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@yoginho

Rule of thumb: if a company operating in a highly technical scientific space chooses to release its progress reports or results in an "exclusive" with a mainstream media outlet, rather than via a scientific journal, it's not a scientific company. It's a financial grift.

#grift#science#technical
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Alistair K

Does anyone out there have a plastic Staedtler drawing board with a drafting arm that runs in channels along the edge? Mine (Mars 611) is chattering and I am wondering what the best solution is.

It was never a very good drawing board to begin with – too much play in the arm – but now I want it to work at least as well as it did twenty years ago.

We've cleaned it, and are considering lubricating it with silicone grease.

#staedtler#drawing#technical
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

Starlink at the White House
muskwatch.com/i/159516805/star

" #Starlink, a satellite #internet provider owned by #SpaceX, has been installed on the #WhiteHouse campus...

bizarre arrangement that provides no clear #technical benefit, as internet speeds from Starlink’s satellites are easily outclassed by its terrestrial competitors. Jake Williams, a #cybersecurity expert... “It introduces another attack point,” Williams said. “But why introduce that risk?”

Sub-heading and text: Starlink at the White House Starlink, a satellite internet provider owned by SpaceX, has been installed on the White House campus, according to a Monday report from the New York Times: [block quote] Starlink terminals, rectangular panels that receive internet signals beamed from SpaceX satellites in low-Earth orbit, can be placed on physical structures. But instead of being physically placed at the White House, the Starlink system is now said to be routed through a White House data center, with existing fiber cables, miles from the complex. White House officials said the installation was an effort to increase internet availability at the complex. They said that some areas of the property could not get cell service and that the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure was overtaxed… White House officials said that Starlink had “donated” the service and that the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office. [end block quote] This is a bizarre arrangement that provides no clear technical benefit, as internet speeds from Starlink’s satellites are easily outclassed by its terrestrial competitors. Jake Williams, a cybersecurity expert who spoke to the Times, said he had never heard of the government doing anything like it. “It introduces another attack point,” Williams said. “But why introduce that risk?”
#ElonMusk#Musk#Corruption
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Pete Orrall

@VikingChieftain I am not a #programmer, but a #sysadmin who needs, appreciates, and even enjoys #technical #writing.

I write as if the person on the other end is unfamiliar with the technology at hand. When finished reading, not only do they understand the concepts, they can complete the task successfully the first time.

"Dave from HR probably doesn't know Hadoop is, but he will be able to patch the 10-node cluster successfully.:

It's not always easy and does require #empathy.

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Tantek Çelik

Something I wrote in the W3C Authentic Web Mini Workshop’s Zoom chat:


Another implicit assumption (flaw) that is often a part of "purely technical solutions" is the neglect or ignorance (innocent naïveté) of existing technical solutions.

A technical proposal should not be praised for what it claims to solve.

A technical proposal must be evaluated by what marginal difference or advantage does it provide over existing technologies.

Any technical proposal that ignores prior technologies is itself doomed to be ignored by the next technical proposal.


In addition to the slide presentations (links to come) in the mini workshop and Zoom verbal discussion which was minuted (link to come), there was a lot of very interesting discussion in the Zoom chat, which was not minuted. Sometimes such quick back & forth can help inspire summarizing of points which one had not previously written down.

I was encouraged by a fellow workshop participant to blog this one so here it is!

#W3C #credweb #credibleWeb #authenticWeb #technology #technical #proposal #technicalProposal #history

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