jbuzbee

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by jbuzbee 4mo ago
My first job out of college in the early 80's was working on diagnostics for an old NASA computer. "What language do I use?" I asked my boss. "We don't have a compiler". OK, I thought, assembly language. "
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by jbuzbee 1y ago
Worried about the privacy of data that the US government holds on you? It's soon to be in the hands of a quickly thrown together AI system for the entire federal government
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Trump administration's whole-government AI plans leaked on GitHub(theregister.com)
17 points by jbuzbee 1y ago|4 comments
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by jbuzbee 1y ago
I worked on a system at Martin Marietta in the late 80's and early 90's where we created tiled maps for use by the US Army. We had a large scanner we'd use to scan their maps, then we'd georectify the scan and slice the
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by jbuzbee 2y ago
"Hard to find a more American article than this." Just wait until they start taking pot-shots at them and then it will be "real" America: BOOM! "Look Ma! I done got one!"
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by jbuzbee 2y ago
Just another example of impulsive and very poor judgment from Trump. Even though he had the right to declassify this image, his only reason to do so was to taunt the Iranians - Ha Ha, your rocket blew up. The Iranians likely corrected their
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by jbuzbee 2y ago
Yeah - When covered in even a moderate amount of snow, output drops almost all the way off. I had thought that being black, they would melt off quickly, but that doesn't appear to be the case. As an aside, my daughter's neighbor h
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by jbuzbee 2y ago
One interesting fact that I recall, and that I didn't see in the article, is that evolution in some Owls traded off silent flight for the inability to fly when their feathers are wet. When there's an extended period of wet weather
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by jbuzbee 3y ago
Yeah, you typically need some sort of hub unless you run Home Assistant. My understanding is that it doesn't need any hub for Matter support.
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by jbuzbee 3y ago
Yeah - you can even pass your own python, go, bash, etc. "on/off" script as a parameter to the example matter-device so you can get away with no code changes at all. You can get help at the listed discord server.
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by jbuzbee 3y ago
If you can do Typescript, matter.js makes it trivial to at least create a virtual matter device. Five minutes to clone the repo, build, run and pair with Google, Apple, Alexa, SmartThings, etc. The one caveat is certification. With Google
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by jbuzbee 3y ago
Those bank-teller tubes are still in use in the Denver suburbs.
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by jbuzbee 3y ago
Enjoyed the story and it reminded me of another bridge over I-225 that I wondered about and drive under occasionally in the Denver area. The bridge is much wider than a typical pedestrian bridge and there is really "nothing" on ei
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by jbuzbee 3y ago
Olathe had POpular 4 and STate 2
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by jbuzbee 3y ago
If you search on youtube, you can see that some F-117s are still flying. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UUOJBBNfZY&ab_channel=Youtu...
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by jbuzbee 4y ago
I use this in a little raspberry pi project. For persistence, I occasionally copy data to a writable partition and then at boot, after the ram overlay is mounted, I copy it back.
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by jbuzbee 4y ago
I don't know the answer, but are these numbers comparable? I would assume that Waymo is talking about crashes while in self-driving mode, is that true for Tesla as well or are they just talking about all miles driven, self driving mode
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by jbuzbee 4y ago
I was just getting ready to say the same thing and was wishing for a plugin that would replace all exclamation points with a period. That would make reading much easier
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by jbuzbee 4y ago
I just got done searching for an accessory for a specific model of car on Amazon. My results prominently included items (ads) for accessories for a different model of car that would not fit my car. How does that help anyone? Wasted money fo
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by jbuzbee 4y ago
I worked on a downstream consumer of a passive radar system years ago and was amazed at its capabilities. We had it set up on a tennis court outside of Farnborough UK during a bi-annual air show and it was able to track all the activities o
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by jbuzbee 4y ago
When Aldrich Ames, the notorious CIA KGB double-agent was sent to prison, his personal library ended up in a used bookstore in the DC area and I picked up a few volumes that had his name stamped on the inside.
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by jbuzbee 5y ago
Iceland generates 25% of their energy geothermically https://nea.is/geothermal/
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by jbuzbee 5y ago
I also use the Wemo switches at home. And yes, for the most part they are reliable. I really like setting schedules based on sunset and sunrise. The integration with Google sometimes fails as the article notes (I interpret as a timeout), bu
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by jbuzbee 5y ago
I have 6 lines, "unlimited" with T-Mobile for around $130 used by various family members. Can't find a better deal than that.
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Researchers raise bats in helium-rich air to check how they sense sound(arstechnica.com)
1 points by jbuzbee 5y ago|0 comments
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by jbuzbee 6y ago
"wouldn't one already know how to get to their favorite brewery?" - I navigate most everywhere I go of any distance so I get warned of traffic issues or speed traps.
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by jbuzbee 6y ago
You knew this was coming ;-) Back in 1993 I had SLS Linux running on a 386SX with 4MB of RAM. And that included X11 and gcc so I could compile my own kernels!
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by jbuzbee 6y ago
Ting brought fiber into our 40 year-old neighborhood a couple of years ago. Symmetric gigabit with no caps. https://ting.com/internet/town/centennial
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by jbuzbee 6y ago
There's a difference between a bribe to win a contract or similar vs. the case where you feel in danger - e.g. you come across a roadblock in rural Mexico and an armed official wants a "clear up your paperwork" payoff to let
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by jbuzbee 6y ago
Yep, they did and do. And we are a US company with lots of lawyers. My coworker was at a tiny island airport in the middle of the Pacific. If he didn't pay, he wasn't going anywhere.

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