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Re:Resources to Get Good at Soldering? on Friday September 04, 2026 @06:04PM (#49570782)
and breathing flux is a far larger concern than leaded solder. Physically getting them somewhere (eating while soldering, not washing hands, etc) is still a problem.
I've never seen a coffee mug, or glass drinking vessel wear out. They always end up broken first.
using 'roof solar is expensive, therefor solar is expensive" is borderline disingenuous. It's well established that roof solar is freqently not cost effective.

Which has little relation to installing 100 acres worth. and, its likely the ROI will get even higher as we build more solar fields, and more HV transmission lines.

Re:Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex on Friday September 04, 2026 @11:57AM (#49566442)
I've not done unity3d dev- but yea, all I've seen from it are games using XML, or BinarySerializer. sometimes its compressed.
Re:Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters on Thursday September 03, 2026 @09:07PM (#49559239)
they do take it at a single place and time though! 12:00.00, then 12:00.033, then 12:00.066, then 12:00.1....

I'll go out on a limb and say that's their argument if it goes to court. maybe it's only 5fps instead of 30. It's still the kind of BS the courts need to stop allowing.

Re:Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:07PM (#49544724)
for games its more often .net BinarySerializer.
Re:Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @08:57PM (#49544673)
like apache parquet?
they said they didn't change the behavior for range requests. So, it'll still be the basic no compression. (eg, server side decompression)
afaik, ZFS will read an entire Record at a time- and that's the same granularity as its compression.
Re:Fluorescent lamps (don't) have ears on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @08:05PM (#49530048)
Everybody is focused on the tubes... What about the diffuser with pyramid shaped lenses? You have a thin, lightweight, plastic sheet designed to project light... And freqently 10-foot+ ceilings. Sound like a microphone diaphram to anybody else?

You point your camera at the floor not the ceiling.

Re:Culture Clash on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:51AM (#49519226)
It's not presently on scihub (also, $25 for access? fuck off...), but the whole study stinks of "dickens scholar checks modern reading comp, vastly overestimates familiarity with victorian england and dickens' prose.".... .... here's the bio of the first author of the paper > SUSAN CARLSON is a professor of English at Pittsburg State University, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century British literature,
I was thinking G-man and a suprise helicopter on your lawn. The government hasn't made a spectical of throwing the book at a jammer recently.
It's 2026: we have more ways to defeat jamming, or make it irrelevant, at unit costs trivial for commercial and most private applications. 1) atomic clocks can be smaller than a closed fist and allow GPS to work with 3 satalites with ocassional drops to 2. 2) the same clocks can be used to filter out radio sources from the wrong direction. 3) star navigation (commercial is often above weather, most weather is clear in some IR bands) 4) Terain following (easy to store maps now) 5) Inertial. 6) magnetic

When combined it is very hard to break the position fix. I expect the issue with the system is it's a military tech. with all it's that'll associated legal problems. After all. it'd bypass most the protections built into GPS modules.

Re:How to build a diffusion language model on Monday August 31, 2026 @08:09AM (#49508673)
are you aware of n-grams?
It seems I may have misremembered my example and inadvertantly made duty to retreat appear worse than it is. However- it was meant to highlight the positons both sides and it holds correct enough for thst still.
people freqently conflate Stand Your Ground vs Duty to Retreat... with the entire rest of the debate.

I'm trying to keep this neutral, so I'm using a rather cut and dry example: Somebody kicks in your door with a pump action and starts shooting- There are _some_ jurisdictions that require you to try and flee. You kill them and they werent bodily blocking your car in? Murder charge. investigation finds a sabatoged engine? Doesn't matter.

Stand Your Ground assumes reasonableness and codifies leaveing the fight or flee decision up to the individual.

Ultimately- you're going to have PTSD either way.

First off- Texas has an explicit law making copper and catalytic converter theft a "Jail felony"- but if you break any other laws on the way, it's upgraded to a class 3 felony. See: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/?tab=1&code=PE&chapter=PE... And. if you really want to play cops and robbers, a personally witnessed jail felony seems to be enough for a citzen's arrest.

Second: "(B) the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury." - YOU HAVE TO BE AFRAID FOR YOUR LIFE Texas gives citizens enourmous latitude in these matters, but it's not carte blanche for murder.

Re:Creating the Aetheryte Radio on Saturday August 29, 2026 @09:15PM (#49494775)
is it more complicated than a freqency generator?
considering all dyson structures are beyond even our theoretical material science knowledge... we'd in no way approach them.
It sounds an awful lot like you are willfully ignorant on water management.

Considering how accessable the basics are, I'm having trouble believing your argument is in good faith.

Re:Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG on Sunday August 23, 2026 @06:24PM (#49413209)
unfortunately we already know about subvocalization.
modeling isn't the hard part. It's decomposing it into usable chunks, the knowledge of what's going to be a problem, etc.

either way, give an actual CAD program like fusion a go. No, not the FOSS stuff- the real stuff. Although, some of them are "close, but no cigar" these days. Not like gimp which is an exercise in self-flagellation.

Re:A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers on Saturday August 22, 2026 @09:33AM (#49399602)
Two fold: 1) there's no reason to think they wouldn't just introduce other attack vectors instead- and at least x86 and arm have a huge base of people looking at them 2) javascript doesn't statically compile well as such specialized hardware does not outperform x86/arm.
uncomfortably close to the nail. American society is depressingly based on being able to point and laugh at somebody worse off than you. Never take a chance that a change that's good for everybdoy might place the person you laughed at yesterday above you.
"Ah, yes- let's compare an unpredictable once in a century worldwide event to a political party's long list of historical behavior."
Re:Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU on Friday August 21, 2026 @02:10PM (#49391870)
Honestly, I think we just need fo go back to life+75 or something that covers the next generation.

Copyright is a fairly basic protection on Work, and wanting to alter it to be based on percived value is catastrophic- On one end you'll deny copyright to security camera footage- nevermind it's of a meteorite and everybody is clamoring for a copy. Then, on the other hand you'll have micky mouse where it's such a big thing and Walt put so much effort into it that the copyright is perpetual. It'll tie up the courts, and give the Have's the power to remove the copyright or SLAPP the rightsholder into poverty.

We need patent reform far more than any complaint against Copyright that I've seen- and far too many people conflate the two. Lets not even talk about trademarks.

Re:Better Batteries on Friday August 21, 2026 @11:44AM (#49389843)
foot note for people not in the know- theres(in chronological order): 1) .Net Framework 2) .Net Core 3) .Net. Basically everything mentioned these days is just .Net, but core is often added because microsoft used such an ambiguous name.
Re:Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU on Friday August 21, 2026 @12:04AM (#49383653)
people freqently spend more than two years trying to get something published.
Re:The Amazon Tax on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @12:48PM (#49363981)
_every_ chain store does this- from 7/11, to Hermes, to Aldi.

It's just not usually that blatent.

Offhand- things I expect they do: 1) as many impulse items as possible by moving freqently bought together items to opposite sides of the store. 2) overpriced items are seen first, then whatever version they want to sell (eg, Overpriced boutique chips then regular lays) 3) Send somebody over if you dwell somewhere too long so they can foist the expensive version on you.

They'll use every method they can, and they have more methods than you can imagine. Every time I look theres a new one. And don't forget a ton of Stores are the same company and can share the data.

Re:The Amazon Tax on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @02:26PM (#49350239)
It doesn't scare you that $store can decide to double their lrice because they detected a brand new phone in your pocket?

This isn't even a little hypothetical- bluetooth had to anonomyze the MAC address to stop this, and it still fails sometimes.

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