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by cjdell 5y ago
This page is so well done. All physical and mechanical problems should be taught this way. I just loved playing with the sliders. I felt like I didn't even need to read the text to understand the concepts. This could be a great alterna
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by cjdell 5y ago
When I saw "20A" and "18A" I thought maybe they'd moved to using silicon atom diameters as a unit of measure, which seemed to make sense. Turns out it means 10^-10m and a silicon atom is actually ~2A diameter.
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by cjdell 5y ago
Does this mean you can run an x86 VM faster than a snails pace? I tried an WinXP VM on my M1 Air just for fun but got the performance of an early Pentium. I know emulation is slow but was hoping for a little more.
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by cjdell 5y ago
I have a few "Tile" tags which seem OK but I was hoping that I could use my own hardware to scan for them instead of relying on their Android app which just gives you a rough distance. I wanted to have a few cheapo solar powered E
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by cjdell 6y ago
Joe should get on to LBRY / Odysee. It would be the tipping point in moving to decentralised platforms. He'd probably make a killing too as LBRY makes it really easy to tip content creators.
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by cjdell 6y ago
I wonder if Intel would allow AMD to build chips using their fabs. That'll be interesting to see. I believe it happened once before in the early days.
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by cjdell 6y ago
What would be nice is a way of preventing the same job running multiple times concurrently. Like if I start a job and a job with the same parameters was already started milliseconds ago then it automatically awaits the already running job r
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by cjdell 6y ago
I guess because one is technically murder and you'd have to do it yourself, whereas the other you can get someone else to do it and you'd get away scott free and with less guilt.
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by cjdell 6y ago
Parents might be talked into it by children who are eager to inherit their assets. When someone pointed this out to me it made me reconsider.
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by cjdell 6y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Thorium reactors yet. My understanding is that the fuel is more abundant and that meltdown is impossible, however the technology is still in its infancy.
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by cjdell 6y ago
This is fascinating. What are the implications of Indian users with only IPv6 stacks accessing IPv4 only sites? Does it look like potentially thousands of users accessing a site behind a single shared IPv4 address (i.e. CG-NAT)?
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by cjdell 6y ago
I notice many here are talking about FMT. As I've suffered years with debilitating IBS (likely due to a terrible diet in my 20's) I have wanted to try FMT for years. I am currently undergoing a 2 week FMT course at the Taymount Cl
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by cjdell 6y ago
For All Mankind is actually pretty good but it is the only thing I'm interested in on the platform.
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by cjdell 6y ago
That's really interesting. Doing some Google'ing there seems to be almost no discussion on this issue. I would happily disable fsync() at the OS level for all apps at the expense of possible data corruption as this is only a dev m
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by cjdell 6y ago
Hmm... My M1 Air 16GB from December is an order of magnitude higher than that, but I do usually have 10 VS Code windows open, lots of Node instances, databases, Slack, and LOTS of browser tabs. Should I be worried? Percentage Used:
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by cjdell 6y ago
This is great! Does anyone happen to know how to upgrade from the experimental Apple Silicon version (installed to an alternate prefix /opt/homebrew) that was released late last year?
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by cjdell 6y ago
An unfinished project on mine is to try to track my cat outside using an ESP32 LoRa module attached to his collar. The idea is to periodically send a list of WiFi SSIDs along with RSSI's so I can triangulate the cat's location usi
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by cjdell 6y ago
No one's forcing you to buy one. Let them try other manufacturing techniques to see if it goes anywhere. Besides, the quality issues are mostly cosmetic, structurally the cars are very sound. Look at crash test data if you don't b
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by cjdell 6y ago
Yes, but many car companies are 100 years older than Tesla. They'll probably be going through growing pains for years to come. Rapid expansion at the cost of quality. However, they clearly don't have a demand problem as people are
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by cjdell 6y ago
I agree, however I think it would be simpler to require manufacturers to offer 10 year warranties (or perhaps longer) in other to sell their products. The market will be forced to respond with better engineering and also ensure that spare p
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by cjdell 6y ago
Would love to see a device like the Gemini with a specially designed OS rather than a tweaked Android or Linux UI. Still cool though.
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by cjdell 6y ago
Ahhh the Psion 3a. My dad had one of these and used it everyday for 20 years. Ran for weeks on 2 AA batteries and took it with him everywhere (smaller than a wallet). I learned to code in OPL on the Psion 3 which he passed down to me after
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by cjdell 6y ago
When proponents of dynamic languages tell me "that's what the unit tests are for", I say good for you that you have unit tests. However a unit test may simply inform you that you have something wrong with your program, wherea
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by cjdell 6y ago
Completely agree. Something like Project Treble, but for PC hardware. Thinking about it, this is what the BIOS was originally for: to provide a bare minimum abstraction to the hardware. I hoped that UEFI would extend this abstraction in a m
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by cjdell 6y ago
I'm so glad that DD now has the status=progress option. Still not widely known.
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by cjdell 6y ago
I recall a relevant piece of history where the Intel 286 didn't have the ability to drop from the new protected mode back to real mode without a full system reset. A team at IBM eventually figured out that with a well crafted dance of
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by cjdell 6y ago
Recently joined user of Signal with same problem. Left WhatsApp due to increasing Facebookification... Just donated to the Signal non-profit to help them out buying better infrastructure: https://signal.org/donate/
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by cjdell 6y ago
Perhaps I don't understand the grid properly. I thought the average frequency was always maintained at 50Hz over a 24 hour period. Having the frequency dip below 49.9Hz would normally be exceptionally rare. I mean, if the alternative i
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by cjdell 6y ago
Am I naive in assuming that many grid stability issues could be fixed by mandating all electric heaters automatically cut off at, say below 49.9Hz? It is my understanding that modern home EV chargers have the capability to do this to some e
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by cjdell 6y ago
Are there any decent alternatives to Plex that work with smart TVs? The only reason I'm still using Plex is because my TV has a client for it in its app store (as do most TVs).

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