Copper Extraction Must Scale 50% for Electrification
New @engineerguytwit video: The engineering of copper extraction, which even now we plan to need 50% more of for transition to electrification. https://t.co/UnSMfavrBX
Hoover Dam's Cheap Power Fuels Southwest's Emerging Society
1949 Hoover Dam documentary extols the prosperity flowing from, and civilization-defining role of, abundant cheap electrical power. "A new society is growing in the southwest." https://t.co/0DbiT2JuMx
7‑Year‑Old Brother Printer Prints Perfectly After Storage
You know those Brother laser printers everyone tells you to buy? This one is 7 years old, has been in bubble wrap in storage for 2 years, and I've never touched the toner. Today I unwrapped it, plugged it in,...
Kids Will only Value COD4 After Age Eleven
My kids are growing up on CoD 1-3 and they're only getting CoD4 when they can appreciate it when they're 11
110V Charger Adequate for City Plug‑hybrid Commutes
I got a plug-in hybrid recently and honestly the 110v charger is fine for jaunts around town.
LLM Misdiagnoses Logs, Wastes Hours Without Human Oversight
Was recently in a 20-person problem call. Someone used an LLM against one of the logs with possible sources of issue. It of course came up with a theory to justify the prompting. It was not that at all, but it...
Rising Fuel Costs, Stagnant Ticket Prices Spark Airline Bankruptcies
OK if fuel prices are going up why don't they just raise the ticket prices why are they going bankrupt.
If You Worry About Windows Privilege Escalation, Your Security Fails
Repeat after me: Your security program is not good enough to have to worry about escalation of privilege on Windows
Battery‑free Smartwatch Eliminates Charging Hassle Forever
My daily. It's smart enough to sync time and footsteps. I own the original Apple Watch and several generations of them. I'm done. I don't have to charge this thing for two years. There is no mental burden to own it....
Why All Armies Share Similar Structures Through History
Why are militaries seemingly all structured similar? Who came up with this, its historical antecedents? Want to read more.
Farewell to My Beloved HP LaserJet
I was so upset about a venerable HP LaserJet I was being made to retire I took a picture of it in the cart as I took it away. https://t.co/WSp2KRucih
Florida Condos: A Teen's Warning of Shared Decay
Distinctly thought as a teen watching some TV episode on Florida condos, "these seem like a collective maintenance time bomb."
AI‑generated Ramblings Clutter Timelines with Metric‑driven Fluff
These overly long explanation posts about modern events read like AI slop. It would've taken an hour to write this and I've never seen anything like this until AI appeared. It's attention metric manipulation and it's obnoxious and filling my timeline....
US Hardware Destroyed in Iran; Possible EP‑3 Link?
Shocked at completeness of destruction of stranded US military hardware in Iran. I would love to know this entails/influences of EP-3 incident?
Allowlisting CRLs in Plants: Ongoing, Working Fine
I went through a process to allowlist CRLs in our plants. It's not complete but it's been fine.