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If you think restaurants are bad, and they are, you should try machine shops. I used to maintain CNC milling machines; one was in a shop that milled EDM sinkers[1] out of solid blocks of graphite. Gra…

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I have a friend who worked as a food scientist for Kraft and later Mondelez. One day were talking one day about how shelf-stable foods had suddenly gone through a fairly drastic shift in flavor. She t…

> anyone have suggestions for my next career move? https://www.goatops.com/

Ah, the good old days of Eudora. I'd forgotten about it being a Qualcomm product.

Vortex86 SoCs were once quite commonly found on embedded boards used in industrial automation. Outside of that I'm willing to bet you'd find them in semi-embedded applications like point-of-…

Your comment reminds me of the Lucky Iron Fish[0] developed in Cambodia as an iron supplement for populations plagued by iron-deficient anemia. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L…

You're talking about the company that publicly extolled their own "courage" when they removed the headphone jack from their phones.

You're remembering things correctly. The WHOIS record for duck.com shows that it's owned by Duck Duck Go, Inc.

Somewhere Putin can bite our shiny metal space station.

https://xkcd.com/908/

Regardless of the biochem possibilities I wonder about the engineering realities required to collect, isolate, purify, and distribute the urea and other nitrogen rich compounds from the waste stream.

I personally believe that public universities in the US should be incentivized if not outright required to use and contribute to open textbooks when possible.

Paywall bypass: https://archive.ph/ShuaI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia_(operating_system)

> some of the books in the list may be targeted in the future, but that hasn't happened yet. It's quite literally a list of targeted books.

Illegal monopolies and anti-competitive behavior[0] have that effect. Such arrangements may produce the best widget available but probably not the best widget possible. More to the point, they definit…

I recently started watching a bit of content on Prime Video using my Roku TV and found the buffering and scrub (FF/RW/seek) performance to be atrocious. This is in spite of the fact that my …

> what nanometer are they at? It looks like 7nm.[0] I suppose that means they're coming out of TSMC, which isn't terribly surprising. [0] https://www.servethehome.com/ampe…

Am I the only one who reads these less than scientific articles as much more than wishful thinking? I mean, I hope this pandemic comes to a close as much as anyone but so many of the recent news artic…

If they're bubbles aren't they going to implode regardless?

If you're interested in voltage glitching and other power analysis attacks you should take a look the excellent open source ChipWhisper. https://chipwhisperer.readthedocs.io/en&#x…

Yes, unfortunately. We're a more than a little bit behind the rest of the civilized world. Even my debit card which includes a mandatory EMV smartcard provides for an easy downgrade attack if the…