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by avidiax 2y ago
This was a kettle bought in Germany, then used in Switzerland. The Swiss outlets in my recent construction apartment were 8A. The standard allows a different outlet with higher amperage but I only ever saw that in commercial settings, simil
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by avidiax 2y ago
There is conservation of energy. Energy in strictly equals energy out. The electrical grid is a bunch of heavy spinning motor-generators that are electrically connected to heavy spinning motor-generators and other loads like lightbulbs. The
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by avidiax 2y ago
> electric kettles would be more popular in the US if they worked as quickly as they do on 240V Euro standards are 8-10A 240V circuits. I have an EU kettle, and it draws max 2200W. US standards are 15A 120V circuits. It could draw 1800W,
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by avidiax 2y ago
> It's not exactly fair to treat those rural residents as burdens to the urban areas when they provide the means for the urban areas to exist. There's a difference between people that are in farming/ranching and industry v
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by avidiax 2y ago
Vancouver was a great example of the corruption inherent in monopolies. Vancouver had neither Lyft nor Uber until 2020. I heard (internally, when I used to work for Uber) that the reason is that some politicians there had a personal stake i
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by avidiax 2y ago
Rich people have a prisoner's dilemma if they are sufficiently self-aware. Maximum individual wealth and profit will come from maximally embracing AI. But if everyone does that, they are indeed rolling the dice on whether they'll
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by avidiax 2y ago
There is this narrative that "every technological revolution eventually created jobs, and this one is no different." I think that glosses over some critical historical facts. When the saw mill upfitted with "labor-saving&quot
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Last time I checked, robots need lots of energy, batteries suck, and energy infrastructure is fragile and non-redundant. I think we'll be fine.
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Why are so many powerful people tripping over themselves to please this administration? Some amount of this always happens for an incoming administration, but it usually doesn't abandon all principle. I get the sense that there is both
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> "possibly restrict kids' exposure to conservative viewpoints. . . impeding parents' ability to decide what their kids see by subsidizing unsupervised access" The double-think is strong here. This is unrestricting ch
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by avidiax 2y ago
Seems that it interprets a special comment block, then automatically creates a python venv and gathers dependencies. As the post[1] says, it obviates "faffing" with venv and pip to run a script. https://akrabat.com&#x2F
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I've heard it said that romance for a man is that she still loves you even if you can no longer provide. Sadly, I think very few men have such a relationship that would survive an extended job loss, or getting seriously ill. There&#x27
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by avidiax 2y ago
Ever notice how UFO and Bigfoot sightings mostly went away once everyone had a 4K60 video camera in their pockets? One thread about this in 1995, and then the phenomenon is never seen nor heard about again . . .
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It proves it might be possible to backdoor it. Maybe. I don't know of any modern systems that will execute anything on a newly inserted drive, nor boot from an external drive in the default configuration. So we are missing a couple of
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by avidiax 2y ago
IPSec has been used for some time to provide a secure network where only trusted devices can communicate to each other or the infrastructure. You can still argue about the endpoint security, but at least the network participants and their m
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by avidiax 2y ago
Maybe you could make a clock based on a cylinder of sealed powder. You draw the time on it, and when it's time to update, you rotate the cylinder enough to mix the exposed powder and draw the next time. Maybe the same thing could be do
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by avidiax 2y ago
Rather than a recognizable number, users should be prompted to select a matching non-pronounceable glyph. Something like the keypads from KTANE [1]. That makes it impossible to text or speak it to a phisher. Bonus points if you show the sym
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by avidiax 2y ago
I can see a sort of chicken and egg argument here, that guns coincide with violent crime as a reaction to that crime rather than a cause. My suspicion is that it's both reaction and cause. As to concealed carry preventing violent crime
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by avidiax 2y ago
The explanation I've heard for these is it's a low-effort bot comment that builds activity on the commenting account. Whether that actually increases the value of an account or not, I'm not sure. But it's enough that spa
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by avidiax 2y ago
I feel this might be counterproductive. An AI and its training data are likely discoverable. Hallway conversations and group meetings are not.
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by avidiax 2y ago
I feel like you need to pre-populate some of the tiles with popular games. How you do this without running afoul of copyright is up to you. Maybe you use synonyms (good/evil/devil instead of liberal/fascist/hitler), have
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All of the accuracy is from the pendulum. The author hasn't implemented a correction for the integral error yet.
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This is in effect a really complicated way of getting an analog readout of his cesium fountain. The chain adjuster was interesting, though. Another very accurate pendulum clock (this one solar disciplined): https://en.wikipedia.o
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by avidiax 2y ago
I once read a detailed account of how he was caught. It seemed like the kind of clues that you could only connect post-hoc. It seemed like parallel construction [1] to me. Considering that the NSA is known to give the DEA "tips" [
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Control theory is an entire discipline. One problem that constantly comes up is ratcheting or poisoning your own inputs. Let's say you want to block "noisy neighbors" from taking large amounts of resources, while allowing all
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by avidiax 2y ago
Unfortunately, Aliexpress links go dead quickly. Perhaps you mean something like these: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806952052632.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806950028548.html I&
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Is the problem essentially that too much of the load on the grid is AC->DC converters that are drawing power only at the peak of each cycle? Maybe there's an alternative design for AC->DC conversion that can use the full cycle?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombo.com
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I think it's a failure to solve 1 + x = 2. x is the percentage of the power grid controlled by this system, which has risen over time. So at design time, the threat is just that people can turn off street lamps, which you can do with a
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I see lots of passages that scream AI. Some selections: > Retailing for $40,000 (over $100,000 today), it pushed the boundaries of what CRTs could achieve, offering professional-grade performance. "Professional-grade" huh? Ther

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