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jhgorrell

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www.washingtonpost.com 5y ago

More virus-zapping robots are coming, and they’re here to stay

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hackaday.com 10y ago

Two new fpga families designed in china

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Let's Buy Spirit Air 3 months ago

When your flights are delayed/resechduled there is a world of difference. "Get in line" vs "you are already rebooked". (my Air Canada experince.)

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Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another' 3 months ago

Stock install, no tuning.

  $uname -r
  6.8.0-107-generic
  $ollama --version
  ollama version is 0.20.2
  $ollama run "gemma4:31b" --verbose "write fizzbuzz in python."
  [...]
  total duration:       45.141599637s
  load duration:        143.633498ms
  prompt eval count:    21 token(s)
  prompt eval duration: 48.047609ms
  prompt eval rate:     437.07 tokens/s
  eval count:           1057 token(s)
  eval duration:        44.676612241s
  eval rate:            23.66 tokens/s
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Curate your shell history 1 year ago

I have most of my shell history back to 2005(?). Each terminal gets its own new history file.

99% of the time, I never look at it, but when I do need to look at it, it has been great. My boss once asked me: "What args and screening file did we use when we made that one-off DB 4 months ago?" Was able to check and confirm it was correct. Or for personal use: "Where did I move that folder of pictures?"

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Putin signs law to seize funds of officials that exceed declared income by $100 4 years ago

For those who would like to read more about staying in power as a dictator, or for that matter any kind of political leader, I found "The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics" [1] a good read on the topic.

Of note is the required number of supporters can be quite low when you have a government supported by resource extraction.

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Pol...

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Valve Steam Deck 5 years ago

I think this is why starlink will sell well.

Rural users are sick of slow speeds, and in low density areas there should be enough bandwidth for starlink to work well.

Dont know how starlink would handle a city-full of users; Think that is something we are looking forward to finding out.

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How many robots does it take to run a grocery store? [video] 5 years ago

In one of the other videos, you can see a 3 by 3 sized platform with the same wheel setup - it has a platform for 1-2 people and a crane.

I imagine they set some sort of exclusion zone around the broken robot, then drive out in the large platform and pick it up.

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OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC) 5 years ago

In the novel "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge, the characters tell time this way. I had to do some math early in the book to get a feel for what 1Msec & 1Gsec was.

In addition, they also keep track of their cold sleep time, because if you want to meet your spouse 50 years from now, you want to try and keep the same relative age.

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The ZedRipper: Part 2 6 years ago

I ended up getting an Arty-A7 as I wanted to have an ethernet port. It arrived a couple weeks ago. Still getting the build and toolchain built.

My goal is an array of 6502s - It was when I was researching that idea and dev boards I found your posts.

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Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F 6 years ago

I would agree that "people who care" are a good thing; However, I dont agree term limits achieve that.

Better than term limits would be an informed electorate who would vote for a new person once the old one stopped caring or being effective. I think limits are a poor bandaid.

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Corsair Gaming S-1 6 years ago

Agreed - They are pretty easy to assemble these days. I used the pcpartpicker, like you, and had it done in an hour.

Unless you get case which is too small, and you have problems getting you hands in there.

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