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bySpeare
2025 @09:54PM
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Attached to: Google Maps Will Let You Hide Your Identity When Writing Reviews
If people trust Google to keep them anonymous (which I wouldn't), apartment complex reviews are gonna get a lot more spicy. As it is, you only get reviews from ex-residents and morons.
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bySpeare
025 @03:59PM
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Attached to: Windows 7 Squeezed To 69MB in Proof-of-Concept Build
That's just under fifty 3.5" floppy discs! We're back, baby!
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bySpeare
2025 @11:47AM
(#65766274)
Attached to: Did a Weather Balloon, Not a Mysterious Space Object, Strike That United Airlines Flight?
This company's response was reported within 24hrs of the story breaking on mass media. Slashdot: stuff that mattered last week if you're lucky.
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bySpeare
2025 @01:42PM
(#65746024)
Attached to: Gboard's Latest Update Removes the Period and Comma Keys on Android
A decade ago, TheOnion touted Apple's new laptop with a scroll clickwheel instead of a keyboard.
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bySpeare
25 @04:58PM
(#65739254)
Attached to: Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials
What megalomaniacal near-trillionaire had a whole squadron of leet hackers hoovering up federal employee records just a few short months ago? I forget. It musta been somebody with pockets 30x deeper than George Soros to tunnel into those boring databases, we should launch an investigation.
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bySpeare
2025 @07:02PM
(#65677018)
Attached to: The Moon is Rusting - Thanks To 'Wind' Blown All the Way From Earth
Hematite is one specific type of iron oxide.
Rust is a non-technical umbrella term for all iron oxides, and the typical red ones we see in daily life are formed by contact with water and are not hematite. Hematite is a dark charcoal gray and is sometimes formed as a byproduct of iron ore processing or other heat and pressure processes in the ground, where oxygen may be present but not water.
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bySpeare
@05:20PM
(#65506346)
Attached to: Linux Foundation Adopts A2A Protocol To Help Solve One of AI's Most Pressing Challenges
I have an old voffee mug covered with 1970s computing aphorisms. One says, "If computers ever get too powerful, organize them into a committee. That will do them in.."
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bySpeare
@08:36PM
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Attached to: Simulation of Crashed Boeing 787 Put Focus on a Technical Flaw
Yup, one stated reason for the RAT on documents I have seen is to extend the data collection by the FDRs by maintaining power to the sensors and canbuses.
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bySpeare
@08:26PM
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Attached to: Simulation of Crashed Boeing 787 Put Focus on a Technical Flaw
That's how I read it. It should say it has no thrust.
A typical jet turbofan airframe has two engines that each have a generator shaft taking turbine energy and making electrical current. It then has a whole 'nother turbine engine used on the ground and in some other flight legs called the APU; this exhausts out the tail cone usually, and can start engines or provide extra hydraulic power if needed, but is slow to start just like the main engines.
For power loss emergencies, a small spring-loaded fan pops into action super fast, called a Ram Air Turbine or RAT. It can only make enough electrical power to reboot key systems like engine FADECs or avionics, often only on one electrical channel instead of all channels. It's only a turbine, not a thrust-producing fan. It's a pinwheel toy in comparison to the APU and even the APU cannot produce significant thrust.
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bySpeare
@02:36PM
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Attached to: Japan Builds Near $700 Million Fund To Lure Foreign Academic Talent
Firing the entire board of vaccine science immunologists, and replacing them with pre-science miasma theory antivax stooges, for example.
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bySpeare
025 @08:09AM
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Attached to: Gen AI Is Not Replacing Jobs Or Hurting Wages At All, Say Economists
Seems the Danes are less susceptible to Silly Valley's influences, or the study period ended too early, or both. Alternate explanation, companies have fallen over themselves to lay off staff but won't cop to AI as a cause, as they find other excuses to tell their investors.
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bySpeare
2025 @01:56PM
(#65135123)
Attached to: California Built the World's Largest Solar Power Tower Plant. Now It May Close
Dumb baldfaced lie. And so many gullible idiots will believe it.
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bySpeare
024 @02:56PM
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Attached to: Protecting 'Funko' Brand, AI-Powered 'BrandShield' Knocks Itch.io Offline After Questionable Registrar Communications
Looks like their legal department is just as prone to unimaginative copy-paste output as their modeling team.
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bySpeare
2024 @01:49PM
(#64981581)
Attached to: Threads Adds 35 Million More Members in November - But Bluesky's Traffic is Surging
If sign-ups are jumping that fast but traffic isn't, it sounds like phantom numbers to me. Are we sure they didn't just flip a switch and make all Insta or WhatsApp or Reels users into Threads users?
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bySpeare
2024 @11:50AM
(#64973705)
Attached to: AI Helps Indian Ecommerce Firm Cut Customer Call Costs By 75%
All those years of Six Sigma are over, because they found 3-Stars mediocrity is still profitable.
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