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by Kirby64 2y ago
Unless you literally never cook any food, it just isn’t possible to prepare all types of food using purely serrated knives. Cutting up many vegetables or herbs just is not possible with a serrated knife. What is your aversion if you’ve neve
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by Kirby64 2y ago
GP uses serrated knives. They’re not actually cutting food, more mangling it while scratching their plates. Not wanting to use sharp knives just speaks to inexperience in the kitchen.
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by Kirby64 2y ago
> Is the problem essentially that too much of the load on the grid is AC->DC converters that are drawing power only at the peak of each cycle? No, large power supplies used for AC/DC conversion don’t do this. They even already do
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Again, why would it be worse? There’s very real benefits to some of the proprietary standards that you can’t get from PD. Just because PD offers higher wattage doesn’t mean the overall charging is faster. If you have to generate a ton of he
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Why would it? If you can charge the phone with PD, but also with proprietary standards that offer something better it would meet the regulation. Seems like the best of both worlds.
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by Kirby64 2y ago
> electric toothbrushes If anything, sealing electric toothbrushes is even more paramount than a phone. The normal use case is literally getting it wet through use. Also, anecdotally, I’ve never had a sonicare toothbrush battery die. The
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by Kirby64 2y ago
What does Atmos compatibility have to do with anything? You can find a $80 soundbar that Dolby Atmos. And sure, you can get okay sound from a soundbar. Perhaps even decent if you spend a lot... but it's going to pale compared to a prop
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by Kirby64 2y ago
It cuts both ways: new bugs added later. Overall it’s good thing, I’d say. Any other car with an annoying problem they’ll just try to convince you to buy the next model year (that might or might not fix the issue).
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by Kirby64 2y ago
> And still it didn’t sound quite right. So we dug out our Blu-ray and popped it in, and there it was: the pristine sounds of Junkie XL’s warring drums and guitars coming out of our soundbar. Pretty laughable commenting about how 'b
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Super capacitors have very high self discharge rates relative to a lithium battery. For something like an RTC which only uses a tiny amount of power, you’d quickly discharge the cap and have no way to charge it again.
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Yes, but it also makes thermal shifts faster, thinner packages have less heat capacity, and also crack easier due to more flexibility. The other thing noted in the article is thinner packages mean you have to use thinner metal layers which
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by Kirby64 2y ago
There’s data, but then there’s also the “CC” pins. CC is mandatory for USB-C. It is what does the communication for PD. So, it’s data, but a very specific type of data.
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Yet another reason why ultra processed food categorization is unhelpful.
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Lithium batteries (like the 1.5V energizer suggested) have extremely low self discharge. The reason why lithium batteries are used for long life is because you can actually reliably count on them to not self discharge after 20 years. As lon
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by Kirby64 2y ago
If the math is correct, you'd have an expected life of ~10.2 years. (30*(0.9)^n - n) = 0. That said, when someone says "it reduces the lifespan by 10%", I'm a bit skeptical of the math. Either they are not properly testi
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by Kirby64 2y ago
They already do this at the module level (besides the 'regular maintenance' aspect). No reason to change that.
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Again, how is it a kludge? If you want to argue standard 'auto' high beams are a kludge, then maybe... but matrix headlights are performing a function that is literally impossible by a driver. Having high beams still illuminate an
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Yes, sort of. Electromigration is well known in the industry and there are extensive design rules around making sure you don't violate those rules and hit electromigration limits within the lifetime of the product. Most IC designers te
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Yeah, this article could also be summarized as: electromigration exists, news at 11. It's literally always been a problem, it just might be exacerbated by increased thermal cycling and increased high temperature conditions of computati
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by Kirby64 2y ago
This sounds like a failing of the system to not dip the high beams in the presence of sufficiently bright street lighting. I'm not sure how mandating matrix headlights be not used is the solution here. My auto high beams don't com
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by Kirby64 2y ago
How is getting all of the advantages of high beams without the blinding factor of other drivers a kludge? It’s a huge benefit. Auto high beams already exist.
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Making a hobby etching thing that isn’t anywhere close to the state of the art is cool, but not exactly anywhere close to what is needed to look at a modern chip. You’re trivializing the challenge of modifying something that is on the order
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by Kirby64 2y ago
I’d still take the bet. FIB and SEM stuff is highly specialized and miniaturizing it to be obtainable by a garage user seems unlikely even in the distant future. Either way, you still couldn’t take a 4090 and make it functional as a 6000 se
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by Kirby64 2y ago
> Bullshit. There will be hackers in the future who can do it in their garage. Just... not anytime soon. I'll take your bet on this. Silicon designers aren't unaware of this potential vulnerability, and if you want to prevent e
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by Kirby64 2y ago
NVidia is smarter than this - they sign all their firmware, so you can't just modify the firmware and bypass this. No signed firmware means no functioning card. The famous example of this was the 'reduced hash functionality'
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Source meters are expensive for normie hardware, but certainly not out of reach. A brand new keithley 2401 is ~$5k, so I imagine a used one could be picked up for a few thousand or perhaps less.
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by Kirby64 2y ago
To be clear: PCBs are acceptable as edge connectors assuming they’re designed for it, but unless you use the proper plating the number of insertions from a normal PCB plating (ENIG) is likely in the low double digits (10-20 times).
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Funny, although I pity someone who can’t taste the difference between truly hugely different coffees. At some point it becomes like saying you can’t taste the difference between a Merlot and a Chardonnay wine. I can respect someone who says
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by Kirby64 2y ago
There’s no reason DisplayPort couldn’t do the same thing. The connector on the inside is basically identical. That being said, although creative, it’s a pretty terrible idea. PCBs are not meant to be edge connectors. Especially if they aren
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Are rotary pumps that large? From what I can tell, they’re relatively small as long as we’re talking the ones sized for single group machines.

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