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Composite fail

Today’s composite materials are amazing, making many things we touch lighter, cheaper, and often stronger than wood/steel. However, you occasionally bump up against the product designed “just strong enough” in the engineer’s mind, but in fact a failure in real world application. These pruners are a perfect example. Nice light and relatively cheap… but put […]

Spectre and Meltdown

All my systems are patched up for Spectre and Meltdown. The performance impact isn’t noticeable on my laptop and main desktop as in general they’re lightly used. However, on one of my Win 10 development systems were I have quite a few Docker containers running, the hit was sizable! All my CPUs are pre-Haswell (2015), […]

Cloud storage

For my tech included friends out there, I’m wondering how many of you actually use any sort of personal cloud storage like Dropbox or Box.com. If so, do you feel that you have plenty of storage space, or could/would you use more if you could get it for little/no cost?