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by Liftyee 1y ago
With the lofty claims of "health risks", I was disappointed to find no sources linked at the bottom of this article (correct me if I'm wrong). Based on my personal experience, I think "health risk" is an overstateme
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by Liftyee 1y ago
As a smallbore prone beginner I hadn't made this connection yet but it makes a lot of sense. Time for some deeper investigation...
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Fun little parrot! And beats installing with snap (I don't like snap). Out of curiosity, my rudimentary measurement puts bandwidth usage at about 17 KiB/s. Some might say that's negligible nowadays, which is not that unreason
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Bravo! I love thinking of ways to exploit and circumvent hardware restrictions like the extensive tamper protection here, but it seems I'd assumed that once they were triggered it was game over. Apparently not so - still plenty of inte
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by Liftyee 1y ago
As I understand it (from designing high-speed electronics), the major limitations to data/clock rates in copper are signal integrity issues. Unwanted electromagnetic interactions all degrade your signal. Optics is definitely a way aro
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by Liftyee 1y ago
I'm not sure about onsemi's openness, but I found the public datasheet for the U16 power regulator affected (NCP6343) with one search [1]. As the article explained, the Broadcom SoC has nothing to do with this fault. I don't
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What3Words – The Algorithm(cybergibbons.com)
24 points by Liftyee 1y ago|3 comments
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Agree. I watched for a while to see some larger primes and was a little disappointed. Filled polygons would offer some more shapes. Filled hexagon = 7, etc etc...
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by Liftyee 1y ago
From my little experience I find this article's point to be true. I've been in a few organisations where the flow of people (students) is constant, so experience constantly leaves and mistakes get repeated (we haven't figured
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by Liftyee 1y ago
For my previously-shallow level of understanding, this was an insightful article that showed me a little of how the filesystem actually works. I'm vaguely aware of abstractions at the hardware level (especially with solid state memory
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Great idea and +1 for excellent PCB art!
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by Liftyee 1y ago
I'm curious about their methodology here. Just from a materials standpoint, a M.2 SSD has much less physical volume than a 3.5" HDD and fewer disparate materials (no moving parts = no coils,bearings,motors...) Perhaps the embodied
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Fun little mechanisms! I'm surprised by how many different motions can be made. I guess they're technically a type of compliant mechanism?
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by Liftyee 1y ago
I'd say that in these cases, when there really is no viable option (including just not using...) then the optimal course of action is to choose the "least worst". Compromises work where ultimatums fail.
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by Liftyee 1y ago
https://archive.is/nyL8X
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Every SWE knows DOGE can't rewrite Social Security in a few months(clientserver.dev)
20 points by Liftyee 1y ago|12 comments
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Neat little project. For these things, I usually find that simpler is better - use the minimum feature set to finish it and start use. I recently found a server status bezel and was thinking of making a remote status indicator out of it...
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Out of curiosity, what's the origin of the Anukari name?
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Anecdotally, Discord seems to have a history of questionable inconsistent behaviour like this. Watch them roll out an equivalent/competing feature next week along with making the UI worse as usual.
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Neat project! I've always wanted to try downlinking data from satellites because it just seems like magic. I wonder what sort of reactions you'd get from setting this up in a backpack/cyberdeck and walking around pointing a s
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Though all the carbon we eat eventually traces back to plants which absorbed equal CO2 from the atmosphere... so it's technically carbon neutral.
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Interesting to read about the (literal) bandwidth limitations on data rates. It's something I've been aware of but not fully understood for a long time. "Why can't you just turn the wave on and off faster", etc...
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by Liftyee 1y ago
I find AI to be mainly helpful at explaining new topics (precision not essential), but I don't trust exact facts and figures given by AI because of hallucination issues. Maybe I just don't have the right ChatGPT++ subscription.
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by Liftyee 1y ago
If you want low power, try the nRF52 series of chips (e.g. nRF52840). Much less power hungry than the ESP32 with a comparable ARM core. Only Bluetooth though - no WiFi. nRF52840 sensors can run for months on a single CR2032 coin cell, and t
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by Liftyee 1y ago
I experienced this too. IIRC the brightness-sensitive rod cells are more concentrated in your peripheral vision while your central vision has more colour-sensitive cone cells. This makes the centre of your vision less sensitive to dim objec
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Is it sleep deprivation or do the disks actively change colour and swap places? I think this must be a low light optical illusion - something to do with different sensitivity in center of eyes vs peripheral. Will try again in the daytime.
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by Liftyee 1y ago
The internal monologue running in parallel makes the whole piece that much more amusing.
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by Liftyee 1y ago
I don't know if I should be surprised about what's described in this article, given the current state of the world. Certainly I didn't know about it before, and I agree with the article's conclusion. Personally, I think
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by Liftyee 1y ago
It's impressive that the cost of usable LIDAR tech is well within the reach of personal projects now. The sensors used on the first self-driving cars (from companies like SICK, etc.) likely perform much better but the price point of mu
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Worth noting that the designer, Zack Freedman, has a popular YouTube channel[0] detailing all sorts of projects in witty videos. They are targeted towards a broad audience so aren't excruciatingly technical, but I think they make for g

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