Tour of Duty with Bob Ross

In today’s happy accident, I generated images with grok and the prompt: ‘Bob Ross painting a Vietnam War scene on a canvas, wearing OD green military fatigues, with his afro visible, standing to the left presenting his right side, with the canvas clearly showing the combat scene he is painting, outside in Vietnam rice paddies’

Installing vscode on Kali

If anyone installing vscode on Kali linuxsudo apt install codesudo code –no-sandbox –user-data-dir ~/Desktopfrom within VSCode hit Ctrl+Shift+Xthen click install under python supportthen search for yapf formatterhit installgo to run, select add config, then paste in the yaml lines below to force style, close and save“yapf.args”: [ “–style”, “{based_on_style: google, indent_width: 2, column_limit: 100}”, ],

Cutthroat AWS Rig Comparison

AWS Instance Family Instance Generation CPU Architecture Processor Memory Type Network Performance Storage Type Date Implemented Country of Design Country of Manufacture Estimated Units Implemented General Purpose (T2) 2nd Generation x86 Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell) DDR3 Up to Moderate EBS-Optimized 2014 United States (Intel) United States (Intel) ~100,000 General Purpose (T3) 3rd Generation x86…

Cutthroat corporate cloud comparison

I made a table to compare the actual products side by side and cut the marketing fat out of the analysis.  Category Azure AWS GCP Compute Virtual Machines (VMs) via Azure Virtual Machines EC2 instances (Elastic Compute Cloud) Google Compute Engine (GCE) Azure Functions (Serverless) AWS Lambda (Serverless) Cloud Functions (Serverless) Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)…

American CNC Machines

American manufacturing isn’t dead, it’s just gotten smarter and more creative than ever. We just know better than to export certain CNC machines. CNC Machine export is controlled by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) to prevent the proliferation of advanced weaponry and other national security concerns, so you have to do business with…

Lies my Inverter Tells Me

It’s a common misconception that DC-AC Inverters are capable of any single output exceeding 120V @ 10A. The maximum possible load on any inverter is dictated by the receptacle or hardwire terminal provided. Without exception all manufacturers outside of the US use 10A US IC receptacles or surface mount GFCIs. Only Xantrex/Schneider Electric, AIMs, Magnum,…