bingaling

cloth hockey tape, great for adding soft grip to tools

zooming with mousewheel is a bit slow, takes ~10 scrolls to get to ~2x zoom (max)

reminds me of phase space plots of weak tcp isn rng

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/oldtcp/tcpseq.html

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/newtcp/

where's the chimney?

the wit's soul wears briefs or something

this is a pr/lobbying/marketing expense to delay train investment and sell cars, silly .. the purpose of these is to sell cars over trains

Yep confirming/restating, for kitchenware, lowercase pyrex == tempered, capital PYREX == borosilicate.

My Brother laser printer counts toner consumption (i.e. page count) with a keyed gear on the toner cartridge, different cartridge capacities have different shaped gears, resetting the gear orientation resets the counter.

http push, baby!

alternatively, trust the client timer, ship a full 86400 frame gif, and figure out a start-frame hack.

it's instantaneous, but the -T (transfer buffer % full display) is sometimes useful for that. (0% full -> source limited, 100% full -> sink limited)

Some analysis of the Azure / Sql Server 2017+ automatic index tuning:

https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2019/02/what-does-azure-sq...

The 1992 WGBH/BBC 5-part miniseries "The Machine That Changed The World"(US)/"The Dream Machine"(UK):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_That_Changed_the_W...

is out of print, but can be found intermittently on youtube.

I love the coverage of 1940's computing, with interviews with several of the surviving people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckert%E2%80%93Mauchly_Compute...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDSAC

Currently working episode links:

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hayi9AsDXDo

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GropWVbj9wA

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTLgAI3G_rs

4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1zbCU5JnE0

5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuxYUJv2Jd4

You preempted a question about the lineage from/comparison with acoustic delay lines in footnote 2.

Thanks for the posts :-)

don't trash it, put it in a closet for a while until you want to (or find someone who wants to) learn electronics troubleshooting.

You'll regret trashing it in a few years.

With darts: https://www.youtube.com/embed/M34TO71SKGk

Is your town participating in this project?

http://wiredwest.net/map-of-wired-west-towns/

Perhaps this is the support you need:

https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/commit/9ecc4732a583...

Looks like it fixes the suck (lack of package management) of cygwin, very nice!

Cmder/conemu http://cmder.net/ is another nice console emulator for windows

MEMS sensor (gyros/accelerometers) technology developed for smartphones made cheap multicopter control systems possible.

> I have never heard of Illumos which also implies I've never heard anything bad about it.

It's the open fork of OpenSolaris after the Oracle takeover of Sun. Many ex-Sun engineers work at companies that use/contribute to Illumos.

Did you take into account filesystem block size?

perhaps the modern.ie dev vms could be boxed up

http://modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads

Looking forward to the video!

Whoops, running the frontend cache in debugging mode:

https://twitter.com/postwait/status/431117981922631681

See also: http://zenphoton.com/

(use shift+click to move the light source)

https://github.com/scanlime/zenphoton

> because of his “lousy phone company.”

Highly dependent on where he lives.

There are parts of the country (I'm familiar with central/western MA) where there is no cable service, ADSL requires a short distance from the local POP (and <= 1.5Mbps is arguably not 'broadband'). FTTH rollouts have pretty much stopped, and 4G service is nonexistent.

There is a good talk on telecom monopolies linked in this comment (that thread has other good discussions, as well): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6124918

See also: the potential for rootkits on disk controllers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6148347

Sounds like SSD's are used as a cache, like ZFS does with its l2arc.

That was a deliberate choice of word, yes?

https://twitter.com/LarryLawnmower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc#t=1982s

Don't fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison.