Kirby64

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by Kirby64 5mo ago
> That being said, Plex apps also lack proper support for HW decoding of some 4K codecs and their AppleTV situation is just plain sad (2 years without an update, no proper HW decoding). What does hardware decoding get me on an Apple TV?
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
Diamond abrasives are definitely a thing. But for sandpaper, you rarely need anything more than the typical ceramic or silicon carbide abrasives. They pretty much are relegated specialized tooling for polishing, cutting, or abrading ceramic
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
> Removal of toxins from the lining is important - this stuff works wonders in that regard. Alright I’ll bite. What “toxins” are you removing by increasing dietary fiber? And how would this somehow be different from the “toxins” that are
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
> '05 Legacy GT - turbo motor from the STI. With a tune, it was 300+ HP. MULTIPLE runs against Tesla model 3s from a stop - I won most of them. I'd believe it. I wouldn't call adding 20%+ horsepower to a car 'slightly
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
> Homeowners insurance rarely actually covers everything lost in a fire, Why wouldn't it? Unless you don't have enough coverage, it should cover all losses fully. Literally the point of insurance. You may not properly claim eve
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
Anycubic is a poor quality brand that doesn't really go through the engineering effort to design good quality stuff. These types of printers definitely still exist, no doubt. But, it's not really straight propaganda that the well
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
3D printers aren't the fire hazards of yore. They're quite reliable, fused, with multiple interlocks for various conditions (mainly around heating not matching expected rate) that will kill power. The main potential problem these
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
It's a good policy, generally. Treat anything written down, email, etc, as something that could become public later. Anything that could be recorded and saved for later can be used against you if it's taken the wrong way. A questi
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
The average person knows literally nothing about semiconductors. I would say it’s not very intuitive how diodes work, unless you’re an electrical engineer.
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
Who wants to waste freezer space with 40 lbs of flour? Pretty bad use unless, again, you love baking or don’t have a use for it. Also, most flour lasts well past the 12 month expiration just fine. Barely a need to freeze it.
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
> My slightly modified Subaru Wagon from '05 "out-accelerated" base Teslas - dead even in 1st gear, started pulling once the shift to 2nd happened. Slightly modified is doing some heavy lifting there. No 2005 Subaru wagon
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
> Meanwhile, an early PS4 game looked only marginally better than a late PS3 game, and most PS5 games don't look noticeably better than a PS4 game. Partially this is because there was usually an overlap in sales for early PS4 and la
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
> Also the point of lithium batteries is that they don't leak, not that they last longer. Not leaking is part of the point, but it's definitely not the only point. Alkaline batteries have half the capacity (roughly) compared to
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
> No aisle signs or labels anywhere. I understand the retail strategy here but the lack of efficiency in MY experience kills me. Clearly they can't move the bakery, or meat department. But after ~5 visits I still have no idea where
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
Not just motherboards. Cases, PC accessories (fans, etc), consumer SSDs, and more. Cases are especially hard hit, apparently, as they're already quite a low margin business. Personally, I see little reason to upgrade from my AM4 platfo
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by Kirby64 6mo ago
Is this not less about the LFP lifespan per say, but more about the extended abilities of sodium battery tech? To my understanding it can withstand extended temps better. No need to have heaters above freezing…
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by Kirby64 6mo ago
> At the end of the day, an increase of either voltage and/or amps calls for a sturdier design (of ports and cables). The cables themselves are already plenty tolerant from an insulation standpoint for 48V. Voltage is low enough to
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by Kirby64 6mo ago
Irrelevant for state of charge, though. My point is you can define 0 and 100 as specific voltages and arbitrarily make the capacity larger or smaller. LG was notorious for having the top level charge be unusually high for the time (4.45V or
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by Kirby64 6mo ago
100% and 0% are essentially arbitrary, though. That’s the point. What is 100% for a battery? 4.1V? 4.4V? What’s 0%? 3.0V? 2.5V? Lower?
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by Kirby64 6mo ago
Samsung committed to 5 years of OS upgrades on that one, so it’s theoretically getting one more upgrade next year at best. (Or maybe 2, if they release one this year). It’s nearly end of life for a software perspective.
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by Kirby64 6mo ago
Doesn’t matter, if you ask for physically impossible features to cut this is something you could technically do. Or you ask for a feature that adds multiple setups to an otherwise simple part and makes it wildly expensive
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by Kirby64 6mo ago
There’s nothing broken about the Apple brick. If you had a device that wanted 12V input on a USB-C port without negotiation (these products exist, and are dangerous because they come with chargers that just output 12V without any negotiatio
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by Kirby64 6mo ago
Plenty of USB-C cables are capable of charging at 5 amps continuously and do so today. How is the voltage relevant to how much power is dissipated in the cable? That’s the only difference between a 100W charger and a 240W charger.
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by Kirby64 6mo ago
> For example, cables often state that they can handle up to 240W ... but no 240W USB-PD chip has ever gone into production -- you won't even find one at the hottest USB-PD trade shows[0] in China. Your information is out of date. Y
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by Kirby64 6mo ago
> Would "lots of gpus" even help for huge models? Maybe this is exposing my lack of knowledge but don't you need to keep the whole model and context in a single GPU's VRAM? How do you think the large providers do infe
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by Kirby64 6mo ago
> 100 nF ceramics are fine, but you may actually need a 100 nF and a 10 nF side-by-side because of that inductance depending on how dirty your power line is. Capacitance value is essentially irrelevant to inductance. The thing that dicta
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by Kirby64 6mo ago
> You may not immediately be able to figure out what the call/response is, but without knowing what the check is, it could just be a simple endpoint that returns "true" on every request. Very speculative to say that whatev
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by Kirby64 6mo ago
Depends on the region, I think. Lyft and Uber partner with them in certain cities, so you transparently are charged the same as a similar ride with a human driver. It's only a better experience than a human driver, though, in my view.
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by Kirby64 6mo ago
Hardware engineers can get paid that, although it’s rarer. That said, there’s also a much broader base of hardware engineers than just the Bay Area… so cost of living is a lot lower, therefore salaries don’t need to be as sky high to compen
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by Kirby64 6mo ago
Even worse, the ENOB is closer to 9 bits in testing. It’s got horrible DNL/INL. Totally worthless for any audio unless you’re trying to do chiptunes or something.

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