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by ak217 4y ago
The 15A limit in the circuit breaker is there to protect the wires, not you. 15A at 110V passing through your body will cause massive damage and literally cook you after stopping your heart if it's in the way. Modern circuit breakers a
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by ak217 4y ago
I managed to do that once after flashing the BIOS for the wrong board, back when the EEPROMs were in DIP sockets. Another time I was less lucky and broke an edge off the CPU die while installing the heat sink. This was during the time when
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by ak217 4y ago
Yes, but they need to get their EV game on. They're behind.
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I use the LG 43" 4K with a portrait mode 27" as a sidecar, and can highly recommend this size. My only complaint is that it's not 8K.
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by ak217 4y ago
Your comment and others in this thread illustrate a different problem. Discourse around this topic (and some other parenting topics like breastfeeding) is out of control and not recognized as such. Regardless of your experience, it's n
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Not only that but a frame that's not stiff is going to result in more play in the chain and cables that lever against the frame. That means uncommanded or skipped shifts, uneven brake feel, sloppy braking and cornering feel as the fram
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by ak217 4y ago
The Unreal franchise was Epic's flagship product for many years. UT is a natural platform for esports (cf. CS:GO). Sure, UT might not be casual enough for everyone, and Epic was right to focus on Fortnite when it blew up, but why Epic
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I'm not an expert but I've been following the field for a while. It's telling that negligible venture capital is pursuing this route to commercial fusion, and the only cheerleading for it comes from DOE lab press releases. Th
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Ah I see, you're right I guess they didn't contemplate the scenario of "we want to distrust this CA - against its wishes - but we still trust it enough to make it an orderly transition instead of an emergency". I guess i
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by ak217 4y ago
> There's no reason why some committee couldn't sit down and standardize a format for ancillary data such as the trust date cutoffs mentioned here They already have ( https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5280.h
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by ak217 4y ago
Deliver me from thin-skinned billionaires trying to bankroll their own sycophant "news media". Just because the NYT (which does not represent "legacy media" any more than a16z represents the tech industry) had a few edit
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by ak217 4y ago
Bats are uniquely dangerous to all other mammals because of how their immune system is different (due to the unique metabolic requirements of flight, they have evolved a system which allows viruses to remain active in the body instead of fu
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Some of the biggest investments into general purpose Linux performance, reliability, and sustainability were made by people with "specialty engines" that Linus is talking about. The specialty applications often turn out to be im
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by ak217 4y ago
The instant pot's value is the automation. Yes, you can achieve the same results with a stovetop pressure cooker or even a regular pan/pot. You will be spending more of your time on it because if you don't pay attention, adju
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by ak217 4y ago
It sounds like your sentiment is part of the same problem in Europe - I mean you said it yourself, you saw delays on these combo trains. Luckily Europe has high speed rail which does not allow your friend's party wagon to disrupt the s
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by ak217 4y ago
Europe has dedicated infrastructure for intercity trains used by people who need to get there on time. The US does not (outside the NEC). Can you imagine a TGV or ICE stopping to hook up a private car?
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Yeah, that's the "banned this practice" change that I was talking about. The documents in the link that the post is about are from 2021/2022 though. So they must have un-banned it. The "guidelines" document at
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by ak217 4y ago
I once was on an Amtrak train that was delayed by 6 hours because of this crap. It started with a 2 hour delay while they were hooking up someone's private car, and missed its timeslots on the rest of the route, then the crew timed out
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by ak217 4y ago
Good points, hopefully this is educational to people reading this. I'd love to see more ergonomic TCO in more languages.
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> for most applications A very subjective statement. Yes, your data matters. Also, the scale and security model/trust boundary of your application matters. Some actual problems with recursion based algorithms: * They will break une
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TCO is not supported in most languages that are practical for large scale software engineering projects today. It's also not applicable in many recursion scenarios that they teach in school. Even in languages where TCO is supported, it
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by ak217 4y ago
Fascinating how many of these comments are about recursion. My mind was blown when I realized that recursion is almost never the right solution in practical applications due to memory and stack exhaustion concerns (and that introductory CS&
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by ak217 4y ago
Michael McCann is a genius and deserves way more credit for Deus Ex than he is given, but he was responsible for at least half of the Mankind Divided soundtrack too.
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I have been interviewed multiple times by GCP product managers seeking to understand how my team used specific AWS services that Google lacked at the time to learn how to implement Google's competing service. I would be more concerned
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by ak217 4y ago
SK-8855 ( https://sharktastica.co.uk/wiki?id=lenovo8855 ) is my biggest productivity tool. I'm probably about twice as productive with this keyboard than without it. They resell for $150+ on ebay. I dread the day when my
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by ak217 4y ago
What's your weekly mileage? Are you doing something extreme to your shoes? Most runners don't spend, nor could they afford to spend $250 per pair of shoes that wear out in 6 weeks. Try $100 every 6 months instead. Events do add up
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by ak217 4y ago
This article is trying to explain the rise of super-apps in China through the lens of user experience, but I think a more likely explanation is government regulation and platform moderation. In Western markets, Apple and Google use app mode
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Would zircaloy work better?
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By capturing neutrons (which, not being charged, escape the magnetic confinement continuously as the reaction goes on) with a moderator blanket which is then cooled with water/steam. How to keep the blanket from quickly degrading and b
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> a highly paid professional rather than that annoying car mechanic who might solve a hard diagnostic problem quickly but takes forever to get around to your oil change. There are so many of us who can relate. Huge kudos to you for your

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