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by bcrl 3y ago
Moreover, builders often pay the cost to hook homes up to fibre during construction. Locally (in eastern Ontario, Canada) I have seen the incumbent quote and get $500k to fibre up new rural subdivisions.
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by bcrl 3y ago
I don't think they have watched enough episodes of Battlebots to learn that lesson as of yet.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Picking locks requires a skill that has some level of risk to use and develop. Pressing a button on a Flipper Zero to relay a signal from a key fob in a house requires no skill. The Total Addressable Market of car thieves is now much larg
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by bcrl 3y ago
Why does the service formerly known as Twitter take 4 seconds to load that link for me?
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by bcrl 3y ago
Canadians are able to throw their governments out of office when they don't like their policies. Having 3 parties and minorities from time to time results in policies promoted by the NDP (the third party) benefiting Canadians getting
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by bcrl 3y ago
Can I use it get a live rep at Google to handle problems like being deplatformed or constantly getting ads for AI investment bot scams? That would make it extremely valuable to me.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Trusting bleeding edge consumer SSDs would be a bad idea in my opinion. Go read some of the threads over on realworldtech.com of folks reporting failure to detect bit errors in consumer SSDs. I'd have similar concerns with using Rasp
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by bcrl 3y ago
Eh? Distraction is the main cause of human accidents, not incorrect predicition of motion of objects. https://injured.ca/5-top-causes-of-car-accidents-in-ontario/
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by bcrl 3y ago
As I posted earlier this week: Each bitcoin mined in the US directly results in more than 264 metric tonnes of CO2. This is based on the following rough calculation: 1.65 billion metric tonnes * 2% / (900 bitcoins per day * 38% *
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by bcrl 3y ago
The unbolted door was caused by a desire to avoid reinspecting the door were it removed using the official process. That's exactly the same problem as MCAS: they tried to skirt the regulations that required reinspection.
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by bcrl 3y ago
ECC really needs to become a standard feature on all desktops and laptops.
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by bcrl 3y ago
In other words, each bitcoin mined in the US directly results in more than 264 metric tonnes of CO2. This is based on the following rough calculation: 1.65 billion metric tonnes * 2% / (900 bitcoins per day * 38% * 365 days)
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by bcrl 3y ago
Storage is cheap.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Several data centres in Toronto (including the massive facilities at 151 Front Street West where most of the internet for the province passes through) make use of the deep lake cooling loop that takes water pumped in from Lake Ontario to co
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by bcrl 3y ago
That reminds me of the time a shiny new enterpricey ethernet switch delayed a release of Red Hat Linux until we figured out that it was happily corrupting packets and fixing up the CRC and checksum causing certain stress tests being run ove
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Crypto mining company loses bid to force B.C. Hydro to provide power(vancouversun.com)
42 points by bcrl 3y ago|41 comments
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by bcrl 3y ago
I'm seeing about 6Mbps per customer during peak hour on my own network, so 1.7Mbps over a longer period of time sounds like it's in the right ballpark.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Heat pumps move heat from where it's not needed to where it's needed. Moving heat takes less energy than converting electricity directly to heat or as a side effect of performing a calculation. They're not a new technology
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by bcrl 3y ago
The reason N5 came together for TSMC is because they run more experiments per unit time than Intel does. They're doing this 24 hours a day across multiple shifts, which makes it possible for them to improve a given process faster. It
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by bcrl 3y ago
Not really. A heat pump would use less energy for the same amount of heat.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Non-paywalled article: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/explainer-case-against-elon-m...
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by bcrl 3y ago
Go read the thread that claims to be a whistleblower inside Boeing (over here: https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/safety/146074-boeing-inte... ). The claim is that the door plug was removed to repair a seal that was d
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by bcrl 3y ago
I first learned about torx when I was a kid as Commodore used torx screws on the Amiga 500. One time I wired up a pseudo SRAM from Active Electronics on a breadboard by putting an interposer in the CPU socket to pull out the signals I need
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by bcrl 3y ago
Google Maps recently changed our street name... to something that doesn't match what's on the sign (the word that was at the end is now at the beginning). We've had multiple failed deliveries because there are multiple &quot
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by bcrl 3y ago
Sometimes the customer is the worst person to spec out what a new product should be. Great engineering will build a product that draws the customer in and wants to buy because it's better in all the ways the customer didn't reali
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by bcrl 3y ago
Watch Mayday. There are a number of accidents that were caused by a single bolt, but it is usually a systemic series of faults that allowed that to happen as was the case for Flight 17: https://www.avm-mag.com/a-loose-bolt-
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by bcrl 3y ago
Just mount a small accelerometer on them to tell when they're operating. There are plenty of cheap options on the market nowadays.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Properly installed, there's not much to service. Watch a few Youtube videos on what goes wrong with heat pumps, and you'll learn that proper site prep is critical. ie the units must be level so the bearings won't wear prema
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by bcrl 3y ago
roflmao You missed the perfect oppourtunity for the obligatory link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
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by bcrl 3y ago
Wow, that looks complicated. I ended up implementing the 32 bit ethernet CRC in Verilog for use on a Kintex 7 a few years ago, but I never looked at the mess of wiring that ended up generating. The code had to work with an arbitrarily wid

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