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This new season of HBO’s Silicon Valley is wild!

IBM PC XT 5150 4.77MHz, 640KB, no, not weird at all :)

Try a distro like Fedora. I mostly use Arch, but I’ve found Fedora to be an excellent out of the box experience.

You can run it on a common board like a Heltec LoRa 32 (can’t remember if it supports v3 or just v2). I played around with it some, but mostly stick with Meshtastic.

Sounds like you’re looking for the RNode firmware

I am so tired of Microsoft cramming Copilot into everything. Search at $dayjob is completely borked right now. It shows a page of results, but the immediately pops up some warning dialog you cannot dismiss that Copilot can’t access some file “” or something. Every VSCode update I feel like I have to turn off Copilot in some new way. And now apparently it’ll be added to Excel as well. Thankfully I don’t have to use anything from Microsoft after work hours.

Reminds me of what I do when trying to look for structure in binary data. Print it to the screen in either bits or bites with word wrap enabled and drag the window around.

Just wanted to say thanks for ntfy! I use it daily to notify me on events from my home Meshtastic node.

I was at a ticket window buying concert tickets a couple weeks ago and was surprised to see the worker using the Ticketmaster TUI / Mainframe interface. She flew through the screens. The same experience on the Ticketmaster website is awful.

Just paid $3.59/doz at Kroger here in Ohio about an hour ago (plain store brand). They were stocked pretty well.

That’s one way to keep you watching, you’ve at least gotta hear the rest of the sentence! /s

A quick search on Amazon shows a number of generic trackers compatible with “Find My”. In fact, the one on my dog’s collar is one of these.

I’ve even seen some wallets with built in “Find My” support.

I love reading debugging stories like these. Thanks for sharing!

This looks very nice, I’ll have to give it a try!

In many cases the company might have a subsidiary in a lower cost of living location (India, Eastern Europe, etc). The company I work for has slowly been laying off software engineers, project managers, and technical support folks in the US, while simultaneously hiring their replacements in those LCOL areas. I get to see the cost rates for these folks, and it is pennies on the dollar :(

I saw a post on Reddit that said this was a bug and they’re working on it.

It has been fun seeing all the different ways companies have come up with to work around the limitations of ISO 8583. One I’ve been seeing a lot lately is making an API call before/after the ISO message (with non-PCI data) to confer additional information outside of the payment transaction. Definitely speeds up time to market, but opens up a whole new array of failure modes to deal with.

Right? I can’t believe how many people seemingly use the same machine for both.

I would wager that most people don’t want to use public transit regularly. I know I certainly don’t.

Under $100 - an electric head shaver.

I started balding in my mid 20’s, so I shaved my head with a BIC disposable and shaving cream. I kept up this routine for probably 15 years before seeing a curved electric razor made for heads advertised to me. I picked one up on a whim, and it has been great! It takes me around 1 minute each morning compared to 5-10 before, and I no longer have to worry about nicks. It uses about 1% battery each shave, so I only have to charge it every couple months. It truly has been a great quality of life improvement.

[1] the one I use is called the Hummingbird MK3, available on Amazon for around $60.

These have been popping up all around my town in southwest Ohio

I used to work for the point of sale provider for various golf events in the US. We were having circuit breakers on UPS battery backup units trip, seemingly randomly. We soon realized that we couldn’t key up our walkie talkies when standing near one.

Not to mention that probably a majority of the electric gas and water meters in the US operate in the 902-928 range.

Casually showing off your B210 lol jk, I’m just jealous. My RSP1A clone only goes about 10MHz wide. Patiently waiting for an affordable 30MHz wide SDR.

I would have to imagine the manufacturers of the millions of smart electric, water, and natural gas meters across the US might have some comments.

The Heltec Lora32 has integrated LiPo circuitry, but it might be overkill if you don’t need the RF side of things.

It surprisingly works well. We do use a front end to it called VssConnect, but to be honest, I really don’t have any complaints.

We still use VSS for a couple codebases. We’re a small enough team that conflicts are rare, but the occasional Teams message “hey, let me know when you’re done with module.cpp” is not unheard of.

The number of times I encounter issues with Visual Studio not being able to write to the file I just compiled, ugh... We've even got an mt.exe wrapper that adds retries because AV likes to grab hold of newly created binaries right around the time mt.exe needs to write to it. Even our CI build process ends up failing randomly due to this.