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by archi42 4y ago
My crystal ball is broken. I think there is a good chance that what you say will happen. But collecting the data in this nation-wide experiment is already quite useful when deciding on future policy. Until now it was always "we believe
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by archi42 4y ago
This is a matter of perspective. The ticket is not aimed solely at people with median income of a tech worker (or the typical HN crowd), but help out the general populace as a whole. Including those who can not even afford a car. Now I thin
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by archi42 4y ago
I wonder how they deal with the channel hopping? I remember BT "Classic" derives the hoping sequence from the encryption key. Not sure if that changed significantly for BLE? So either they establish normal connections between rela
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by archi42 4y ago
IANAL (but German): I am only aware that you have to pay taxes on gains. I'd be pretty sure (or very much surprised) if you had to pay e.g. $50 in taxes after buying $200 of crypto, losing half of it and then converting the remaining $
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by archi42 4y ago
This is a true techy topic :) But the author proably mostly has expierence with bad environments (like apartment buildings with lots of competing WiFis) and/or cheap wireless devices or those which have to do severe compromises (e.g. s
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by archi42 4y ago
I like the analogy/idea, or more precisely find it amusing. But this company doesn't have the necessary liquidity. Plus I am not sure if there can be a real market maker given the transaction volume and volatility of BTC: In the p
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by archi42 4y ago
Another npm package taken over. Could not verify it, but the person claims that in total 36826 projects depend on it (npm lists 144 direct dependents). Also the "friendly" is editorialized by me to reflect the authors claims. Pack
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Friendly takeover of foreach package on NPM(mastodon.social)
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by archi42 4y ago
wokwokwok, cobbal and oefrha made excellent points in the sibling comments. The only thing new PowerShell brings to the table is to pipe structured objects instead of only arbitrary data. And for that you don't need PowerShell itself:
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by archi42 4y ago
Uh, the post seems like an empty shell (or maybe start of a neat idea/project?). Most of it is an introduction to Cpt Future. The only things substantial I took away from it is how they want to put a RPi with some modules on a bike. No
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by archi42 4y ago
Maybe we have a little misunderstanding here? If you produce fuel from CO2, that CO2 will be released again once that fuel is burned. It's CO2 neutral, not negative. So assume today we have 100t CO2 in the air. You capture 20t of that
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by archi42 4y ago
That's a distraction: The extraction is only temporarily. The value of an amount of efuel is not in that it's made from captured CO2, it's in burning that efuel to drive some machine. So yeah, there will be some CO2 captured
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by archi42 4y ago
They say they need 77kWh to produce one gallon of fuel. Which has 33.7kWh of energy stored. Assuming 20% average efficiency of an ICE engine (from Wikipedia), so 6.74 kWh per gallon end up as actual "work" done by the engine. A qu
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by archi42 4y ago
Same in Germany; actual wild camping with a tent is not allowed. However, there is some provision to allow sleeping in the wild (sometimes called "biwakieren", using a bivouac or similar basic shelter; e.g. a tarp). When my SO and
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by archi42 4y ago
I recently started to figure out what coffee I want to use as my "go to beans". Most local roaster around here tell me something about them on their websites. I'm looking at one right now, and they have some photos of their o
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by archi42 4y ago
Thanks, I thought the same. Population density/distribution have a huge impact on the transmission. Without adjusting for that, the analysis needs to assume good uniformity either within each single country or that the error is the sam
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by archi42 5y ago
I thought similar, but then realized that a huge part of the device's value are the included games. I still feel like 230 Euro is quite on the high end, but relatively speaking, it's not as much overpriced as it first seems. E.g.
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by archi42 5y ago
For one project we used sqlite in a GUI application to store some tabular data (usually way below 1GB), and to do some light processing over it. Mind that the performance requirements were minimal, as this was a just an auxiliary function;
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by archi42 5y ago
Obviously anyone can play however they like and how they enjoy the game. But I feel like this "enter three optimized words and win" is too easy. So instead I go with hard mode, and have to think some more. I still start with the s
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by archi42 5y ago
Well, the ground work has been laid out for you, so feel free to gross out your friends/family/coworkers/foes :P For maximum creepiness, I recommend adding a small speaker. And a covert way to have it act perfectly normal, so
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by archi42 5y ago
AVRs are still pretty popular, and I think that predates the Arduino frenzy (starting about 2005). If you disassemble a bunch of devices in your house, you might find a few of these. E.g. when I went to replace a faulty switch on my Logitec
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by archi42 5y ago
I have a primary mail (me@mydomain.tld) I use for normal communication and as a fallback in case the catch-all subdomain is rejected (some companies don't like them; or are inconsistent for which form/account they allow it and for
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by archi42 5y ago
Starting out with a horrible character that tries to turn good and undo their evil while battling their past is a common trope. So is the "the world is broken beyond fixing it". Be it movie, video game or tabletop RPG. I am not su
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by archi42 5y ago
Can't reply to GP anymore, so I'll reply here. Over here it is actually pretty common, it's currently a huge pain to find contractors (plus they're getting more expensive by the day). We talked to a lot of people who abo
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by archi42 5y ago
Hm, might this be a problem with the limited bandwidth? I missed the whole USB-C hub hassle (though normal, cheap USB 2.0 hubs are already a PITA, and that's old tech) because my monitor has a built-in USB-C "dock" at USB 3.2
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by archi42 5y ago
Heat pumps are just half the story; properly insulating buildings is essential as well. And for older houses, the effect can be tremendously huge. E.g. we're planning to cut the energy requirements of our house to about 20% (no typo).
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by archi42 5y ago
Thanks, I wanted to say something very similar. "Choice by wallet" is a nice theory and even in practice it can work (e.g. buying fairtrade, organic meat alternatives IF you can afford it). But in that case it failed. And the manu
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by archi42 5y ago
Obviously I can only guess how often you get a new phone, but I'd expect you get a new one every two, maybe three years? Other data point: I threw away three phones in the same time frame. Each and every single of them had to eventuall
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by archi42 5y ago
I don't like the link either. But a quick Google search didn't bring up a good English speaking source (yesterday), so I can understand tomte linking to the eevblog forums. This was published yesterday by Golem [1] (German tech ne
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by archi42 5y ago
Hm, that's not my experience: I used all three options (no hood [student dorm], circulation hood [currently in our house], outside duct hood [parents; last flat]). There is a huge difference between each. Having no hood is obviously no

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