Entries
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It is a running gag around here that whenever a project posts, someone will inevitably point out that it could have b...
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If you’ve ever bought a suspiciously cheap Ethernet cable from an online listing, there’s a decent chance you’ve enco...
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There’s been a lot of virtual ink spilled in environmental circles about the cooling water requirements of data cente...
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In the mid 1970s there were a spate of movies depicting the romance and lifestyle of truck drivers in the southern ha...
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The Pokéwalker is a gadget that was sold alongside the Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver games for the Nintendo DS, us...
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A few years back a company had an ad campaign with a discouraged caveman who was angry because the company claimed th...
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3D printing is a staple of the hacker community. From decorative items to rugged functional parts, almost anything yo...
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Although the Sega Dreamcast had many good qualities that made it beloved by the thousands of people who bought the co...
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Everything on the electromagnetic spectrum has some properties of both waves and particles, but it’s difficult to ima...
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The news is full of reports from the moon-bound Integrity, otherwise known as Artemis II. Mostly, the news is good, b...
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The topic of micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) has become increasingly prevalent over the past years, as amidst dismissa...
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These days our appetite for more data storage is larger than ever, with video files larger, photo resolutions higher,...
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It’s always nice to simulate a project before soldering a board together. Tools like QUCS run locally and work quite ...
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When the inevitable Kessler Syndrome cascade sweeps Starlink and its competitors from Low Earth Orbit in what will do...
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Not so long ago, e-ink devices were rare and fairly pricey. As they have become more common and cheaper, some cool fo...
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For some reason, Markdown has not just become the format of choice for giving READMEs in GitHub repositories some fla...
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Old shop tools have a reputation for resilience and sturdiness, and though some of this is due to survivorship bias, ...
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When taking macro photographs, you often need just a tiny bit of controlled motion — so little that it’s tough to pul...
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Despite a few high-profile cases in recent years with lawyers getting caught using LLM-generated documents and facing...
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As I write this, four astronauts are on their way around the moon for the first time in 50 years. A lot us have asked...