Here’s a scenario. You have a microcontroller that reads a number of items – temperatures, pressures, whatever – and you want to have a display for your Linux desktop that sits on the panel and shows you the status. If you click on it, you get expanded status and can even issue some commands. Most…
Last year, Stats performed began their 12-month countdown to the biggest show in football by identifying 11 uncapped players who could potentially break into their respective national squads before Qatar 2022 gets under way. We have provided intermittent updates since then and, of the original 11, we’ve already had three success stories. Cade Cowell, Christopher…
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by Charles Hugh-Smith When nobody cares that systems have broken down and there is no will or interest in fixing essential systems, there is no happy ending. Who fixes systems when they break down? The answer appears to be: nobody. Here are three everyday examples from my own life, breakdowns which may be random and…
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I hope last week’s introduction to bulk material handling got you all thinking up amazing hacks, and we’ll soon be reporting on DIY Cap’n Crunch Robots galore. This week we’ll look at how to measure particle sizes, separate particles, and even grind them up when you need to. Measuring Material Properties Last week we talked…
Stand by the shore and watch the waves roll in, and you’ll notice that most come in at roughly the same size. There’s a little variation, but the overwhelming majority don’t stand out from the crowd. On all but the stormiest of days, they have an almost soothing regularity about them. Every so often though,…
by ThinkValue2021 As interest rates go up and the Federal Reserve prepares to unload the lowest quality securities starting in June, one may start looking at a recession as a more likely scenario. Realistically, the above paragraph may look quite optimistic depending on when you read it. The goal of this essay…
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by Michael All of a sudden, just about everyone is upset about inflation. It would have been nice if everyone would have been this upset back when our leaders were making the exceedingly foolish decisions that resulted in this crisis. In May 2012, the federal government was 15 trillion dollars in debt. Now we are…
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by JG Martinez D China has slowly expanded its influence since the 1990s, causing them to be now one of the leading world powers. Officially, the reason for this expanded global, Chinese influence is their uninterested economic cooperation with other countries, or their willingness to support the development of undeveloped nations. You can believe that…
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Perhaps rather unexpectedly, on the 14th of March this year the GCC mailing list received an announcement regarding the release of the first ever COBOL front-end for the GCC compiler. For the uninitiated, COBOL saw its first release in 1959, making it with 63 years one of the oldest programming languages that is still in…
Real estate investors are flooding back into the market and would-be landlords on a budget could find properties that pay for themselves. Thanks to strong growth in rent prices in many parts of the country – particularly regional areas – there are a number of suburbs potentially delivering healthy cash flow. New PropTrack data reveals…
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