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by cjdell 3y ago
I remember using Target Disk Mode on my iBook G4 over FireWire cables! Very useful for copying large amounts of data before gigabit Ethernet was common place.
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by cjdell 3y ago
I wonder if fast enough for wakeword detection in WASM. Picovoice worked extremely well for this but it's proprietary.
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by cjdell 3y ago
My goto for a while was the BT HomeHub 5A (not B variant). Just checked and these are available for £10 on eBay if you're based in the UK. I'm sure there are bargains to be had all over the world. The place to start is to look at
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by cjdell 3y ago
OpenWRT is great for taking bargain routers on eBay (which can be had for as little as £5 and yet have fast CPUs and support modern WiFi radios) and making them into proper homelab gateways with VPN, VLANs, DNS proxies etc. I would often do
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by cjdell 3y ago
Well it depends what you're doing with it. In my case my CPU is averaging about 1% with the odd burst here and there. As a precaution I propped it up to allow increased airflow underneath. You do have a point in that certain devices ca
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by cjdell 3y ago
I also have mixed feelings. I stopped home labing because of the energy costs. I now have everything I need (HomeAssistant / NAS / Router) running on an old Dell Precision laptop. Laptops make great servers because they are optimi
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by cjdell 3y ago
Very like a binary blob. You have to execute it to use it and impossible for humans to reason about just by looking at it. At least binary blobs can be disassembled.
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by cjdell 3y ago
I found Zod a lot easier to use once we were given the "satisfies" keyword. I still basically have to write my schema twice (I don't mind this) but I can ensure the two are tightly coupled. A change to either one will show a
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by cjdell 3y ago
TypeScript does emit runtime type information through enums though.
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by cjdell 3y ago
It took me a long time to realise this but I discovered the only thing I really needed from an ORM was a type safe query builder. Essentially a drop in replacement for trivial SQL queries, which is most of them. This article sums up the dif
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by cjdell 3y ago
My dad had one of these and he continued to use it until the day he died in 2013. I remember thinking how crazy high resolution the screen was at the time. Amazing device. I got his old Series 3 (predecessor to the 3a) when I was still a ki
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by cjdell 3y ago
Multi-touch digitiser acid test. Phone manufacturers take note!
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by cjdell 3y ago
I recommend an Organic Acid Test (OAT). I've been struggling with gut problems similar to yours for years but then it got so much worse during the lockdowns. At the time I survived it by embracing fasting and keto diets but that wasn&#
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by cjdell 4y ago
AIP is tough but you don't have to do it forever, just long enough for your body/gut to heal and for your immune system to calm down. Maybe 3 months. I had such bad IBS at one point I thought I was dying. Doctors weren't inte
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by cjdell 4y ago
Wind in the UK has been doing really well recently and the grid has never been greener: https://grid.iamkate.com/ Curtailment is still rare though, but if we really run into the issue of frequently having too much electri
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by cjdell 4y ago
Big batteries have much more sophisticated battery management systems that are designed to be as kind as possible to the cells. Also they reserve a capacity of 10% on either side, leaving 80% usable capacity available to the user. Li-Ion ba
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by cjdell 4y ago
Would it not be significantly easier if we're using 4 or 5 independent modules instead of a giant monolith? Aren't cars routinely lifted into the air when being serviced? I understand that the structure of the car's body may
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by cjdell 4y ago
Thanks. > 10 kWh wouldn't get you very far in a car. Tell that to Chevy Volt owners. It's amazing how much all electric driving can be achieved with just a little bit of careful driving. I barely use my range extender now, it&#
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by cjdell 4y ago
I love the idea of using those extra cells for solar or perhaps renting them. I can't see why no one is exploring this gap in the market. It might only appeal to nerds at first but that is true with most technologies in their infancy.
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by cjdell 4y ago
I'm not sure why we aren't making EVs with small but upgradeable batteries. Like for example a $20k car with a 10kWh "good enough for now" starter battery that can be bought today. Still good enough for 90% of trips an
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by cjdell 5y ago
Get an electrically heated jacket / blanket. Use 20W of power (per person) instead of >2000W of power heating the whole house. Two order of magnitude reduction in heating costs and you can quit gas entirely. To be honest I think thi
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by cjdell 5y ago
Relevant video about cross-fades in CSS which I definitely learned something from: https://youtu.be/PYSOnC2CrD8?list=PLNYkxOF6rcIAKIQFsNbV0JDws...
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by cjdell 5y ago
So many Google products that I only discovered existed after they've been cancelled. I wonder if there's a marketing problem here. As a side note I genuinely couldn't tell you what the name of the current chat app they'r
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by cjdell 5y ago
Hmm... Looks like a "active record" pattern (like Hibernate). This is exactly what I don't want. Essentially I only use ORMs as query builders. No magic behinds the scenes.
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by cjdell 5y ago
In NodeJS Prisma is really good for just building statically typed CRUD-like queries. It gives you result types inferred from the schema so you're less likely to make mistakes. Would still use real SQL for serious stuff, but in my expe
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by cjdell 5y ago
I'll be honest. I really don't like PHP. However when I was running a coding workshop, very frequently people would ask: "How do I make a web page talk to a database?" I'd say: Well, you know that HTML file? Rename
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by cjdell 5y ago
I've searched high and low for something like this. Will give this a try. Thanks
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by cjdell 5y ago
Love this. Now someone show me how to make a nano Windows 10 installation without all the telemetry BS. Essentially the kernel only with custom explorer.exe. Experimented with modding Hyper-V Server (the free one) with some success, but too
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by cjdell 5y ago
I first discovered music MOD files on the CD-ROM of the magazine "What PC?" in 1995. I was only 10 years old at the time so hadn't even heard of the Amiga but I was instantly hooked on the music style. I would record the MODs
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by cjdell 5y ago
I like this, but living in the UK the Netflix / Prime Video suggestions are mostly all invalid for me due to different country content rights. If there was the option to pick "Netflix UK" (for example) this would be perfect.

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