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Wait until China invades Taiwan.. (ok, it's not too likely, but what if?)

Isn't the main showstopper issue to solve for brain implants is scarring response or something similar? That is when body responds to the implant and surrounds electrodes with some sort of tissue reducing its effectiveness. Has Neuralink made any advancements in that area?

When most of services nowadays seem like a hostile subscription, this brings joy.

edit: use of Yandex on the other hand.. yeah that's a no go for paid subscription.

Tried going all out at ~45deg angle until fuel is finished hoping to go into orbit, but no luck.

I've done something similar but it was only a 7 segment display showing how much I ran. It sat on a shelf and it was pretty fun to watch number go up every time I came back to my apartment after a run.

To make everything really simple I scraped my public profile directly from esp8266 controller (so there's no need for extra steps of setting up Strava app to gain access to the API). Worked relatively well.

Yup. And the other (green/teal?) typewriter has a spacebar on the edge, same colour as the typewriter body. Ends of it sometimes visible between fingers, it's also used.

My father got it after an injured looking/unusually behaving cat scratched him up. Cat ran away - so it was impossible to test for rabies. 4 shoulder injections - no drama, no noticeable side effects other than maybe sore shoulder.

Not from Russia, but nearby.. It was very common - kinda wild east and nobody cared. As soon our telecom started providing DSL - we (neighbourhood kids) got a commercial DSL into my apartment and shared it between 2 five story apartment buildings. Our set up was tiny and not very reliable. Some local networks like this grew and became almost proper internet providers. But they continued this gray practice of pulling cables in the air, between buildings. They'd also do other sketchy stuff like installing hubs/switches into electrical boxes and tapping supply from the building. We learned about it when a technician from a provider like this dropped a screwdriver on live wires and knocked out power for half of the building.

English Wikipedia and some Linux distribution which can be downloaded as a full set of packages + sources.

Basic flight instruments almost always have a backup. In case of F-35 there's a small square screen in centre console which shows attitude indicator and flight parameters. Needless to say, if main screens are out you are turning around and looking for the nearest airport.

Somewhat related: https://x.com/id_aa_carmack/status/569658695832829952

Teaching my kids programming on an Apple //c is like kung fu training in the primitive wilderness.

Reminds this current slightly comedic (IMO) situation in my office: a few months ago developers were given access to GitHub's "Copilot Enterprise". Then, a month or so later, organisation also adopted another "AI" product checking pull requests for risks associated with "use of generative AI". And needless to say it does occasionally fail code written without any "generative AI"..

On top of problems with helium leaks there's now another issue[1]:

Starliner has been given a go to hold at 260 meters from the space station. During the approach two reaction control system jets have failed off. A manual flight test has been put on hold while flight controllers look to restore those jets with a hot fire.

[1] https://x.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1798738262368104639

On top of that there's now another issue[1]:

Starliner has been given a go to hold at 260 meters from the space station. During the approach two reaction control system jets have failed off. A manual flight test has been put on hold while flight controllers look to restore those jets with a hot fire.

[1] https://x.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1798738262368104639

Title should be "Creating Windows 95 theme for a disposable vape" or something similar.

And we're all happy CVS users.

Related - there's also ESP8266 based TheOldNet wifi modem[1] in case you want TCP/IP over wifi networking in your MS-DOS machine (or possibly others which have support for SLIP - Serial Line Internet Protocol).

[1] https://github.com/TheOldNet/theoldnet-wifi-firmware-binarie...

Somewhat related.. I recently discovered Facebook "Ad Topics". In my case through Instagram preferences. List of topics is hilariously long and 2/3rds have nothing to do with me. But I guess it does help the sales pitches.. "Are you selling hunting bows? Well if you advertise on Facebook we have audiences of tens of millions interested in 'Bow Hunting'".

The design, look and feel is great. Authenticating / proving your identity on the other hand is lacking: https://www.gov.uk/using-your-gov-uk-one-login/proving-your-...

Meanwhile, at least in some EU countries, you can authenticate using your identity card and USB smartcard reader.

Somewhat related: WizzAir adds £10-£20 "system surcharge" if you're buying tickets from Firefox and Linux. Or use ad blocker.

Not sure about stack overflow, but search result quality feels to be in decline. Lately I deliberately try to rely on official documentation more (i.e. have it bookmarked and browse it for answers) instead of trying to look something up in search engine. Which honestly is a good idea anyway.

It's both.

DJI drones while expensive they are rather user friendly. Some fighters in Ukraine do use them with aftermarket droppers[1]. Payload is limited to a single VOG-17M grenade. Dropper has a light sensor and is triggered by aux light.

They also build custom drones as well. For example there's R18 by Aerorozvidka[2]. Which is largeish octacopter from higher quality hobby parts. Payload is ~5kg which allows taking multiple anti-armor grenades or small mortar rounds.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Taoke-Airdrop-Delivery-Foldable-com...

[2] https://aerorozvidka.xyz/r18/

My father avoided using any kind of computers until he was 68. The we got him an Android tablet. Not the best choice to be honest, but it's too late, he got used to it. He's now 77 and he still cannot distinguish what's part of Android OS, what's part of some application or what's just a web page in browser. All the popups confuse and overwhelm him. Somehow he still manages to take some photos of his plants and watches ton of YouTube. It's both fascinating and terrifying to watch him use his tablet. I do sometimes wonder how he'd adapt to UI like Windows 95/XP Classic.

Can't you achieve same thing with uprobe[1]?

[1] https://brendangregg.com/blog/2015-06-28/linux-ftrace-uprobe...

In case of my previous employer it led to incredibly complicated encryption system. It took couple years to maybe implement in 10% of the system. Deleting any old data was rejected.

What author calls "monkey patching" is in official Ruby lang website "about" -> "Ruby's Flexibility"[1] section. Rails framework makes use of it. Don't see the problem - it most definitely not frowned upon to extend built-in types like this.

[1] https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/about/

Look at the logo. Looks like a play on Cobol being "ancient" technology and unit testing being something "hipster".

Ah this reminds COBOLUnit[1]. I'm still not sure if it's a joke or not.

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/cobolunit/home

I do not know and by now I do not care. I switched to contracting/freelancing and hardware/tooling is mostly my own responsibility (was one of top 3 reasons why I switched). Loving my mildly overkill desktop machine now.

I find it interesting since JavaScript in this case is only "glue" language. Actual effects are hardware (?) shaders: https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows/blob/main/src/... .. Had no idea this is possible.