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It seems like just yesterday that people were telling me to “beware of Hawke’s talks and Keating’s bleatings” – seemingly unaware that I was a dyed-in-the-wool Labor voter. (Or maybe they knew and just didn’t give a shit, or were trying to get a rise out of me. Whatever. They’re 30-40 years in the past…
A propos of recycling, here’s a scheme that you may wish to support. Bear in mind that while it is a cost, it’s a small cost compared to the ultimate cost that profligate waste is costing us already and will continue to cost us more and more as the months go by. Why Aren’t Corporations…
This article is a bit of an issue for me. You see, people should be throwing ALL hard plastic into recycling, not getting confused by articles like this that seem to suggest that other people are throwing plastic bottle caps into the general waste. I’m not really sure where the author of that article gets…
Starting shed automation. I know, it seems to be ass-backward to not be finished with physical moving-in stuff and already planning the improvements, but I have to plan, and also it was a bad bones day so hard physical exertion was out. A propos of drawing circuits, I need a Windows app that I can…
Firstly, I’m trying out a “drop cap” style graphic at the head of each article that’ll allow you to tell which blog the repost came from when it’s announced on social media. If you find this annoying let me know, but give it a few days to see how it goes… Now on with the…
HDPE Bottle Cap Fun Facts. Here I am doing a quick research project using the HDPE bottle caps people have been bringing me to recycle. Meet your average soft drink bottle lid… Firstly. All HDPE will have roughly the same specifications. It has a Specific Gravity (SD) of 0.95 meaning if you had a cubic…
An acquaintance online has a very reasoned blog based around AI, including an AI they themselves have coded. This particular post to which I refer presents the arguments for AI being the thing that will end us, the “Doomer” viewpoint. As with every page of this author’s blog, it’s clear and concise and a good read….
It’s the “wash-up” at the end of the day. Ohh I have sooo been waiting to use that crappy dadjoke in an article! And here it is. You might first like to read about the tap, and the backstory/reason for this repair. TL;DR the house had two single taps, I wanted a mixer tap so…
When you’re making a mint from AI but can’t afford the space to store your audit trail… This company made software that unearths evidence trails that lead to convictions – but doesn’t store the evidence trails to show how it obtained the trails. Look – AI is hard. You can make a “black box” style…
Niimbot D110 – a pretty good buy.At a price that puts it into the class of the Dymo thermal labellers, this is a pretty capable machine. I bought this little Niimbot D110 printer three years ago. I needed to label parts bins and drawers, and found dozens of uses for the labels besides. (I got…