, as they never revolted against our clergy. Wonder how it would have turned out if the French revolution happened before the American Revolution? What could we have learned from th
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by blendo 10mo ago
For months, Mullvad has been papering San Francisco with smart and cheeky ads, like "Mass surveillance is made by machine men with machine hearts". I admire that they're saying this, and wish other VPN companies would do simi
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by blendo 11mo ago
"When I was a boy, there were still porn magazines; fathers hid them on high shelves. You stood on stools and gawked at them in a state of mortal terror." Terror? If you're steeped in guilt, perhaps so.
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by blendo 1y ago
The duck curve tells us prices are lower at noon due to tons of new solar, but what about the rate of price change? Are electricity prices at noon climbing faster, or less fast, than prices at 6pm?
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by blendo 1y ago
Yes. With $10 million in the bank, earning 4%, you'll see $400,000 a year, less taxes. Whereas with $10 billion, you'll get $400 million a year, or about $7.5 million PER WEEK! I think guys like Musk and Andreesen (&SBF) might
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by blendo 1y ago
Yes, that's what I'm suggesting: over the counter. Like booze or a lottery ticket.
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by blendo 1y ago
What are the table sizes? And what ingress bandwidth do you have?
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by blendo 1y ago
I think most parents are really uncomfortable with adolescents accesing smartphone porn, and also sexting. Particularly highly religious parents, like those in Utah.
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by blendo 1y ago
I need to prove my age to buy a lottery ticket or purchase alcohol. The merchant typically doesn't save my id info. What if I could purchase a unique QR code, good for maybe a month, that I could use online to prove my age? There&#x27
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Exploring V2X in 5G networks: A comprehensive survey of location-based services(sciencedirect.com)
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by blendo 1y ago
He's quite religious: https://www.christianitytoday.com/2011/07/geektheologian/
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by blendo 1y ago
People like cars that can go 80-90 mph for hundreds and hundreds of miles while carrying 4 people. With crash protection. Add electrics with thousand lbs of batteries, and you've got today's 4000-6000 lb SUVs, all costing an arm a
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by blendo 1y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to call this RF "pollution", but it is a reminder that the EM spectrum is getting a lot busier. Me? I just want a car to be able to detect me so they don't run me over.
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by blendo 1y ago
"If there is job loss, then we should convene a collective group of thinkers to talk about mitigation."
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by blendo 1y ago
A shrinking economy is likely to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, won't it? Might the effect be detectable?
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by blendo 1y ago
I’ve already gotten to the point where I talk into my iPhone rather than type for many interactions. I think Apple cannot currently associate my apple id with my queries.
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by blendo 1y ago
If you’re a billionaire, at 4% interest you’ll earn $40 million a year, or over $100,000 a week. You and I, we earn money and hope to put a little aside. But these guys worry “How will I spend this incessant flow of money?”
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by blendo 1y ago
This seems viscerally “correct”, in some crazy sense.
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by blendo 1y ago
I tend to share your optimism, but it also seems smartphones have some very different qualities from previous tech. Yes, the sounds and images, but mostly a new kind of socially remote yet nearly instantaneous communication style. And a sur
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by blendo 1y ago
And a couple of the apps are from companies from Utah, so putting them on your kids phones is basically outsourcing their online information flow to the Mormon Church.
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by blendo 1y ago
“plans to start commercial production in the US by 2028.” Stellantis/Factorial is claiming solid state batteries will appear in the 2026 Dodge Charger: https://electrek.co/2025/04/28/jeep-dodge-maker-vali
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by blendo 1y ago
All else being equal, having to grow food for 1 billion people would be a lot easier than for 8 billion. And apartments would be a lot cheaper, too.

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