vibrolax

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by vibrolax 2y ago
I spent 25+ years in the precision optics industry, a large portion of which was building machines and instruments for fabricating and testing aspheric lenses and mirrors. Designing, performing, and validating null tests is technically ter
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by vibrolax 2y ago
Twice bitten, three times shy. After the Slotin incident, prompt critical assemblies by hand were prohibited. Los Alamos then built a series of remotely operated critical assembly machines. There is a fair amount of open source literature o
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by vibrolax 3y ago
Probably because EU/national governments have regulations with respect to the safety and privacy of the users, and the purveyors must evaluate the performance of their products against the regulatory standards.
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by vibrolax 3y ago
gen-z channels ee cummings
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by vibrolax 3y ago
I've wanted to play games since Atari Pong came out. But I've never owned a console, and haven't owned a computer with a discrete GPU since 2005. Twenty years ago, I satisfied my urge to game by playing Unreal Tournament, Qu
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by vibrolax 3y ago
I periodically check out YouTube while not signed in, to see what YouTube is pushing to the unidentified. It's just like TV used to be, aimed at a pretty low target. And that's nearly all American TV had. At least YouTube still ha
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by vibrolax 3y ago
Yes, and now the government will have another $100m per year to bestow on its favored media companies.
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by vibrolax 3y ago
I did just that, including signing up for discord. Despite never having used discord before, I was able to find the link to the beta AppImage in a pinned message and downloaded it. Made it executable with chmod +x LM...... Ran it. Search
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by vibrolax 3y ago
Well we have the Canaveral National Seashore to enjoy today, which was constituted from the undeveloped portion of the space program reservation. Otherwise, that area today might be a wall of hirise condos instead of a pristine coastal bar
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by vibrolax 3y ago
If the family ran Linux, they would likely be always in touch with you. Different questions, but questions nonetheless.
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by vibrolax 3y ago
I've been following this project for the past couple of years. The process of learning to manufacture enormous Nixie tubes as a product is a testament to Dalibor Farný's incredible dedication and skill. Who wouldn't like th
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by vibrolax 3y ago
My wife and I agree that eating well is one of the most affordable luxuries. Eating in ordinary restaurants and ordering takeout becomes less attractive once you hit a threshold of kitchen competence. Our experience is home prepared meals
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by vibrolax 3y ago
I like the term "confabulation". A hallucination is an artifact of an intoxicated or malfunctioning brain. In my experience, confabulation is a common occurrence in normal brains, and can occur without intention. It's why
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by vibrolax 3y ago
It's an anhinga. Their feathers are not oiled, so they get wet in the water. They have to air dry their feathers.
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by vibrolax 3y ago
I was defeated in my first couple of attempts to reach page 100 in _GR_, so I picked up _The Crying of Lot 49_ to get a handle on pynchonism. That confirmed for me that reading _GR_ would pay off, if I could get past the early world buildi
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by vibrolax 4y ago
What worries me about interacting with any cloud LLM or other AI is that the provider will record/analyze/sell my inputs, as is done with search queries today. I bet models can be trained to elicit personal info from the users.
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by vibrolax 4y ago
I occasionally watch "let's play" videos as a harm reduced alternative to actually playing games. A half hour spent watching someone play a game/sim totally relieves my FOMO. It also dissipates my urge to build a gamin
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by vibrolax 4y ago
I used an Alesis Quadraverb GT with an ART X-11 midi foot switch since 1991. I love great sounding pedals as much as the next guitarist, but I really didn't enjoy the care and feeding of a pedal board (those were pretty much all DIY i
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by vibrolax 4y ago
Me too. I would be running my 440BX today, but all the motherboards died from bad electrolytic capacitors that were endemic in that era.
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by vibrolax 4y ago
Same thing happened to me. Then I decided to start reading ahead every 5 pages, scanning for something that engaged me. I finally found it in the chapter "Un Perm' au Casino Hermann Goering". I read a while more, and determ
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by vibrolax 4y ago
I don't know. Having the theoretical and experimental physics talent was a necessary condition for producing the atomic bomb, but was not sufficient. What was lacking was a government willing and able to commit to a crash program bui
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by vibrolax 4y ago
I worked for a small precision optics company that made components for their development efforts. We made machines for fabricating unconventional optics for both MIC and commercial/consumer-oriented manufacturers. We thought it had a
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by vibrolax 4y ago
In Orwell's "1984", a machine called the Versificator generated the music and literature for consumption by the proles.
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by vibrolax 4y ago
The first man-made fission reactor was built in a squash court.
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by vibrolax 4y ago
Everything fell into place for me as a runner after I joined an adult running club whose coach used Jack Daniels "Running Formula" as the basis for setting each member's training intensities and durations. It largely removed
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by vibrolax 4y ago
Yes, but it's not 90%+ of their business.
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by vibrolax 4y ago
The real irony is that SQDC doesn't accept cash for payment!
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by vibrolax 4y ago
I wish FAANG paid government and defense industry salaries. Then our best and brightest might be engaged in something other than advertising and social engineering.
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by vibrolax 4y ago
My wife has just benefitted from one of these specialist surgeons who has spent the last 20 years developing techniques to repair the damage caused by a frequently botched gynecological surgical procedure.
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by vibrolax 5y ago
Your amazon link shows 'unavailable'. The original source has a number of WWVB receiver products: https://www.universal-solder.ca/product-category/atomic-cloc... I purchased the Everset ES-100 dev kit from t

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