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by beAbU 11mo ago
I leave my wallet in my car, because the only reason I need it is for my driver license. My bank, however, has one of those authenticator doohickies that I need to use when I make big transactions online. Pop my debit card in, enter the pin
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by beAbU 11mo ago
Airpods have dogshit mic quality from the listener's perspective, just FYI. Everyone in the call might sound nice to your ears, but you sound horrible to everyone else. You need to use your device's mic on video calls to have a re
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by beAbU 11mo ago
I'm in Ireland and went out last night to try and find it, last year I got some spectacular photos from my bedroom window. Alas it only peaked as it was over the US so sadly I missed out. Ireland is far enough north that we actually ge
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by beAbU 11mo ago
There's a long and a short one. The long one costs $80 more than the short one. Jesus.
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by beAbU 11mo ago
> It's a surprisingly common error where someone picks up an old 35mm print and assumes it is somehow canonical Same applies for people buying modern vinyl records believing them to be more authentic than a CD or (god-forbid) online
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by beAbU 1y ago
Such devices should be retuned for a full refund. Vote with your wallet.
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by beAbU 1y ago
I'd never give a Samsung device ~~unfiltered~~ internet access. FTFY
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by beAbU 1y ago
> Writing isn't an engineering discipline. And all industries rely heavily on writing. Could it be that writing software is just writing for computers and as such could only by codified within another engineering discipline and not
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by beAbU 1y ago
I think there is space for both. You have your "not an engineer" people who have built airplanes, cars, motorcycles and whatnot. They are good with their tools and they are able to make amazing things. Some of them might even be d
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by beAbU 1y ago
I'm on a time-of-use tariff, with a special "EV" slot between 02h and 05h. My car is programmed to only charge during this time unless I tell it otherwise. The price difference is significant: About €0.08/kwh compared to
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by beAbU 1y ago
Also, turning off solar (known as curtailing) is just dumb. It's throwing away "free" electricity. The UK and Ireland is doing the same by turning off their wind turbines every now and then, and it's frustrating. By maki
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by beAbU 1y ago
> it's landlord's business This is the problem though. Landlords are rarely incentivised to enhance a property by installing solar+batteries on it, as they don't live there to reap the benefits. Solar still takes a couple
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by beAbU 1y ago
Scary stuff! Do you perhaps have a link to this reporting so that we can read up further on this?
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by beAbU 1y ago
> He has a lot of dishwasher videos for some reason! He is known as Angry Dishwasher Man for a reason.
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by beAbU 1y ago
There is a spectrum between "no barrier" and "immovable barrier". Arrestor beds exist, and given enough space a fully loaded plane at take-off velocity can be stopped in a controlled and safe way. Cost and space are ofte
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by beAbU 1y ago
So can we use this conversation on HN as a secondary source, and edit the deletion back in citing Hacker News?
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by beAbU 1y ago
The amount of "if"s in your comment is astounding.
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by beAbU 1y ago
How much rice do you buy at a time?!
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by beAbU 1y ago
If you mean a 13kg bag of potatoes, then I'll allow it.
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by beAbU 1y ago
If the software is as ancient as you say, then surely you should be able to get away with installing an old copy of Win7 or even older? When you say "weird networking" do you imply internet as well? If it's all offline and on
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by beAbU 1y ago
At some point something else becomes the weak link, so a truly unpickable 100% secure lock is a meaningless concept.
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by beAbU 1y ago
Most of the world don't construct their homes out of flammable materials, so the risk of the entire place going up in flames is quite low. In some places your home is uninsurable if you dont have burglar bars on all windows. Regarding
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by beAbU 1y ago
> but as far as I can see, there's no arduino with 2 usb ports. 2 arduinos with a serial link between them.
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by beAbU 1y ago
That is quite high mileage. I'm certain someone smarter and less lazy than me can calculate the amount of expected cycles that the battery would have seen. Do you leave it fully charged for long periods of time, or do you discharge it
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by beAbU 1y ago
Having grown up in an African country that has been "collapsing" for the last 30 years, and looking at the neighbouring countries that went through or is going through similar issues, I think the US has far to go before things c
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by beAbU 1y ago
Your 2018 tesla has a battery SOH of 80%? How many km's on the clock, and how often do you fast charge if you dont mind me asking? To me that SOH stat sounds really bad!
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by beAbU 1y ago
In the ESS context, unless you are buying bare cells, I don't think it's possible to buy an LFP battery without built-in heating.
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by beAbU 1y ago
> I bet companies will release WiFi 8 products even when it's still a draft, just as they did with WiFI 7. They've been doing this since the dawn of wifi pretty much. I distinctly remember seeing "802.11 draft n" bein
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by beAbU 1y ago
Make it a paid upgrade and let the market sort itself out.
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by beAbU 1y ago
Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/c__jbrnsxXU?si=D8n2sqRTkyur9gaq It's not really intended for bicycleists, it's intended for rivian owners.

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