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by Youden 3y ago
I agree that there won't be a mass exodus but I still think this is the death of Reddit. I suspect the users that leave may not contribute much to Reddit's bottom line but their contribution to the community is critical for Reddit
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by Youden 3y ago
Is being assembled in the USA a positive thing for security? The USA is the only country I'm aware of for which there's publicly visible evidence of sabotage committed by the state [0]. Wouldn't it be better to be assembled i
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by Youden 3y ago
Interactive Brokers offers 4.33% for cash above $10k. They have a very easy model of "benchmark minus 0.5%": https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=46385 Insurance is $2.75M but IBKR isn't a b
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by Youden 3y ago
Thunder is around 120dB but that only lasts for a short amount of time. A rocket launch will produce continuous high-intensity noise, which is far more damaging. Animals also have ways to prepare for a storm, such as retreating to a nest or
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by Youden 3y ago
Does anyone know what the author is up to now? I'm curious whether the people who made things like this back then for fun generally ended up in tech or went on to pursue other things and other careers.
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by Youden 3y ago
Moscow State University has been running thorough benchmarks of hardware and software video encoders for years, including testing different presets: https://www.compression.ru/compression.ru/video/codec_compar...
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by Youden 4y ago
I have a Kia EV6. It's perfectly functional without an internet connection.
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by Youden 4y ago
In Switzerland, perhaps more than any other place, it truly is the people who are in charge: - There is no "he". Switzerland has no single person in a position of power above all others. Even the "head" of government is
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by Youden 4y ago
I checked my usage and tend to use ~1200 searches per month. Kagi shows that of the money I spend, around 60% pays for my results, so it seems like Kagi is still profitable with the current pricing. Presumably though, they don't see th
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by Youden 4y ago
I've been shutting off my hard drives but found that anything short of unmounting them caused them to be awoken frequently by random processes with timer-based disk access. My solution was to move all my online use-cases to a separate
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by Youden 4y ago
I have quite a few of the older T6613/T6615 sensors that I got when Newark was selling them for like $10 a piece. The way I soldered the SCD41 is with a pre-made PCB footprint, some solder paste and a mini PCB heater. I think the probl
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by Youden 4y ago
I haven't seen that and I've deployed nearly 100 sensors. Perhaps you've left the auto calibration on? That's usually a recipe for disaster (and one that can be avoided by reading the datasheet).
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by Youden 4y ago
You generally don't have to go to all that effort unless you want extreme accuracy. For "Good enough", you buy the sensor, follow the application notes and instructions from the manufacturer, calibrate it in fresh outdoor air
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by Youden 4y ago
The SCD41 is a very different sensor. The Senseair Sunrise requires through-hole assembly, uses a low-power version of NDIR and is relatively bulky. The SCD41 requires surface mount assembly, uses a higher-power proprietary technology based
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by Youden 4y ago
You can have them order parts that are available at Mouser, Digikey and the other parts vendors. They have the SCD41 [0], SGP41 [1] and a variety of ESP32 modules (e.g. [2]) in their catalogue. The preorder prices can be a bit out of whack
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by Youden 4y ago
I guess what I'm asking is does it need to be hand-solderable? With places like JLCPCB offering cheap SMD assembly, SMD boards are still accessible to hobbyists.
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by Youden 4y ago
Was the decision to use pin headers instead of SMD components a conscious choice? For the particulate sensors it's unavoidable but you can use Sensirion's SCD4X series for CO2, just about any VOC chip you want, and an ESP32 module
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by Youden 4y ago
The proper industrial stuff can be quite expensive for sure. IIRC I paid around $400 per motor in total. You might be able to get a better deal on used motors/drives though. But steppers won't necessarily save you either, because
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by Youden 4y ago
Those motors are just closed-loop steppers. I'd say they're inappropriate for robot arms because they can only apply their specified torque when the angle happens to be in proximity to a full step [0]. Proper AC servo motors like
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by Youden 4y ago
Assuming you're talking about AC servos typically used for industrial equipment (and not the DC kind used for robots or RC aircraft), there are kind of two routes you can go. On the easy hobbyist route, you can get the parts from a nic
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by Youden 4y ago
ESP32 is dominant for WiFi devices but I'd say Nordic nRF is dominant for Bluetooth and BLE. You see it a lot in IoT sensors (like Ruuvi tags) and things like BLE keyboards (at least the DIY mechanical ones, in the form of the nice!nan
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by Youden 4y ago
There was the Comcast peering dispute over Netflix traffic (carried by Cogent) around 2014.
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by Youden 4y ago
If you look at the source [0], that level of energy conservation isn't picking out Blu-Ray players but most major personal uses of electricity for leisure. It includes heating swimming pools, lighting sport facilities, gaming consoles
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by Youden 4y ago
It's not capable of CO2 measurement, it only estimates CO2 levels based on measurements of VOCs. These estimated readings are garbage and have close to zero correlation with CO2 levels.
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by Youden 4y ago
Acceleration != speed. Acceleration increases the degree of control you have over your vehicle. That control could be the difference between life and death in an emergency. For example if you see a car driving towards you from the side (e.g
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by Youden 4y ago
As others have pointed out, the quality of the translations is fantastic but I also really appreciate some of the features it has. For example as a paid feature it allows you to switch between formal and informal speech, which can be really
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by Youden 4y ago
It has a basic text recognition feature on iOS but I think it uses the iOS APIs so I'm not sure if they have a similar feature on Android.
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by Youden 4y ago
Can't speak for the parent but for me it's not the traffic data but the in-car UI. Different apps give different experiences. The HERE maps bundled with my car for example tell me the best lane to be in ahead of time. Not just on
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by Youden 4y ago
FWIW I'm playing around with a design for a kind of Dactyl with hotswap switches and SMD assembly. Idea is that you can send the PCBs to JLCPCB for fabrication and assembly, order the 3D printed case and some switches, then assemble th
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by Youden 4y ago
I don't like Facebook any more than you but to be fair, they're not as bad as they could be. For on-device software sideloading is available and SideQuest makes it pretty functional. Additionally, the device supports OpenVR and ca

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