Your Honor, I move to dismiss this entire course of reasoning presented by the prosecution, by the simple fact that it was NOT, presented to me carbon copied in duplicate for review, and as per the terms and conditions of my fictitious forum, all submissions must be expressly submitted via such means, and I shall quote DIRECTLY here, under section 37B of the contract signed by him, it states quite clearly that "all offers shall become null and void if" - and you can read it for yourself in this photostatic copy - "I, the undersigned, shall forfeit all rights, privileges, and licenses herein and herein contained," et cetera, et cetera... "Fax mentis, incendium gloria cultum," et cetera, et cetera... "Memo bis punitor delicatum"!
It's all there! Black and white, clear as crystal! YOU stole Fizzy-Lifting Drinks! YOU bumped into the ceiling, which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you GET... NOTHING! YOU LOSE! GOOD DAY, SIR!
Oh man that's sweeeeet. This is the kinda shit I want to see at trade shows , not yet another iteration of "world's thinnest phone with a chunky camera bulge".
Yes, on my imaginary forum you have to submit your new account application in the form of a handwritten note - on carbon paper, so I can tell that an actual pen or pencil pressed against the page - along with a $10 processing fee that goes directly to my beer fund. People who don't know what carbon paper is are automatically excluded from my forum.
Once approved, all posts need to be submitted in a similar manner, along with a transcription fee of $15 to compensate for me having to read (a) your god-awful handwriting , and (b) your god-awful post.
I aim to have all posts and comments processed within 20 business days. To this date I have always comfortably beaten that metric, seeing that nobody has posted anything yet.
Do you guys have any sort of "fire ban/fire restriction" legislation? It sounds like you don't have normal channels of communication for this kind of thing, hence the emergency alerts.
Maybe your government can do a bit of copy and paste from Australia, eg this is my "fire info" page for my home state of Queensland, showing which shire council areas currently have a fire ban in place.
All this stuff is enforced via legislation at state level here, which you don't have a direct equivalent of. Probably something higher than shire councils and lower than UK parliament would deal with it over there as it's broadly region based. Once it's legislated with various steps between "all ok" and "don't even light a match", the decision to enforce a ban doesn't take much dithering about. Here bans can be put in place by the Queensland fire department at their discretion so politicians keep out of it.
We also have signs like these sprinkled around the place so that people know when it's not a great time to be having a bonfire. In Australia that usually ends up being one continuous block between October and March.
Oh your new phone can fold in half and it's got a 600MP camera and it has a 37Ah battery that lasts for 3 days even when it's churning on its internal navel-gazing AI 24/7? That's greaaaaat.
But I want crazy shit!
I want a row of clicky buttons down one side as direct shortcuts to apps.
I want a TV tuner and a pull-out antenna so I can watch Judge Judy serve some proper smackdown to some entitled neighborhood dispute when I'm on the bus, nearly poking someone's eye out when we hit a pothole.
I want a phone with a laser pointer and an IR blaster (again).
I want a phone that looks like the palmtops of old, with a clamshell case and a little hardware chicklet keyboard and it runs on AA's, except it's also a phone.
I want a phone that slots into a boom box and fully controls and plays tapes with auto-reverse.
I want a phone that's a drone, throw it in the air and it takes group photos.
I want a phone that has gyros and can self-balance on one of it's corners, and do little party tricks, and can hop along behind you if you leave it behind somewhere.
I want a phone that's also a mini 1080p laser projector.
I want its calculator to also have an I Ching mode and print "a suffusion of yellow" instead of any answer greater than 4.
All the people in the thread dissing the station and suggesting all they needed is "X many Y terabyte drives for $2.50 each and give them to people to take off site and store and rotate somewhere and all this wouldn't be a drama"..... Those people have yet to discover that manual processes using fallible humans does not work long term.
The station's IT staff no doubt looked at all of this and decided that off-site backups via a third party was the simplest and most cost effective route. I have no doubt the middle-company advertised that all the actual storage was in Backblaze, a quite reputable storage company. The only thing that has bitten them in the ass is that the middle-company has folded unexpectedly, requiring them to scoot to court to get Backblaze to give them access to their data.
After all of this, it's quite possible that IT will now get enough resources to do the backup via Backblaze directly. If Backblaze wants to put a bit of PR spin on it, they'll task a few engineers to set this up for them. And if Backblaze was smart, they'd go looking for alllll the other little PBS affiliates in the same boat and offer them the same setup.
Beware, a lot of "induction compatible" cookware just have a thin iron base attached to their non-magnetic pan.
