Liftyee

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by Liftyee 6mo ago
An unnecessarily long comment that rambles on about a simple core point, that could be summed up in one sentence but has excessive detail added to ensure that everyone gets it. (Are sentences like this akin to literary quines? The sentence
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by Liftyee 6mo ago
As someone who makes things it always confuses me when millions just disappear whenever a company or government contractor makes things. Give me $17M and I'll build a vacuum robot prototype in under 2 years, I can't imagine 10 eng
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by Liftyee 6mo ago
I've been thinking about this for Meshtastic - How do you power them? Little solar panels?
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by Liftyee 6mo ago
"unable to get along with anyone" is an interesting claim given that the last armed conflict in Switzerland was in 1847 (Sonderbund War).
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by Liftyee 6mo ago
I imagine you're quoting rhetoric, but anyone describing China as "communist" hasn't seen the scale of shopping malls and consumerism here. Authoritarian, fine, but far from communist.
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by Liftyee 6mo ago
https://archive.is/PMC5t
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by Liftyee 6mo ago
Genius. I need to try this for organising my endless boxes of random parts, some of which I never use. At some point I believed that eventually once I accumulated a critical mass of parts projects would spontaneously appear, but there'
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by Liftyee 6mo ago
Why is it upsetting to see the same patterns repeated when you have something to say?
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by Liftyee 6mo ago
Once in the realm of signal integrity, it's true that the price goes straight into lab grade levels. Even in my reputable cables, there are a couple with suspicious continuity issues. I wonder if this could find them. You could probabl
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by Liftyee 6mo ago
Brilliant little device. I will be picking one up ASAP!. Didn't know that lying cables were a thing but I have a ton of charge only cables?! I speculate USB B wasn't included because there are only really two types, 2.0 (regular s
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by Liftyee 6mo ago
Interesting... anyone know if they've released the rationale/data behind this? I could see a few reasons why power banks present a larger risk than phones/computers (battery capacity, quality control), but it seems like the 1
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by Liftyee 7mo ago
Willing to solder BGA, but not willing to use 0402 components while using the stencil anyways? Nonetheless, impressive project!
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by Liftyee 7mo ago
I agree that the US voltage is safer (with the tradeoff of lower output powers available at your outlets). However, I suspect this is more than negated by the US plug design, which carries a much larger risk of shocks than almost all EU p
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by Liftyee 7mo ago
Can confirm. There are even growing numbers of high-quality games/projects on the platform (I explored it recently), including a fully interactive+realistic nuclear reactor and 1:1 DCS-like Airbus A320 simulator. I suspect the populari
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by Liftyee 7mo ago
Honestly as someone who mostly operates my computer instead of tinkering I don't care whether X or Wayland or something else, I just want something non-opinionated that works reliably. X doesn't support palm rejection so I can&#x2
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by Liftyee 7mo ago
> as good as a fast-food hamburger But at a much higher price? The value is not really there IMO. From their performance it seems like the intersection of (cares about animals | methane emissions) & doesn't mind health effects &
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by Liftyee 7mo ago
Same on Firefox desktop.
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by Liftyee 7mo ago
Curious - Any sources? Looking at publicly available details and copying them might be intellectually dishonest if it was a piece of coursework, but this isn't an academic research project. Taking features from something that's kn
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by Liftyee 7mo ago
That's a valid opinion to hold. I think both machines are Pareto-optimal though. The ThinkPad will likely have a longer useful life because of its heavy build, extra I/O (each port gets less use), and upgradeable parts. The Neo cl
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by Liftyee 7mo ago
I don't see why comparing prices between used and new options is unreasonable in this case. If I want a machine to do XYZ (without the stipulation that it be new ), then an older model might well be better value. "In $CURRENT_YEA
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by Liftyee 7mo ago
Doesn't necessarily have to be top down. It could be cultural, the quarter-by-quarter market economics incentivises "money today" (just look at all the disasters caused by poor maintenance) but cultural norms of long-term thi
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by Liftyee 7mo ago
Pedantic correction: it's a QFN (quad flat no-leads) package, as it doesn't have any legs. Agreed though, this is well within normal capabilities.
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by Liftyee 7mo ago
True, but doesn't this apply to regular matrixed displays as well?
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by Liftyee 7mo ago
Ordered from JLC a few weeks ago, their "review" is still manual. You can select a "confirm production file" option to get a second chance too.
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by Liftyee 7mo ago
The economic pain is current. The impact of unmitigated climate change will happen in the future. Thus, the ingrained short-term thinking of the markets and politicians makes this sort of planning ahead difficult. It seems like the whole ec
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by Liftyee 7mo ago
Which Thinkpad do you have? Lenovo have introduced some lines with the name but diminished quality.
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by Liftyee 7mo ago
I have done similar searches before. They do exist, but most dedicated ICs are targeted towards tightly-integrated cells or battery packs. The variety available is much smaller than for Li-ion batteries, and the ICs are more expensive. It s
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by Liftyee 7mo ago
You still get the same rectangular screen size for a given size of phone body, unless you want no front camera and sharp square corners. You still get an entire 16:9 screen area in the middle of a rounded corner screen, just with extra scre
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by Liftyee 7mo ago
Was it a Gen 1 device? I bought a Thinkpad X13 Gen 1 many years ago and it kept having blue screens from RAM errors and other problems. Eventually after many warranty attempts and motherboard replacements they sent me a new X13 Gen 4. This
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by Liftyee 7mo ago
I never played any Pokémon game apart from Go, until I recently tried HG/SS on my phone. It was a joy to experience (mobile!) games in an era where they were made as a form of art instead of as a cheap money making scheme. No microtran

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