geocrasher

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by geocrasher 6d ago
I see those boxes at estate sales regularly. And on FB marketplace for free or $5. Or sometimes somebody thinks they're sitting on a gold mine of technological history and tries to ask actual money for a box of 20 year old tangles. Som
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by geocrasher 1mo ago
Hi, ADHD here. I bought Tiny Habits. I tried reading it. Didn't get very far. You can imagine why...
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by geocrasher 2mo ago
"I would have liked to have seen Montana..." You are forever in our hearts, Vasili.
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by geocrasher 3mo ago
The DNS Song seems appropriate. Even if it's not DNS in this case. https://soundcloud.com/ryan-flowers-916961339/dns-to-the-tun...
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by geocrasher 4mo ago
I gave OpenPOV a try with FS 2024, and found it really disorienting. It was not useful at all. I went to a Meta Quest 3 and that actually made me feel like I was inside an aircraft. At on point I tried to lean on a bulkhead. Oops.
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by geocrasher 4mo ago
memories of slashdot rush in
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by geocrasher 5mo ago
I don't want to crap on peoples ideas. Really, I don't. But getting some closet case computer with unknown hardware and turning it into a server, at scale, is an impossible scheme. The only way to make it work would be to buy hund
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by geocrasher 6mo ago
I recall as a teen wondering if the 486 was so good, how amazing a 1086 was going to be someday :D
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by geocrasher 6mo ago
My first PC was a 286/12 with an AMD chip in it. I well remember the 486SX/2-66's and how terrible they were. I liked to say that Compaq put the "sorry" in Presario. In the late 90's, between around 96 and 98,
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by geocrasher 6mo ago
My uncle Richard is one of the inventors on Honeywell’s early phase‑detect autofocus. Patent US4333007A, which figures out both the direction and amount the lens needs to move instead of hunting. Modern systems like Canon’s Dual Pixel AF in
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by geocrasher 6mo ago
I've never been afraid to share bad ideas because the best way to get to a good one is to go through the bad ones. Sometimes my bad ideas will spark a good idea from somebody else or sometimes it even turns out that my bad idea isn&#x2
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by geocrasher 6mo ago
At first, I felt smart about knowing what a TCXO is. Then, it went downhill from there. Great analysis. I figured it would have been the heater component that failed, then reading the comments here, I realized I'd conflated TCXO with O
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by geocrasher 7mo ago
I learned next-level defensive driving by bicycle commuting to work 5.5 miles each way on busy roads in rush hour traffic. On a bicycle you're invisible, and if you expect any less, you're going to get hurt. As it was, I had som
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by geocrasher 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club The 27 Club is an informal list consisting mostly of popular musicians who died at age 27. Although the claim of a "statistical spike" for the death of musicians at
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by geocrasher 9mo ago
My organization is, for now, using OpsGenie. My pager noise: https://www.soundjay.com/transportation/sounds/train-crossin... That will not only wake the dead, it'll wake me no matter how asleep I am.
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by geocrasher 9mo ago
I had the same thing for Slashdot.org for many, many years. Both the reflex and the browser autocomplete. I still miss the old /. It was like HN + Hackaday + Usenet.
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by geocrasher 9mo ago
Yep, have been on constant "pager duty" for 2+ years, although I have more help now and I get paged 1-3 times a week instead of per night. Still, carry my lappy everywhere I go. Bought an ARM Windows laptop to get that 20hr batter
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by geocrasher 10mo ago
That was my point. They used the wrong filament. And there isn't really a right one for the cowl of a single engine aircraft
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by geocrasher 10mo ago
Yes but are they printed with PLA or PETG, or even ABS? Or are they using material designed exactly for their use case, and tested thoroughly before being certified for flight? Or do they get their parts from some vendor at a swap meet wh
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by geocrasher 11mo ago
Just added to my cart. Thanks. Working from the car sucks, but it happens now and then. This should make it a lot easier.
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by geocrasher 11mo ago
The ability to spot poor information is what keeps the end user a vital part of the process. LLM's don't think. [Most] humans do.
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by geocrasher 11mo ago
LLM's follow the old adage of "Garbage In, Garbage Out". LLM's work great for things that are well documented and understood. If you use LLM's to understand things that are poorly understood in general, you're
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by geocrasher 1y ago
Wow. I have never heard of this. Thank you. I just Googled it and while not all of the symptoms fit, a good number of them do. It's rather interesting, I know how to use numbers- I've done several types of analyses over the years,
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by geocrasher 1y ago
Exactly. I left high school over abuse. Another student spent the whole period sitting next to me staring at me muttering about how he was going to tie me up in the middle of the desert, and all the things he was going to shove up my ass, s
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by geocrasher 1y ago
High school was toxic, and so were my first few jobs. Lessons learned the hard way.
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by geocrasher 1y ago
These weren't universal truths, they were my personal truths.
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by geocrasher 1y ago
Math is amazing, and I'm becoming interested in it after being out of school for over 30 years. But, my own incompetence with numbers meant gravitating away from them, for me. I am not dyslexic, but I think my ADHD does with numbers wh
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by geocrasher 1y ago
My experience with school wasn't that different from work life. Lessons that I learned in school that followed: 1) I am a dork, embrace it 2) Avoid Math 3) Scientific method = troubleshooting with purpose. Use it. 4) People in charge c
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by geocrasher 1y ago
We were the last people in town to get a flat screen TV. In 2015. We still had a 27" Sony CRT TV. That thing was beautiful. It didn't bother me really until one day. A young person about 10 years old came over "What's th
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by geocrasher 1y ago
Since you added context to my comment that I didn't ask for, I'm going to add some to yours that you didn't ask for. Because of an unknown metabolic disorder, I watched my wife starve to death. She literally died from malnutr

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