Melkman

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by Melkman 6y ago
Yeah, to bad Mapper was acquired by ASML. Would be interesting to see what maskless fabbing with Electron beam lithographically could do for small production runs. If you get the price for that down designing and testing of integrated circu
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by Melkman 6y ago
I also have a TP-Link Omada setup. For layer2 networking with switches and AP's it's fine. Cost effective, reasonably stable, acceptable performance and features that are regularly used are all there. The layer-3 stuff however is
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by Melkman 6y ago
Also, when cost caused by downtime and updates and/or hardware problems exceed the cost of this full time engineer. Even then K8s is probable not the next step. Simple HA with a load balancer and seperate test and production environmen
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by Melkman 6y ago
Ignoring fraudsters will only work if that causes a cost to the fraudster bigger than the gain by double spending. Basically you will have to use key pairs tied to natural persons. If there is any anonymity or pseudonymity the fraudster wil
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by Melkman 6y ago
The link estimates the surface of the panels to be 30m2. Since the panels are 3.1m wide the length would be 9.6 meters. But even at 30 meters it would be very very hard to engineer a system that can keep a laser beam aligned on a moving tar
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by Melkman 6y ago
Because a beam in an open medium always diverges due to wavefront errors and diffraction. A very good laser system might possibly have a divergence of only 1 microradians. For reference a typical laser pointer has a divergence angle of 1 to
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by Melkman 6y ago
Consistency is not the only value of a system of units. Convenience is also of importance. And that is where the metric system shines. Having all measures of a unit in multiples 10 combines perfectly with our decimal calculations. Having as
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by Melkman 6y ago
Ehhh, isn't the point of using Chromium not using Google API's and customizations ? If you want to use Google products why not use Chrome proper ?
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by Melkman 6y ago
Most people will already have a phone and a phone plan but missing coverage in many places. Starlink makes it pretty cheap and easy for network operators to place solar/wind powered cell towers without need to dig wired connections or
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by Melkman 6y ago
Further discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25868713 apparently
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by Melkman 6y ago
I think that was to be expected. They wouldn't have had a realistic chance of competing with LEO constellations. As long as it was uncertain those would be realized Loon stood a chance. With the current status and speed of Starlink dev
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by Melkman 6y ago
CAA is not the record for this. As @schoen already replied, it is only used by CA's to check if they are allowed to issue a certificate to a domain. But with DANE TLSA Resource Records you can pin a public key to a website. Alas the im
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by Melkman 6y ago
Apple is in no way like Microsoft of old. Microsoft did not build generic computers of their own. Other companies like Gateway, Compaq, HP, Dell or Packard Bell did. The Microsoft tax was the agreement between Microsoft and those companies
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by Melkman 6y ago
I think an other reason to use the Linux stack is that it's performance is good enough for most every task. Writing your own stack will cost you a lot of time and is only advantageous if there is a big improvement in performance and th
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by Melkman 6y ago
Google does not provide that service for free. Where do you think the $27 billion Google search revenue comes from ? Also you might want to read https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capit... The reason Ama
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by Melkman 6y ago
I know it's only one datapoint but recently we had four indoor airco units installed in our house for the bedrooms and livingroom. I expected a single outdoor unit. However during talks with the installer he advised us to go for two ou
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by Melkman 6y ago
The problem is that github is not just a place to host a git repository. It's also a bugtracker, release publisher, wiki etc. Microsoft is by no means held to use free software for those facilities. This means there is a good chance at
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by Melkman 6y ago
Neh, the better an engineer gets, the better they are at asking questions which make the person with the idea realize there are some problems with his idea. These problems may be fixable. Shooting down ideas is not productive. Making sure i
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by Melkman 7y ago
I wonder how easy this would make server local UPS systems. A battery with a single buck/boost converter should be enough as a power supply. Just need to add a mains fed charge circuit.
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by Melkman 8y ago
Then, as an idealist, what do you expect from other people to reach your goal ? If 50% of the people do 80% of what is needed you're at 40% of your goal. If 10% of the people do 100% you're only at 10% plus you've turned you
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by Melkman 9y ago
Calling an STM32F407 absurdly over-specced is hyperbole. It's just a 6$ micro controller, not a smartphone class SoC like a Snapdragon. They probably need it to do the QR code scanning and IoT DRM thingies.
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by Melkman 10y ago
You mean like a virus ? I found it a weird analogy because I couldn't figure out who are supposed to be the Spaniards. Is it Google because they are up against a competitor that is massively entrenched in the office suite market ? Or i
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by Melkman 10y ago
Well, that's a bunch of nonsense. If you eat twice as much oreos you use up twice as much resources. For network connections that is not true. Once a connection has been made no extra resources are used for traffic over that connection
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by Melkman 10y ago
More adventurously, he suggests that new communications technology could allow computing to be moved off of the Earth, reducing demand for energy. Since latency to the moon is more than 2.5 seconds round trip I think the utility of moon b
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ECB voted and agrees to stop printing 500 Euro notes(uk.reuters.com)
2 points by Melkman 10y ago|2 comments
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by Melkman 10y ago
Almost all currencies are digital today. Bank notes are just a physical transaction mechanism. You could use Bitcoin notes if you want with the private key under a scratch layer. The big difference is exactly that Bitcoin has no central aut
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by Melkman 10y ago
Malaria is not a sentient organism that feels cornered and will lash out because of that. The chance that it will mutate to an other infection mechanism is directly related with the number of specimens in circulation. Killing off it's
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by Melkman 11y ago
Cats haven't expressed self-recognition in the MSR test. However humans younger than 18 months also don't pass that test. So to say it is a measure of conciousness is quite a stretch.
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by Melkman 11y ago
Hmm, I'd say that V22 Osprey does work. It's still a compromise and a full heli or full plane is better suited for most tasks but a hybrid does have its use.
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Riding the open wave but failing to deliver(j1nx.nl)
1 points by Melkman 14y ago|0 comments

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