adrianmonk

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by adrianmonk 9mo ago
Or it's neither, and the intended effect is zero variation in the retrieval time, as when trying to avoid leaking secrets via timing attacks. (Or I guess, more generally, the intended effect is zero correlation between the information
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by adrianmonk 9mo ago
To get a journeyman electrician license in Texas, you need to have 8000 hours of documented on-the-job experience working under a licensed electrician[1]. So you'd need to find an electrician who will let for you work them on the weeke
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by adrianmonk 9mo ago
The simplest might be for the drone company to act as an intermediary. They'd bill drone users for charging and have contracts with utilities. The drone company could do some authentication / DRM / etc. so that you'd bas
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by adrianmonk 9mo ago
The link you gave doesn't support your claim that saturated fat is good. In fact, from the very same site, here's another article saying it's not: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/saturated-fats-finding-a-..
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by adrianmonk 10mo ago
This also produces carbon nanotubes, which they claim can be used in construction. Given that construction currently uses a huge amount of concrete, and given that concrete emits huge amounts of CO2[1], if this could partially replace concr
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by adrianmonk 10mo ago
Interesting. It's basically a compromise between flicker and motion blur, so I assumed they'd pick the phosphor decay time based on the refresh rate to get the best balance. So for example, if your display is 60 Hz, you'd wan
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by adrianmonk 10mo ago
I spent literally thousands of hours staring at those screens. You have it backwards. Interlacing was worse in terms of refresh, not better. Interlacing is a trick that lets you sacrifice refresh rates to gain greater vertical resolution. T
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by adrianmonk 10mo ago
I wonder how Waymos know that the traffic lights are out. A human can combine a ton of context clues. Like, "Well, we just had a storm, and it was really windy, and the office buildings are all dark, and that Exxon sign is normally l
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by adrianmonk 10mo ago
> An error is an event that someone should act on. Not necessarily you. Personally, I'd further qualify that. It should be logged as an error if the person who reads the logs would be responsible for fixing it. Suppose you run a
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by adrianmonk 10mo ago
I will make up some numbers for the sake of illustration. Suppose it takes you half as long to develop code if you skip the part where you make sure it works. And suppose that when you do this, 75% of the time it does work well enough to ac
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by adrianmonk 10mo ago
It did, but it was awkward. Analog cable channels were on a wider range of frequencies than regular TV (radio broadcast) channels. So the VCR's tuner had to be "cable ready". Some cable channels, especially premium channels,
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by adrianmonk 10mo ago
Here's a video about how player pianos work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GcmGyhc-IA Basically, you have some pedals which generate a vacuum, and then everything is powered and controlled via vacuum. (The internet
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by adrianmonk 10mo ago
I wish Mini-TOSLINK[1] had been more successful. It's allows you to put an optical and electrical audio output on the same 3.5mm connector (i.e. headphone port), which is helpful for saving space on crowded panels. The trick is that yo
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by adrianmonk 11mo ago
> This computer stuff is amazingly complicated. I don't know how anyone gets anything done. I wonder what could be done to make this type of problem less hidden and easier to diagnose. The one thing that comes to mind is to have t
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by adrianmonk 11mo ago
That's a real issue, but this is for a district heating system which already exists and already faces this issue. And yet the district heating system is presumably practical. Changing to a different central source of heating (i.e. stor
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by adrianmonk 11mo ago
After you click the "SUBMIT A PUBLIC COMMENT" button (on the page you linked), you then see a message that says, "Comments are due 12/02/2025 at 11:59 pm EST." I think a better UI design would be to show that i
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by adrianmonk 11mo ago
Yes. When my mom got her first Android phone, she wanted to transfer all her photos from her Motorola Razr flip phone. She said the guy at the AT&T store had a device that would plug in to the data ports of various phones and transfer s
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by adrianmonk 11mo ago
Ask an illiterate person the same thing and they will fail badly too. Is it impossible to have intelligence without literacy? (Bonus: if so, how was writing invented?)
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by adrianmonk 11mo ago
The flip side is that, if you do hammer out an agreement on what the thermostat should be set to, with an analog thermostat, you can have arguments about whether it is actually set to that. "We agreed it would be set to 74!" &qu
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by adrianmonk 11mo ago
Buy a bunch of them and engage in cloud thermostat firmware arbitrage! You could make a big profit! (Or you could put in significant time and effort but lose money.)
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by adrianmonk 1y ago
Who is "we"?
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by adrianmonk 1y ago
> every single natural gas water heater is connected to 120V power for the ignition circuit Mine isn't. During a long power outage, I still had hot water. I was a bit surprised the water heater was working since I was pretty sure
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by adrianmonk 1y ago
My reasoning that it's probably doable was based on efficiency. What is the end-to-end efficiency of the generator, electronics, and motor combination? If it's 75% efficient, then you need to pedal 33% harder than normal[1]. If it
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by adrianmonk 1y ago
I would hope they designed it where you can keep riding. It seems possible. Pick some charge level (say 20%) and provide less and less power assist as you approach that. Once you hit 20%, a control system tries to keep it about 20% charged.
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by adrianmonk 1y ago
Confusing, yes, but at least they didn't call it "HyperLink". Also, Ross Technology beat them both to "hyper" names with the hyperSPARC CPU.
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by adrianmonk 1y ago
The memory is hazy since it was 15+ years ago, but I'm fairly sure I knew someone who worked at a company whose servers were stolen this way. The thieves had access to the office building but not the server room. They realized the serv
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by adrianmonk 1y ago
I wonder if you could do repairs by hand stitching. Presumably the special machine does a special stitch which is lined up exactly with the teeth. A regular machine can't do that, but I bet a skilled human could. You'd need a way
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by adrianmonk 1y ago
It will be a luxury item. Unless batteries become incredibly cheap and lightweight, economics will strongly favor a car that has just the right amount of range and no more. However, some people have extra money to spend, and range is a mean
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by adrianmonk 1y ago
The examples in the Perl documentation are very well chosen, too. They aren't just a quick way to get up to speed. They aren't just code that you could use as a starting point and modify for your purposes. Instead, many of them ar
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by adrianmonk 1y ago
It's for text input, I believe, but their use of the icon (in the title) certainly adds confusion.

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