Syonyk

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by Syonyk 3y ago
Just as soon as they get out of the lab... (graphene being well regarded for being able to do anything but leave the lab for actual real world use)
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Are you looking at the center nut in the photo that's cotter pinned in place, or the two over on the right side that appear to be "loosely threaded on at best, washer rattling along the shaft"? The center one doesn't con
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by Syonyk 3y ago
No, it's as insane as it reads. It means people were careless and sloppy during assembly. Think of it like seeing "one cockroach in your kitchen." It's not one cockroach. You just haven't opened up the rest of t
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by Syonyk 3y ago
You can. And then you're still stuck with the compromises of a smartphone. It's short lived in terms of battery life, and it's quite fragile as a result of being "mostly a glass screen." I've been experimenti
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by Syonyk 3y ago
KaiOS has an app store with a lot of useful functionality available. Sunbeam is probably a better option, though email doesn't need to be low latency for a lot of people (including a lot of people who feel it has to be low latency).
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by Syonyk 3y ago
KaiOS can do that, at least for some email/calendar/contact providers.
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by Syonyk 3y ago
> ...so as to not require an expensive wired repeater in every room... Why do you speak of the feature as though it's a bug? It's great for wiring contractors, great for LiFi vendors, what's the problem? sigh
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by Syonyk 3y ago
You're looking at the problem from a purely "atmospheric emissions" perspective. Think about things like "wildlife disruption from a car-centric culture with lots of roads," "microplastics from tires," et
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by Syonyk 3y ago
When operating an engine (gasoline or diesel), you can make a range of decisions about how you run it. Fuel/air ratio, ignition timing, exhaust gas recirculation amounts, boost pressure, etc. There are a lot of ways to accomplish a g
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by Syonyk 3y ago
It depends on the vehicle and state. In general, "tube testing" went away on gas cars when OBD-II was standardized - they just ask the car, "Are you happy with your emissions system condition?" and accept the answer, th
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by Syonyk 3y ago
An electric car is bad for the environment (described generally, not in the laser-focused "CO2 emissions are the only thing that matters!" modern sense) in almost all the same ways an ICE vehicle is, just with a reduction in runti
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Sure, I know what other manufacturers did. I want to know the technical details of what Cummins allegedly did "enough that they're not arguing a massive fine, while claiming they didn't do it on purpose." Claiming they
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Is there any detailed information anyone can find on what they allegedly did, at a technical level? "Defeat device" is such a broad category of term that it's useless for understanding the details of what it's claimed
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by Syonyk 3y ago
My guess is that it was a small, rather high efficiency little subcompact Toyota pickup, and that it was driven relatively few miles annually and kept in good running order. Depending on the country and engine, there's also a possibili
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Don't forget "Repair"! The art of fixing things is rather out of style these days, but it's been a major part of every human society until rather recently. If something breaks, you fix it, you don't just use it a
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Oh... weird. I've never run into that, but I'm out in something closer to farm country than I expect a lot of people are (it's a short walk from my place to active farm fields). I think the right answer, if you're in th
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by Syonyk 3y ago
You can actually just buy the fruits and vegetables without putting them in a plastic bag. It gets some weird looks, but it's perfectly fine most places. And as far as things like Halloween, it's not hard to get kids onboard with
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by Syonyk 3y ago
They've got a somewhat unreliable EV platform (the battery and drivetrain are fine, the rest of the car is fiddly at best), and have been instrumental in driving the auto industry away from "interfaces that work while driving&quot
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Musk was not instrumental in mainstream EVs. He was on the early wave of it, yes, but other companies had EVs out at the same time or before, and the price drop in lithium was obvious to everyone who was paying attention at the time. It w
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by Syonyk 3y ago
I mean, I'll admit I've watched the tech industry promise the moon and deliver a user-surveilling mud pie a few too many times to particularly care for their hype anymore. It's 2023. I'd like to buy a car, TV, phone, or
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Because the arrogance of modern Silicon Valley thinking is that "We are better, in every possible way, than older engineers, because we know code. " And Elon Musk seems very, very prone to this sort of thinking (or, at least, hi
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Hey, at least you see the waste... think about how much ewaste is invisible. :(
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by Syonyk 3y ago
You get high on your venture capital supply and then remain so disconnected from reality that you don't worry about profits, costs, use, repair, charging, or just about anything else, figuring you can "gig economy worker" you
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by Syonyk 3y ago
> Is Tor still considered secure? Define "secure." Secure from what attackers, in what threat model, with what resources devoted to the attack, etc. There are several categories of attack against Tor, and several ways to mit
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by Syonyk 3y ago
> so things like DNSSEC took off. DNSSEC doesn't encrypt anything - it's all plaintext on the wire. There are some DNS extensions that encrypt the query/response (DNS over HTTPS does this), but DNSSEC is not that. DNSSE
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by Syonyk 3y ago
It's even got synchros! :p I drive, among other things, a 1930 Willys 8-80D. It's got a non-synchronized three speed, and it's amazing how many people just assume it has to be a clashfest. No, you just learn to double clutc
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by Syonyk 3y ago
> I actually have a dream of one day going back to a flip phone... Do it. Sonim makes some absolute brick chonks of phones these days. > ...where I'll get an AI call summarizing emails or messages that are important, as well
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Yeah, but on the flip side, you bought software and then used it. You didn't have a subscription to use XYZ on the following terms for the following time periods, unless otherwise changed. And it was about software, not "beha
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by Syonyk 3y ago
It certainly sounds like it's doing that. Though if you're an expert in a subject you ask it about, you can see when it transitions from "knowledge of the subject" to "Your uncle who made a living hustling pool an
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by Syonyk 3y ago
> We condemn calls for genocide, as does President Gay — a point she made clear, if it wasn’t already, in a post-hearing statement. The questions posed to President Gay, and her relevant responses, from The Harvard Crimson[0]: > “At

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