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birdiesanders··on One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm
Oh wow. That’s wild.
birdiesanders··on Open Source DMR Modem Implementation in SDR with GNU Radio and Codec2
Trunked is essentially useless to HAMs, and we never really use it much. We have essentially everything that trunking was meant to solve for a company; large pre-authorized spectrum space, self-coordination in that space without having to get fcc involved. Use of 25khz FM where part 90 is now only 12.5 also is enabled by being a ham.
birdiesanders··on Cannabis smoking associated with persistent epigenome-wide disruptions
I’ve learned that people on this site don’t understand cannabis very well.
birdiesanders··on Anonymous sources: Starship needs a major rebuild after 2 consecutive failures
Exceedingly close to zero people are at risk no matter how severe my mistake, because I build things that don’t carry risk.
birdiesanders··on Chrome disabling uBlock Origin is a serious security threat
I installed Ubuntu for many people in their 80s. Give her some time with FF, you don’t have to remove chrome, just hand her FF. I bet she does just fine.
birdiesanders··on Men claiming to be from DOGE show up at San Francisco City Hall, demand records
Sheriffs are elected, and wholly part of the state govt. Cops can be more easily coerced by fed enforcement.
birdiesanders··on WASM will replace containers
The author has not seemingly considered the vastly different networking in wasm. You don’t have networking. There is an entirely different utility in these environments, containers are meant to host applications, wasm is an application. Don’t even get me started on disk access, env handling, etc. wasi is great, for the places it does well. It is not a replacement for writing a pure golang/rust/c/julia app and running it in a container, it doesn’t have the facilities for that task.
birdiesanders··on To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell
Only if you expect them to play by the rules. They have indicated they do not wish to do that.
birdiesanders··on Nvidia Stock May Fall as DeepSeek's 'Amazing' AI Model Disrupts OpenAI
State subsidies. China will happily make up a loss for a company if it can take dollars away from US corporations.
birdiesanders··on JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023
Building a homebrew interposer is truly impressive.
birdiesanders··on FTC Sues John Deere over Its Repair Monopoly
How is being happy with someone’s job performance celebrity culture?
birdiesanders··on SEC Sues Elon Musk over Securities Violations
Many people, millions of us, care very deeply about his legacy of shame and regret.
birdiesanders··on Plant CO2 uptake rises by nearly one third in new global estimates
That’s not what this says.
birdiesanders··on VR Has Had a Phase Change and I Didn't Know It
I have been using the Quest 3 for work for a month and a half now, daily driving it as a trio of monitors for 6-10 hours a day. So far, no major complaints, but maybe we should start wanting for focus distance adjustment, 4 foot may not be ideal all day. I’d like to be able to bring focus in a few inches and out a foot, so that I can at least vary where my eyes are sitting all day, but outside of that I am very excited for whatever the quest 4 will be, because that will likely be a big enough leap from where we are now to be compelling for even more general usage as a computer instead of an “interface” device like they are now.
birdiesanders··on Building the Ultimate Pi Kubernetes Cluster: A Journey into Cloud Scalability
100%. Talos is wonderful.
birdiesanders··on Spike protein at skull-meninges axis may drive Covid-19 neurological effects
The Moderna spike and the Pfizer spike are both “inflated” by edits to the gene that cause some different arrangements of the protein structure that causes the spike to be more rigid and closer to the shape it has when embedded on the virus surface. I imagine that there is some threshold where something too thin or too small begins to be hard to clean up, and the vaccine-induced spikes are above that line, while the natural spikes detached from the virus are under. I’m a computer person so probably not correct, but I’m not blindly guessing, either.
birdiesanders··on Francis Crick's "Central Dogma" was misunderstood
The “dogma” is “information flow from proteins back to genetic material does not occur” not that proteins can’t transfer information. Regardless of considering “shape” as information or not, the transfer is not violating that statement, the information is fully trapped in the protein and not flowed back to DNA.
birdiesanders··on Black Friday is a trap
This literally is the method of pricing used on Amazon and many other retailers, raise the price 20% and then offer a 15% discount is actually common as well.
birdiesanders··on Aftershock II
Dear lord, one mile per second and built outside of a corporate/science lab! Truly remarkable work.
birdiesanders··on Urban Machine: robotics and AI to reclaim lumber for reuse
Better stay off my pallet wood, that is mine.
birdiesanders··on Understudied protein blobs have global effects on cell biochemistry
This is not discussing vaults.
birdiesanders··on How NASA brought the F-1 “moon rocket” engine back to life (2013)
I never connected the b-1 and the Valkyrie, either. That’s a fascinating thought, the B-1 is the Valkyrie that we had all along.
birdiesanders··on Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs
My infra is this exactly. K8s managed containers that manage qemu VMs. Every VM has its own management environment, they don’t ever see each other, and they work just the same as using virtual-manager, but I get infinite flexibility in my env provisioning before I start a VM that gets placed in its tenant network that is isolated.
birdiesanders··on Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux
Those are equivalent.
birdiesanders··on Talos: Secure, immutable, and minimal Linux OS for running Kubernetes
You shouldn’t be working on the node OS for k8s dev work.
birdiesanders··on Earth's inner core rotation has begun moving backwards
This is the kind of thing a younger version of me would have fantasized about, made theories as to the meaning, etc. Old me just said out loud “huh, you’d figure that would mean something, but guess not.”
birdiesanders··on Synthetic psychedelic found in candies linked to seizures, intubation
They sell them less than three feet from it at the register in the gas station next to my house. They even have “mushroom” cotton candy.
birdiesanders··on My First Kubernetes: k3s 'cluster' on 3 Orange Pi Zero 3's
The k8s hater squad loves to neglect the fact that k8s can be, just like Linux, fun. The complexity is endearing in a special way. Kubernetes is Linux underneath, and learning how that manifests is a lovely journey to go on.
birdiesanders··on OpenAI wants to buy 'vast quantities' of nuclear fusion energy from Helion
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birdiesanders··on OpenAI wants to buy 'vast quantities' of nuclear fusion energy from Helion
I’d personally love to do so myself, but I’ve been born already, so I doubt I’ll be able to before I’m dead. Yeah, I’m cynical about fusion, as I am about AI. AI has been around forever, and it always promises “general intelligence” sometime in the near future. Fusion promises sustained net-positive output fusion burns sometime in the near future. Both fields endlessly dancing around their goal, maybe getting closer, but mainly just trying to not stay in the same spot eternally.
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