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by axiolite 1y ago
> Some also add incredibly annoying high pitch whines. That seemingly nobody seems to notice but me. That drove me crazy for about a week trying to figure out what the noise was coming from... Pinhole water pipe leak? Cat stuck in the f
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by axiolite 1y ago
I've found cheap after-market thermostats to have short lifetimes... Original lasted 20 years... Replacement started misbehaving in just 2 years. So now my policy is to retrofit all old refrigerators with digital STC-1000 thermostats
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by axiolite 1y ago
PaperBack claims 0.5MB per page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883531 It's likely not possible to do much better. I never said that was the most practical method.
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by axiolite 1y ago
You can't get a perfect digital copy of a printed out photo. You're subjecting yourself to generational losses for no good reason. If you're a fan of paper, you could base64 encode the digital photo and print that out onto p
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by axiolite 1y ago
Though things are pretty boring and stable right now, there have been many times when audio codecs were changing rapidly and many people didn't have (and often couldn't get or use) an audio codec that was being commonly used in vi
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by axiolite 1y ago
You could technically fit 10 SD channels together in the US, except I recall that the government ("FCC") specifically REQUIRED (at least during initial rollout) at least one to be in highdef, unless you applied for a special waive
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by axiolite 1y ago
Circa 2009 when analog TV was first shut-off in the US, each DTV station usually only had one channel, or perhaps a second basic one like a static weather radar on-screen. Some did have 3 or 4 sub-channels early on, but it was uncommon. Ci
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by axiolite 1y ago
"A terrestrial (over-the-air) transmission carries 19.39 megabits of data per second (a fluctuating bandwidth of about 18.3 Mbit/s left after overhead such as error correction, program guide, closed captioning, etc.)," https
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by axiolite 1y ago
> FPGAs' in our machines that you could just use flash to the newest codec They're called GPUs... They're ASICs rather than FPGAs, but it's easy to update the driver software to handle new video codecs. The difficul
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by axiolite 1y ago
Why? ATSC is 19Mbps. A single 1080i video using that whole bitrate will look quite good.
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by axiolite 1y ago
Are you deaf? I can't see how anyone else would be happy downloading a file they can watch fine but can't hear .
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by axiolite 1y ago
> You especially notice the compression on gradients and in dark movie scenes. That can happen at even the highest bitrates if "HDR" is not enabled in the video codec. Related video: https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by axiolite 1y ago
> I always thought it would be great to have a "laptop without a motherboard" That's basically what a rack console is. At 1U it was skinnier than laptops from prior decades. They're not exactly a laptop form factor,
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by axiolite 1y ago
> A niche thing, but it shouldn't be expensive to implement, and the ports are already here (usb-c, hdmi). A Display Controller Board for driving a laptop screen from an external input is going to add at least $20 to the price of th
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by axiolite 1y ago
> Thinking they will suddenly come to their senses is just delusional. Abstract proclamations don't affect people. Taking something away from them, affects them. That's when the rubber hits the road. That's when the pub
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by axiolite 1y ago
Wouldn't it be better to let those towers go dark, and await the public outcry, instead of temporarily hiding the effects? The PBS affiliate stations in most need of federal funding are typically in rural, largely Republican areas. Le
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by axiolite 1y ago
Brother has clearly denied these claims: "Brother printers do not intentionally degrade print quality based on whether a Brother Genuine or third-party ink/ toner cartridge is used." https://www.theregister.com&#x2
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by axiolite 1y ago
"laserjets in particular are very popular as it creates the 'raised' baked text due to the fusion process of the powder on the paper." Source comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/
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by axiolite 1y ago
Epson Workforce Pro WF-7820 is just $200 on Amazon right now. Brother MFC-J5340DW is currently at $280. Tabloid printing used to be quite inexpensive... Any 11" wide dot-matrix printer could manage it. The rise of inkjets made it rel
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by axiolite 1y ago
> Alpha systems were very expensive, and so they had a limited customer base. That's the usual chicken & egg problem... If they sold more units, the prices would have come down. But people weren't buying many, because the
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by axiolite 1y ago
Telnet, FTP and rlogin wasn't broke, either. They had their own encrypted variants before SSH came along. Listing all the deficiencies of something, and putting together a thing that fixes all of them, is the kind of "designed by
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by axiolite 1y ago
That has been around for years: https://github.com/moul/quicssh
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by axiolite 1y ago
> 2. If getting through downtown by bus is slow, getting through it by car isn't any faster. If the buses and cars are on the same roads, going the same speed, the car will get you to your destination faster, and everyone will go b
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by axiolite 1y ago
It's not that pushing buses onto surface streets makes it worse for cars. It's that it makes it worse for buses, which then leads people to take cars instead, which makes things even worse.
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by axiolite 1y ago
> if intel's compilers and architecture had been stellar and provided a x5 or x10 improvement it would have caught on. That sounds like DEC Alpha to me, yet Alpha didn't take over the world. "Proprietary architecture&quot
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by axiolite 1y ago
> Rumble and Odysee and populated with crazy ragebaiting rightwingers, conspiracy theorists, and pseudo-libertarians. So, just like Youtube, then?
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by axiolite 1y ago
Those "zero" include: Rumble, Odysee, Dailymotion, Twitch, Facebook watch... etc. And a decent list here: https://ideaexplainers.com/video-sites-like-youtube/
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by axiolite 1y ago
> It actually fails to do what I want here and download h264 content so I have it re-encoded I struggled with that myself (yt-dlp documentation could use some work). What's currently working for me is: yt-dlp -f "bestvi
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by axiolite 1y ago
The turbulence is no worse being up high in the plane vs being down in a seat. In the 1950s, NONE of the passengers would have been using seatbelts... “When an airplane crashes, the safety belt…may become a deadly hazard.” - Scientific Ame
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by axiolite 1y ago
I clearly said: "as they secure alternative broadcast arrangements in each area" TV broadcast tower agreements are not ossified. Every year some station switches from one to another. Comcast buying NBC led to quite a spate of th

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