skinwill

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by skinwill 16d ago
A buddy of mine is the son of a United Airlines mechanic who was fairly high up in the organization. When his dad passed United gave him a stack of blank wax tickets. His son could write the destination on them and fly for free. Near the en
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by skinwill 1mo ago
My comment wasn't about the tool, it was how people are treating the new tool. Much as they would when they learn other new tools. They tend to have a preference and apply it where they maybe shouldn't. Do people really need to as
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by skinwill 2mo ago
Woodworkers often will have a preference for their favorite tool. Once they become comfortable with that tool they will sometimes prefer to use it for things it wasn't designed. For me it was the band saw. When I needed to split a boar
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by skinwill 3mo ago
Not if my firewall blocks it from accessing the outside world. (But allows HomeAssistant to control it)
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by skinwill 4mo ago
Brominated flame retardant?
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by skinwill 4mo ago
You need some filler for the space at the bottom. Something like ads from the 1800's for quack medical devices or Radium Therapy. Maybe something wildly misogynistic advertising laudanum.
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by skinwill 4mo ago
They use the same image on their mini pc's page. https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/byte
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by skinwill 7mo ago
The phrase "sufficient test suite" is doing a LOT of work here. You would need to know what the data from every sensor is supposed to be along with how every piece of the machine is supposed to perform. AI isn't going to be a
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by skinwill 9mo ago
This is way over simplifying here but I always understood it as: our eyes can see red with very little power needed. But our eyes can differentiate more detail with green.
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by skinwill 9mo ago
Speaking mostly from personal experience here, if a kid gets a suped-up liver from their dad's smoking habits, cool. But how many kids fathers stopped smoking when the kid was born? My point, the father's smoking habits may have p
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by skinwill 9mo ago
Better yet, instead of positioning it as an institutional-style research. You should frame it as an information hub for bovine castration techniques.
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by skinwill 9mo ago
"The core-and most-critical component-was left-out." Jesus-h-cluster-fucking-catastra-christ. If one of these data centers ever catches fire I will show up and make smores.
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by skinwill 9mo ago
How deep down the rabbit hole did you go with hardware optimization? In an ideal world, would it be better to compile this on a processor more RISC-y?
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by skinwill 9mo ago
Viewing the page with Safari 26.1 the questions stopped showing up after the second challenge. I was left with only Learn and View Solutions, which was not very fun since both showed a form of the answer. TL;DR: The page stopped loading pro
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by skinwill 11mo ago
Jeff, it's very cool to hear from you as I have enjoyed your videos for some time. I would like to make one request though. Next time you do a project like "How I almost broke MrBeast's Ages 1-100 video" that involves se
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by skinwill 11mo ago
I worked at a television station years back that was designed in such a way that the lights going up the tower were powered by the separate phases of three phase AC with the one at the top powered from all three combined. This was pretty no
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by skinwill 11mo ago
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by skinwill 1y ago
Can someone explain to me how this is different than a simple noise generator based on a PN junction? As in, isn't this just amplifying noise and aren't there less sensational ways of doing nearly the same thing? Does measuring a
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by skinwill 1y ago
Around here we have Epic. If you want a good scare, look up their corporate Willy Wonka-esq jail/campus and their policy of zero remote work.
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by skinwill 1y ago
I did one of those once and quickly found out that any display of personality was interpreted as an incorrect answer. It was made clear by the totally unrelated follow ups. I'd like to see the turn over rates of any company that implem
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by skinwill 1y ago
This will do more harm than good. I guarantee it.
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by skinwill 1y ago
The way Frontpage would vomit in the source code was the OG AI hallucination.
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by skinwill 2y ago
The internal diagram appears to be incorrect, https://www.555-timer-circuits.com/inside-the-555.html The internal resistors should be connected to the upper comparator. Also, that diagram just seems confusing. Something lik
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by skinwill 2y ago
State-of-the-art for what could survive space. It used 486's for quite a while. You are still very correct, I just think it's funny that the "best" is not always what people think.
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by skinwill 2y ago
My father, back in the 80's, told me about satellites in the 70's that could read your license plate. Using imaging tubes before CCD technology no less. The technology limitation is not only the resolution, which was rather good b
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by skinwill 2y ago
A company called Erim back in the 70's pioneered SAR systems. They had an interesting approach to processing and storage of the data which was all analog back then. They used holography. Erim and their SAR work is documented in wikiped
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by skinwill 5y ago
If the storage process involves "putting in a dryer" I consider the cable trashed. Put the cable away properly and save yourself some time installing. Faced with a rats nest of cable I will purchase a reel of fresh wire and add my
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by skinwill 5y ago
Normal human here, can someone speculate on potential industrial uses?
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by skinwill 5y ago
I have VERY fond memories of that game from 1986. My father who was teaching at a community college in Iowa had a copy of that game running on a VAX11. I recall that to play the game he had to walk to the data center and, inside a cabinet,