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#hardware

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J. Steven York RESISTS

US hardware standards are INSANE.
Working on a prop for my action-figure photo comic, "Minions at Work," and I want to attach some decorative lamp finials upside down as legs for a piece of furniture. Go to store, get some screws. Easy, right? A standard 1/4" screw is 20 pitch thread. But a lamp finial is 1/4" 27 pitch, for reasons that probably made sense to Tommy Edison. Can't find screws like I want, even online. (cont.)
#hardware #metric #SAE #screws #bolts #maker #diy #modelbuilding #makers

A decorative brass colored lamp finial (the knob that holds a lamp shade on) and a not-quite compatible M6 bolt because it's the closest thing I can find that even vaguely works thanks to antiquated US hardware standards.
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OSNews

Pebble unveils new devices, and strongly suggests you dump iOS for Android

It's barely been two months after the announcement that Pebble would return with new watches, and they're already here - well, sort of. Pebble has announced two new watches for preorder, the Core 2 Duo and the Core Time 2. The former is effectively a Pebble 2, upgraded with new internals,

osnews.com/story/141951/pebble

www.osnews.comPebble unveils new devices, and strongly suggests you dump iOS for Android – OSnews
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💓~eva~💓

Every single day ... and not simply once per day...

"Was XX made this way specfically as terrible as possible so that I'll eventually give up and buy a YY?"

"Why does XX get worse with every single system update? Do they know anything about regression testing at all?"

"Do they only operate on the idiotic notion of 'Move Fast, Break Everything?' as if we were still in 2009 web2.0 and testing in production? Also, only lazy unimaginative chuds think that everything needs to be tested in production!"

"Do they really think everyone is an A or a B in their poorly conceived deployment process? 'well, some percentage of our users can suffer as long as we remain profitable by ZZ% so we definitely A/B test in production!'"

#software#hardware#engineering
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Brian Sletten

It cannot be stressed how much hardware is going to be a differentiator for software moving forward. In terms of performance acceleration, power efficiency, availability, elastic demand, IT sovereignty, etc.

Apple gets it. An idle cluster of M3 Ultra Studios consumes less power than a network switch. Obviously, under load that will change, but their integrated architecture is starting to outclass any other vendor.

wccftech.com/mac-studio-m3-ult

Wccftech · A Mac Studio Cluster Of Four Units, All Featuring Apple’s Latest M3 Ultra, Consume Less Than Half The Po…A Mac Studio cluster owner shows that four units running idle simultaneously consume less than 50 percent of the power of a network switch
#technology#apple#hardware
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