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1·1 month agoPretty good demonstration of PET filament pulling.
Bulova Accutron from the 60s. I also have a Heathkit oscilloscope which I think is of similar vintage.
To save some googling for other people: Rayhunter is an initiative to identify when simulated cell towers are being used for surveillance.
I would be surprised if there are other devices for it. I think you’ll want to look at what network bands Verizon uses and see what that corresponds to in Canada. But I really don’t know.
3·2 months agoRage Against the Machine?
Everyone likes to believe they’re thinking independently.
Can you elaborate on that claim?
I exercise some critical analysis, but for the most part I just have trust in human ambition. For example: the reason I believe human CO2 emissions are driving climate change is not because I’ve looked at the evidence and evaluated it for myself.
The reason I believe that human CO2 emissions are driving climate change is: that seems to be the consensus of people that have worked hard to impartially develop expertise and gather data to understand climate science.
There are two important systems at play
1: Scientific research, which harnesses human ambition by rewarding impartial research and discoveries which overturn old assumptions/paradigms.
2: Journalism, which harnesses human ambition by rewarding impartial reporting on various fields of human interest. (Reporting is why it seems to be the consensus of the scientific community)
The impartiality of these systems is (has always been) under assault by capitalism (which also derives its power by harnessing human ambition) and so one must, to an increasing degree, evaluate the appropriate level of personal mental effort to allocate to identifying biases in the reporting.
Presumably anybody that does this gets their code integrated into the training data right?
Just to spell it out for people: myriad means 10,000 but has been used as a stand in for “huge variety” for so long that people don’t know that anymore.
Maybe beaver teeth go from orange to brown when they die due to further iron oxidation
3·3 months agoFacebook sucks and has for quite some time.
In Canada we passed a regulation that social media sites have to pay our media companies to link to their articles. Google is paying up, but Facebook said no, and has banned news. It has made Facebook here much less terrible.
I really like that the 3d preview has a scale!
53·3 months agoIthink you could be more charitable in your reply. Transistors were developed to replace tubes in telephone systems… Okay but the tubes had been developed to where they were because of their usefulness in radio.
And while computers don’t inherently rely on radio, it’s radio communication that’s taken computers from one in every office to one in everyone’s pocket. Right? The main thrust of the previous commenter is true.
So if I’m in Vancouver BC it would go from Friday to Saturday in the mid afternoon? Is Friday night the first night of the weekend or the last night of the work week?
Wait, so people can choose whether or not they’re subjected to hate speech? What tyranny!
If you don’t like the way communities are being moderated, maybe you should find/start a server that more aligns with your values.
My buddy warned me about the mint the pervious owners planted, and I pulled it right away. It was right by our basement entrance so I frequently peer in and inspect for mint shoots. I think there must be a buried barrier or something (like landscaping cloth) preventing it from spreading outside the bed it was in. I found a small sprig 4 years after pulling everything I could find.
Could you suggest alternate wording that succinctly conveys what the commenter obviously meant?
I did 6 months for each of my kids and it was great.
I forget what does the I stand for again?