mwambua

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by mwambua 23d ago
Agreed! At the moment I have all the tech I really need. I could think up a million interesting side-projects that AI might help come to fruition. However, in reality I have much more banal concerns - like whether I'll still be able to
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by mwambua 1mo ago
If you want a nice take on what that would be like for humans - Greg Egan has an interesting short story called “Seventh Sight” about people bio hacking themselves to gain expanded spectral perception. It’s in his Instantiation Anthology.
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by mwambua 1mo ago
Not sure - but I know there's a really serious community of folks who do ATC virtually on VATSIM: https://vatsim.net I feel like those folks would already have been candidates for air traffic controller jobs though.
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by mwambua 3mo ago
It's certainly interesting that someone who founded Onavo would be made VP of "Trust & Safety"
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by mwambua 6mo ago
Bloomberg's podcast "The Big Take" has been running an interesting series on Chinese industrial espionage called "The Sixth Bureau". Here's a link to the Youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by mwambua 7mo ago
Do you have evidence of that?
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by mwambua 9mo ago
> The human eye is most sensitive to green light, so that channel effectively carries the majority of the luminance (brightness/detail) data How does this affect luminance perception for deuteranopes? (Since their color blindness is
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by mwambua 9mo ago
Does this mean that we'll start to see SATA replaced with faster interfaces in the future? Something like U.2/U.3 that's currently available to the enterprise?
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by mwambua 10mo ago
In the report they tested samples of the part and found that they actually had glass transition temperatures of 52.8°C, and 54.0°C... so sounds like the owner fell victim to false advertising.
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by mwambua 10mo ago
There's also Actual Budget ( https://actualbudget.com ) which you can self-host.
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by mwambua 11mo ago
Oh, nice! Thanks! This reminds me of the unofficial yahoo finance api.
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by mwambua 11mo ago
Tangential question. What do people use for search? What search engines provide the best quality to cost ratios? Also are there good solutions for searching through a local collection of documents?
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by mwambua 11mo ago
I’m painfully aware of that being dark skinned myself. That doesn’t mean that Minnesota is inhospitable though (or that it would be criminal to send me there). It just means that they’d need to know that they need vitamin D supplements and
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by mwambua 11mo ago
It's only criminal if they aren't provided with the education/information they need to live healthy lives (which is possible with the right diet/supplements).
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by mwambua 11mo ago
Ooh, looks like the Raspberry Pi 5 is now supported!
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by mwambua 1y ago
How did you arrive at the decision of not putting the GPU machines in the colo? Were the power costs going to be too high? Or do you just expect to need more physical access to the GPU machines vs the storage ones?
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by mwambua 1y ago
The ethical stand serves the dual purpose of: a) trying to make sure the company does the right thing, and b) avoiding liability. Seems like Engineer-1 failed at stopping her, but managed to avoid taking any blame at the end of the day.
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by mwambua 1y ago
I'm not justifying the crimes and I think people should pay for the consequences of their actions, but I don't think it's that simple. I think some people just haven't been exposed to the benefits of taking a path to lif
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by mwambua 1y ago
I personally wouldn't rely on my phone/watch if I'm headed anywhere remote without cell service & electricity. With Garmin inReach you don't just get better battery life - you also get the Iridium satellite network a
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by mwambua 1y ago
My naive first reaction was that a unit like that would consume a way too much power to be practical on a robot, but then I remembered how many calories our own brains need vs the rest of our body (Google says 20% of total body needs). Look
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by mwambua 1y ago
If you do set this up, consider also feeding data to non-commercial aggregators who make their data available for free and do not censor certain flights: https://github.com/rickstaa/awesome-adsb?tab=readme-ov-file#...
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by mwambua 1y ago
I'd recommend just uninstalling the apps. I'm still able to get the content I need, and scroll mechanic doesn't work as well on the websites so a lot of the temptation to doom scroll goes away.
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by mwambua 1y ago
Fair enough. I was hoping for more detailed photos too.
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by mwambua 1y ago
Heavy emphasis on the tissue in lung tissue: https://analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do...
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by mwambua 1y ago
Why do none of these have larger displays? I imagine it's annoying to type without the ability to at least skim over the last page of content? Are larger monochrome displays just harder to procure?
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by mwambua 1y ago
How do you power it for extended sessions? Is it constantly connected to power - using wifi/airlink between it and your Mac? Or do you use the link cable?
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by mwambua 1y ago
If you're looking to setup a GPS-disciplined time-server at home, I highly recommend this writeup: https://austinsnerdythings.com/2025/02/14/revisiting-microse... In the author's latest post he also
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by mwambua 2y ago
Simulation is a really useful tool for practice! I’m pretty sure this Hang Gliding sim uses Cesium for its environment: https://freeflightexperience.com/ I know people who will practice flying at unfamiliar sites on it firs
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by mwambua 2y ago
I wonder if 3d-printer lines will someday become a desirable aesthetic - like film grain.
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by mwambua 2y ago
If the image quality is good enough for you - you could try out an iPod touch.

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