The one's I've seen, that base isn't bonded that well to the pan, and generally warps a bit (making for a wobbly frypan) and finally, is often not the same diameter as the pan above meaning you've got a hot spot in the middle of the pan and cooler edges.
So yeah, as other's have mentioned, go for stuff that is magnetic, and test it all over not just in the middle of the base.
which could be a pretty big obstacle to grid-scale deployment.
Well, on a grid scale if you've got a 100MWh battery and you want to charge it at 3C, then you're looking to find a spare 300MW out on the grid somewhere for 20 minutes.
That's not impossible, but you'll buy that 100MWh a lot cheaper if you're willing to get it over the course of a few hours. For example, buying power in the middle of the day when there's excess solar, to then drop it back into the grid in a one hour burst during peak times in the evening for 10 times the price.
That kind of thing is where the battery will make the most profit, so slow charge rates don't really matter.
The only one I use regularly is !! , because it feels good hammering out "sudo !!" in response to yet another attempt by the OS to limit my godlike power in my tiny command-line domain.
Especially punching in those two exclamation marks at the end. It makes it feel like an extra hard JUST DO IT command.
Debian GNU/Hurd is out there now too, I've been meaning to stick it on a VM. I'm sure it's a perfectly acceptable substitute for Win11 for nearly all users.
I had Claude with auto-permission on accidentally delete an Open3D build folder in its workspace today while updating an old project to the bleeding edge out of github. I had the older release in, "open3d" and "open3d-debug", so it cleverly used "open3d*" to tidy both folders up, so that the latest version, in the folder, "Open3D-main", would be used from now on.
Except guess what? The windows box it was running on treats filenames as case-insensitive, and all folders matching open3d got nuked.
* sad trombone noises *
Cue grovelling apology from Claude offering to re-download and build Open3D again, a process that takes a couple of hours on my PC. Interestingly, it only noticed a few more steps further down the road, not immediately.
Luckily it was working in a sandbox copied from the real repository, so I just copied it back. But I really do have to get my act together and run things in proper isolation. Everything is backed up elsewhere on this build PC, but it would be a hassle if it got wrecked.
What's the range like with halow? I've been eyeing it off for a while. Seems like a nice high gain omni and a bit of height would make it go a fair way.
The best kind of content for engagement is hate. You get users angrily defending both sides, stacks of comments, reposts (both in support of, and "OMG look at what they're saying), the whole shebang.
Meta has learned that promotion of hate content pays off handsomely on those sweet sweet engagement metrics that shareholders love.
So of course they're going to pay the hatemongers for content. Even when their own content policies ostensibly forbid it. Because that's what makes line go up and they'll do anything to keep that happening.
Its in the early phases but its been a sucess so far.
Mesh networks, you say? I've gotta get in on the ground floor of this new advertising opportunity so I can rake in that sweet early adopter cassssh!
Claude! Code me up an ad-injection framework for this meshtastic dongle I just bought, stat! Time to get me a big ol' chunk of advertising real estate!
These fuckers on the other end, filling everything with slop and running bots without end, are just speeding it all up.
It's the tragedy of the commons writ large.
Started off with cooperation and general good behavior between users, passed through corporations bulldozing the place and putting in paid parking for their strip malls, now we're at the Wall-E stage where advertising billboards talk to robots mindlessly doing tasks in abandoned cities for some nebulous "greater good".
It's quite possible that permission was accidentally given somewhere in Google's platform when it was begging them to allow Gemini access "to improve your Google experience".
A phone pop-up, a notification in Gmail, Google Home, you name it, there's plenty of places in the Google ecosystem to put a prompt in that's worded in just the right way so that you think you're sharing a slice and Google's taking the whole pie.
Your Honor, I move to dismiss this entire course of reasoning presented by the prosecution, by the simple fact that it was NOT, presented to me carbon copied in duplicate for review, and as per the terms and conditions of my fictitious forum, all submissions must be expressly submitted via such means, and I shall quote DIRECTLY here, under section 37B of the contract signed by him, it states quite clearly that "all offers shall become null and void if" - and you can read it for yourself in this photostatic copy - "I, the undersigned, shall forfeit all rights, privileges, and licenses herein and herein contained," et cetera, et cetera... "Fax mentis, incendium gloria cultum," et cetera, et cetera... "Memo bis punitor delicatum"!
It's all there! Black and white, clear as crystal! YOU stole Fizzy-Lifting Drinks! YOU bumped into the ceiling, which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you GET... NOTHING! YOU LOSE! GOOD DAY, SIR!