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Comment · 5 months ago

Thomas Edison believed there wasn't a future in alternating current as "a motor won't run it"

Nicolas Tesla wrestled with this problem and one morning while strolling, he looked towards the sun and seen the fog had produced a halo around it. It was the moment he had his epiphany on how he could make an AC motor.

Comment · 6 months ago

The only way it could have hacked my old TV is to hack a robot, break into my house and flip the channels. LOL

Comment · 6 months ago

I was blocked from reading this article. I was intrigued enough from the summary to consider reading his other parts from the series.

He chose to block me based on the state I live in.

Comment · 8 months ago

Since the 1990s the US has removed over 1,000 dams. If those dams were still producing power, then how would that affect their claim?

Comment · 8 months ago

If they hadn't blew up the hydrodams, could they still say that?

Comment · 8 months ago

Reminds me of the story of Henry Ford, then an elderly man proudly showing off the first two robots on the assembly line to the representative of the automotive union.

To which the representative asked how many cars the robots will buy.

Comment · 9 months ago

I've for decades have opted to use pvc conduit for underground installations. This way I can pull/replace wire. Reading this made me realize that putting fiber inside conduit in inaccessible areas would be a safe way to go.

Years ago some electronics sensors were replaced and started having problems. I came to realize it was a voltage drop with the new increased load. I was able to pull in new larger wire by using the old wire as the puller.

Comment · 10 months ago

I often blacklist sites that cover content with unremovable ads or has unrelenting ads. They need a clear button that acknowledges I've seen it and to stop annoying me.

Comment · 10 months ago

I've started using SQLite years ago for its use of a single file to store data. Along the way, I found more reasons to like it. Today, I discovered a new reason when I read this article.

I also noticed many software companies have been switching to SQLite for storing data. Audacity has switched from using hundreds of tiny audio files in multiple folders for a single recording to a single file using SQLite. I suspect it is the reliability that comes from sticking to C

Comment · 10 months ago

Hmm Could Jensen's statement be motivated that by forcing companies to build AI infrastructure would ensure more of his Nvidia AI chips to be sold? I keep seeing him say things that makes him appear bias towards more sales. Like dismissing any possibility that an AI bubble is growing. To admit the possibility may hurt sales.

Comment · 10 months ago

I guess Micro$oft has so much invested into their AI that they're trying to insure a return on that investment by pushing it onto everyone.

I read this morning that their AI i to provide free heating for 6,000 nearby homes with its heat waste. So to use M$ AI is to do 'your good deed' and subsidize someone's heating.

Comment · 10 months ago

In defense of Firefox, there is a reason for the iOS Firefox browser being so bad. Apple mandates all other browsers to use the WebKit rendering engine instead of their own. Firefox isn't able to use the Gecko engine. I guess Apple is afraid that others will show up the Safari browser.

Comment · 10 months ago

Protecting your anonymity isn't a sign that you're hiding something because you have done something wrong. It is because you're cautious. Even the most benign information can be use against you. European Jews in the early 1900s gave census takers the info yhat they were Jews. Decades later that info was collated with punch card machines by the Nazis to build family trees to hunt them down. This is an example of how "innocent" info can be weaponized in ways you would never dream of.

Comment · 11 months ago

  Yea! Finally an answer to the big brother Windows 11!

  But isn't Google just as bad at spying on us? It's just trading one big brother for an another.

  Oh yeah... didn't think of that.

 Hey haven't you ever just ever considered using Linux?

Comment · 11 months ago

The modern copyright is having the opposite effect of what the founding Fathers had intended. The copyright was meant to provide protection and income to an author's family in the event of his death. Then after a reasonable time, the book passes into public domain for posterity. But today the copyright has an unreasonable time. A time that was for family to live on now has become a time for corporations to squeeze. Copyright law has become weaponized filled with landmines.

Now instead, works become inaccessible, out of print, and forgotten by the time it becomes public domain. The cult following, the fans, and the curious have long died out, leaving the work to pass into the abyss to join the works in the Library of Alexandria.