Windows update fetches all sorts of things now. If the hardware advertises X device then Windows update will check if it has anything for it. Approved vendors can provide all sorts of guff. Historically that has included drivers that intentionally brick your devices. HP probably packaged up some software that updates the BIOS and got it into the Windows Update DBs.
Only for certain types of capacitors. In practice they can overlap quite a bit, especially with common aluminium electrolytic capacitors (these form & dissolve complex aluminium oxide & hydroxide layers on the plates).
I thought Jobseeker was an emergency fund to assist with seeking jobs.
You've fallen for the rename. It didn't used to be called "jobseeker". It covers people who can't work too.
I love the wording of the petition:
functional state after the end of the product’s support period, continuing to operate without any intervention from the publisher.
This completely circumvents the garbage argument that it costs money to keep software running after a certain date. If a car company claimed that letting their cars continue to work after 5 years would cost them money then we'd laugh at them. Software and computers, however, are magic.
Poor AutoTL;DR bot has no chance distinguishing the human-written and bot-written parts of the article
We clearly need a market solution. Competitive passports from private vendors fix will this problem.
The good companies will correctly recognise that paying for a passport is difficult, so they'll respect us by providing passport-as-a-service instead. Small monthly payments are easier for the average Aussie to approach and many are so used to them that upfront payment might seem like a scam anyway.
To protect your privacy and security your passport may include third party pages from trusted organisations.
The government should provide a website to compare all of the passport providers, to make sure that Australians are finding the best deal that suits their particular needs. And don't forget that every Australian does have different travel needs, shorter length passports would increase affordability to help the average joe. Of course if limits are breached it will inconvenience the vendor, so reasonable provisions will need to be made to assist them if this occurs.
How old?
Early 1900's: Yes. Metal panels had the same problem, timber panels did not (their thickness stops them from flapping).
Late 1900's: I don't think anyone used flat? There were definitely designs intended to look flat (esp 80's and early 90's), but there were still subtle curves to those panels to bias them and stop them flapping, as far as I recall.
Happy to be proven wrong :)
Inspired by the ABC Article "North Korea was floundering under sanctions. Now it's making billions from stolen cryptocurrency" I thought it would be nice to cast Santa and Kim Jong Un as friends. My biggest worry about this picture is that it portrays crypto in a positive light, that's probably not as light hearted as I intended.
Bing Dall-E. Prompt: "Santa Claus has a manic smile as he helps the Supreme Leader of North Korea count their bitcoin." Bing blacklists the words "Jim Jong Un" but this synonym seems to work.
Assorted thoughts:
Also doubles as a filament runout sensor.
Bearings:
- Only a tiny angular movement -> technically a bad case for ball bearings due to lubricant not getting recirculated, but I think the bearings are being run dry in this project anyway (and are under next to no load)
- I wonder if sleeve bearings would be cheaper but work as well?
- Alternative solution: put a PCB on the left and right sides, then unthreaded SMD soldered standoffs like these as sleeve bearings? I think some are brass under the platings. Exact alignment isn't necessary as once soldered they won't move (and you calibrate the device manually afterwards anyway).
Micro:
- ATtiny's are expensive last I checked :P I prefer STC (8051 clones) but even they're a bit much these days. A padauk or similar would be an extreme.
- Staying with the Arduino IDE is probably an attractive goal for ease of development, so staying with the ATTiny might be best.
- Comms: I wonder what's easy to interface with Marlin? Extra UARTs running at very slow speeds (eg a few thousand baud) might work well.
Applications:
- Do you adjust filament feedrate on the fly?
- is it necessary to delay the adjustments by X cm of filament? Or does it change slowly enough that it's not an issue?
- Detect lumps in filament and pause/alarm prints! I once had lumps of some higher-temp plastic in my roll of recycled PLA, it would jam and cause my prints to fail. Very annoying!
Calibration:
- Using drill bits is brilliant, I love it.
- Do the magnetic properties of the steel cause issues? What happens if I accidentally magnetics my bits? Perhaps I should only insert them from one particular end whilst calibrating to maximise their distance from the hall?
Screws:
- I like using "coarse" 3mm plastic screws. They don't have a tidy standard like "M3" but you can get them on lcsc and other places. They hold in 3d printed plastic really well, can be removed and inserted dozens of times (surprising but true, even if you cross-thread occasionally) and most of all: don't need brass inserts!
Apologies if some of this was answered in the video. I'm sorry Mr presenter but you waffle more than I do :P so I skipped a few bits.
The article is not about VBA, it's about VBS. The languages are similar but not the same (why exactly MS did it this way I'll never know).
VBA is for embedded macros in MS Office documents.
VBS is a standalone language you write into .vbs files that get executed by wscript.exe. It's a default windows feature that has been around a long time (IIRC the ILOVEYOU worm used it).
My whole family house is on 25/5 in Australia. Most of laptops in the house are 1366x768 (so 720p youtube video) and we use adblockers.
The key is setting up proper queue control on your router (Openwrt + SQM) so that one person downloading or uploading doesn't ruin the latency for everyone else browsing the web; before I did that a single person downloading a steam game or uploading something to Google drive made the web unbrowsable for everyone. Sadly this only works if your internet connection link speed is stable and reliable.
I’m not entirely facetious: with trackers and ads and “web 2.0” nonsense and way over provisioning , I’ve seen “simple” web sites bog down on much faster connections.
A lot of web 2.0 nonsense slowness is caused by executing megabytes of javascript. Fetching the few MB itself isn't the bottleneck for us :)
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Sorry to hear you're feeling crap.
I'm having trouble looking for work for the past few months. Very few replies, the first "no" I got actually made me feel a bit more human.
I'm convinced that some of the jobs I've applied for or enquired about are not real or just for external-advertising-before-hire requirements. I've gotten some rude responses after daring to ask questions (eg: jobs funded by research money tend to have fixed funding start dates that might not be for another several months). Most straight up ignore me.
An old boss of mine thinks that my CV isn't conforming and mundane enough, so I'm giving his suggestions a go.
What sort of work are you looking at? I design electronics and get into arguments with computers.