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by dom0 9y ago
> The same forces are at work on Python (or Ruby, which gets faster at every iteration.) Python performance has been one step forward two steps back. For example, dict() has significantly evolved over time and some other things became fa
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by dom0 9y ago
> human-centric temperature scale One point (100 °F ~ 37 °C) doesn't make a scale.
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by dom0 9y ago
Well Americans did (sometimes still do) use micro-micro, as in µµF.
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by dom0 9y ago
97 000 miles, just barely 160k kilometers. That's... really not much at all.
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by dom0 9y ago
Your website reports this error on http://www.sequentec.co.uk An unexpected error occurred. Module 'timezonedb' already loaded
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by dom0 9y ago
ChaCha20-Poly1305 is a very good compromise for all sorts of hardware.
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by dom0 9y ago
Berlin was a sump before becoming a city, it still has ground water almost up to ground level in some areas. Has a bunch of pumping stations to lower ground water, too.
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by dom0 9y ago
I'll assume that restic does not actually implement AES. I maintain that rolling EtM is effectively not more error prone than correctly using a dedicated AEAD construction, since in either case you are rolling your own crypto, which sw
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by dom0 9y ago
> Conversely, the higher impedance (250) is better for high-voltage/low-current sources like tube amps. Headphone outputs of mixers fall into this category as well. Proper audio interfaces and sound cards have no issues at all drivi
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by dom0 9y ago
From the benchmarks I've seen so far, there is no efficient (in terms of CPU use) deduplicating archiver. Sometimes restic is faster, sometimes Borg, no really clear picture. Compression can make Borg faster as well, when it fits the d
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by dom0 9y ago
https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/latest/internals/securi...
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by dom0 9y ago
Nothing error prone about EtM.
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by dom0 9y ago
For all its flaws even a Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro is a very good headset that's head and shoulders above...
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by dom0 9y ago
But also correct here: > Compression means it's effectively using less of the [dynamic] range and the dynamics [range] could be represented with fewer bits in an optimal encoding. Lower DNR can indeed be encoded with fewer bits per
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by dom0 9y ago
> The difference is audio is "actually" bandlimited and frequency-based, but images are "actually" spatial. I.e. audio is sampled along one dimension, while images are sampled along two dimensions. Note that frequency
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by dom0 9y ago
Technically this is not aliasing; rather, the large and varied non-linearities of a speaker can act like a frequency mixer, which is why you'll get a 3 kHz sound (the difference) when playing, say, 20 and 23 kHz.
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by dom0 9y ago
In practice, all audio converters are modulation converters of some sort, because it is simply too expensive to achieve the high AC linearity wanted at the required sampling frequencies with other kinds of converters. This already relaxes L
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by dom0 9y ago
"Charger" would of course also be for discharge. "Sense" can either be charge sense, but that's not very common (due to CCCV charging), or monitoring. In either case, in this way of wiring things up the uppermost ce
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by dom0 9y ago
Sadly "Reuse" has found no reflection in the laws and practices in most industrial countries. For example, giving replaced lab equipment to hobbyists is a perfect way of reuse, however, very few companies do that. Most rather send
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by dom0 9y ago
Lithium ion batteries are able to experience thermal runaway caused by internal shorts. This can be mitigated by quality control and proper handling (a lesson Samsung recently learned), and also other chemistries (like LiFePo, which is much
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by dom0 9y ago
A properly designed lithium ion pack with tested high-quality cells is a very safe thing in the environmental conditions it was designed for. Notice how many qualifiers are used in that statement.
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by dom0 9y ago
With batteries (and even small battery packs) there are two main safety issues: (1) chemical combustion (due to mechanical damage or stress or electrical stress i.e. over-charging) (2) Burns and fires caused by arcing. For (2) the exact con
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by dom0 9y ago
Last time I checked all tested diesel cars displayed anomalies between their supposed emissions and their actual emissions. So at this point: Likely all car makers. And while this hasn't been public knowledge, it is not that surprising
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by dom0 9y ago
Correct, EGR increases particulates across the board. Another alternative is to reduce NOx creation in the burning process, which also increases particulate emissions and DPF clogging.
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by dom0 9y ago
> That also answers why the German government is giving them some leeway here: it's not exactly in their interest to kill Volkswagen. While the federal government does not have a direct stake (apart from all the tax euros), the fine
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by dom0 9y ago
I don't think this statement is correct. The diesel emissions scandal is hardly a new scale in terms of international fraud — just think about banking.
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by dom0 9y ago
> selling millions of vehicles VW sold approximately 475000 affected diesel vehicles in the US (compared to approx. 84.5 million car sales in the same time period).
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by dom0 9y ago
> "Hate speech" is a real thing there that will land you in jail. This is wildly inaccurate. In Germany there are mainly three kinds of speech punishable by law: (1) Defamation (2) Volksverhetzung ("all jews must die"
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by dom0 9y ago
> Code leaks in updates to some of their newer games reference "hl3" My assumption has been for years that "HL3" is as much a joke inside Valve as it is outside of it. > Gabe Newell talks about This was six years
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by dom0 9y ago
> Many of the current cars are 100% drive by wire (ECU/power brakes/electric power steering), but that doesn't mean anything. You can still break when the ECU does something stupid. You can still break if you loose vacuum

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