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by jakedata 24d ago
The key feature of these technologies is passive below ambient cooling. "Such novel technology is often based on coating materials that reflect solar energy in visible near-infrared wavelength range (0.3–2.5 μm) and send infrared heat
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by jakedata 3mo ago
That site is old enough to be Slashdotted.
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by jakedata 3mo ago
Minor nitpick - the Bernoulli 90 MB removable disk was released in 1991. The Bernoulli 44 MB was late 80s. I liked them a lot better than the SyQuest drives with their hard platters which seemed much more failure prone. I still have a stack
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by jakedata 3mo ago
The most satisfying part of splitting wood is doing it in temperatures well below freezing. The wood is crystalline in hardness and really does tend to split as it does in this over-optimistic simulation. "Split your own wood and it wi
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by jakedata 3mo ago
20v everywhere plus I made up a high power DC power cord with a barrel connector. My company’s marketing department has really nice USB-C power bricks emblazoned with our logo. I also invested in a biggish Anker battery with full USB-PD sup
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by jakedata 3mo ago
I bought a Pinecil so I could run it off a battery. I really came to appreciate the excellent temperature control and rapid heating, and use it instead of my soldering station for jobs away from the bench. I have felt absolutely no need to
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by jakedata 4mo ago
Causing a 15 minute outage campuswide is not clever at all. A DOS attack was not the goal and it drew unwanted attention. If I was responding to this outage there would have been consequences - not for doing it, but for getting caught. Perh
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by jakedata 4mo ago
We pushed out a policy to ban it forever after the disruption it caused. Caused again I mean... Huge time waster.
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by jakedata 4mo ago
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-172/iss... It brings to mind the parable of the drowning man or "what do you want from me, I sent you two boats and a helicopter".
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by jakedata 5mo ago
Paying an expensive senior (older) employee to quietly and happily go away without raising a fuss may have saved money in the long term. I am sure they did not offer the same deal to everyone.
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by jakedata 5mo ago
I'm clever but too industrious. Clever and lazy seems to pay better.
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by jakedata 5mo ago
My dad was offered a buyout when he was around my current age. It included 10 years seniority added to his pension and health insurance until Medicare kicked in. He never looked back. Sadly, nobody is willing to pay me to go away.
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by jakedata 5mo ago
m.fark.com looks pretty good on my phone.
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by jakedata 5mo ago
Just go to fark.com, a lingering glimmer of light from before the dead web. They are still aggregating human curated news and hosting reasonably civil discussions. Then buy a Totalfark subscription so they don't need to bend over backw
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by jakedata 5mo ago
"Tu Stultus Es" "Drugs Win Drug War" "History Sighs, Repeats Itself" and of course... "SICKOS"
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by jakedata 5mo ago
Notes of the Justina Pelletier case here. I am still horrified by what happened to her and her family.
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by jakedata 6mo ago
^f settlement $35,000 for being attacked by a police dog, hospitalized and jailed for hours. Nope. I'd ride that to the supreme court. He is lucky he wasn't shot for a 'misread'.
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by jakedata 7mo ago
To get a feel for this effect, activate an instant ice pack. Mixing ammonium nitrate with water is an endothermic reaction, instantly making the pack cool down. Being able to reverse a reaction like this simply by applying pressure is fasci
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Downsides to US-Canadian dual citizenship for US resident?(immigration.ca)
3 points by jakedata 7mo ago|3 comments
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by jakedata 7mo ago
My US-born child qualifies for US-Canadian dual citizenship under Citizenship Act Bill C-3. I can see several upsides to having a Canadian passport but what are the potential downsides for a US citizen and resident that does not intend to r
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by jakedata 8mo ago
There was a Windows 2000 bug that would allow the computer to be crashed via a malformed IrDA packet. Of course someone crafted a Palm Pilot app to zonk all the vulnerable PCs in the vicinity. It worked on servers as well. Endless fun for a
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by jakedata 8mo ago
Inspired one of my absolute favorite Zappa grooves. I am the Slime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiCQcEW98OY I am gross and perverted I'm obsessed and deranged I have existed for years But very little has changed I&#
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by jakedata 8mo ago
I connected self powered crank telephones to my home phone wiring for use as intercoms. Crank one and the others ring. Pick up to engage the battery powered talk circuit and you're chatting with Mabel like it's 1915. I did replace
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by jakedata 9mo ago
If it was Nintendo instead of Sega, everyone would be slapped with a cease-and-desist backed up with the threat of lawsuits.
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by jakedata 10mo ago
The second I heard that engine fire it was 1986 in my brain again. I could smell the fuel and feel the finger damage from repeatedly trying to get the darned thing to start. Followed by damage on the other side of the finger when it actuall
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by jakedata 10mo ago
This is an extremely salient point: ...some mockingly asking whether the firm would've maintained the same tenacity and reimbursed the Intern had he been fined 50,000 RMB at the event instead
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At SC2025 the exhibitors theme seems to be on-prem again(sc25.supercomputing.org)
2 points by jakedata 10mo ago|2 comments
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by jakedata 10mo ago
It seemed like the future was all cloud but this year's exhibit hall was packed with infrastructure suppliers. Every third booth seemed to feature valves, pumps, massive high density power distribution systems and all the stuff you wou
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by jakedata 10mo ago
Visiting Bletchley Park and seeing step-by-step telephone switching equipment repurposed for computing re-enforced my appreciation for the brilliance of the telecommunication systems we created in the past 150 years. Packet switching was in
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by jakedata 11mo ago
The Microcenter in Cambridge (MA) finally updated their sign to modernize the rainbow Apple logo a few years ago. I hope it's stashed somewhere, to me it's more iconic than the Citgo sign a few miles away. They have added some com

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