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by gorkish 2y ago
Wait until you get a load of vanadium-boride/air batteries. 27,000Wh/kg. Stuff is like electrochemical TNT
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by gorkish 2y ago
The sound comes from the windings within the copper coils vibrating due to Hall effect in the alternating magnetic field. Yes, the physical construction of the coil matters as to how much it would whine; tighter and more regular windings an
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by gorkish 2y ago
Being able to hear the coil whine and finding it annoying is a fine reason to not like wireless charging. But I am pretty sure this is not what most people are going on about.
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by gorkish 2y ago
Where is this nonsense coming from and why is it running rampant in a HN thread?
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by gorkish 2y ago
The health risks of wireless phone charging are massively more psychological than physical. As they will very quickly abut claims of electromagnetic hypersensitivity, most of the legitimate research in this area focuses on the mental health
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by gorkish 2y ago
"wireless charging" as a technology has been pretty baffling to me -- to make it even remotely efficient almost every practical consumer implementation uses some form of mechanical alignment and contact system. As long as you are
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by gorkish 2y ago
> I'd assume it's also a long way to go from doing it for a small section of the world to doing it everywhere This probably isn't a good assumption. It's likely more about it being much faster to iterate/validate
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by gorkish 2y ago
> Framework didn't do anything. I get your point, but there's simply no way this happened in a vacuum, at least not in this case. IMO it is far more important to acknowledge the things that Framework /did do/ in suppo
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by gorkish 2y ago
Color me shocked that customers who float their monthly rent on a credit card are not the solid foundation that one can build a banking business on top of. "We will make up for it in volume!"
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by gorkish 2y ago
When creative cloud was very first released, it was excellent value. I was actually quite supportive of Adobe's initial SaaS strategy. It was well and truly a "why would anyone ever pirate photoshop ever again?" type of produ
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by gorkish 2y ago
From the available information I estimate they are about 2x the theoretical maximum energy density of lithium ion chemistry or about 4x better than current state of the art lithium ion batteries in mass production. The theoretical ceiling o
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by gorkish 2y ago
> how often is significant numbers of bit errors a problem, or when does that come up? It depends on the transport. If you are going over something like TCP you will have a perfect bitstream or you will have nothing, so your codec doesnt
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by gorkish 2y ago
Yes; but what is your point? A congested network like you describe isnt ever going to reliably carry realtime communications anyway due to latency and jitter. All you could reasonably due to 'punch through' that situation is to us
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by gorkish 2y ago
Yes; backhaul connections in telephony applications are often very stable and are already capacity managed by tuning codec bandwidth. Say you are carrying 1000 calls with uLaw (64kbps * 1000) over a pair of links and one fails. Do you A) ca
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by gorkish 2y ago
Or speex narrowband or others. I think the tendency to pick Opus is just because it has a newer date on it -- its design goals were not necessarily to optimize for low bitrate; Opus just happened to still sound OK when the knob was turned
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by gorkish 2y ago
It's useful. AMBE currently has a stranglehold in this area and by any and every measurable metric, AMBE is terrible and should be burned in the deepest fires of hell and obliterated from all of history.
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by gorkish 2y ago
The lack of any reference or comparison to Codec2 immediately leads me to question the real value and motivation of this work. The world doesn't need another IP-encumbered audio codec in this space.
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by gorkish 2y ago
Does it really need a "successor"? OpenSCAD uses a text based language to describe the construction of geometry in a CAD-focused workflow and is conceptually similar in this regard to POV-Ray Both packages have a larger ecosystem
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by gorkish 2y ago
How does this compare to all of the other "#1 open source CRMs"
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by gorkish 2y ago
> “I wanted to show that nature can still beat the machine and that there is still merit in real work from real creatives,” Astray tells PetaPixel over email. Sometimes I don't really "get" the art, but everything about th
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by gorkish 2y ago
> Chenjesu-Mmrnmhrm merge to create the Chmmr in SC2 I'm having a Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch moment here
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by gorkish 2y ago
The "usefulness" (whatever that means) isn't really the point. The point is that the .stp file is the native format that is consumed and produced by cad software and the .zip is not. Just as github previously introduced a too
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by gorkish 2y ago
Prove it
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by gorkish 2y ago
No, it's not.
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by gorkish 2y ago
> you're never forced to sell your mineral rights and let people on your land You are correct; if you own the surface and mineral rights you are not obligated to allow for any surface use. The thing you describe where someone drills
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by gorkish 2y ago
Open/Interoperable FaceTime, Announced by Steve Jobs on June 7, 2010. Never Forget
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by gorkish 2y ago
The fact that the new $3k+ M4 iPad Pro cannot run regular OS X in some kind of VM or something is flat-out insulting.
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by gorkish 2y ago
I remember the flash-in-the-pan moment where through some strange conflux of exploits and firmware features UTM on iOS was able to access full hardware virtualization support. It was a glorious glimpse into an alternate reality that we will
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by gorkish 2y ago
For one, Starship is 392 ft vs 172ft of Atlas V + Starliner. Even if they accelerate off the pad at the same rate, Starship is going to look like it's moving a lot slower.
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by gorkish 2y ago
Assignment: "Write something about Arkansas, but don't mention it by name."

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