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They're great if they're curated and controlled like what Microsoft does with its "AKA" service. I know of a few organizations that run OSS shorteners like URLS for managed short URLs to what would otherwise be horrendous symbol salads to type into an address bar.

Very informative, thanks. I know that pretty much every turbine engine, industrial or aircraft, has a fuel cutoff before the FADEC and a dump valve after the FADEC so that one can instantly cut fuel flow to the burners.

I'll start worrying about AI-generated code once it submits the winning entry to the Obfuscated C Code Contest.

Maybe "C+=1" works? ;-)

Purloined Purple, Stolen Silver and Burglary Blue.

My understanding is that most of the work phones issued to LA City political staffers is in Retard Red for easy identification.

Back in the 70s we had a few of these mail-order places. ISTR a place called "Molly's" that sold a fair amount of remaindered parts like passives, LEDs and some subassemblies. I've been to All Electronics (they had two locations, the other one was on Vermont St. in Koreatown, Los Angeles...parking was fun) a few times for oddities specialty connectors for WW2 radio equipment and high-power tapped (i.e. adjustable) wire-wound resistors. Most of these places had fun mail order catalogs.

Parts evolve so fast these days that these kind of places can't keep up. As museums they're fun, but no longer practical.

CoPilot seems to like either PowerShell or C# for some reason. Go figure.

I don't know of anyone who offers an infinite warranty. We all die eventually. The problem with old Windows stuff is that you have to airgap it these days, which can limit the functionality. I know of several BMS (building automation systems) that require Win98 for the controller software. The BMS controllers themselves are not internet connected and the Win98-based configuration software doesn't need to be connected continuously so we built VMs for them that get spun up on modern hardware when needed. Fortunately, they use serial interfaces (-232 or -485) so can get proper emulation for that.

It is squatting if those 13 million are in less than 70% of the licensed geography, which is one of the things being asserted. Have a read through Carr's letter to Echostar on May 9 (see the FCC web site for it). He lays out the conditions that needed to be met to keep the licenses.

Yes, this looks like invisible hand of Musk, but Dish/Echostar has been slow to build their network. Can't blame them too much as it is very capital-intensive and Echostar isn't well-capitalized.

Just throwing this out there, but unless you're sure where your network-connected drones and robots are sourced from and where they "call home" to, it's not an irrational policy to not allow that stuff. Some of the cheaper crap does phone home to some China-based server infrastructure, sometimes over VPN tunnels to get around basic filtering. Do you know what's being passed on to those servers?

With the way California is treating the POL industry, internal combustion engines are likely going to get VERY expensive to operate. California is losing refineries as operators decide to shut them down instead of deal with all the regulatory crap that has been piled on lately.

No further taxes will be needed to get people to move to EVs, public transportation (heh) or out of the state.

Yeah, but the Pooh bears sold there all have these giant googly eyes, just to make sure they can't be confused with Xi, even by a blind person.

I use 100 nanosecond increments since Jan 1, 1601. Fie on your puny Unix time standard.

You're not alone in the need but, believe me, most of the competent C programmers are laying low, doing what they want by being big fish in smaller ponds. It's like COBOL greybeards...most of them either have developed a fiefdom in the company they work at or have a good consultancy going and don't need to hire out further.

I've found fertile ground in the Arduino hacker space if you're looking to do simpler things. Big enterprise projects take a whole 'nother mindset but smaller projects are what these self-directed hackers excel at. Some will level-up to enterprise level projects, some won't. Either way, they can get a crack at something career-making.