Syonyk

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by Syonyk 5y ago
> When you build a car you do it from very precisely controlled sets of inventory... You should do it from... Remember, Tesla's shtick for a while was to claim that the legacy automakers were dumb dinosaurs who didn't know
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by Syonyk 5y ago
That's because they're doing the same things to the rotor at low temperatures that a caliper does - just abrading away rotor material to slow the car. Track pads are great when hot, not so amazing when cold. Yes, I know there
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> I demanded to speak to the manager who admitted right away that the car was indeed missing a part and that they would fix it later. That sounds suspiciously like, "We were aware of that and were hoping you wouldn't notice,
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Seriously. That's insanely obviously metal on metal, which shouldn't be a sound you find in the brake system, especially under what's clearly mild low speed braking. The next obvious question: If multiple people think that&#
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by Syonyk 5y ago
How much, and how far apart? There's a difference between "half a cup or so ever few months" and "I have to carry coolant around with me." The reserve tank will comfortably make up the first in any reasonable drivi
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by Syonyk 5y ago
I don't so much have idle CPU time as a resource, but "use it or lose it power" - my office is off-grid solar, is "obscenely overpaneled" for winter and experimental reasons (I built a small A-frame over there befor
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by Syonyk 5y ago
I've been critical of Tesla before for various reasons, "Building throwaway cars" being one, and people keep insisting that, no, really, this year, Tesla has fixed their problems and such. If you can deliver a car without a b
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Tesla Model 3 Owner Discovers Car Was Delivered Missing a Brake Pad(thedrive.com)
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Source? At least the first gen Dishys have nothing of the sort, though they will draw more power when covered with snow - presumably due to increased attenuation and the need for higher radiated power to maintain a link. Mine idles around
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> Starlink satellite dishes have a self-heating feature to melt snow... No, they don't. They just run hot. There are a ton of little ASICs behind the flat plane running the various antenna bits required for the beam forming (dir
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by Syonyk 5y ago
"Staging" a picture with that many cats at once seems rather less likely than the alternative of "They found a warm spot that also annoys the nearby humans."
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Predictions: - If it's even mentioned (hopefully, given log4j topics), nobody will concretely commit to anything that would look like "funding those open source projects we all use internally, rely on, and just assume will be fi
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by Syonyk 5y ago
That's a pretty... bizarre set of things to whine about. If you want to grumble about DO for stuff, their absolutely scattered performance on lower end instances is a better one, though for how cheap the bandwidth is, it can be made to
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Interesting, I'd assumed there was history before Graham (it's an obvious enough thing), but wasn't aware of the details. Thanks!
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Billy Graham was the originator of the concept in his ministry [0]. Not only does it help prevent things from happening that could be a problem later, it helps prevent even accusations of such, if it's well known that the person involv
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> ...and I imagine I'd be singing a slightly different song if I had kids, Depending on the person, that may be a good motivator for them to not seek more money, but to seek more time instead. I'm certainly there. I'
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> This draws many engineers towards a very objective worldview. Would you have an engineer any other way? I'd argue you can't be a good engineer without an objective worldview - because engineering is the art of making phy
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> Do we really want our devices to stop working physically, at the chip level, in less than a decade? Unfortunately, "we" aren't really considered in the decisions. The math from a company's perspective is mostly,
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Dear Apple: User-set name strings are not trusted data. Even if you filter on submission, people will find ways around it. This is the second "User can set the name of a device to a string that screws things up badly" bug in
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Figure out who benefits and profits from those things. IoT is largely a "push" system in which hardware is sold for under cost to get it out into people's homes and businesses for data collection, and VR promises to be the so
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by Syonyk 5y ago
In my particular context, it's a Raspberry Pi on a 1920x1200 display, 1:1 pixel scaling, no antialising I know of, and... the rest shouldn't matter that much in terms of how long it takes a key pressed at the keyboard to show up i
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> ...software starts to demand more CPU cycles, since there's less of an incentive to optimize. Node and Electron and crew would agree. A "modern" chat client (Element, Signal, etc) will lag on a quad core 1.5GHz system
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Yes, but it's also next to the Evergreen Aviation Museum, which is absolutely worth stopping at if you're in the area! And, actually, is worth most of a day to visit. I was there earlier last year and we took the time to go throu
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by Syonyk 5y ago
It depends entirely on where you live. In the United States, the answer is a very clear "No" almost everywhere - those plug in inverters aren't permitted under NEC. Power companies generally require you to have interconnect
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> Most meters are non-directional, which means if you hook a solar panel up to it and then produce extra power, the power company will read it as if you consumed that power from the grid. Smart meters can be configured either way, thou
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Ok. Can you agree that it should at least be an improvement in carbon emissions? Grid tied solar often manages this, though exceedingly poor panel utilization as in the article typically won't. By the time you start adding batteries,
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by Syonyk 5y ago
No. If you run low voltage DC that matches what devices need (5V or 12V, typically), your wiring is staggeringly huge. Not only do you need the fat wire to carry the current safely, you don't have much room for voltage drop. Droppin
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by Syonyk 5y ago
"Never. By a long shot." At least in terms of financial outcomes. If it improves reliability, it's common enough, but a solar + battery system does well to come in at 4-5x grid rates, even in expensive areas. My office syst
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by Syonyk 5y ago
You can do your own solar install for about $1.50/W in the US - ground mount or roof, doesn't really matter (the cost of the per panel electronics for NEC 2017 and later rapid shutdown requirements are about the same as the cost o
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Do there exist any good comparisons between Calyx and Graphene? From an outsider's point of view, they both seem broadly similar, in that they're privacy and security focused de-Googled OSes that run on unlocked Android devices,

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