You’re saying that the rat in an icing bag meme is real!?

This is basically “Weekend at Bernie’s”, using the likeness of a dead man as a puppet.

Strictly speaking, you are correct. The key assumption for my statement above is that both objects are black-body radiators.

In practical terms, it still ain’t happening when the light source is a bunch of fireflies.

Aside: Lasers are a really weird case. The population inversion required for stimulated emission is basically the opposite of a classic thermal equilibrium. By some definitions, they are so hot their “temperature” wraps around to negative (i.e., less than zero Kelvin). That factoid took me a while to wrap my head around.

Unfortunately, this idea isn’t going to work.

Lenses and mirrors can’t focus a diffuse source to a sharp point. They are also reciprocal; any light that can move one way through an optical system can also move the other way. As a result, you can’t use a lens or mirror to heat something beyond the temperature of the light source. The net flow of energy is always from the hot thing to the cold thing.

For the sun, that limit is almost 6000K, so you can do some damage. For fireflies, not so much.

Bulletproof? Sounds dangerous. What do I do if it makes a weird noise?

I switched to Ubuntu a few months ago, and all my Steam games work just fine. Never looking back.

That’s correct. IM-1 in Feb 2024 and IM-2 in Mar 2025 both ended with tipped-over landers.

Headline is misleading. The Nokia hardware worked fine; it’s the host vehicle from Intuitive Machines that tipped over and ran out of power.

Short answer: No. Garbage in, garbage out. CSI-style zoom-enhance is pure fiction.

There are AI tools that will hallucinate more pixels, if that’s what you want, but that’s just plausible lies based on prior data.

Startup time. RAM consumption. Privacy.

It’s usually because of cheap electrolytic capacitors. Letting a $10+ item die because they were too cheap to pay $0.25 instead of $0.15 for a properly rated component.

That’s weird, the computer says everyone was born January 1, 1900.

That’s still $10k worth of graphics cards. How many of these do they expect to sell at that price?

There are also LEDs with a built-in “candle flicker” effect. This teardown shows how it’s done with two dies integrate into the LED package: the LED and an ASIC. They also demo a circuit using a small flicker LED and an amplifier to control a much larger LED.

Now explain PartialEq, and why it’s mandatory.

1. Do you know anybody from “Ohio”?
2. Have you ever been to “Ohio”?
3. Do you know anybody who has ever been to “Ohio”?

I’ve had great luck running HomeAssistant on an R.Pi with the “HUSBZB-1” USB dongle. Zigbee support is perfect so far. Z-Wave required installation of an additional tool, but also working just fine.

Doesn’t the ESP32 module this project is using require the same thing?

It works for now on x86-64, yes. For now. As always, we are one “think of the children” crisis away from lobbyists taking that option away.

It’s not for you, it’s for them. Secure boot means it only runs their operating system, not yours. Trusted enclave means it secures their DRM-ware from tampering by the user who owns the PC.