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by aftbit 1y ago
That was not my experience on the single road trip I've done since getting this new EV. I charged 7 times in total, and did not have to wait for a charging bay at all. I'm honestly not that bothered by it. I'm very much a &qu
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by aftbit 1y ago
>every tech company engages in regulatory alignment for the entire Middle East Can someone expand on this a bit? I'm passingly familiar with the Chinese Google example (though I thought Google left the market rather than bend the kn
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by aftbit 1y ago
>the lack of charging in the city This would be the killer for me. I have a private garage with plugs, and even at 120V, I can out-charge my typical driving needs. I work from home and only occasionally take trips beyond a few miles, wit
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by aftbit 1y ago
This is why I leased my EV rather than bought it. EVs are more expensive than gas cars (at least here in USA) and the last few years have brought an incredible amount of technological change. When I bought my last (ICE) car, I considered th
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by aftbit 1y ago
I recommend that people don't install networked cameras unless they build a dedicated air-gapped network for them. If you want to know who is at your door ... look out a window. Unpopular take, I know, because it demands that people ac
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by aftbit 1y ago
>Combine that with a small drone that could fly around a building and take different wifi signal readings to triangulate access point positions. That seems like all you'd need anyway, skip the rest of this. Small autonomous drones w
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by aftbit 1y ago
The iPhone absolutely changed the world. I agree - it is not on the level of the green revolution or refrigeration. It still led to one of the largest paradigm shifts in end user computing, taking it from the desk or table at work or home i
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by aftbit 1y ago
Salad Fingers! That lives rent free in my brain, near Magical Trevor and Schfifty Five, and a bunch of 90s TV ads. It's my money and I want it now!
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by aftbit 1y ago
Wow this is such a cool hack. It seemed like a simple "known vuln" situation but there was so much more that had to be figured out! I wish I had one of these just to play with the open stack.
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by aftbit 1y ago
I only mentioned it because I clicked it wondering if someone had found a way to "cheat" CAP for graph databases. When I saw that it was being used as an analogy and not literally, I figured I'd comment. I still don't qu
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by aftbit 1y ago
This sounds like a really nice setup. Which M.2 to SATA adapters are you using? I've heard some of those are dodgy and others are alright.
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by aftbit 1y ago
As far as I can tell, this has nothing to do with CAP theorem or distributed systems. It's just being used as an analogy. > [CAP theorem] states that any distributed storage system can provide only two of these three guarantees: Con
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by aftbit 1y ago
I've been considering "de-enterprising" my home storage stack to save power and noise and gain something a bit more modular. Currently I'm running on an old NAS 1U machine that I bought on eBay for about $300, with a rai
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by aftbit 1y ago
The employee was a young female, which made it even a bit more ironic IMO. I don't know exactly why she believed their policy was that my wife had to have the same last name as me, but she was very apologetic when the manager corrected
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by aftbit 1y ago
I have heard that others have had problems with picking up children from school and with visiting their partners in the hospital. The one and only time my wife has had an issue was at a car rental company (at SFO of all places), where they
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by aftbit 1y ago
I find that Linux NAS and router project require essentially no babysitting. You do have to do some initial setup work, but once it's done, there's no maintenance (other than replacing failed hardware) for years and years.
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by aftbit 1y ago
I've been told that Erlang is somewhat popular for matchmaking servers. It ran the Call of Duty matchmaking at one point. Not the actual game servers though - those are almost certainly C++ for perf reasons.
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by aftbit 1y ago
I vaguely remember Counter-Strike Source servers running at 33, 66, or 100 tick. My high school gaming clan was called "10tik", poking fun at the ancient Pentium box that I ran the CSS server on.
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by aftbit 1y ago
The URL meter is super cool looking though, nice trick!
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by aftbit 1y ago
There are tons of great CLI tools written in Python, but I would wager that the vast majority of Python code, no matter how you count it, isn't in a CLI tool. Certainly it's a worthy goal to speed them up especially given how freq
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by aftbit 1y ago
I think this makes a ton of sense in the very specific narrow use case of python CLI tools. For a web app or other long-lived process, startup time is typically not of extreme concern, and having more simplicity and legibility to the import
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by aftbit 1y ago
My current team at my current company (see bio if you're really interested), though I should say I'm not authorized to speak on behalf of my employer, so I should really say something more like "I".
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by aftbit 1y ago
We tend to prefer explicit top-level imports specifically because they reveal dependency problems as soon as the program starts, rather than potentially hours or days later when a specific code path is executed.
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by aftbit 1y ago
They should be replaced with multi-function displays like aircraft. Keep the contextual screen, just require a handful of physical controls along the side and bottom of the display. This allows people to interact with them without taking th
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by aftbit 1y ago
I made it to where's waldo then got bored. Awesome funny hack though!
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by aftbit 1y ago
Neat! I noticed it seems to crash when I open telnet in a fullscreen terminal (alacritty on 2560x1440), but if I make terminal half-width, it works. I didn't realize you could pass mouse control over telnet - need to read some code now
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by aftbit 1y ago
I have, I just don't understand why we need to develop for the lowest common denominator, nor why users reliably fail in that particular way. These same people are perfectly capable of driving their cars and stopping when the low oil l
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by aftbit 1y ago
The fact that you need to install a hardware device to fake tap inputs is really sad. It should just be possible to install an app on your phone and check a box that says "let this app pretend to be me in a way that is indistinguishabl
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by aftbit 1y ago
I'm gonna roll to doubt this. I live in a planned suburb with lots of cul-de-sacs which leads to long car-centric paths without sidewalks to walk through. Most of my neighbors (and myself) are very comfortable with people cutting throu
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by aftbit 1y ago
You can get a standalone (cheap) Geiger counter like the GQ GMC-300S on Amazon (B0B541D433) for ~$50. If you're interested in monitoring radiation and have a higher budget to play with, I highly suggest stepping up to the Radiacode 103

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